Posts on Saturday, February 1, 2025
The third soldier inside the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines jet at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was identified as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, who had been a White House social aide under the Biden administration.
In a press release issued by the U.S. Army, it was revealed that “at the request of and in coordination with” Lobach’s family, the U.S. Army was releasing the name of the third soldier who had been on the Black Hawk helicopter during a training mission on Wednesday. CBS News reported that Lobach had also worked as a White House social aide under the Biden administration.
Why is Canada targeting Republican-led states?
President Trump officially imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China on Saturday after they had ignored his threats.
Trump slapped the tariffs on the three countries under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
25% tariffs on all Mexico imports
25% tariffs on nearly all Canadian imports — 10% on Canadian energy resources
10% tariffs on all China imports
“Today, I have implemented a 25% Tariff on Imports from Mexico and Canada (10% on Canadian Energy), and a 10% additional Tariff on China.
Canada and Mexico’s top leaders blasted President Trump Saturday hours after he imposed a 25% tariff on the neighboring countries — and announced they would retaliate by enforcing their own on the US.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed he and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo agreed to work together to push back against Trump’s long-awaited taxing program, which he claimed was aimed at halting the influx of drugs into the US.
Trump put a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports, while Chinese products will receive a more modest 10% tariff.
Phildelphia—In Boston, Northeastern University renamed a program for underrepresented students, emphasizing “belonging” for all. In New Jersey, a session at Rutgers University catering to students from historically Black colleges had to be abruptly canceled. And around the U.S., colleges are assessing program names and titles that could run afoul of a Trump administration crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
New White House orders ban DEI policies in programs that receive federal money. Across higher education, institutions rely on federal funding for research grants, projects and contract work.
As they figure out how to adapt, some schools are staying quiet out of uncertainty, or fear. President Donald Trump has called for
The doomed military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines flight over Washington, DC, Wednesday night was conducting training to prepare for a catastrophic event or attack on the US, according to officials.
The crew aboard the UH-60 Black Hawk chopper, the 12th Aviation Battalion, is responsible for top-secret evacuation missions meant to whisk top US officials from DC to secure locations in the case of a national emergency such as a terrorist or nuclear attack.
In a press conference on Thursday night, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the soldiers “were on a routine, annual re-training of night flights on a standard corridor for a continuity of government mission.”
Billionaire philanthropist mogul Nicole Shanahan is making waves in Washington, demanding that U.S. Senators swiftly confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration. With her considerable influence and resources, Shanahan is putting political pressure on lawmakers, urging them to set aside partisan bickering and fulfill what she sees as a moral and critical responsibility to advance Kennedy for the future of America’s health. Shanahan, the former running mate for presidential candidate RKF Jr., threatens to rescind donations she made to Democrats if they refuse to vote in favor of his confirmation. She vowed to "personally fund" primary challenges
The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Chuck Schumer for threatening Supreme Court justices.
According to The Washington Post, interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr. is looking to scrutinize Democratic leaders and former Justice Department officials.
Among them is the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in connection with comments regarding Trump’s Supreme Court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
During a pro-abortion rally back in 2020, Schumer said that the two justices would “pay the price” for overturning Roe vs Wade, a decision that they eventually handed down two years later.
On the morning of Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration, the former- and soon-to-be current president, along with his wife Melania, stopped by the White House. Awaiting the Trumps’ arrival were the current residents, Joe Biden and his wife Jill. When Trump first got out of the limousine, before his wife came around from the other side of the car, Biden greeted him with the words, “Welcome home.” In what seemed to be a rare lucid moment for Biden, one got the impression that Joe was expressing the idea that he had been house-sitting—or, some might say, squatting—in the White House for the past four years.
Many Americans were, and still are,
Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, Ric Grenell had some great news on Friday about his special mission to Venezuela. As we reported, he went to talk about Venezuela repatriating its citizens who had illegally entered the United States, including Tren de Aragua gang members. He carried a message that Venezuela needs to comply; otherwise, there will be "consequences."
He then returned to the U.S. with six American hostages, who had been detained in Venezuela. That's what strength gets you.
I have a question. Did you even know that there were Americans being held in Venezuela? How about Belarus, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio just got American released?
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., told "Fox News Live" Saturday that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Academy in Oklahoma has struggled to fill classrooms due to DEI quotas.
"Where the FAA air traffic controllers get trained is right here inside of Oklahoma, in Oklahoma City," Mullin said. "That's their training hub and I will tell you we were having a hard time filling the classes because of DEI."
Flight safety has become a topic of debate this week after an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided outside Reagan National Airport on Wednesday. Two days later on Friday, a medical jet crashed on a street near the Roosevelt Mall
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has arrested two illegal migrants who the agency says were running a drugs and narcotics operation in Maryland and Georgia.
Officials say they busted the two migrants on Thursday, just one day after prosecutors in Queens indicted 10 Tren de Aragua gang members and their associates for similar operations in New York City.
HSI Baltimore posted an image to X of one of the migrants -- with a chain wrapped around his waist -- being led into a law enforcement vehicle by two HSI agents
Trump is killing terrorists again and
cleaning up Biden’s disastrous mistakes
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cleaning up Biden’s disastrous mistakes
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Donald J. Trump is back to killing terrorists and threatening anyone that harms Americans — and it is glorious.
In 2017, Trump approved an anti-ISIS campaign plan that relaxed the military rules of engagement and sped up the violent destruction of the jihadi group.
By 2019, the ISIS in Iraq and Syria had collapsed. During the Biden administration, ISIS came back.
Since Biden’s disastrous and humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, ISIS-K has regenerated and is carrying out attacks inside the country that could extend and recruit internationally.
Chad and Niger kicked US forces out of their countries where US forces had been conducting counter-terrorism campaigns.
The Democratic Party has found its new leader, and it’s clear that the battle lines for the next election cycle have already been drawn. With the party’s fresh leadership, they’re vowing to take on President Donald Trump’s agenda head-on, promising to ramp up opposition from economic policies to immigration. While this new face may offer a sense of hope for the left, conservatives are preparing for another wave of radical leftist policies that aim to dismantle the progress America will make under Trump's leadership.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council in the White House, told Breitbart News exclusively that the White House intends to release the video of the successful operation conducted on Saturday morning to eliminate a top Islamic State terrorist in northern Somalia.
“We are working diligently right now—the White House Situation Room, so WHSR, the Counterterrorism Directorate of the National Security Council, and the Defense Department—are working right now as we speak to scrub the actual footage of the munitions detonating and destroying the cave complex,” Gorka told Breitbart News
This decision by the US Army to withhold the name of the third member of the Black Hawk helicopter crew involved in the Reagan air disaster was never going to last. It’s the worst aviation accident in years. All 67 individuals involved perished—and the Army's initial refusal to release the name led to conspiracy theories and incidents of misidentification. There’s a balance between privacy and transparency—I get it. The family needed time to mourn, but the Army refusing to release the female pilot’s name was never a sustainable position. They finally caved and released her name tonight: Capt. Rebecca Lobach (via NY Post):
President Donald Trump on Saturday followed through on his threat to impose tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China in an effort to spur those countries to do more to curb illegal immigration to the U.S. and to stop the flow of illegal drugs.
Trump announced that he was imposing 25 percent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, though the tariffs on Canadian energy imports will be limited to 10 percent, according to news reports. He also added an additional 10 percent tariff on imports from China.
The tariffs are slated to go into effect on Tuesday,
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
Since taking office 11 days ago, President Donald Trump has embarked on a massive government makeover, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants in his first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists. Among the group that now runs OPM is Amanda Scales, a former Musk employee, who is now OPM's chief of staff. In some memos sent out by Ezell, including one directing agencies to identify federal workers on probationary periods,
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) faces mounting scrutiny after it was revealed that the agency turned away over 1,000 job applicants due to its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) hiring practices. The revelation has sparked intense controversy after an American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter over the Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, DC, earlier this week. Critics argue that the FAA’s adherence to DEI policies may have inadvertently sidelined qualified candidates and hired workers based on the color of their skin and gender identity rather than merit.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Saturday elected Minnesota party leader Ken Martin, who once called for President Donald Trump to be tried for treason, as its next national chair in the wake of the party's disastrous performance in the November elections.
The election of Martin is the party's first formal step to try and rebound from the November elections, in which President Donald Trump recaptured the White House, and Republicans flipped the Senate, held on to their fragile majority in the House and made major gains with working-class, minority and younger voters.
"We have one team, one team, the Democratic Party," Martin said following his victory.
For four years, I’ve reported about how a large, organized constellation of United Nations agencies partnered with hundreds of private nonprofit groups to direct billions of mostly US-taxpayer dollars into supporting historic illegal southern border crossing levels during President Joe Biden’s term in office.
Even for the new Trump administration, this conglomerate of 15 UN agencies and 230 NGOs was proposing to spend yet another $1.4 billion on the migration trail in 2025, $1.2 billion more for 2026.
That’s in addition to the more than $6 billion from 2020-2024 during the greatest mass migration event in American history. (Photo)
Separately, hundreds of millions more went through NGOs to migrants arriving
The 2024 election sent serious shock waves through the badly named "mainstream media." The American mainstream has rejected the Democrat media establishment, finding them untrustworthy to "save democracy." It's more like arrogantly manipulating democracy. They through every rock and every kitchen sink at Donald Trump, and they lost. Is it time to say goodbye?
Here’s a collection of recent media headlines:.
Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC, CNN Halt Post-Election Swoons, But Fox News Stays Way Out in Front in January.
The Independent:
CNN lays off hundreds of employees and replaces Jim Acosta as it restructures network amid falling ratings
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has conducted airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday that the strikes by U.S. Africa Command were directed by Trump and coordinated with Somalia’s government.
An initial assessment by the Pentagon indicated that “multiple” operatives were killed. The Pentagon said it assessed that no civilians were harmed in the strikes.
Trump, in a post on social media, said a senior IS planner and recruits were targeted in the operation.
I haven't seen Chuck Schumer so happy in months. There he was Wednesday, practically ready to burst into song while celebrating the Trump administration's withdrawal of a memo ordering a federal spending freeze.
"Americans made their voices heard," Schumer crowed. "Donald Trump rescinded the OMB order."
Schumer was too giddy to tell the full story. On Monday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed federal agencies to stop spending money, with exceptions for entitlements, defense, and direct support for individuals, until grants-in-aid programs were aligned with the president's agenda.
The document's broad language resulted in confusion.
President Donald Trump’s deputies have frozen an expanding federal bureaucracy used by elite-run groups to import migrant workers via a private door in the nation’s borders.
The shutdown comes just before the private migration groups were to be aided by a $5 billion migration fund created by Congress in 2024 for additional migration inflows in 2025.
Trump’s deputies froze the bureaucracy by delaying the approval of paperwork needed by migrants to get into the United States. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency announced it is “pausing acceptance of Form I-134A, Online Request to be a Supporter and Declaration of Financial Support until we review all categorical parole processes as required,”
Health officials in the Kansas City area are warning of a recent outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) cases, prompting an effort from state and local health agencies to stop the spread, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).
The outbreak has killed two people since it started in January 2024, KDHE spokeswoman Jill Bronaugh said. Health officials in Kansas say there is no threat to the general public.
The outbreak has primarily affected Wyandotte County, with a total of 67 active cases reported as of Jan. 24. According to KDHE, 60 of these cases are in Wyandotte County, while the remaining seven are in neighboring Johnson County.
Tyler Miles Leveque, 37, of Albuquerque, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of interstate communications containing threats against President Donald Trump.
Tyler Leveque was accused of making several threatening posts toward President Trump from January 2 to January 4, 2025, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Leveque explicitly stated his intentions in various posts, saying, “you and your rich friends are dead no threat a promise” and ominously tagged the President Trump profile in several threats.
The situation escalated quickly when the U.S. Secret Service,
The fires that swept through the Los Angeles area pose a massive challenge for city officials and residents, not just from the sheer scale of the initial damage, but from the unique challenges presented by the cleanup.
Among the most difficult challenges will be handling the damaged lithium ion batteries found in electric vehicles left on properties during the evacuation.
EV Magazine noted that California leads the United States with respect to electric vehicle adoption, with just around 40% of electric cars in the country on its roads, especially because of green policies pushed by the state government.
According to one Wednesday report from KNBC-TV,
Mere days ago, a horrific tragedy struck as an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight near Ronald Reagan National Airport, resulting in the loss of 67 lives—three from the helicopter and 64 on the plane.
We’re still looking for answers, but one thing that many agree on is that this accident was entirely preventable. Americans nevertheless want to know exactly what happened and why, so that we can know how to prevent such accidents from happening again.
Amid the grief over this unspeakable loss, the U.S. Army made a controversial decision: to withhold the name of the female helicopter pilot involved in the accident, claiming it
The Trump White House is making it abundantly clear that it does not endorse transgenderism and gender ideology.
On the State Department’s official website, the term LGBT no longer exists and has been replaced by LGB.
“LGB” stands for lesbian, gay and bisexual, while the “T” stands for transgenderism.
The change was picked up on a page in which LGB travelers are warned about the potential risks of travelling abroad.
The website states:
LGB travelers can face special challenges abroad. Laws and attitudes in some countries may affect safety and ease of travel.
Many countries do not recognize same-sex marriage. Many countries also only recognize the male and female sex markers in passports
FACT CHECK: Senator Claims $50M in Condoms
Needed to “Keep Malnourished Babies
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Needed to “Keep Malnourished Babies
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D – Tehran) doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo that the famine hoax has fallen apart and Hamas tossed it aside after the Biden – Witkoff deal allows it to claim victory.
But after the Trump administration froze the gravy train of aid, including $50 million in condoms for Gaza, Sen. Murphy tweeted that “It’s a lie. Made up. There was no U.S. funding for condoms in Gaza. What he stopped is programs to keep malnourished babies alive in Gaza. Aid groups say infants will start to die next week.”
Everyone knows the perpetually malnourished infants in Gaza can’t live without condoms. That then get turned into bombs.
Democrats in the Federal government the past few years sent a couple hundred billion dollars to the teachers’ unions the schools to help them fund teacher vacations recover from the needless and destructive COVID lockdowns.
I shouldn’t be so cynical about the COVID lockdowns. After all, they did apparently prevent the pandemic from spreading to children, along with preventing asteroid strikes and on-campus bear maulings, all three of which were notably absent in 2020-2021.
Oops, I’m being cynical again.
OK, I’ll admit that, as an educational tool, the lockdowns were not entirely wasted. For example,
The bodies of two soldiers have been recovered from the wreckage of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a commercial airplane over Washington, D.C., according to law enforcement sources who spoke to CBS News Saturday.
The bodies belonged to a man and a woman and were recovered Friday afternoon.
The Army said in a statement Friday that the identity of the female soldier will not be released to the public at the request of her family. The other body is believed to be that of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves.
The third member of the flight, Staff. Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, was recovered earlier in the week, CBS News reported.
CBS says it will turn over an unedited transcript of its October interview with Kamala Harris to the Federal Communications Commission, part of President Donald Trump’s ongoing fight with the network over how it handled a story about his opponent.
Trump sued CBS for $10 million over the “60 Minutes” interview, claiming it was deceptively edited to make Harris look good. Published reports said that CBS’ parent company, Paramount, has been talking to Trump’s lawyers about a settlement. The network said Friday that it was compelled by Brendan Carr, Trump’s appointee as FCC chairman, to turn over the transcripts and camera feeds of the interview for a parallel investigation by
David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave his post where he has been a top official for years.
Elon Musk and the DOGE team are currently examining the treasury payment systems.
Lebryk clashed with Musk over access to a “sensitive system” used to pay over $6 trillion a year in Social Security and Medicare benefits.
The results of the audit may not bode well for David Lebryk. According to Elon Musk, the payment approval officers were told to ALWAYS approve payments, even to fraudulent groups or terrorist organizations!
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering scaling back the United States' support for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and placing its remnants under the State Department, to be overseen by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
As of this writing, no final decision has been made.
The Trump administration is considering scaling down the U.S. Agency for International Development and putting it under control of the State Department, two sources familiar with the discussions said on Friday, in a significant overhaul of how Washington allocates U.S. foreign aid worldwide.
The National Security Council (NSC) hosted discussions this week on the topic, a person familiar with the matter said.
Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr. has made a bold move, dismissing about 30 federal prosecutors involved in the Capitol riot cases. This decision, announced on Friday, signals a significant housecleaning of the top prosecutor's office in Washington, D.C., as Martin gears up to purge partisans who weaponized the Justice Department against Joe Biden’s political enemies, including Trump, pro-life activists, and others.
But he’s also taken another bold step, effectively launching an investigation into Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over comments he made back in March 2020 during a #MyRightMyDecision rally outside the Supreme Court. During the rally, Schumer blatantly threatened Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices
In the last few years, over half a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans were flown directly into the United States, many reportedly sponsored by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs.) This was done under a Biden administration policy that is a frank abuse of the immigration parole system.
In another reversal of Biden administration policies, the Trump administration is making plans to revoke the legal status of immigrants who entered the United States under this program.
The proposal by the Department of Homeland Security, spelled out in an unpublished notice, would fully terminate a Biden administration program that allowed more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
President Trump’s first week in office was nothing short of extraordinary in its broad yet targeted attacks on the federal status quo and the deep state. Last Friday, following a whirlwind tour of North Carolina and California disaster sites, Trump said out loud what many emergency management experts have been thinking for some time: The Federal Emergency Management Agency is failing, and its core mission needs to be scrutinized and revised.
The president’s comments were followed by the announcement of a high-level commission charged with analyzing FEMA’s recent performance and suggesting fundamental changes to how the agency functions.
This is all positive news, because the current FEMA model does not work
President Trump said that Venezuela has agreed to accept the country’s migrants living in the U.S. back as he lauded the return of six American hostages who were held in the Latin American country.
“It is so good to have the Venezuela Hostages back home and, very important to note, that Venezuela has agreed to receive, back into their Country, all Venezuela illegal aliens who were encamped in the U.S., including gang members of Tren de Aragua,” Trump wrote in a Saturday morning post on Truth Social. “Venezuela has further agreed to supply the transportation back.”
Six hostages who were held in Venezuela were freed on Friday
The most poignant moment of Kash Patel’s hearing on Thursday, as Trump’s FBI Director nominee, was his response to Senator Welch (D-VT). Having waded through the thoroughly boring Democrat tropes referencing January 6th, and the laboriously repeated question absolutely no one cares about—does Patel believe Trump actually lost the 2020 election?—he deftly exploited a subtle opening in Welch’s line of questioning. He responded with a statement pregnant with common sense, “That’s why I think its time, for the first time in this country’s history, that a public defender be the next director of the FBI, because no one knows more about constitutional due process than PDs.”
The Democratic National Committee is getting ready to hold elections on Saturday, and a laundry list of opportunists are lining up to snag roles. One of those is David Hogg, who is running for vice chair. Ken Martin, who currently runs the Minnesota DFL, and Ben Wikler, who is chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, are the frontrunners to take the top spot of chairman.
So how are things going over at the DNC? Did they learn any lessons from their embarrassing defeats in 2024? Of course, they didn't. Instead, they are doubling down on all the intersectional, woke insanity
The confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. got a bit testy, especially on vaccines, but we’ll see if GOP loyalty stands firm. The one senator that could be a swing vote is Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA). Still, Republican approval for Mr. Kennedy is through the roof, as CNN’s Harry Enten demonstrated this week. He’s not a shoo-in to become the next Health and Human Services secretary, but the odds are still good.
When you have a nominee with a plus-sixty net approval rating with Republicans, that’s a nice buffer, especially since no Republican wants to be the one person who could be seen
On Thursday, while addressing Thursday’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump blasted both the Obama and Biden administrations for prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation.
"I put safety first. Obama, Biden, and the Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen," Trump told reporters in the White House briefing room.
Democrats and the mainstream media were outraged.
“It’s one thing for internet pundits to spew up conspiracy theories,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. “It’s another for the president of the United States of America
What a difference an election can make. I've spent the last four years waiting for the FBI to kick down my door and ship me off to be used as prison currency.
These days, I wake up smiling, check my phone to see what Trump has done, laugh, and then go to Facebook to lap up the inevitable Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). So-called adults screeching like harpies caught in a bobcat trap. You can almost hear them spit-screaming on their keyboards and phones as the silicon chip inside their heads gets switched to overload. It's like an old-school Jerry Springer donnybrook, but without the trailer park nudity.
PALM BEACH, Fla. —
President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.
Chopra was one of the more important regulators from the previous Democratic administration who was still on the job since Trump took office on Jan. 20.
During Trump's first term, the Republican had picked Chopra as a Democrat member of the Federal Trade Commission.
Chopra was notified of his firing in an email from the White House, according to a person familiar with the notice who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly
I get that Pete Buttigieg had to respond: He’s a Democrat who got called out by President Donald Trump in a press conference. The president addressed the media after the tragic air disaster at Reagan National Airport on January 29, which led to the deaths of 67 people. It’s the worst aviation incident in years. Trump called out the former transportation secretary and then went on a prolonged critique of DEI initiatives under Biden, which included hiring brain-damaged people and those with mental and intellectual disabilities. The latter part is what triggered the Left, and Mayor Pete is very left-wing:
The White House just released a video worthy of ending Selena Gomez’s career.
As readers will know, Gomez humiliated herself with a video uploaded to Instagram in which she cried at the deportation of illegal immigrants, the majority of whom have committed heinous crimes.
“I’m so sorry, I wish I could do something but I can’t,” she weeps in the video.
”I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything, I promise.” However, her following of 422 million meant that her tears will go down in internet history as one of the most humiliating liberal meltdowns of all time. (X Video)
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Well, well, well: We have reported previously about the race-hustling academic fraud Ibram X. Kendi (here and here, for starters), whose lavishly funded Center for Anti-Racist Research at Boston University came under scrutiny for not producing any research, and being mismanaged in the extreme leading to massive staff layoffs. An audit by Boston University found “no wrongdoing,” though it is hard to resist the ironic suspicion that this was a whitewash.
And now the other shoe drops: Kendi, who was seldom seen on the Boston University campus and apparently taught no classes, is leaving BU for Howard University, and—surprise—starting a new “research institute”:
Kendi, author of the bestseller “How to Be
One of the most interesting executive orders from Donald Trump’s first day back in office was one titled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” That order begins:
I hereby direct the Administrator of the General Services Administration, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and the heads of departments and agencies of the United States where necessary, to submit to me within 60 days recommendations to advance the policy that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government.
When Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde lectured President Trump and Vice President Vance about immigration during her sermon at the National Prayer Service on the day after they were inaugurated, leftists hailed Budde for standing on principle and giving the Bad Orange Man a good scolding. As it turns out, however, Budde may have motivations that were a bit more tangible than principle: her Church’s Episcopal Migration Ministry (EMM) rakes in millions from a number of taxpayer-funded entities for bringing the migrants. And the Episcopal Church is by no means alone in this: other Churches that have recently
American-Israeli Keith Siegel was released by Hamas Saturday morning in the latest hostage-for-prisoner swaps — making him the first US citizen freed by the terror group under the ongoing cease-fire deal.
Siegel was released just before 10:30 a.m. local time when the Red Cross organized his release with Hamas after he spent the last 484 days in captivity.
Siegel, 65, an occupational therapist from Chapel Hill, N.C., was kidnapped along with his wife, Aviva, when Hamas raided their home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7, 2023.
The Trump administration has issued a directive to ban 50 former intelligence officials, including high-profile figures like John Brennan, John Bolton, and James Clapper, from accessing secure U.S. government facilities.
This decision comes after these officials misleadingly characterized Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation.
In 2020, it was 51 lying intelligence officials who were quarterbacked by Anthony Blinken to pull off the greatest election fraud in American history.
It was Tony Blinken who was in charge of collecting signatures from corrupt and partisan Trump-hating intelligence officials to sign off on the letter that the laptop was a Russian op.
Scores of green beanies lined the halls of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday.
(Snip) The caps read “Make America Healthy Again,” a slogan coined by Kennedy Jr. that has quickly become a rallying cry for a wildly diverse and unlikely political coalition.
“I was a former vegan,” Moms For America’s Christine McPherson told the Daily Caller.
Moms For America, a Trump-backing non-profit with their own political action committee (PAC), was among an astoundingly varied coalition of MAHA hopefuls who made the pilgrimage to see Kennedy Jr.
From Republicans to Democrats, Libertarians to Green Party stalwarts, Kennedy’s fan section ran the gamut of political persuasion.
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A few days ago, I took issue with the Doomsday Squad of prominent pearl-clutchers and naysayers — including Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, director of Jihad Watch and prolific author Robert Spencer, president of the Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes, prolific British writer Melanie Phillips, and the formidable Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) — all of whom condemned in the strongest language the ceasefire/hostage release deal that then-president-elect Donald Trump insisted on before his January 20, 2025 inauguration.
Things are going from bad to worse over at MSNBC.
As the Gateway Pundit and others have reported, MSNBC suffered a massive ratings crash after the election and has still not recovered. The network’s primetime lineup just posted their worst January ever in the most important demographic.
Things are so bad that the network cut Rachel Maddow’s pay and brought her back on the air five nights a week (she had been working only one). Having Rachel back on through the week does not appear to have helped. They’re still circling the drain.
FOX News reports:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Declares
End of ‘Cultural Awareness Months’
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End of ‘Cultural Awareness Months’
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday issued guidance to the entire Department of Defense to end the practice of celebrating months tied to racial or gender identities using official resources.
He said in his guidance: “Our unity and purpose are instrumental to meeting the Department’s warfighting mission. Efforts to divide the force – to put one group ahead of another – erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution.”
He added:
Going forward, DoD Components and Military Departments will not use official resources, to include man-hours, to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months, including National African American/Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander
While we wait for Attorney General Nominee Pam Bondi to hopefully be confirmed, Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. isn’t sitting around sipping tea, and on late Friday afternoon, he axed about 30 federal prosecutors who worked on J6 cases over the last four years. Different accounts are reporting different numbers, but at this hour, the Associated Press calls it “dozens” of personnel fired while the Washington Post reports “about 30.” Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., on Friday dismissed about 30 federal prosecutors who have worked on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot cases over the past four years, undertaking a housecleaning
President Donald Trump praised Richard Grenell, Trump’s Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, after six Americans being held hostage in Venezuela were released.
“Just been informed that we are bringing six hostages home from Venezuela,” Trump wrote in a post on X. “Thank you to Ric Grenell and my entire staff. Great job!” (X) In a post on X, Grenell posted a photo of himself and the six Americans who were released from Venezuela, noting that they had spoken to Trump and “couldn’t stop thanking him.”
“We are wheels up and headed home with these 6 American citizens,” Grenell wrote. “They just spoke to @realDonaldTrump and they couldn’t stop thanking him.”
The father of the youngest Israeli child kidnapped by Hamas was released Saturday in the latest cease-fire deal swap — further deepening concerns about the fate of his family.
Yarden Bibas was kidnapped during the terror group’s bloody Oct. 7 rampage through Israel that left 1,200 dead and saw another 251 people dragged to Gaza as hostages.
He was released alongside French-Israeli national Ofer Calderon, 54, in Khan Younis to the Red Cross around 8:30 a.m. local time.
American-Israeli citizen Keith Siegel, 65, is to be freed later Saturday at a separate location in the Gaza Strip.
Bibas, his wife and their young children were kidnapped
The Army is refusing to name the female pilot killed aboard the military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet flying into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday.
In an announcement Friday, the Army, which disclosed the names of the two other soldiers in the chopper who died, said the woman’s family requested her identity be withheld from the public.
“At the request of the family, the name of the third Soldier will not be released at this time,” the Army Public Affairs wrote on their website.
Arizona State Representative Alex Kolodin called Arizona’s illegitimate Democrat governor out in a letter to her office Thursday after $339 million “disappeared” from the state budget.
Kolodin told The Gateway Pundit, “Maybe somebody’s siphoning off some funds.” He clarified, “Maybe some are mistakes. Who knows? But they don’t match up.”
This is not the first, nor the second, time Hobbs has come under scrutiny for mismanagement or corruption involving large sums of money.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, in November, Hobbs was in the spotlight after her Office of Tourism awarded a $700,000 contract to create a hideous new state logo
During a briefing on the DC plane crash by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a reporter for NBC News asked if Trump was somehow making their investigation more difficult. The NTSB chief stepped forward and shut him down.
This was an embarrassing moment for NBC News. These journalists just can’t help themselves. They are still on a constant quest to blame Trump or make him look bad at any moment, no matter how inappropriate. They really seem to believe that other people share this mental problem with them.
It makes them look foolish, not to mention unprofessional.
Trump Pentagon Boots NBC, NYT, NPR, Politico
to Make Room for NYP, Breitbart News,
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to Make Room for NYP, Breitbart News,
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The Trump Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a massive overhaul of its practice allowing journalists to work from inside the building is beginning a program to remove four establishment media news outlets from their workspaces for one year to replace them with new media outlets, including Breitbart News.
Acting Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot issued a memo on Friday to the Pentagon Press Association announcing that the NBC News, the New York Times, National Public Radio, and Politico must give up their physical workspaces in the Pentagon for one year to the New York Post, Breitbart News, and the Huffington Post.
When White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped up the podium in the press room for her first official briefing this past Tuesday, she surely expected to be bombarded with questions about things like the flurry of Executive Orders coming out of the Oval Office and tariffs possibly being levied on China. She likely also expected some inane or out-of-left-field questioning due to the fact that she had welcomed the corporate media to remain part of the White House press corps; she was much more gracious than her predecessor in that respect. Right on cue,
New: Poll Reveals Amazing Shift in Public
Opinion About Direction of the Country
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Opinion About Direction of the Country
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President Donald Trump has been on a tear, since his inauguration on Jan. 20, to fix things and make good on his promises.
Democrats in response have been spinning, attacking, and lying about his actions.
So, how are the American people reacting to it all? Democrats aren't going to like this very much, because it looks like the American people are getting the reality and rejecting the spin, in a new Emerson poll that's pretty amazing.
First, it shows Trump has 49 percent approval, with a net approval across virtually all age groups.
DNC: Learn a Lesson? Nous?
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Plus ça change, plus c'est la ... double-down?
One might have thought that the Democratic National Committee would have learned a lesson from the 2024 election about the unpopularity of "woke." Joe Biden spent four years promoting DEI policies, and Kamala Harris ran on that as well as her own even more radical notions of 'diversity.' One such brag, a 2019 interview in which Harris took credit for supplying felons with free transsexual therapies while in prison, turned into the most effective message in the election.
For Donald Trump.
We have become so used to government actors being malefactors, being lied to, and being pushed around that it becomes natural to suspect that when anything bad happens, somebody is behind it.
The truth is, stuff happens. Mistakes are made, and acceptable risks sometimes lead to bad results. Usually, you can smell the stench of bulls**t if you sniff deep enough, and sometimes the BS is hidden enough that it takes a long time to come out. As often as not--more often than not--the term "conspiracy theory" is thrown out to label a perfectly plausible explanation for something as beyond the pale.
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson predicted Friday on Fox Business that Democrats’ approval rating will further go down after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair event. During an appearance on “The Bottom Line,” Hanson cited a Quinnipiac poll showing that less than half of the American public holds a favorable view of the Democratic Party.