Posts on Wednesday, January 29, 2025
An airplane has reportedly crashed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, DC, grounding all takeoffs and landings.
“All takeoffs and landings have been halted at DCA. Emergency personnel are responding to an aircraft incident on the airfield. The terminal remains open. Will update,” the Reagan Airport announced on social media Wednesday night. [Tweet, video]
Reporter Allison Papson with Fox5DC announced that that D.C. Fire and EMS confirmed that “a small aircraft is down in the Potomac River in the vicinity of Reagan National Airport.
“DC Fire and EMS confirms a small aircraft is down in the Potomac River in the vicinity of Reagan National Airport. Fireboats on scene.
A report from ABC7 in Chicago reported that a magistrate judge ordered the release of a Venezuelan man who was arrested in a targeted enforcement operation over the weekend.
Over the weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers, along with other federal agencies, carried out a targeted enforcement operation, Breitbart News reported. The actions were overseen by top officials of the Trump administration, including Border Czar Tom Homan.
According to the report from ABC7, law enforcement officials placed Edward Martinez-Cermeno, 24, into custody on Sunday for illegally entering the United States near Eagle Pass, Texas in 2023.
Fraudsters have been applying for aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the recent California wildfires, filling in addresses within the burn zone before the actual residents can claim their relief.
Many residents of the Pacific Palisades, several of whom have been in contact with Breitbart News, report that when they applied for aid through the FEMA website, they reached a screen that said “Duplicate Application.”
The result is that potentially thousands of people who desperately need cash — to pay for alternative accommodation, or simply to buy food and clothes — are unable to receive what FEMA has offered them.
The scam is relatively simple.
Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Reid Out” that Republicans were making it “safe to discriminate” by going after DEI.
Abrams said, “While Donald Trump may be the avatar, he’s not an outlier as long as the rest of the Republican Party suborn what is happening. Whether it’s Stephen Miller at the podium or a U.S. senator they are all agreeing to the premise of Project 2025. Which is they want to hoard opportunity and legalize discrimination. We have spent 248 years as a nation undoing our original sins, which include slavery, silencing women, denying native Americans their citizenship a whole host of challenges.
Some three years ago, a Danish public radio podcast brought to light one of the darkest chapters in relations between Denmark and Greenland: the so-called IUD scandal. The podcast made public a Danish government program that forced thousands of young women in Greenland, many of them minors, to have intrauterine devices (IUD coils) inserted into their wombs as a form of compulsory birth control in the 1960s and 1970s. Although Greenland — which is mostly populated by indigenous Inuit — was no longer a Danish colony after 1953, it was nevertheless not independent, but rather a Danish province. It was not until 1979 that Greenland got its own parliament
The Pentagon will investigate former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday.
Secretary Hegseth already revoked Milley’s security detail and security clearance.
Joe Biden pardoned Tony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and the entire J6 Select Committee of liars in his final act as president.
However, a presidential pardon won’t stop the Pentagon from conducting a review of Milley’s conduct to see if he should be demoted.
“Hegseth, whose first day at the Pentagon was Monday, directed the Defense Department’s inspector general to look into “the facts and circumstances” surrounding Milley’s conduct
President Donald Trump has signed into law the first bill of his second term, and it's the one piece of legislation that Congressional Republicans had targeted to land on his desk as quickly as possible upon his return to the White House: the Laken Riley Act.
In an emotional ceremony in the White House East Room, Trump, joined by Laken's mother, sister and stepfather, signed the bill into law, saying, "We're going to sign this in honor of Laken Riley." Trump called on the bill sponsors, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) and Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), to join him at the signing desk.
On Monday, we were treated to the spectacle of someone named Selena Gomez, who evidently is a celebrity of some sort or another, weeping uncontrollably over the Trump administration's and border czar Tom "The Hammer" Homan's efforts to round up and either jail or repatriate illegal aliens that don't belong here. As leftists are wont to do, Miss Gomez was weeping for "the children."
We were also treated to the delightful spectacle of the border czar telling Miss Gomez precisely what she could do with her crocodile tears. Mr. Homan predicted that this would happen, and he was right. [Tweet, video]
The Hammer is set on doing his job,
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Announces Halt
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Wednesday evening on Fox News' "The Will Cain Show," Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced that DHS will be suspending all grants to non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Noem told Cain that DHS had:
stopped all grant funding that is being abused by NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration into this country. So, it's amazing to me the hundreds of millions of dollars that have spent by the federal government, that has been sent to NGOs to facilitate this invasion of our country. So, I've taken action to stop those funds, to reevaluate them,
When a political party loses a major election, post-mortems quickly turn into doubling down, and the Democratic Party has traveled that predictable path in record time since getting gut-punched in November.
For about a week following the election of now-President Donald Trump, there were some rumblings that a course correction might take place. A few Democrats even spoke openly about backing away from transgender ideology and attempting to reconnect with the working class. That was never going to happen, though, and sure enough, the party's members are back to being the lunatics we know all too well.
As we wrote earlier, the Senate Finance Committee held a confirmation hearing for Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday. (Snip) He had to think that Democratic politicians weren't listening, because he had a similar experience with Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), where the senator appeared to be concentrating more on attacking than listening to his answers. But just like with Sanders, that led to an embarrassing place. Lujan asked Kennedy if he was going to cut Medicaid. Trump has repeatedly said he isn't going to cut Medicaid;
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One of the DOJ’s top dogs was on the ground in Chicago during deportation raids this weekend to look for possible interference by officials in the sanctuary city, a DOJ official tells The Post.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove traveled to the Windy City over the weekend after threatening to investigate and potentially prosecute sanctuary leaders who “obstruct” ICE operations.
ICE, alongside other federal agencies including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), arrested illegal migrant criminals in pre-dawn raids Sunday, which were also observed by border czar Tom Homan.
The operation yielded 100 arrests. The feds only notified local cops of the general areas of their raids,
Former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin (R), President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was confirmed by the Senate in a vote 56-42.(X)
In a post on X, Zeldin expressed that he was “grateful” to Trump for having faith in him to be a “part of his Cabinet” as the EPA Administrator.
“CONFIRMED! Thank You to the 56 Senators for your vote and confidence,” Zeldin wrote in his post. “Grateful to President @realDonaldTrump for having the faith in me to be part of his Cabinet as @EPA Administrator. Make America Great Again!”
President Donald Trump settled with Meta Platforms for $25 million after the social media giant suspended his accounts following the January 6, 2021, protests at the US Capitol.
$22 million from the settlement will go to President Trump’s presidential library. The rest will go to legal fees and to fellow plaintiffs who signed on to the case.
Meta did not admit to any wrongdoing in the settlement.
The Wall Street Journal reported that activity on the case after Mark Zuckerberg flew to Mar-a-Lago to dine with President Trump in November after his 2024 election victory.
Meta said Wednesday it would pay $25 million to settle a four-year-old lawsuit from President Donald Trump over the social media company’s decision to suspend Trump’s accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, filed a notice of the settlement in federal court in San Francisco, where the lawsuit was pending. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone separately confirmed the terms: a $25 million payment from the company, with $22 million going toward a fund for Trump’s presidential library and the balance dedicated to legal fees and other plaintiffs in the case.
“Grasping at straws” doesn’t even begin to properly define The Washington Post’s latest barking mad line of attack against X owner Elon Musk: Virtue-signaling on his video game ethics.The seriousness of Post technology reporter Drew Harwell’s insane 1,694-word agitprop against Musk to rile up the gamers across the cyberverse could be summed up by his headline: “Does Elon Musk cheat at video games? An investigation.” Yes, he actually called this an “investigation.” The piece just went downhill from there: “The world’s richest man has admitted to paying to boost his online warriors into global leaderboards, raising questions about his gaming prowess — and his need for digital praise.”
President Trump signed an executive order to prohibit federal funds from going to K-12 public schools that teach critical race theory (CRT) or gender issues.
The order, which could quickly face legal challenges, “prohibits federal funding of the indoctrination of children which includes radical gender ideology and critical race theory in the classroom.”
The Education secretary and Defense secretary — for schools run by the defense department — are ordered to create a strategy for ending “indoctrination in K-12 education” within 90 days.
The order also reinstates the 1776 Commission Trump created in his first term, telling all executive agencies to “prioritize the advancement of patriotic education.”
The Portland police chief is brazenly defying federal authorities and refusing to cooperate with Donald Trump and Tom Homan’s plan for deporting illegal alien criminals. Sounds as if it’s time for the feds to investigate and perhaps arrest the police chief.
Portland police chief Bob Day issued a community letter on Jan. 28, proudly affirming Portland’s unconstitutional sanctuary city policies, announcing his determination to flout federal law enforcement arresting criminal illegal aliens, and therefore publicizing as much as possible his corruption and illegal activities. Considering that ICE is currently focused on deporting the most dangerous illegal alien criminals, including murderers and child rapists, this begs the question
In 2022, states received $189 billion in funding for primary and secondary schools. The funding was supposed to go to programs that would allow kids to make up for the lost learning they were forced to experience during the pandemic.
Standardized test scores had fallen to levels not seen in forty years or more. The infusion of cash would, as the Biden administration promised, help kids catch up.
The most closely watched standardized test for primary and secondary school children is the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). It's called "The Nation's Report Card" because more students take this test than any other standardized test.
As we've been covering, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been weighing in an awful lot about Elon Musk's salute to the crowd last Monday during a rally for President Donald Trump's inauguration. The congresswoman, other Democrats, and their allies in the mainstream media insisted Musk did a Nazi salute. Failed vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) also chimed in during Tuesday's episode of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC. He may find himself in trouble for it too, especially if Musk sues.
Reports of the pro-life movement’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
JD Vance spoke in person at the March for Life last week, becoming only the second sitting vice president to do so.
President Trump recorded a video for the occasion, in which he vowed to “stop the radical Democrat push for a federal right to unlimited abortion on demand up to the moment of birth and even after birth.”He also pardoned 23 protesters convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act during Joe Biden’s presidency — including Paula Harlow, a 75-year-old woman sentenced to two years in federal prison for blocking access to an abortion clinic.
Judging from the first week or so, the Trump doctrine is going to be: We can do it the easy way, or the hard way.
Those are the words the president used in a post on Truth Social last week threatening tariffs on Russia if it didn’t cut a peace deal with Ukraine.
Trump is a president who understands, and has no hesitation in using, the leverage the United States has abroad as the world’s pre-eminent economic and military power, and the leverage he has at home as a newly elected president with a mandate and the strong backing of a fervent political movement.
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepares for his Senate confirmation hearings to become the next secretary of health and human services, one issue will be impossible to avoid: abortion and abortion pills. The removal of Food and Drug Administration safety measures on the pill during Covid lockdowns, including the in-person visit and follow-up care requirement, has created significant risks for women, [Snip] By requiring medical oversight for abortion pills, the federal government would take a bipartisan step to protect women from avoidable harm. Reinstating REMS would not ban the abortion pill but ensure it is used with the same safety standards applied to other high-risk drugs.
NEW YORK — Top Department of Justice officials under President Donald Trump have been talking with Manhattan prosecutors about dropping criminal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions.
The conversations between DOJ and both the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the mayor’s legal team were first reported by The New York Times.
Adams is facing a five-count bribery case that he has characterized as political retribution from the Biden administration for his criticisms of the former president’s handling of immigration. He pleaded not guilty in September.
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Only 10 days into President Donald Trump’s second term it’s abundantly clear that Christians who opposed his presence in the White House and condemned their brethren for supporting it have some repenting to do. Never Trumpers spent the last decade weaponizing their faith to demonize Christian Trump supporters. By the time the 2024 election rolled around, they had proudly endorsed the radical, openly anti-Christian Joe Biden stand-in for president. [Snip] Christ-followers are indeed called to be faithful regardless of who is president. But Christians who donate to, promote, and vote for candidates who proudly assault the kingdom of God are undoubtedly complicit in that attack.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 56-42 to confirm former Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, tasked with rolling back climate rules from former President Joe Biden that were aimed at slashing emissions from vehicles, power plants and factories. President Donald Trump picked Zeldin, 44, to lead EPA's deregulation efforts, lifting hurdles on oil and gas drilling and reversing course on the Biden administration's emissions rules aimed at spurring more electric vehicle use. Three Democrats voted to back the former New York representative, Arizona Senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, as well as Pennsylvania Senator
President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of migrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, said Wednesday that the U.S. will use a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of people who can’t be sent back to their home countries.
“We’re going to send them out to Guantanamo,” Trump said at at the signing of the Laken Riley Act.
Here’s a look at the U.S. naval base and its history:
How does the U.S. government use the base at Guantanamo Bay?
While the U.S. naval base in Cuba is best-known for the suspects brought in after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it also has
On Wednesday night The Gateway Pundit heard from Jeremy Brown’s girlfriend.
The Bureau of Prisons moved Jeremy again in the past 24 hours from Kentucky to Florida. [Tweet]
This was reposted from JoeHoft.com
Roger Stone shared this report on J6 political prisoner Jeremy Brown.
Jeremy Brown, a retired US Army Special Forces Master Sergeant, is being denied his freedom due to the decision by rogue federal agents to keep him in prison in direct opposition to President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon of Jan. 6 patriots.
The feds are hoping to exploit a technicality, as their unlawful raids eventually resulted in federal felony charges against Brown in Florida.
So this is what passes for a 'profile in courage' among Kennedys these days: sanctimoniously calling out an inconvenient cousin while ignoring all the sins of your lecherous father — plus your grandfather who lobotomized his own daughter.
And that's just for starters.
The day before her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing to be our Health and Human Services Secretary, Camelot's would-be princess Caroline Kennedy did something generations of Kennedys have been raised not to do: she turned on one of her own.
President Trump has directed that the US military prison complex at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be used to detain criminal aliens pending repatriation to their home nation or some other destination. Using the occasion of the official signing of the Laken Riley Act (Wednesday Morning Minute: May the MAHA Be With You – RedState), President Trump directed the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to work together to refurbish a 30,000-bed migrant detention center at Guantanamo for use.
Coldspring, Texas — A court in East Texas sentenced a four-time deported illegal alien to life in prison without the possibility of parole after he pleaded guilty to the murders of five Honduran migrants near Cleveland, Texas, in April 2023. The Mexican national pleaded guilty to Capital Murder in exchange for the sentence.
San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon said the plea resolves all of the cases that came out of an incident on the night of April 28, 2023, when Francisco Torres Oropeza murdered five of his neighbors. Dillon said the plea will ensure that Oropeza will remain in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Trump White House Rescinds Memo on Federal
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The Trump administration rescinded a memo freezing most federal grants and loans on Wednesday, one day after the measure was temporarily paused by a federal district judge, though the White House clarified shortly thereafter that the underlying executive order remains in effect.
U.S. District judge Loren L. AliKhan issued an administrative stay on the measure on Tuesday night, moments before it was supposed to go into effect. The order had blocked the freeze from going into effect until at least Monday after a network of nonprofit groups filed a legal challenge against the measure.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Matthew Vaeth previously ordered agencies to “temporarily
WASHINGTON - Americans have a dim view of some of President Donald Trump's early barrage of executive orders, including his attempt to do away with so-called birthright citizenship and his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Since taking office on Jan. 20, the Republican president has moved quickly to crack down on immigration and scale back the size of government, efforts that respondents to the three-day poll that closed on Sunday look on more favorably.
Overall, the poll showed 45% of Americans approve of Trump's performance as president, down slightly
Phyllis Fong, who served as Inspector General of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) since 2002, told colleagues last week she planned to resist President Trump's order firing multiple IGs across different federal agencies.
The act of defiance did not end well. Security greeted her when she showed up to work on Monday and promptly removed her from her office.
On Wednesday, Reuters reported exclusively on the situation.
"Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration," they relayed, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter.
Democrats really don't know what to do at this point.
President Donald Trump has come in with what's like a "shock and awe" campaign, hitting so many things at the same time to change all the bad that Joe Biden and the Democrats did that the Democrats can't even keep up. Trump had four years to think about it and organize, so he's hit the ground running.
So far, the Democrats haven't been able to do much, with the Trump team on fire. The new administration has made major changes already in securing the border, for example, with the numbers dropping to incredibly low numbers,
As Democrat senators continued their interrogation of President Trump’s choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT) came absolutely unglued.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, RFK Jr. appeared this morning to testify before the Senate Finance Committee to make his case as Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services. RFK Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard will sit for hearings this week.
Earlier, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) set out from the beginning to conduct a massive character assassination on RFK Jr..
Bob Menendez, once a powerful US senator from New Jersey, cried as he begged a Manhattan judge for leniency Wednesday — and was sentenced to 11 years in prison for selling out his lofty post for gold bars, cash, a Mercedes-Benz convertible and other bribes.
“Your honor, you have before you a chastened man,” Menendez, 71, said before choking up.
“I have dedicated my entire life to the service of others,” he said, dabbing his eyes with a tissue. “I am far from a perfect man, but I believe in my half-century of public service, I have done more good than bad.”
The waterworks came before Manhattan federal Judge Sidney Stein handed
Commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick gave an emotional opening statement on Wednesday as he testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, sharing a bit about his life story that Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued is truly the embodiment of the “American spirit of resilience and achievement.” Born and raised in New York, Lutnick suffered one of his first major life blows in his teens, losing his mother and father in the span of a year and a half, both to cancer. A graduate of Haverford College, Lutnick would go on to join financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald
President Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday as his confirmation hearings got underway.
As expected, Democrat Senators sneered at RFK Jr. as he confronted the lawmakers about wasting taxpayers’ money.
Fake Indian and Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) lost it on RFK Jr. after he exposed her for defending Big Pharma.
Warren begged RFK Jr. not to sue Big Pharma.
Among the many things most Americans don’t know is how rare armed attacks on schools really are. Considering the sheer number of public and private K-12 schools—115,171 circa January, 2025--how could it be otherwise?
But we keep hearing about attacks, like every week! And the “assault weapons,”and the white supremacists doing the killing, [snip]
For example, in 2018, NPR did a story about a Department of Education study claiming during the 2015-2016 school year 240 schools reported at least one school-related shooting. NPR reporters [snip] found, no doubt to their surprise, they could confirm only 11.
President Trump said Wednesday that he plans to send up to 30,000 illegal immigrants to detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of his campaign to mass-deport migrants who have committed crimes.
“Today, I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,” Trump said while signing the anti-illegal immigration Laken Riley Act.
“Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”
Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen said it best: “Last week has totally reset my conception of what’s possible, in two wholly different dimensions.”
As Andreessen often is, he’s right.
Soon after November’s election, I suggested that if Donald Trump were smart, he’d come in like a wrecking ball: Move fast, break things and precipitate change across many fronts all at once, subjecting the Democrats, the media and the left (but I repeat myself) to shock and awe.Boy, has he ever done that, unleashing unprecedented change in just his first 100 hours.
It looks like progress is being made in getting more of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees through the confirmation process and into their roles of helping the president to overhaul the federal government.
So far, only six of Trump's fifteen Cabinet-level nominees have been confirmed:
Secretary of State: Marco Rubio
Secretary of Defense: Pete Hegseth
Secretary of Homeland Security: Kristi Noem
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency: John Ratcliffe
Secretary of the Treasury: Scott Bessent
Secretary of Transportation: Sean Duffy.
Trump's pick for Attorney General, Pam Bondi, made it one step closer to assuming command of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) after her nomination was approved Wednesday
We have a saying around here, “You can’t hate the media enough,” and the reason it resonates is because every time you think they’ve sunk to a new low, they sink just that much lower. On Tuesday, the fashion magazine Vogue unleashed such a bitter, elitist, nasty critique of First Lady Melania Trump’s official portrait, which was released Monday, that it made your jaw drop. It was a story about a portrait, for Pete's sake.
Many, including our own Becky Noble, thought Melania was stylish and gorgeous and showed “her trademark class and elegance.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Wednesday that she had rescinded a last-minute order by former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas extending Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan "refugees" until October 2026. The cancellation of TPS affects approximately 600,000 Venezuelans living illegally in the United States.
On Tuesday, Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, decided to revoke the 18-month extension of what is known as Temporary Protected Status, which is intended to help people in the United States who cannot return safely and immediately to their country because of a natural disaster or an armed conflict.
Train robberies are something we associate with Western movies, wherein gangs of outlaws pursue the train on horseback, waving sixguns and jumping from their horses onto the cars to rob the passengers and maybe steal a Wells Fargo strongbox full of gold coins. The notorious Mexican Sinaloa cartel, though, has taken the train robbery up to the 21st-century level. A recent report describes just such a robbery in Arizona, where thousands of dollars worth of Nike shoes were stolen.
Fortunately, the desperados were caught, and the merchandise returned.
The Sinaloa Cartel raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars stealing Nike shoes
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday rescinded a widespread freeze most federal grants and loans just one day after it was issued amidst significant criticism, according to a memo a source provided to NBC News. A senior administration official confirmed the order was rescinded Wednesday. The order, which sparked chaos and confusion across Washington, was temporarily halted by a federal district judge Tuesday evening. The directive from the Office of Management and Budget came Monday night, directing federal agencies to "temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities
A ban on numerous semiautomatic firearms — rifles and shotguns — passed the Colorado Senate Affairs Committee on Tuesday and is now headed to the Senate Floor.
The legislation is SB25-003, which targets firearms state Democrats define as a “specified semiautomatic firearm.”
SB25-003 says, in part:
The bill defines a “specified semiautomatic firearm” as a semiautomatic rifle or semiautomatic shotgun with a detachable magazine or a gas-operated semiautomatic handgun with a detachable magazine. The bill prohibits knowingly manufacturing, distributing, transferring, selling, or purchasing a specified semiautomatic firearm; except that a person may transfer a specified semiautomatic firearm to an heir,
After a decade of the regime media grinding away at two-term president and winner of the popular vote Donald Trump, voters currently trust the White House incumbent more than the news media.
Ha ha. Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1,245 likely voters between January 21-23, and asked a very simple, straightforward question “Who do you trust more?” The choices were Donald Trump, the news media, or not sure. A plurality of 44 percent chose Trump. Only 41 percent chose the news media. Fifteen percent were unsure.
The internals are mind-blowing and speak to a larger phenomenon…
Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis has won the special primary for the state’s 1st Congressional District.
Matt Gaetz previously held the seat before he resigned to serve in President Donald Trump’s administration, for which he ultimately withdrew from being considered.
The district is extremely red. Patronis should easily win in the general election, which is scheduled for April 1.
President Donald Trump endorsed Patronis and urged him to run in the first place.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s controversial pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, is appearing Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee, to face questions — and fierce opposition from some lawmakers — about his bid to head the department.
It’s unclear whether RFK Jr. — who ran against Trump last year as an independent candidate for president before dropping out of the race and endorsing him — has the votes to be confirmed for the role. Some of his own family members, including cousin Caroline Kennedy, a former US Ambassador to Australia and Japan, have lambasted him as “dangerous” and “unqualified” to oversee America’s health bureau.
As soon as someone at the US Air Force made this decision, which was dutifully written up by the 'news' media,' Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida recognized what was going on. "President Donald Trump’s assault on federal diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives has claimed a new victim — the Tuskegee Airmen," a San Antonio Express-News story blared. "A video describing the exploits of the groundbreaking African American airmen, whose combat service during World War II became the stuff of legend, has been removed from the instructional curriculum for new recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the hub of Air Force basic training,"
For years, the legacy media (hereinafter the “Leg-Meds”) parroted the Democrats’ line that the population of immigrants can be divided into the “documented” ones and the “undocumented” ones.
The euphemism “undocumented” finally became a joke, and so the Leg-Meds and the other Democrats eventually surrendered to the word “illegal.”
However, within that category of “illegals,” they clung (bitterly) to the notion that about 99.9999999% were “law-abiding” and only the remaining 0.0000001% were criminals.
That lie was called out yesterday by President Trump’s new press secretary.
President Donald Trump will launch an anti-Semitism crackdown on Wednesday when he signs an executive order instructing federal agencies to find ways to deport anti-Jewish activists who violated laws, including students on college campuses.
The executive order will allow the deportation of resident aliens — including students with visas — who broke laws as part of anti-Israel protests following the October 7th attacks in Israel, DailyMail.com confirmed.
Trump, during his presidential campaign, called for the deportation of pro-Hamas students who are in the United States on visas.
Vogue launched a vicious review of Melania Trump's newly-revealed White House portrait, comparing the first lady's look to that of a magician.
The magazine spent four years fawning over the previous White House administration, featuring both Jill Biden and Kamala Harris on the cover several times each, and its latest piece on Melania reaffirms their preference for Democrats.
Vogue's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is a known Democrat - and was once even rumored to be considered for an ambassadorship under president Barack Obama.
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has sent shockwaves through the tech world with bold claims that it can match or even surpass the performance of AI models from top U.S. firms like OpenAI while significantly undercutting them on price by using less powerful chips. Prominent figures in the AI world are skeptical of these claims, including one CEO who says the Chinese company has 50,000 of the forbidden Nvidia H100 chips.
Some people living in South Florida are reporting that family members who showed up to regularly scheduled appointments with immigration officers were detained on Monday in Delray Beach. Nearly a dozen people could be seen standing outside the parking lot of an office in Delray Beach called BI Incorporated, a company which according to its website, supports the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with operating the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, an alternative to detention known as ISAP. Outside the immigration supervision office in Delray Beach, concerned friends and family members spoke to NBC6 on condition of anonymity. One woman said
It's sometimes hard to believe that this rube was one wayward coconut to the dome of Kamala Harris away from being the leader of the free world. But alas, here we are. Former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz (D) emerged from the shadows for his first nationally televised interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
And it seems Tim has a case of the sads. The Minnesota Governor lamented about losing the election and related to the feeling of "fatigue" amongst supporters when it comes to that loss.
It’s a cardinal rule for many, if not most, economists that tariffs are at best a misguided strategy for reviving a nation’s economy, at worst a strategy that will backfire by hiking inflation and killing jobs. But don’t tell Americans that. Half of those in the most recent I&I/TIPP Poll support imposing new tariffs on other nations’ goods.
President Trump came into office promising to impose a hefty 25% tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% tariff on China, citing those countries allowing “mass numbers of people and fentanyl” to cross their borders into the U.S.
Initially, Trump said those tariffs would go into effect immediately, but
A violent Tren de Aragua ringleader sought in an infamous, caught-on-camera break-in in Aurora, Colo., was nabbed Tuesday in a dramatic pre-dawn raid in New York City — across from an elementary school, sources said.
Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, was taken into custody as part of the Trump administration’s first promised immigration raids in the Big Apple, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
He was caught by heavily armed Homeland Security Investigations officers who stormed an Ogden Avenue apartment building in The Bronx in the early hours, the sources said. The building is across the street from PS 11, a k a the Highbridge School.
COOK COUNTY - A Thornton Township meeting turned chaotic Tuesday night when a fight broke out between attendees.
Witnesses say it all started when a community activist and frequent critic of Supervisor Tiffany Henyard told her, "You gone, b—ch."
What we know:
According to those present, Henyard’s boyfriend confronted the activist, Jedidiah Brown, leading to an altercation. Henyard reportedly pushed her table aside and ran to the back of the room, allegedly joining the brawl.
Former vice-presidential running mate to Robert F Kennedy Jr, Nicole Shanahan, has released a video threatening to personally fund primary challengers for those Senators who do not support the nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Saying, “Bobby may place nice, I won’t” Ms. Shanahan is vowing to target Senators, many of them she funded, if they cower to Big Pharma and Big Agriculture. Additionally, Shanahan provided a list of key Senators and their contact details for a public pressure campaign. Robert F Kennedy’s first confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at 10:00am EST.
The New York Times is preparing to publish a deep state hit piece on President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. The piece is purportedly based on National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance of a pair of anonymous terrorists.
Two people familiar with the matter told The Federalist the Times will accuse Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii, of meeting with then-Lebanese Hezbollah Supreme Leader Hassan Nasrallah on a Middle East trip in 2017. The paper of “all the news that’s fit to print” is expected to run the deep state smear against Gabbard as early as Tuesday afternoon,
This is no time for complacency. Communist China's DeepSeek, a breakthrough in inexpensive AI computing that rocked US tech markets this week (tech investor Marc Andreesen called it a "Sputnik moment") is really a wake-up to the Trump administration. Call to form a Manhattan Project as soon as possible – this week! – to ensure that America stays competitive in what is sure to be the next breakthrough – which China is already developing: unlimited amounts of totally clean energy produced by nuclear fusion in donut-shaped reactors called tokamaks.
On Monday, the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, announced that his office would undertake a review of the decision-making that led to the charging of hundreds of January 6 protesters with “obstructing Congress” in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1512(c). That was a statute passed by Congress in 2005 to address an alleged hole revealed in an obstruction of justice statute criminalizing the destruction of records, documents, materials, etc., to obstruct an investigation.
In Latin America, word is out.
Suddenly we are seeing a lot of them willingly cooperate with President Trump on the acceptance of repatriation flights for their own nationals in the U.S. illegally.
The reason looks pretty obvious: Nobody wants to be the next Petro.
President Trump's thrashing of far-left Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, who initially refused to take repatriation flights he had agreed to earlier, hollering like the pope about 'dignity,' before being forced to quickly reverse course and sing soprano, seems to have sent a message to the rest of Latin America's alien-exporting states, and now they're falling into line with Trump's agenda.
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President Donald Trump did not need to learn the location of the White House breakroom during his first week in office. He rarely takes a break, and the beauty of a second term is he already knows how things work in the White House.
He also knows how things work in Washington. Trump’s first term was full of ugly political lessons taught through betrayals, bogus impeachments, and ongoing lawfare. He first came to office in 2016 promising to drain the insidious swamp, and the swamp tried to drown him.
Gov. Hochul owes New Yorkers an apology.
For months she’s been promising to put “money back in your pockets.”
It turns out she actually meant to say she’s determined to take more money out of your pockets and give it to the MTA.
And why?
Because the MTA has big holes in its pockets and the more money she puts in there, the more money the agency needs.
So pay up, suckers.The gang that can’t shoot straight needs another bundle of your cash.
Hochul has been in office since August of 2021 and only one in three voters say they plan to vote for her next year.
A Massachusetts man was arrested Monday at the U.S. Capitol after allegedly bringing two Molotov cocktails and multiple weapons, with the stated intent to kill Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Federal prosecutors revealed that Ryan Michael “Reily” English, the suspect, voluntarily turned himself in to U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), confessing to carrying makeshift Molotov cocktails fashioned from small vodka bottles and several knives.
According to a criminal affidavit obtained by The Gateway Pundit, which was filed by Special Agent Peter Campopiano of the United States Capitol Police (USCP),
New York City residents in Hispanic and black communities that supported President Trump in huge numbers in the 2024 election hailed Tuesday’s local immigration raids that nabbed scores of suspected heinous criminals.
Starting in the Bronx — where Trump’s support surged 35% between 2020 and 2024 — heavily armed federal immigration agents stormed through the city, targeting migrants with warrants for murder, kidnapping and other heinous crimes, police sources told The Post.
Among those arrested was Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, an alleged ringleader of the notorious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua who immigration officers took into custody at an Ogden Avenue apartment in The Bronx.
Denmark this week announced a $2 billion security package for Greenland, making another large commitment to the defense of the Arctic nation as President Trump repeatedly calls to acquire the island.
The Ministry of Defense said in a Monday release that three new Arctic ships and more long-range drones are included in the first part of an agreement it has with the territories of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, both of which Denmark is responsible for on security matters.
Despite Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's more than precise outlining of what was and was not affected by President Donald Trump's executive order freezing funding for federal grants, loans, and other financial programs pending agency review, along with a memorandum from the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) outlining the same, Democrats took this opportunity to rail against dictator Trump, fearmonger, and have an absolute meltdown. The detailed memorandum was even distributed to the White House press corps. Full memo here - outlining what is and isn’t impacted by OMB pause on federal funds for a period of review
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A 911 call led Coral Gables police to intercept two vans transporting 26 migrants Tuesday morning in what authorities believe is the second human smuggling operation within city limits in less than two weeks. Two alleged smugglers, along with 26 Chinese migrants – nine women and 17 men – were taken into custody. "We believe they came by boat, they came through a secluded area in the southern end of Coral Gables," Coral Gables Police Chief Edward James Hudak Jr said. "They're coming up through a canal area that leads to a private marina."
Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen said it best: “Last week has totally reset my conception of what’s possible, in two wholly different dimensions.”
As Andreessen often is, he’s right.
Soon after November’s election, I suggested that if Donald Trump were smart, he’d come in like a wrecking ball: Move fast, break things and precipitate change across many fronts all at once, subjecting the Democrats, the media and the left (but I repeat myself) to shock and awe. Boy, has he ever done that, unleashing unprecedented change in just his first 100 hours. He banned DEI throughout the federal government, closed the borders to illegal immigrants
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, studios kept a tight leash on their stars. No matter how bizarre, debauched, or anti-American the star was, the studio publicity departments ensured that the people who paid for movie tickets saw the stars as wholesome, intelligent, and patriotic.
After the debacle of Rachel Zegler’s solo press appearances for the new Snow White movie, one might think that Disney had learned that its actors aren’t safe when left to play on their own. But, noooo. This time, Anthony Mackie, the star of Disney’s newest Captain America movie, let the world know that he has nothing but disdain for America.
This past September, thanks to the Biden administration's war on natural gas, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and activist judges in the D.C. Court of Appeals, there was a dire warning issued for the East Coast of the US.
A planned natural gas pipeline extension - the Regional Energy Access (REA) expansion of the Transco pipeline bringing Marcellus natgas to the East Coast - had been ordered shutdown by the D.C. Court of Appeals.
Natural gas consumers in the Northeast face “devastating consequences” this winter unless temporary permission is granted to Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC to continue operating
I thought this day would never come. Trump has paused all federal grant programs pending a review of their consistency with the policies set out in his Executive Orders. It's a long overdue measure that is, unfortunately, absolutely necessary because the federal government not only wastes billions or even trillions of dollars funding shady NGOs and consultants, but these NGOs often use this money in ways that harm America. The border crisis was largely funded through federal grants to NGOs that trafficked illegal aliens to the US border, and NGOs within the United States used federal funds to disperse those aliens around the country and provide services to them.
Sunday, CBS News’ Margaret Brennan tried to get one over on Vice President J.D. Vance, badgering him about immigration and claiming “this is a country founded by immigrants.” But this narrative isn’t just inaccurate, it’s a calculated lie... Vance held his own, refuting the baseless claim by noting the country was founded “by some immigrants and some settlers”... [Snip] Britain began establishing the 13 original colonies in the early 1600’s. Over the next century or so, hundreds of thousands of Brits moved to the British colonies that were established by settlers--not immigrants. There was no “nation” being immigrated to by the first settlers.