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The City Council wants to expand the Fair Fares program so more than 1 million eligible New Yorkers would be able to ride Big Apple subways and buses all on the government’s dime. The city-funded program reimburses the MTA for 50% of the fare — a cost those earning up to 150% of the federal poverty level aren’t required to pay out of pocket — which the council has proposed covering entirely in its city budget response. The council’s response does not detail how much it would need to fully cover those fares, but advocates at the Permanent Citizens Advisory
In a two-week period right after the 2024 election, the most energy expended by the transition team putting a cabinet together was toward Main Justice or the Dept of Justice. As a consequence, those around Lutnick and Wiles spent an incredible amount of time thinking about the Attorney General pick.
Following an insider discussion, I spoke with several people about positions and appointments, focused on pointing out that the transition’s priorities were misplaced. The AG needed to be someone with exceptional moral character, capable of gathering information and presenting it for public consumption, with the option of supporting criminal referrals if necessary.
US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George is retiring “effective immediately,” a Pentagon official announced Thursday amid reports War Secretary Pete Hegseth asked the high-ranking military officer to step down.
“The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote on X.
“We wish him well in his retirement,” he added. George, 61, was nominated by former President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate for the Army chief of staff post in 2023. The Army chief of staff typically serves a four-year term.
Hegseth reportedly wanted someone in the role who would implement the vision he and President Trump
On Thursday, we learned that President Donald Trump fired Pam Bondi as attorney general, making her the second Cabinet member he's axed in less than a month. Trump's official send-off was gracious, but the question remains: Why did he fire her?[snip] According to a report from the Daily Mail, the reason Trump gave Bondi the axe is that he believes Bondi tipped off Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) about the FBI's plans to release documents tied to his decade-old relationship with a suspected Chinese spy.[snip]"The White House wasn't pleased she was intervening due to her personal friendship with Swalwell."
Democrats are losing their grip on reality.
I don’t mean that they’re going crazy. That ship sailed around the time they started saying “sex assigned at birth.”
I mean, they’re literally losing the ability to shape the narratives that determine what most Americans perceive as “reality.” They know it’s happening, and they know exactly who to blame: a Trump-aligned billionaire named David Ellison.
Last year, his film production company Skydance (which gave us the refreshingly patriotic “Top Gun: Maverick”) bought Paramount, giving Ellison ownership of CBS News.
A few months later, he bought news site The Free Press and installed its founder — anti-woke, classical liberal Bari Weiss — as CBS’s editor-in-chief.
Migration advocates claim that “millions” of U.S.-born children, youths, and adults could have their citizenship cancelled if the Supreme Court allows President Donald Trump’s Executive Order barring citizenship for the new children of illegal migrants to stand. Thousands of American babies [born after January 20, 2025] will immediately lose their citizenship,” ACLU Legal Director Cecillia Wang told the nine justices on Wednesday morning. “And if you credit the government’s theory, the citizenship of millions of Americans past, present … could be called into question.”
If Democrats regain unified control of U.S. federal government, pressure to federalize or normalize euthanasia will intensify. Content warning: This article includes content that may not be appropriate for some readers.
Noelia Castillo Ramos, a 25-year-old survivor of multiple sexual assaults, died in Spain by legal euthanasia last week. Her life and death expose the cruelty of the left’s “compassion.” Ramos’ childhood was marred by family problems: her parents’ separation and her father’s alcohol issues. The state placed her in the foster care system when she was about 13 years old.
I'm so disappointed in NATO, because this was a test for NATO," said President Trump on March 26 while speaking about the Iran war.
While President Trump has long criticized the UN and NATO, there is a major difference between the tremendous failings of the two organizations. A quick review of their structures shows that while the U.N. is probably impossible to course-correct, NATO is a very different story.
The U.N. is bloated, paralyzed, and utterly incapable of meeting the challenges of the world today.
Conservative historian and scholar, Victor Davis Hanson revealed that he was once approached by the Chinese operative known as Fang Fang, who is most closely associated with Rep. Eric Swalwell of California.
The video is from 2025 but it is getting a lot of play on social media as the Swalwell story is blowing up this week.
According to Hanson, Fang Fang came to see him at his office at the Hoover Institution but he would not even be left alone with her because he was onto her act from the start.
As he relays the story below, he tears into Sawlwell for being taken in by such an obvious scam artist.
While Christmas — the birth date of the Messiah, Jesus Christ — marks the watershed of splitting calendar history into two epochs, B.C. and A.D., Easter marks the more important day for Christians and the world. Easter is the celebration of what is known as resurrection, which was living proof of God’s plan of life going beyond death for those who are redeemed, not by their works, but by their faith in the savior. The resurrection on the third day after Christ’s death transformed the world forever, providing proof that seeing is believing in “life after death.”
Despite being on the receiving end of attacks for three weeks and counting, Gulf Arab leaders are making headlines after making it unmistakably clear they have no intention of seeking a ceasefire with Iran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has laid mines in the Strait of Hormuz, threatening a chokepoint through which roughly 20 percent of the world's oil supply flows, while simultaneously launching missile and drone strikes against Muslim-majority neighbors across the region. The Gulf states' refusal to stand down reflects a hard-won recognition: Iran's jihadi rulers maintain a hit list far beyond Israel and America, including the model for a peaceful Middle East pioneered by the Abraham Accords.
Trump Says He’ll Withdraw From Nato.
Starmer Says He’ll Unwind Brexit and
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Starmer Says He’ll Unwind Brexit and
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President Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling out of Nato, prompting Keir Starmer to announce a fresh move towards closer ties with Europe and the unwinding of Brexit. The Mail has more.
Keir Starmer signalled a fresh push to unwind Brexit today as Donald Trump ramped up his abuse of Britain.
The President said the UK “doesn’t even have a navy” as he accused Keir Starmer of only caring about building “windmills”.
He also dismissed Nato as a “paper tiger” and said America leaving the military alliance was now “beyond reconsideration”.
But at a Downing Street press conference, Sir Keir swiped that Iran is “not our war”
Virginia Democrats’ proposed redraw of the state’s House map would effectively strip the state’s rural communities of federal representation, a conservative group argues in a new study.
The lopsided gerrymander backed by Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger and former President Barack Obama would most likely change Virginia’s House makeup from six Democrats and five Republicans to 10 Democrats and just one Republican — if a majority of the state’s voters back it on April 21. In a policy brief first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Defend Forgotten America (DFA) calls the plan a “structural demolition of rural representation,”
WASHINGTON — President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday in the second major cabinet shakeup of his second term. “We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much-needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General,” Trump posted on Truth Social.[snip] A fellow attendee who interacted with Bondi at Trump’s primetime address described her as “cheerful” despite the looming ax.
The White House ballroom has run into some legal setbacks, which are far from resolved. But now we can report that one other procedural hurdle has been surmounted; the National Capital Planning Commission has officially approved the plans for President Trump's White House project.
The commission, which is led by Trump appointees, met last month to evaluate the plans and public comments, many of which were negative. Critics have blasted the project as "appalling," a "monstrosity" and "vulgar" in the public comments.
Will Scharf, the Trump-appointed commission chair, said he personally read every comment submitted to the commission and many of the negative ones were "unresponsive"
Former US Attorney General Pam Bondi spoke out after being fired from her perch as the head of the Justice Department and teased her new private sector role, where she will “continue fighting for President Trump.”
“Leading President Trump’s historic and highly successful efforts to make America safer and more secure has been the honor of a lifetime, and easily the most consequential first year of the Department of Justice in American history,” she posted on X.
“I remain eternally grateful for the trust that President Trump placed in me to Make America Safe Again.” Trump’s decision to axe Bondi came weeks after making the first cabinet-level firing of his administration,
No, you didn’t read that headline wrong. The Austrian President has officially gone off the rails.
This guy just gave us a glimpse into how the messed up globalist mind works when it finally stops pretending to be sane. Globalist leaders spent years flooding Europe with failed “refugees welcome” policies that have destroyed communities, crushed national identity, erased traditions, and helped turn once-safe countries into places filled with soaring violent crime. And the far-left leaders behind this madness still haven’t learned a single thing. In fact, they’ve actually become more unhinged, arrogant, and totally absurd. Which brings us to the latest gem from Europe’s ruling class.
A Colorado court of appeals on Thursday overturned the nine-year sentence handed down to Tina Peters, the Mesa County clerk who was found guilty of election tampering after she granted an unauthorized man access into the county’s election system in an effort to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
While the three-judge panel upheld Peters’s conviction, it overturned her nine-year sentence because it was “based in part on improper consideration of her exercise of her right to free speech.”
The panel found the judge who sentenced Peters violated her rights
TMZ is one of those celebrity gossip and listicle sites that I suspect readers around here probably scroll right past, even though it's almost as old as the original blogosphere that eventually helped launch PJ Media. I suspect that's about to change. Bigly. Currently owned by Fox Entertainment (part of the Disney über-conglomerate, not the news network), TMZ seems a bit long in the tooth. Aside from the occasional scandal big enough to get people clicking, the site is far from the unstoppable clickbait machine it was 15 or even just 10 years ago.
Social media serves up the celebrity dish so much faster. In its heyday, readers could count
Two 11-year-olds who were briefly held by a Maryland sheriff’s office on Tuesday for breaking into multiple cars were set free without any charges.
The Harford County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that the twins had been detained before being released to their mother due to their age. The two told sheriff’s deputies they wanted to take a car to “drive around” and had previously been caught breaking into cars as nine-year-olds, Shore News reported.
“We had two 11-year-old brothers out attempting to steal a car,” HCSO Maj. Lee Dunbar told CBS Baltimore. “Can you just imagine that if they would have gotten into those cars
Major automakers unveiled new electric vehicles at the New York Auto Show on Wednesday, despite lagging consumer demand and a sharp downturn in sales after Washington eliminated a $7,500 EV tax credit.
Kia said it would begin selling its lower-priced EV3 in the United States later this year, while Subaru offered a new three-row EV named the “Getaway” that can seat seven.
The Japanese automaker’s family EV SUV will go on sale later this year or next year, its fourth EV model in the US market. Automakers are facing a tougher US EV market but higher gasoline prices in recent weeks have spurred fresh interest.
“The market is going to come back
Virginia Senate candidate Mark Moran announced Thursday that he is leaving the Democratic Party and continuing his run as an independent, the Daily Caller News Foundation has exclusively confirmed.
Moran is challenging three-term incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Warner in the general election, who he says epitomizes the entrenched status quo he is running to disrupt. The now-independent candidate made his announcement in a video first shared with the DCNF, recorded outside the same historic Richmond, VA church where Founding Father Patrick Henry delivered his 1775 “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech. The 34-year-old former investment banker and reality TV candidate also unveiled a series of policy proposals
The birthright citizenship fight is one of the most important battles in front of the Supreme Court. It’s there right now, and yesterday, in a historic move, President Trump became the first president in US history to sit and listen to oral arguments. (snipThen came Justice Alito, and unlike Ketanji Brown Jackson and her emotional fog machine, he brought the argument back to the real issue: allegiance and the actual legal meat of the question. But Alito went a step further, totally nuking the Dems’ entire argument with this one brilliantly played scenario… based in fact.
Twenty-one years have passed since that April 2 in 2005 when, at 9:37 p.m., Pope John Paul II returned to the Father’s House. It’s been 21 years since the end of one of the longest pontificates in the history of the church and of the life of a pope who changed the world.
Today, I am reminded of his unceasing commitment, his powerful gestures, and his words: “Do not be afraid: open, indeed open wide the doors to Christ!”
St. John Paul II was the pontiff of records and the man who led the church into the new millennium. Born Karol Józef Wojtyla in Poland on May 18, 1920,