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Tech titans unite
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Tech titans have mobilized against California’s proposed 5% billionaire tax —- and no wonder, as the tax could strip some of the state’s richest inventors of controlling interests in the companies they founded.
The moguls’ effort, dubbed Building a Better California, points anew to state government’s failure to prioritize the public good over gluttonous special interests.
It also affirms the need for Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators — and their voracious public union allies — to stop chasing wealth, jobs and people from the once-Golden State.
Already, the proposed billionaire tax, led by SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, has caused a wealth and talent drain as Larry Page,
With Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, and other hard-leftists out there trying to conjure up the spirits of Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson, President Donald Trump has just made it clear that he is not going to tolerate any more of this low-grade but escalating insurrection.
“I have instructed Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem,” Trump wrote on Saturday afternoon, “that under no circumstances are we going to participate in various poorly run Democrat Cities with regard to their Protests and/or Riots unless, and until, they ask us for help.” This apparently means that Trump intends
President Donald Trump had a fiery message for Minnesota’s Democrat leaders on Saturday, saying the fraud in Minnesota is bigger than initially projected.
The president zeroed in on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) when he wrote in a Truth Social post, “The Theft and Fraud in Minnesota is far greater than the 19 Billion Dollars originally projected. The Biden Administration knew this FRAUD was happening, and did absolutely nothing about it.”
“‘Scammer’ Illhan Omar and her absolutely terrible friends from Somalia should all be in jail right now or, far worse, send them back to Somalia,” he continued. ”
Vladimir Putin violates Trump’s temporary
winter truce, killing 5 Ukrainians in
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winter truce, killing 5 Ukrainians in
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Russian strongman Vladimir Putin reneged on his deal with President Trump to briefly pause the war in Ukraine, killing at least five and injuring more than a dozen in strikes across the battered country overnight into Saturday.
Moscow continued its relentless assault on Ukraine — despite a personal plea from Trump to suspend fighting for one week — while the war-torn country and its decimated energy infrastructure go through a deadly cold snap that’s left millions vulnerable to power outages.
“I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kyiv and the cities and towns for a week,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting on Thursday.
Lots Of News, Often Inverifiable
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I've been working hard this week trying to keep abreast of national and international events, and I've come to the conclusion that much of what is important to know remains, as yet, murky and unverifiable. (snip) The decades long oppression of the Cuban people is coming to an end within days. (snip) In Iran this week there were significant explosions in 11 cities, with reports (denied by the government) that key officials were killed in these bombings. (snip) "Starmer's hold on power is increasingly very tenuous. He was humiliated on a trip to China, where he received a tepid reception and gave away a great deal for nothing.
Iran’s supreme leader warned Sunday that any attack by the United States would spark a “regional war” in the Mideast, further escalating tensions as President Donald Trump has threatened to militarily strike the Islamic Republic.
The comments from the 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are the most-direct threat he’s made so far as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and associated American warships are in the Arabian Sea, sent by Trump there after Tehran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests.
It remains unclear whether Trump will use force. He’s repeatedly said Iran wants to negotiate and has brought up Tehran’s nuclear program as another issue he wants to see resolved.
Few things better exemplify the inability of the left to tolerate contrary viewpoints than the recent struggle session framed as an "Internal Town Hall" when CNN CEO Mark Thompson was confronted by leftist staffers who claimed they were offended by the existence on their network of conservative commentator Scott Jennings.
It seems they agreed with recent NewsNight guest Cameron Kasky, who arrogantly declared to Jennings that he was somehow not permitted to use the term "illegal alien" despite the fact it is a legal term written into immigration law. The left-leaning Daily Beast went into further detail about the CNN town hall/struggle session/confrontation on Friday
The United Nations is going broke and needs member nations to stump up cash. Lots of it. That is the plea from Secretary-General António Guterres who fears the globalist body is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to member states not paying their fees.
The former leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party said Friday the U.N. faces a financial crisis which was “deepening, threatening programme delivery” and money could run out as soon as July leaving the unaccountable globalist cabal destitute.
Such is the financial drama unfolding at U.N. headquarters in Geneva, signs warning of the situation have reportedly been put up everywhere.
Leftist Leader Hails Great ‘Replacement’
of Conservatives with Illegal Migrant
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of Conservatives with Illegal Migrant
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The leaders of the far-left Spanish Podemos party celebrated on Saturday the “victory” of the mass amnesty for around half a million illegals and hailed the achievement as a step toward the “replacement” of right-wing Spaniards.
Appearing at a campaign event in Zaragoza, Podemos Secretary General Ione Belarra and the party’s leading Member of the European Parliament, Irene Montero, openly embraced the project of demographic displacement as an electoral strategy.
They explained that this week’s deal brokered with the Socialist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to grant amnesty to over 500,000 illegals was merely the first step and that the ultimate goal was to either grant them citizenship or to change
There's some not very good electoral news out of Texas, and we should be paying attention to it.
Democratic Texas Senate candidate Taylor Rehmet defeated Trump-endorsed Republican Leigh Wambsganss in a Saturday special election for a seat the president won by double digits three times, multiple outlets project.
Rehmet, a union leader and Air Force veteran, won 57.2% of the vote compared to Wambsganss’s 42.8%, with 95% of the vote in, according to The Associated Press (AP).
Republicans have held the district for decades, and President Donald Trump won it in 2024 by 17 points.
A conservative advocacy group is slamming the social media platform LinkedIn, and conservatives online are threatening to ditch the site after the group's post supporting President Donald Trump's illegal immigration crackdown was temporarily removed in what the company called an error. "[DHS] is carrying out the essential task of keeping our country safe. (snip) Biden let 10M illegal aliens enter our states, many being violent criminals and pedophiles. Every state must assure collaboration with ICE and CBP to remove them. (snip)" On Thursday (snip) it was flagged as hateful speech by LinkedIn and removed.
ICE agents chase down migrant sex predator
after judge allows him to stroll out of
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after judge allows him to stroll out of
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An alleged crack-smoking, sexual-predator migrant wanted by ICE was allowed to flee through a back door of a Manhattan courthouse — infuriating federal agents, The Post has learned.
Gerardo Miguel Mora, 45, was arrested Thursday for shoplifting and possession of stolen property after allegedly snatching $130 in items from an H&M display case in Midtown that day, court records show. [snip]In 2011, Mora was busted for attempted rape and strangulation after he allegedly followed a 21-year-old woman home in Midtown, choked her and tried to remove her clothes, police sources said.
Driver’s license tests in Florida will be administered only in English starting Feb. 6, the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced Friday.
“This change applies to all driver license classifications, including exams administered orally,” said state officials in a news release.
Currently, exams for most non-commercial driver classifications are offered in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.
The department has updated its driver’s license testing system statewide, and language-translation services won’t be allowed for knowledge or skills examinations, the release said.
President Donald Trump stated Saturday his administration will not intervene in the intensifying protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement taking place in Democrat-run cities -- unless the city's leaders ask it to. (snip) Trump went on to clarify that DHS agents will "guard, and very powerfully so, any and all Federal buildings that are being attacked" (snip) [and] that, if necessary, the military could be dispatched to protect federal buildings and property. (snip) "There will be no spitting in the faces of our officers, (snip) no punching or kicking the headlights of our cars, (snip) no rock or brick throwing at our vehicles, or at our Patriot Wariors."
The 98th Academy Awards will take place on March 15, 2026. While it is too late to create a new category for the Awards, there is one gaining recognition due to the actors who have so far qualified for a nomination. The category is for the best performance by a Somali immigrant seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public. Several of these nominees have displayed their talents at press conferences. Let us examine some of these performances:
As the noose tightens on the Somali fraudsters who cheated social and child welfare out of billions of dollars, business financial records
FBI Director Kash Patel said more arrests are coming in Minnesota in the midst of a federal operation and local protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and said the bureau has made progress in its investigation of groups who are allegedly funding the demonstrations. (snip) "We've actually found groups and individuals responsible for funding it 'cause it's not happening organically." (snip) Patel said (snip) after a federal vehicle was broken into in Minneapolis (snip) "[W]e discovered not just FBI firearms (snip) but also personal information about law enforcement (snip) being used (snip) to [threaten] (snip) FBI agents (snip) There are going to be more arrests (snip.)"
Did you know the Biden administration worked overtime in its final days to try to stop you from buying things in bulk at the prices you love? It pushed aggressive lawsuits that threatened to make volume discounts — the precise reason Costco, Walmart, and similar stores can offer everyday low prices on all your household needs —much harder to come by. Now, thanks to actions ramping up this week, President Trump's Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson is positioned to shut down this nonsense once and for all.
In the chaotic closing stretch of the Biden-Harris FTC, Chair Lina Khan — who went on to become
Politics House GOP’s already fragile
majority to further shrink after Democrats’
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majority to further shrink after Democrats’
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Democrat Christian Menefee, a former attorney for Houston’s Harris County, has won a special congressional election in a left-leaning congressional district in Texas, which has been vacant for nearly a year.
The Associated Press reports that Menefee defeated former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards, a fellow Democrat, in Saturday’s runoff election to fill the seat left vacant when Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died last March.
Menefee’s victory means the Republicans’ razor-thin House majority — they currently control the chamber 218-213 — will shrink by one seat when Menefee is sworn in to Congress.
The federal government is set to end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitians on Feb. 3.
This means some Haitian immigrants living in Springfield, Ohio, will no longer be able to work or live legally in the United States. City officials estimate that about 12,000-15,000 Haitian people live in Springfield.
A U.S. District Court judge is currently reviewing whether to suspend the expiration of TPS for Haitians.
TPS is granted by the Department of Homeland Security for people from specific countries deemed unsafe, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.
The expiration of TPS is fueling concerns in Springfield
Absurdistan is avoiding the CCP/Marxist-planned and led, plutocrat-funded revolution on the streets of America this week, to celebrate the entire freaking planet dodging the biggest bullet ever headed towards humanity since The Flood. The bullet launched against us over the past two decades was a murderous, genocidal, economic catastrophe based on crap science which anyone, given an ounce of integrity, could refute. They- and by they, I mean the WEFers - launched a world-wide suppression of innovation, of creativity, of production and growth, of health-giving, family forming child-birthing activity. Then they tried to cull us. Like we were cattle.
California drivers and Republican legislators are furious over a Democrat-led proposal that could see motorists taxed for each mile they drive.
With the state staring down a budget deficit in the billions and more Californians switching to electric vehicles, Democratic lawmakers are searching for new ways to shore up declining gas tax revenue.
Californians pay the second-highest gas price in the nation behind only Hawaii. In January, the average price was $4.23 per gallon, according to the American Automobile Association. On Thursday, state legislators advanced Democrat Lori Wilson’s bill, AB 1421, which would direct the California Transportation Commission and the state Transportation Agency to continue studying options for a mileage-based tax,
Democratic Texas Senate candidate Taylor Rehmet defeated Trump-endorsed Republican Leigh Wambsganss in a Saturday special election for a seat the president won by double digits three times, multiple outlets project.
Rehmet, a union leader and Air Force veteran, won 57.2% of the vote compared to Wambsganss’s 42.8%, with 95% of the vote in, according to The Associated Press (AP). Texas Senate District 9 — which is entirely based in Tarrant County and includes parts of Fort Worth and Arlington — was last represented by former Republican State Sen. Kelly Hancock who resigned in June 2025 to work for the Texas Comptroller’s Office. Under its current boundaries, District 9 voted for Trump
We've been following the ongoing efforts to back away from the federal government funding for questionable work done involving research using, among other critters, dogs and cats as subjects. This is a matter that hits close to the hearts of a lot of folks, as dogs and cats are our most popular pets; people understandably don't want to see them used as test subjects. On Thursday, on X, investigative reporter, podcaster and activist Laura Loomer reported that the fiscal year 2026 federal budget contains no new funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct any research on dog and cat subjects.
Remember the ‘Obamaphone’ lady? The Obamaphone Lady, who as far as we know hasn’t been otherwise identified, is a middle-aged black woman with a loud, gravelly voice. She exuberantly explains why she supports President Obama’s re-election: “Everybody in Cleveland [unintelligible] minority got Obama phone! Keep Obama in president, you know? He gave us a phone!”
The ‘Obamaphone’ program is more officially known as the ‘Lifeline’ program, subsidized phones for the ‘disadvantaged’ at taxpayer expense.
Who’s paying for it? You are. When you see various fees on your bill like the ‘Universal Service Fund (USF) Fee’,