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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott mobilizes specialized
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has mobilized special units to the southern border to assist the U.S. Border Patrol as the end of Title 42 approaches and large numbers of migrants are expected to cross into the United States.
Speaking to the Southwestern Border Sheriff's Coalition in McAllen, Abbott told sheriffs from 33 counties that Texas will send units to keep an eye on the border and assist agents.
"Pull out your calculator and do the math. If you were to average that out on a daily basis across an entire year, it would mean more than six million people coming across the border in a single year,"
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals on April 20 issued a temporary administrative hold on the return date of the House Judiciary Committee’s congressional subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.
Pomerantz investigated former President Donald Trump’s finances before leaving Bragg’s office in February 2022 in protest of Bragg’s initial unwillingness to bring an indictment against Trump. Bragg then brought the indictment against Trump in late March, prompting Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, to initiate a probe into what Jordan calls a “politically motivated” prosecution against a former president.
Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder, who sought to replace the California governor in a failed 2021 recall effort, announced Thursday he is running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
Elder, 70, made the announcement on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and followed up with a tweet.
“America is in decline, but this decline is not inevitable. We can enter a new American Golden Age, but we must choose a leader who can bring us there. That’s why I’m running for President,” he wrote.
The long-shot candidate joins a Republican field that includes former President Donald Trump, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and entrepreneur Vivek
An author of the now-debunked public statement from 51 intelligence officials casting doubt on the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story revealed this month to Congress that Antony Blinken, then a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, was the impetus for the statement.
Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell testified to the House Judiciary Committee on April 4 that now-Secretary of State Blinken called him about the laptop story just days after the New York Post published it and that the call “triggered” Morell to draft the statement.
Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Michael Turner (R-OH), chairmen of the Judiciary and Intel Committees, respectively, made the revelation on Thursday
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., on Thursday tweeted out a photo acknowledging 4/20, an unofficial holiday dedicated to smoking and celebrating marijuana. In the photo, the hoody-wearing senator is holding up a flag bearing the phrase, "It’s 420 somewhere." The "420" appears to resemble a marijuana joint. Marijuana leaves are scattered throughout the flag. (Snip) "You know what goes great with some weed? A Union," Fetterman wrote in response to a story about marijuana dispensary workers seeking to unionize. The origins of the 420 holiday are unknown, but many believe it originated in California in the 1970s when teenagers would ritualistically
President Joe Biden, 80, is expected to finally announce his 2024 reelection bid, with a video rollout on Tuesday.
The Washington Post reported Thursday on the plans - with the date selected to coincide with when Biden launched his successful 2020 bid for the White House four years before.
Biden took his time getting into the 2020 race, but announced he would mount a run via a video message released on April 25, 2019. While he vanquished former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, there are questions about his age - he's the oldest American president - and whether his sluggish poll numbers
Ex-top spy admits Hunter Biden laptop
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A former acting CIA director has admitted to Congress that he organized the letter that falsely portrayed Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation in an effort to influence the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden and that he did so at the direction of current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to a letter released Thursday by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.
The extraordinary admission by career intelligence officer Michael J. Morell provides stunning evidence that the now-infamous letter from 51 security officials in October 2021 was not an organic intelligence community initiative but rather a political dirty trick originating with Blinken and the Biden campaign.
The use of plural pronouns (“they/them”) to refer to a single person has insidiously crept into our language. This practice is especially common in mass media publications and other establishment writings. It is more than a mere passing fad. It is time for us to understand what this trend really means for all of us. One recent example I noticed was linked by msn.com and included the headline, “Non-Binary Ex-Biden Staffer Sam Brinton's Family Calls Them A Liar, Claims Their Abuse Story Never Happened.” The headline is incomprehensible by traditional rules of grammar. The reader would not know who is meant by “Them” and “Their.”
Though it is finally cooling, lingering effects are still seen with the cultural furor surrounding the beer brand Bud Light. (snip) Joining these dispatched designs was the classic breakfast staple brand Aunt Jemima. When it was announced that the company was deciding to do away with the logo and mascot, some in the activist community declared it to be racist, it was huge news. (snip) even applying the rosiest measurement, by only counting a ten percent decline in each of those six quarters, the former Aunt Jemima brand declined by at least -50% since the name change. It is very likely much worse.
Plans are in motion for President Joe Biden to formally announce his bid for a second term as soon as next week, with a campaign-style video set to be released to definitively answer the question of whether he will run again and igniting an aggressive fundraising effort to help Democrats hold the White House.
Biden’s small circle of close-knit advisers and allies are preparing for a video announcement Tuesday that would coincide with the anniversary of Biden’s 2019 campaign announcement, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
Advisers inside and outside the White House caution that timing could still change, pending unforeseen events
The Oakland Athletics, who claim to be a major league baseball team, announced Wednesday: “The A’s have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas. We realize this is a difficult day for our Oakland fans,” all five of them, “and community.” Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao underlined the team’s statement by revealing that the city was “ceasing negotiations” with the A’s on a new ballpark. The move is going to take a while: the Athletics don’t expect to be playing in Vegas until the 2027 season, but it does appear certain that woke Oakland is about to lose its third and last
Video has emerged of shameless House Democrats seen playing with their phones, incessantly yawning (and not covering their mouths), not paying attention and some say even appearing to even fall asleep at a NYC Congressional Hearing on “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan”. SEE VIDEO BELOW: [video]
The liberal likes of Adam Schiff (D-California), Hank Johnson (D-Georgia), (D-Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Jerry Nadler (D-New York) and Madeleine Dean (D-Pennsylvania) were all caught not paying attention and playing with their phones for extended periods of time during the heartbreaking hearing focusing on victims of violent crime in Manhattan.
Chicago must reinstate city employees who were fired for refusing to comply with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and rescind the requirement, a state administrative law judge has ruled. The decision came Wednesday in a case before the Illinois Labor Relations Board involving more than 20 unions representing city employees, which filed an unfair labor practices charge with the state panel after Lightfoot imposed the policy in the fall of 2021. (Snip) The judge ordered the city to reinstate the affected employees, with their personnel records expunged, and to compensate workers for any lost pay or benefits that resulted, with 7% interest.
Fox News and Dan Bongino have reportedly parted ways, ending his Saturday night show, Unfiltered with Dan Bongino.
In a statement on his podcast Thursday, Bongino assured fans that he had an amicable departure from Fox News and that the two parties just could not come to an agreement on his contract’s extension.“Folks, regretfully, last week was my last show on Fox News on the Fox News Channel,” Bongino said. “It’s tough. It’s tough to say that.”“You know, I’ve been there doing hits and working there for ten years…so the show ending was tough. And I want you to know it’s not some big conspiracy. I promise you. There’s no acrimony.
Bush, Obama, Clinton Team Up with American
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A non-governmental organization (NGO) founded by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama and backed by a litany of multinational corporations is teaming up with American Express to fly migrants into the United States.
The NGO, called Welcome.US, was initially launched to work with President Joe Biden’s administration in resettling some 85,000 Afghans across the U.S. in 2021 and 2022, as Breitbart News reported extensively at the time.
For its Afghan operation, the NGO helped fly close to 20,000 Afghans to American communities funded by millions raised from donations and supported by corporate backers like Walmart, Airbnb, the New York Times, the Business Roundtable,
Attorney General Merrick Garland is the 'senior' unnamed Biden administration official in the center of a new bombshell IRS whistleblower claim, a source familiar tells DailMail.com.
According to a letter Wednesday from attorney Mark Lytle, a man serving as a supervising agent on a 'high-profile' criminal tax probe has come forward seeking whistleblower protections while claiming politics are 'improperly infecting decisions' in an investigation.
The investigation referred to is reportedly examining matters related to President Biden's son Hunter Biden.
Democrat lawmakers are threatening to prosecute journalist Matt Taibbi with up to 5 years in prison for allegedly lying under oath to Congress.
The accusations come after Taibbi accidentally testified that the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) worked with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) on content moderation on Twitter.Mehdi Hasan, a journalist with MSNBC, accused Taibbi of lying and claimed that EIP only worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS), not CISA. Hasan’s accusations have been debunked, however, by Lee Fang, a journalist with The Intercept, who unearthed emails proving that Taibbi was correct in his testimony.
In New York City, if the newcomers aren't put up at the luxury cruise terminal that served the QE2, they could get $700-a-night midtown hotel accommodations with iconic Manhattan views. In Chicago, they found themselves whisked to suburban lodgings. In Denver, officials refer to them discreetly as “guests” and you needn’t bother inquiring about their inns or addresses. The people enjoying these free digs aren’t privacy-conscious jet-setters, but the secrecy surrounding them might be comparable: They’re some of the millions of migrants who have illegally crossed into the U.S. since the Biden administration relaxed most border controls.
No one knows exactly how many people have poured across
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has claimed she helped cut repeat violent crime in the Bronx by preventing cops from getting involved and enlisting ex-gangsters to help instead - but the latest figures still show overall crime on the increase.
The 33-year-old liberal said making hospitals the center for responding to crime rather than police precincts had led to a 'dramatic' reduction in serious offending.
'As leaders, we should focus on solutions that are working instead of what helps us look "tough"', she crowed in a tweet Tuesday.
The ride of Paul Revere is originally attributed to April 18th; however, the majority of the events surrounding it took place overnight, into the wee hours of the morning, then ultimately into mid-day of April 19, 1775, when the Battle of Lexington took place. I hope y’all enjoy this. I revisit this moment in history each year because it shows how ONE ORDINARY MAN can make a huge difference.
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“How do you celebrate Patriots’ Day?” (snip)should spur me to share my own thoughts on this day of consequence.
(snip) Paul Revere actually memorialized the events of the April 18 and 19, 1775, in an eight-page letter written
The House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to protect women’s sports leagues by banning male athletes who identify as females from competing.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 would amend Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 such that recipients of federal financial assistance which operate sports leagues cannot “permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.” The legislation passed with 219 affirmative votes, all of which came from Republicans, and 203 negative votes, all of which came from Democrats.
The Pentagon is positioning U.S. forces in Djibouti ahead of any possible operation to evacuate the embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum amid heavy fighting.
Several international aid workers or officials have been killed or wounded during a week of fighting between two rival generals, and foreign governments are urgently seeking ways to bring their nationals home.
Things deteriorated further on Thursday as armed factions fought near Khartoum's main military installation threatening to unravel the latest attempted ceasefire.American embassy staff are currently sheltering at the U.S. compound about eight miles from the international airport.
Decriminalizing marijuana, we’ve been told to the point of stupor for years, would simply be a matter of recognizing the way society has changed and coming to a mature accommodation of a widespread current practice. (Snip) The New York Post reported last Monday that “the Sunday night murder inside a Harlem ‘smoke shop’ near the corner of 125th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard — the second shooting in the neighborhood in the last year — is a savage reminder of the state’s stupendously disastrous legalization of marijuana.” It seems that the state went about the legalization by “virtually eliminating the entire criminal code pertaining to marijuana overnight.”
Charges against Alec Baldwin have been dropped in the fatal on-set "Rust" shooting, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Baldwin, 65, had been charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter after fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, on the New Mexico set of the Western in October 2021. The actor was practicing a cross-draw when the gun fired, striking the cinematographer and director Joel Souza, who suffered a non-life-threatening injury. "We are pleased with the decision to dismiss the case against Alec Baldwin and we encourage a proper investigation into the facts and circumstances of this tragic accident," Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro,
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has laid out the devastating results of runaway government spending on the middle class and why it’s so important to claw back lost ground for the average American, who has “received a pay cut for 24 consecutive months … as inflation has persisted.”
He also noted the average American family has lost the equivalent of more than $7,000 in annual income. There is a direct link between spending, borrowing and printing trillions of dollars, and these disastrous results for Americans.
President Biden has spent trillions of dollars the nation didn’t have.
These unchecked costs drove the deficit to record highs and pushed the debt over $31 trillion.
Former first lady Michelle Obama revealed that she was not invited to the White House for the hanging of her official portrait, in a veiled swipe at former President Donald Trump. When asked whether she had returned to the White House, Michelle Obama said that "wasn’t invited" during an interview with late night show host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday. (Snip) This is not the first time that Michelle Obama has targeted Trump, writing in her 2022 memoir, "The Light We Carry," that she felt shaken and hurt by his victory in the 2016 election. "It shook me profoundly to hear
Bobby Kennedy Enters The Ring
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RFK Jr. announced his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday. He seeks to wrest it from the presumptive (and presumptuous) Democratic candidate Joe Biden. RCP — not to be confused with RFK — has posted video, clips, and text of Kennedy’s announcement here.
I found much to like in the substance and tone of Kennedy’s announcement. I enjoyed his tribute to his wife, Cheryl Hines, and to his family — the quick and the dead. He attacked the merger of state and corporate power. I wish he would expand the attack to woke corporate America. It would complement his professed desire to overcome the divisions
Breaking:Sudan embassy says "too late"
for evac of US citizens from Khartoum;
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for evac of US citizens from Khartoum;
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An unknown number of American citizens remain trapped in Sudan, and it may already be too late to get them out. The civil war in Sudan between two wanna-be warlords reached the capital of Khartoum almost a week ago, and yet no one apparently had thought to extract US diplomatic personnel and private citizens from the country.
The embassy sent out an alert that it’s already too late for any normal exit:
The airport, located in central Khartoum, is closed but would be inoperable even if it reopened due to damage from bombardment and fighting. The roughly 70 U.S. staff at the embassy have no options to leave Sudan on their own
In a video response to “woke corporate America,” Egard Watch Company took a firm stand in the debate over transgender athletes competing in women’s sports.
The “#Erased” ad features a young girl being encouraged to pursue a dream of becoming "the fastest runner in the world."
"I got this little nugget of an idea from my dad," she says in the ad. "He used to watch me run and say, ‘aint no woman alive that can beat you,’ and I believed him. He made me feel invincible. It wasn’t easy. I trained hard, harder than anyone else I know. But I was made for this, an unstoppable force.
Wednesday’s White House press briefing featured ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre being super-glued to talking points about Republicans supposedly holding the country hostage over the debt ceiling, so it fell to reporters like Fox’s Peter Doocy to focus her elsewhere.
On his turn, he grilled her on China, economy anxiety, and exposing the White House for seemingly having little regard for the victims of the Covenant School shooting and instead all the care in the world for the so-called Tennessee Three.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Buzzfeed News brand is to shut down, according to a new memo to staff from the company's CEO and founder, in order to concentrate more efforts on HuffPost.
'We are reducing our workforce by approximately 15 percent today across our Business, Content, Tech and Admin teams, and beginning the process of closing BuzzFeed News,' CEO Jonah Peretti said in the message.
The company is only closing its news division. The announcement came shortly after rival Business Insider reported that it is planning to lay off around ten percent of its news division.
President Joe Biden is now 80 years old. He will be 82 when he campaigns for the 2024 presidency — and a clearly debilitated 86 should he be elected and fill out his second term. He has been in government for over a half-century.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and current representative from California is 83.
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the second-ranking Democratic House member behind Pelosi, was House majority leader until early this year. He is 83, and has been an elected official for nearly 60 years.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is 72, with 48 years in elected government.
Democratic luminary and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees,
The launch of SpaceX’s first Starship orbital test flight was glorious — the largest, most powerful rocket ever to fly. After a brief halt and reset during the last few seconds of the countdown, the unmanned Starship + Super Heavy stack lifted off like nothing ever before. To my eyes, it looked like a magical hybrid: The bottom half, pure Saturn V; the top half, pure science fiction.
Here’s the successful launch: [video]
When it took off at 9:34 a.m. Eastern this morning, Starship took off in a glorious rush. About six of the rocket’s 33 engines either failed to ignite or failed shortly after liftoff,
BuzzFeed is shutting down what remains of its award-winning news department, signalling the end of an era for a website that once promised to upend the industry.
Founder Jonah Peretti told staff on Thursday that “the company can no longer continue to fund BuzzFeed News” and would be looking to make substantial redundancies across the company. He said the whole company had been hit by pandemic, a troubled stock market listing, a tough economy, a declining stock market, a slowdown in digital advertising, and changing audience habits. Peretti suggested that there may not be a sustainable business model for high-quality online news.
SpaceX's Starship rocket experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" on Thursday after successfully launching from the company's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
Previously slated to take off on Monday, the rocket's launch was delayed due to issues with the vessel's pressurization system. On Thursday, the 400-foot un-crewed rocket managed a successful launch before the exploding in mid-air.
"As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation," the company tweeted. "With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today's test will help us improve Starship's reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary."
If the City Council were as good at solving intransigent problems as it was at saying goodbye, Chicago would be a crime-free nirvana.
That much was evident Wednesday as the Council bid bittersweet farewell to lame-duck Mayor Lori Lightfoot and 13 departing members, including indicted Ald. Edward Burke (14th), longest-serving alderperson in Chicago history.
Tears were shed. Good-natured barbs were traded. Hatchets were buried. Past tensions, hard feelings and old grudges were put aside.
The hours-long love-fest was so upbeat and heartfelt, you’d never have known Burke is leaving under the dark cloud of a federal extortion and racketeering indictment or
New York Times opinionista Michelle Goldberg complained bitterly this week that she had trekked all the way to Wilmington, Del., at the brutal hour of 7 a.m. to watch the Dominion-vs.-Fox News defamation trial, only for the parties to settle before the show began.
“Deeply disappointing” was her reaction. But here’s a thought.
All the disappointed media operatives huddled at Wilmington’s Superior Court, like Goldberg and CNN’s crestfallen Oliver Darcy, could make themselves useful in the president’s hometown. They could investigate a story that is bigger than Watergate but which they have shamefully avoided or downplayed for almost three years: Biden family corruption and the associated coverup
The U.N.’s flagship Green Climate Fund (GCF) will be $1 billion richer from Thursday after President Joe Biden gifts it a cash donation courtesy of U.S. taxpayers.
Biden will announce the billion dollar largesse, effectively doubling the overall U.S. contribution, to the organization which finances “low-carbon and climate-resilient projects in developing countries” while leading a push away from fossil fuels. The announcement will be made during a virtual meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF). The president will also request $500 million over five years to support anti-deforestation efforts in Brazil
CFPB Hit With Massive Data Breach After
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is currently investigating a data breach involving the confidential records of 256,000 consumers.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the breach came when a staffer at the agency emailed those confidential records, which belonged to customers of one institution, to a personal email account. That staffer also took the confidential supervisory information on 45 other institutions. According to the CFPB, that staffer no longer works for them, but it is currently unclear what damage may have been done.
An interesting argument from an even more interesting source, considering that the Wall Street Journal shares an owner with Fox News. News of the utterly predictable decision by the Murdochs to settle the Dominion defamation suit prompted wailing and gnashing of teeth from competitors and journalists throughout the land, who had wanted the court to force Fox and its hosts to admit on the air that they lied about “stop the steal.” WSJ’s editors quote Politico’s overwrought observation that “hopes were dashed — dreams torpedoed” as “hilariously revealing,” but as I noted yesterday, they were hardly alone in weeping over a lost apology.
“Dreams torpedoed,” though? Come on, man.
A mysterious flash which lit up skies over Ukraine's capital on Wednesday night generated much speculation.
Officials in Kyiv initially suspected it was a Nasa satellite falling to Earth but the US space agency told the BBC it was still in orbit.
Ukrainian space officials said later the flash had probably come from a meteor entering the atmosphere.
The air force was confident it was not a Russian air attack - an event all too familiar since the invasion last year. The bright glow was observed in the sky over the capital around 22:00 local time (19:00 GMT).
An air raid alert was activated but "air defence was not in operation",
There appears to be a crack in the wall of secrecy that has been erected around Biden Incorporated. If last night’s report turns out to be true, a whistleblower from the IRS has approached members of Congress expressing a desire to come forward and reveal allegations of misconduct and preferential treatment involving Hunter Biden. They claim that they also have evidence of false testimony given under oath to Congress by “a senior political appointee.” The specifics haven’t been released yet (assuming they ever will be), but the claims reportedly relate to a multimillion-dollar loan that the First Son took out last year to pay delinquent federal taxes assessed to
SpaceX is making its second attempt on Thursday to launch its massive Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. The first attempt was called off Monday when a frozen valve caused problems pressurizing the booster's first stage.Thursday's launch window opens at 8:28 a.m. local time (9:28 a.m. ET) at the company's flight test facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
SpaceX describes Starship as a fully reusable transportation system that is made to carry cargo and crew to Earth orbit. It is designed to help humans return to the moon and go to Mars and beyond.
On Wednesday, Florida lawmakers passed a bill supported by Governor Ron DeSantis, which will allow for the death penalty to be imposed on individuals convicted of sexually abusing children.
HB 1297, otherwise known as the Capital Sexual Battery law, provides the death penalty for certain child sexual offenders. Separate death penalty proceedings are required, with a jury making findings and recommendations on whether the defendant should be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole or to death.
The bill from the Florida Legislature amends the law regarding sexual battery committed against children under the age of 12. The amendment provides for the possibility of imposing the death penalty
A sizable majority of likely voters believe that the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, was provoked by government agents secretly operating in the crowds, a stunning rejection of the blame that Justice Department prosecutors and a special House panel have put squarely on the head of former President Donald Trump. While many had suspicions of undercover agents fanning anger in the crowd about Trump’s electoral loss to President Joe Biden, the airing of never-before-seen videos by Fox’s Tucker Carlson jumped that number to 65% in the latest Rasmussen Reports survey.
Gov. Gavin Newsom promised two years ago to appoint a Black woman to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein if she resigned. If he merely appointed a temporary “caretaker” would that honor his pledge? I wouldn’t think so. It wouldn’t be in keeping with the spirit of his promise. The governor seemed to be swearing that if given the opportunity, he would fill a glaring Senate void and make sure there was at least one Black woman member of America’s most prestigious and powerful legislative body. She’d be a full-fledged senator, not a temp. She would follow in the footsteps of California’s
Senate Republicans had a shot at successfully passing a vital resolution in the Democrat-controlled upper chamber that would protect Americans from funding abortions. Instead of allying with their own on an issue that has set the GOP apart from the left for decades, however, at least two of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s closest allies sided with Democrats’ radical abortion agenda when they voted 51 to 48 not to proceed with the legislation.
Rift among conservatives over Bud Light
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response has clarified that it’s hardball
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Unexpectedly and unintentionally, the hiring of Dylan Mulvaney as a celebrity endorser of Bud Light has provided a clarifying moment for conservatives. Two prominent Trump administration veterans have emerged as embodiments of the two strategic options that Republican officeholders and activists have traditionally embraced:
Defer to major donors because “money is the mother’s milk of politics.”
Go scorched earth on those who side with the forces trying to destroy our culture, society, and/or economy. (snip) A couple of days ago, Donald Trump, Jr. was advocating for option 1
Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (Snip) A quick look around at what’s going on in Washington reveals that the Democrats aren’t a real healthy group of people. The man masquerading as President of the United States of America is just as likely wax on and on about gargoyles slathering scented oils on his recently shaven torso as he is about policy during a speech.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein — the oldest member of the Senate — has been physically out of commission since February.
And Pennsylvania freshman Sen. John Fetterman just returned from his lengthy absence to deal with his physical and mental health (but probably really just his physical health).
On the Matter of Ghosts
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Of course ghosts exist.
Before dismissing the idea as absurd, consider that ghosts always come from the past. You can’t have a ghost from the future. But the past speaks to us all the time. We expect things to be where we left them, unless something caused them to move because causality is the foundation of reality. Causes precede their effects and effects follow causes, or so we think. Perhaps the most famous literary exposition of this idea was Ray Bradbury’s story “A Sound of Thunder.” A party of time travelers go into the past to hunt dinosaurs. Someone steps on a butterfly and changes the whole future.
Not too long ago, Joe Biden held President Trump up to scorn for his immigration policies, calling them 'inhumane,' 'criminal,' and a 'stain.'
Biden denounced Trump's separation of families policies intended to disincentivize family migration rackets, given that the law required detention for adults caught crossing the U.S. border illegally, but not children. The policy had been started under President Obama, so it was hardly his idea. Biden made such an issue of it he even sought out separated families and tried to make them millionaires through torts payouts, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, based on all the supposed 'harm' of the separation following their thousand mile
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Wednesday announced it had received records from the Department of Health and Human Services showing that the National Institutes of Health granting funding for experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that sought to create mutant coronavirus variants.
Included in the documents were the initial grant application from EcoHealth Alliance and its annual reports. Those documents described work with the WIV as seeking to "predict the capacity of our CoVs [coronaviruses] to infect people."
Included in the "specific aims" section is a discussion of "[t]esting predictions of CoV inter-species transmission."
Fox News host Tucker Carlson didn’t hold back in crucifying Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) over his latest financial reports showing luxury travel to Miami and New York paid for by campaign donors.
“When he’s not shagging Chinese spies, he gets to travel all over the world at his donors’ expense,” joked Carlson, referencing Swalwell’s relationship with Christine Fang in an alleged Chinese honeypot operation. “If he wants to he can hang out on the beach in a Hawaiian shirt with an umbrella drink, gold chains, and a chest wig.”
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The Manhattan district attorney's attempt to block a former prosecutor from testifying in Congress about efforts to prosecute Donald Trump failed on Wednesday, with a judge ruling that Mark Pomerantz could be called to testify.
Pomerantz worked for years on the Trump investigation, but left the job after clashing with Alvin Bragg, the district attorney, over the direction of the case.
He recently wrote a book about his work pursuing Trump and discussed the investigation in interviews on 60 Minutes and other shows.
Vermont’s self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is a nonstop cheerleader for a minimum-wage hike. Recently, in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, he once again called for a huge increase in the minimum wage. Sounds generous, until you realize it would in fact hurt most the working poor, those who supposedly would reap the greatest benefits of a boosted minimum wage.
“Whether they are greeting us at Walmart, serving us hamburgers at McDonald’s, providing childcare for our kids or waiting on our table at a diner in rural America, there are too many Americans trying to survive and raise families on $9, $10 or $12 an hour,” Sanders wrote.
Both American Political Parties Have Adopted
Lenin’s Strategy for the Destruction
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Lenin’s Strategy for the Destruction
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On April 22, 1919, on his 50th birthday, Lenin gave an interview to London’s Daily Chronicle and made stunning revelations about the Bolshevik's struggle to destroy capitalism. (snip) Lenin declared, “Debauch the currency to overturn the basis of society.” The destruction of currency was the main component of the Bolshevik strategy. (snip) By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily…. Lenin was certainly right; there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
What qualities should medical schools look for in future doctors? Probably academic excellence, experience in the medical sector, loyalty to medical ethics, and good interpersonal skills.
These are all characteristics that future doctors should have, but they’re not what medical schools now emphasize. Medical schools are looking for social justice zealots to advance the diversity, equity, and inclusion dogma.
(Snip) Harvard asks applicants to share “an important aspect of [their] personal background or identity,” and the school expressly suggests that applicants focus on “significant challenges in access to education, unusual socioeconomic factors, identification with a minority culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity.”
A third suspect was arrested in connection to the mass shooting at an Alabama Sweet 16 that left four people dead and 28 injured.
Wilson LaMar Hill Jr., 20, joins brothers Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, behind bars for reckless murder after they allegedly opened fire at a Dadeville celebration on April 15.
Hill was arrested on Wednesday, a day after the two brothers. All three were charged as adults and ordered to be held without bond.
Birthday girl Alexis Dowdell was partying with her friends and family at the Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio at around 10.30pm when the tragedy occurred,
Exclusive Two liberal organizations describing themselves as "radical feminist" groups have entered a surprising partnership in their effort to protect women's rights.
This week, Women's Liberation Front and Women's Declaration International USA broke with the President Biden and joined congressional Republicans in support of H.R. 734, or the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, a bill that would prevent biological males from participating in women's sports.
Speaking with Fox News Digital on Wednesday, Kara Dansky, the President of Women’s Declaration International USA, said her nonpartisan organization was "devoted to advancing the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights,
Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise.
For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars. The battle has reached into homes via commercials for Hooked on Phonics materials and through shoebox dioramas assigned by teachers seeking to instill a love of literature.
But momentum has shifted lately in favor of the “science of reading.” The term refers to decades of research in fields including brain science that point to effective strategies for teaching kids to read.
NYC’s Vegan Mayor Eric Adams to Limit
Amount of Meat People Can Eat to Combat
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Amount of Meat People Can Eat to Combat
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New York City’s vegan mayor Eric Adams wants to limit the amount of meat people can eat in an effort to combat climate change.
Adams wants to reduce food-based gas emissions by 33% in the next 7 years.
“Food is the third-biggest source of cities’ emissions right after buildings and transportation. But all food is not created equal. The vast majority of food that is contributing to our emission crises lies in meat and dairy products,” Adams said.“According to new data released by the city, 20% of the Big Apple’s greenhouse gas emissions come from food production and consumption.
In a recent interview, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman opened up to People Magazine about his hardships after winning his 2022 election. Fetterman talked about his struggles with depression, his decision to seek treatment, and his hospitalization. The Senator also discussed mental illness and the importance of seeking help.
“I always treated my depression like I did with losing my hair,” he said. “It’s just kind of like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s just part of my makeup.'”
The real, true, and final end of pandemic-era measure “Title 42,” which allowed for the quick expulsion of all illegal immigrants crossing the southern border, is nigh.
Set to end May 11, the title was a potent deterrent when former President Donald Trump applied it to almost 90% of all illegal crossing immigrants and far less so under the President, who expelled only 35%.
I predict big trouble is on the way to the southern border, from which I’ve just returned.
In Juarez, thousands of immigrants are living in abandoned buildings, sleeping on the streets, and many hundreds more a day show up on freight trains.
A suspected human smuggler and four migrants are clinging to life following a police pursuit near the border in South Texas that ended in a rollover crash. The driver allegedly attempted to flee from Texas Department of Public Safety troopers by driving at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour. All four migrants riding in the vehicle were ejected as the vehicle lost control and overturned along U.S. Highway 57 in Zavala County, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon.
The suspected human smuggler driving the vehicle was the only occupant wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. The unbelted migrants were ejected from the vehicle
Dr Phil on Tuesday warned an economics professor's plan for $350,000 in reparations to 40 million descendants of slaves would be 'an absolute disaster', arguing that giving a lump sum was not the best way to help anyone.
The television host on Tuesday invited on his show Duke University's William Darity, who co-authored the book 'From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century'.
Darity suggested the US government issue the funds in much the same way it sent out checks to millions of Americans during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, at a cost of $14 trillion.
A Washington State middle school has been slammed as 'disgusting' after it hosted a bizarre licking game between students and staff.
Shocking footage showed the outlandish competition at Desert Hills Middle School in Kennewick, Washington, where schoolkids and their adult teachers were tasked with licking marshmallow cream off either side of a plexiglass pane at the same time.
Horrified students, some of whom recorded the game and showed their parents, can be heard in the video screaming 'Ew', 'Disgusting' and 'That's so gross'.
A devastating tornado system ripped through Kansas and Oklahoma Wednesday evening, levelling homes and leaving a trail of destruction across multiple counties.
The terrifying twisters tore through the Midwest Wednesday evening, while parts of Nebraska, Missouri, Texas and Iowa have also been placed under tornado watches.
Tennis-ball sized hail and torrential winds tore across the region, leaving approximately 20,000 people in the dark after the storms downed powerlines. Shocking footage captured the moment the weather bomb first touched down in the small Oklahoma town of Cole,