Posts on Monday, February 3, 2025
Trump scores big legal win against Pulitzer
Prize board members as lawsuit moves to discovery replies
Prize board members as lawsuit moves to discovery replies
President Donald Trump scored a significant legal win Monday in his lawsuit against the members of the Pulitzer Prize Board, paving the way towards the discovery phase in their courtroom battle. Last week, the board members filed a motion for Protective Order Governing Discovery in hopes of shielding their internal communications involving the decision to award The New York Times and The Washington Post a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on Russiagate during Trump's first term in office. Judge Robert L. Pegg of the 19th Judicial Circuit Court in Okeechobee County, Florida, stuck down their motion.
The White House released a video Monday night touting President Donald Trump’s bounty of accomplishments in the first two weeks of his second term.
The video features White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt highlighting the administration’s progress on several fronts, from the border and energy to securing major investments and widening access in the press briefing room. (X Video) “We are two weeks in, and President Trump is already delivering big wins for the American people,” Leavitt says to begin the video.
She spotlights Trump’s executive actions regarding the border:
Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for the next Director of National Intelligence remains alive. The pick was viewed as anathema among Senate Democrats, with some trepidation from Republicans. Yet, Gabbard secured the vote of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who announced this afternoon that she’d be throwing her support behind the nominee. Ms. Gabbard “assuaged” Collins’ concerns about Edward Snowden, who the former has been pushing to receive a pardon despite leaking highly classified state secrets in 2013 (via Bangor Daily News): (X's)
Mexican drug cartels are ordering their members to target U.S. Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and other explosives amid a crackdown at the southern border by the Trump administration. An internal memo titled "Officer Safety Alert" cited social media posts and other sources for the warning to federal agents, the New York Post reported. Agents were reminded to be "cognizant of their surroundings" and should be wearing their ballistic armor and utilizing their long firearms.
As previously reported, The Washington Post’s so-called conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin quit the newspaper and joined forces with Deep State hack Norm Eisen to start a media venture called “The Contrarian.”
Last month the insufferable duo painfully described how they will cover everything from law, to culture to cooking in their new venture.
“We do politics, we’re going to do law. But we know that any successful pro-democracy movement also has to be very vocal about culture. We’ll have a humor column, we’ll even have a cooking column, but
In the aftermath of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's confirmation hearing last Thursday, there were doubts expressed over whether she'd be able to win enough support from the nine Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee to advance her nomination for Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to a full floor vote.Despite a strong showing during the hearing in the face of nasty treatment from several Democrats on the committee, some GOP Senators reportedly were conflicted about, among other things, a trip to Syria she took in 2017 and her refusal to refer to former NSA intelligence contractor/whistleblower/leaker Edward Snowden as a "traitor."
Acting US Attorney for DC, Ed Martin announced his office would be charging and arresting individuals who threatened Elon Musk’s DOGE team. Ed Martin did not name any names as he announced that arrests and charges were coming. It is unclear which laws were violated. “Our initial review of the evidence presented to us indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees,” Ed Martin said. “We are in contact with the FBI and other law-enforcement partners to proceed rapidly. We also have our prosecutors preparing,” Ed Martin added.
Against the backdrop of the fires that wiped out whole sections of Southern California, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s careers are in danger due to anger from the state's Democratic base. Calls for both leaders to step down from office have grown since fires started tearing through the swanky hills of Los Angeles on Jan. 7. An online petition demanding Bass step down has garnered more than 166,000 signatures. Newsom was notified of recall papers on Tuesday due to an effort spearheaded by Californian activist Randy Economy.
WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to become director of national intelligence received a major boost on Monday when Senator Susan Collins said she would back President Donald Trump's nominee. "I look forward to working with Ms. Gabbard to strengthen our national security," Collins, a moderate who is one of the few Republicans who has voted against Trump initiatives, said in a statement supporting Gabbard. Collins issued her statement a day before the Senate Intelligence Committee is due to vote behind closed doors on the nomination
“GOD HELP US ALL”
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For thousands of years, going back to the Bible, women have wept and grieved and pleaded to God over their miscarriages. Indeed, it took all these millennia for modern-day pharmaceutical companies to develop solutions to this ongoing nightmare.
In the 1940s, they were happy to offer doctors the ability to prescribe diethylstilbestrol (DES) to prevent miscarriage. “You can tell them you would give it to your wife,” the marketing mavens from Big Pharma suggested to physicians.
And with good reason.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Senate Democrats hold a press conference attacking Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
DOGE was granted access to the U.S. Treasury payment system last week, leading to Musk revealing suspect payments made by the United States government: (X) Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren attacked the access granted to Musk and DOGE on Sunday: (X)
Trump set to yank US funding for pro-terror
UNRWA, remove America from UN Human Rights Council replies
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President Trump is set to cut funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) — which has extensively reported ties to the Hamas terror group — and withdraw the US from the controversial UN Human Rights Council (HRC), The Post has learned.
Trump, 78 will sign an executive order implementing the changes Tuesday, the same day he is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Post has learned.
“Bibi Netanyahu’s coming on Tuesday, and I think we have some very big meetings scheduled,” the president told reporters on Sunday after returning to Washington from his Palm Beach, Fla. residence.
It was predicted that the changing demographics of America – specifically, more racial minorities – would deliver permanent control of the government to the Democrats by now.
Instead, over the past few years the Democrats have lost the Presidency, the Senate, the House, a majority of governorships, a majority of state legislatures, and the Supreme Court.
This isn’t just about Donald Trump, though his approval ratings are higher than ever while Joe Biden’s (who?) are lower than ever. It’s broader than that. The approval ratings of Democrats are at historic lows in general, while the approval ratings for Republicans are near all-time highs.
Amid the hundreds of substantive executive actions President Donald Trump has taken in his first two weeks back in the White House, perhaps none matter more than his efforts at bureaucracy-busting. [Snip] Democrats claiming Trump will “politicize” agencies by installing “loyalists” are only expressing rage that Republicans are attempting to take the keys to the unconstitutional power structure Democrats have controlled for more than a century. [Snip] ...Trump isn’t “weaponizing” or “politicizing” these agencies. He’s fighting their inherent weaponization. Firing and investigating people who abuse public power, and ending the theft of American labor to fund evil international patronage schemes--that isn’t retribution, it’s justice.
LYNDONVILLE, VT - New reporting on Thursday revealed that the violent murder of a US Border Patrol agent near the border with Canada is now believed to be connected to a string of killings associated with “Zizian,” a group described as a radical leftist transgender vegan cult.
Vermont Border Patrol Agent David C. Maland, 44, was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Interstate 91 near the town of Coventry on Monday, January 21 approximately 45 minutes south of Montreal, as previously reported by Law Enforcement Today.
According to The Post Millennial Senior Editor Andy Ngo, writing for The New York Post, Agent Maland was shot and killed by Teresa “Milo”
Hollywood star Ben Stiller has spread the false claim that Elon Musk performed a “double Nazi salute” during an inaugural event for President Donald Trump last month.
In a recent interview with Kara Swisher’s podcast “On,” Ben Stiller addressed his online feud with the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire
“I know he really likes Tropic Thunder,” the actor said. “Great. Good for him. But after the Nazi salute — the double Nazi salute — I’m not just into it. Never was into it.”
The establishment news media ran with the unfounded claim that Musk performed Nazi salutes during a Trump inaugural event at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. on January 20.
The young patient and five others killed when their plane crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood moments after takeoff Friday evening have been identified — as authorities made a disturbing discovery about the jet’s black box.
Valentina Guzman Murillo, 11, her mother, Lizeth Murillo Ozuna, 31, Capt. Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales, co-pilot Josue de Jesus Juarez Juarez, Dr. Raul Meza Arredondo, and paramedic Rodrigo Lopez Padilla died in the Mexico-bound Learjet 55 aircraft crash, the company operating the medical transport flight, Jet Rescue Air, told CBS News.
HERE WE GO: Names of FBI Officials Who
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The names of the FBI officials who worked on January 6 cases and Trump witch hunts have been identified.
According to NBC News, there were more than 2,400 cases in total.
The FBI officials who worked on the J6 cases and Trump investigations were identified by a case management system.
There are reportedly 5,000 employees who have been identified as subject to potential firing.Per NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian: An internal FBI document obtained by NBC News shows that executives use the FBIs Sentinel case file management system to identify agents and employees who worked on January 6 cases.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that proposed 25% tariffs to be levied by the US will be put on hold for 30 days following a phone call with President Trump.
“I just had a good call with President Trump,” Trudeau said in a post on X. “Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.
The Trump administration is making sure that the people of East Palestine, Ohio, are not forgotten, with Vice President JD Vance visiting the area on the two year anniversary of a toxic train derailment.
Vance was not alone, joined by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, as well as U.S. Sens. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and Jon Husted (R-OH), newly-confirmed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, and Vivek Ramaswamy. [Tweets, videos]
“As a lot of you know, one of the first real crises that we confronted when I was United States senator for the great state of Ohio was the train derailment in East Palestine,”
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy openly admitted that he and his wife, First Lady Tammy Murphy, are personally harboring an illegal immigrant in their own home—practically daring federal authorities to step in.
During a recent event with Blue Wave New Jersey, Murphy nonchalantly revealed that an individual whose “immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to” is currently residing above his garage.
Murphy’s comments came during a broader discussion about the new Trump administration’s policies. While refusing to disclose specific details, the governor made his position clear:
The Trump administration is ending a deportation shield for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the U.S., opening the door to them being deported -- just as President Donald Trump has secured an agreement with the socialist country to take back its nationals.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to Fox News Digital that more than 300,000 nationals protected by Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in 2023 are having their statuses revoked. The New York Times, which first reported details of the move, reported that they will lose temporary status 60 days after the government first publishes the notice.
TPS grants protection from deportation and allows work permits for nationals living
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump's advisers are mulling executive actions to dismantle the Education Department as part of a campaign by billionaire Elon Musk and his allies to reduce the size of the government's workforce, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
U.S. officials have discussed an executive order that would shut down all functions of the Education Department that are not written explicitly into statute or move certain functions to other departments, the report said, citing sources.
The planned order would call for developing a legislative proposal to abolish the department, the newspaper reported, adding Trump advisers were still debating the specifics and the timing of such an order.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem flipped the script on NBC's Kristen Welker over the weekend when she asked if immigrants living here legally should be worried about being "wrongfully detained" in Trump's America.In a Sunday segment of "Meet the Press," Welker asked Noem whether those with legal status in the U.S. should fear somehow getting caught up in the Trump administration's mass deportation operations. Welker said she has spoken with legal immigrants who have "expressed concerns" and in some cases are carrying around their immigration documents for fear of wrongful detainment.
Washington—A senior official with the Qatari government is speaking out in a Breitbart News exclusive interview, encouraging President Donald Trump to continue the push for peace in the Middle East just ahead of Trump’s Monday evening meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Dr. Majed bin Mohammed al-Ansari, the spokesperson for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a senior adviser to Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jabr Al Thani, spoke to Breitbart News by phone exclusively on Monday morning, saying that Trump has put the Middle East on a pathway to peace and seeing the ceasefire in Gaza through to a lasting peace is critical
You love to see it.
The Democrats have zero power so they are throwing tantrums and melting down over Trump exercising his executive power.
Tension started building up over the weekend after the Trump Admin put two top leaders at the US Agency for International Development on leave because they refused to give Elon Musk’s DOGE classified documents.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio took over as Acting Director of USAID after the agency’s staffers were told to leave the headquarters overnight.
Rubio said the USAID is supposed to respond to the State Department’s policies and it was refusing to do so.
“It’s supposed to respond to the State Department’s policies. It refuses to do so.
It’s official! Friday will be Andrea Mitchell’s last day hosting her daytime MSNBC show Andrea Mitchell Reports. Mitchell made the official announcement on Monday’s show.
Back in October, Mitchell made the decision to step down from the daily duties of hosting her MSNBC show but will continue at NBC News in her roles as chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent.
Before she departs on Friday, we at NewsBusters wanted to take a not-so fond look back at just some of her worst moments from MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports:
Former President Joe Biden signed with Creative Arts Agency, a rep announced on Monday, indicating that the 82-year-old may be ready to start more Hollywood ventures after leaving the White House.
Biden was previously represented by CAA after he left the vice presidency from 2017 to 2020. During that time as a client, he published his book “Promise Me, Dad,” and went on an “American Promise” tour across the country. (Photo) The former president has not specifically revealed what his life will look like in the coming years, but had said in the final days of his term that he expected his voice to continue to influence politics.
Amid the ramping up of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) round-ups around the country courtesy of the priorities of President Donald Trump, elected Democrat officials in places that have declared themselves "sanctuaries" for illegal immigrants haven't been shy about openly announcing their defiance. (Snip) Murphy, as it turns out, has admittedly taken his #Resistance efforts to a whole new level, strongly implying without outright admitting during a recent sit-down interview that he and his wife, NJ First Lady and failed 2024 Senate candidate Tammy Murphy, may be harboring an illegal immigrant above their garage. Immediately after the statement, he pretty much dared ICE to come after them:
Washington— President Trump signed an executive order Monday to create a sovereign US wealth fund — saying that TikTok may become one of its first acquisitions.
The world’s largest and wealthiest sovereign funds are owned by China and resource-rich countries like Norway and Middle Eastern emirates.
It was not immediately specified how the US endowment — whose creation was first reported last month by The Post’s Charles Gasparino — would be capitalized, but Trump previously floated using tariff proceeds.
It’s unclear if adding a stake in TikTok would require up-front investment, or if Beijing would offload it without charge to avoid looming 10% levies that Trump announced Friday.
President Donald Trump, just two weeks into his second term, has wasted no time in taking a blowtorch to the United States' traditional approach to foreign policy and diplomacy. Over the weekend, it was the DOGE-led effort to slow the roll of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that garnered all the headlines as the world came to grips with the fact that Trump is all out of bubblegum.
RedState's Bob Hoge reported Saturday that, in the wake of an attempt by top USAID security officials to stop DOGE personnel from accessing USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C., the Trump administration suspended those officials
Many businesses across America will be closed Monday for “A Day Without Immigrants” to protest President Donald Trump’s deportation policies.
Workers in those businesses who are participating will stay at home, CBS News reported Sunday, noting some workplaces in Minnesota were shutting down for the allotted time.“The movement highlights immigrant workers’ contributions and their everyday impact on businesses, from restaurants to retail shops,” the outlet said.
Several restaurants in Washington, DC, will also reportedly be closed for the day, and NBC Washington said the demonstration also urges immigrants to stay home from school.
In addition, several Chicago businesses are also keeping their doors closed to join the protest
On March 4, 2002, as daylight was replacing darkness, Air Force combat controller John Chapman was fighting for his life. He was fighting alone on a snow-covered mountain in Afghanistan called Takur Ghar. The SEAL team he was attached to (codenamed MAKO 30), commanded by Senior Chief Britt Slabinski, had left him for dead. But Chapman wasn’t dead. After battling alone for the better part of an hour in the bitter cold, Chapman was almost out of ammunition. A Chinook (Razor 01) with a QRF of Rangers was 45 seconds from landing. Firing in three directions, Chapman was still killing Al Qaeda and laying down suppressing fire
Over the weekend President Donald Trump made good on his promise to implement tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China.
"The extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)," the White House released in a "fact check." "Until the crisis is alleviated, President Donald J. Trump is implementing a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on imports from China. Energy resources from Canada will have a lower 10% tariff." [Tweet, video]
"Canada has played a central role in these challenges,
New York Democrats are reportedly plotting to prevent Speaker Mike Johnson from having a full majority as House Republicans work to pass major parts of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Democratic lawmakers in New York’s state legislature could unveil a bill as early as Monday to delay the special election to fill outgoing Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik’s seat until June when the state holds scheduled primary elections, according to multiple reports.
The tragic midair collision of an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter last week in Washington DC has sadly brought DEI hiring practices to the forefront of American politics. It’s one thing, after all, for leftists to practice their dumb, counterproductive, unfair ‘social justice’ policies in the halls of academia or their woke corporations, but it’s quite another to do it when actual lives are at stake, and they’ve been doing it for years. So when dozens are snuffed out in an instant and there’s even the slightest chance DEI could have been a fraction of the culprit for what was obviously a huge series of massive mistakes,
The war on DOGE has intensified.
As Elon Musk and crew start tearing down the Deep State, the Deep State is striking back by calling for DOGE employees to be literally hunted by leftist activists. Bluesky is the "nice" and "moderated" social media platform where all the "best people" avoid the nastiness and Nazi-like behavior on X, and they are so concerned about the Nazification of the US by people who are shrinking the grifting Deep State that they are calling for the death of DOGE employees.
As government employees try to lock out DOGE investigators, outside agitators are ramping up the outside war on government accountability.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that he is acting administrator of the US Agency for International Development, confirming the de-facto takeover of the humanitarian agency by the State Department.
The news came hours after Elon Musk, the world’s richest man charged with overhauling the federal government, said President Donald Trump had signed off on shutting the agency down.
Rubio said that the “functions of USAID” must align with US foreign policy and that it is “a completely unresponsive agency.”
Townhall previously reported how “wokeness” was implemented into the Golden Globe awards last month. This year’s Grammy Awards ceremony was even worse.
Ahead of the awards ceremony, singer Chappell Roan spoke to left-wing organization GLAAD on the red carpet. She went on a spiel about “trans joy” being taken away now that President Donald Trump is in office.
“It’s brutal right now, but trans people have always existed and they will forever exist and they will never, no matter what happens, take trans joy away and that has to be protected more than anything. I would not be here without trans girls. Just know that pop music is thinking about you
I don't know about you, but I need a break from politics and plane crash headlines today, so I'm going to share something a little more positive.
Say what you will about Verizon, but the company stepped up in a big way to assist victims of Hurricane Helene recently, and they asked someone who's a legend in North Carolina to help.
Roy Williams was the head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina from 2003 until 2021, leading the Tar Heels to the Final Four five times and winning three national championship titles. He's also from Western North Carolina. He was born in Marion,
Foreign aid to Ukraine has become a heated debate with Democrats — and a surprising number of Republicans — insisting that it’s essential for bolstering Ukraine’s defenses against Russia. Joe Biden even went so far as to suggest that Republican resistance to additional aid played a role in the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
I could easily rattle off more quotes from Biden and congressional Democrats emphasizing just how critical they claim this aid to be. Biden was quick to make sure that Ukraine got even more aid before Trump took office.
Despite the alleged critical nature of this aid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
"Can't stop the signal," the phrase popularized in the 2005 sci-fi flick "Serenity" has today been supplanted by "Can't hide the data," courtesy of Data Republican (small-r)'s ever-improving Federal government grant award search. For example, how does a private figure like William Kristol get taxpayer money to fund his political activities?
Answer: it's complicated. But I can show you the way.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors received nearly $38 million in grants last year, nearly evenly divided between USAID and the State Department. Because the Rockefellers don't have enough of their own money, I suppose.
RPA gave significant sums (the Data Republican chart did not make clear how much, but I'm still digging
WHOA: Border Crossings Down 93%
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White House Border Czar Tom Homan told Fox News on Sunday that illegal border crossings are down 93% since Donald Trump won his belated reelection in November. Speaking with Maria Bartiromo, Homan also promised, "When we find that criminal, he's most likely with others, and they're gonna go too. So if you wanna be a sanctuary city, you're gonna get exactly what you don't want. More agents in the community and more non-criminals arrested."
"We got more work to do," Homan concluded — and what a welcome change that is from the last four years.
As a candidate, Joe Biden sent the message
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has deputized the Texas National Guard with the authority to “formally assist with and facilitate the mass deportation of illegal aliens during President Donald Trump’s second term,” effective immediately.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the announcement in a press release, commenting, “I am proud to be the first to join him to restore our national sovereignty, secure our border, and ensure that criminal aliens face the justice they deserve.” He continued, “As the top law enforcement official in Texas, I call on all agencies and departments to join me in the fight. We will enforce the law and protect America.”
Steel has been one of the foundations of industry for hundreds of years. Steel was first produced in bloomery and crucible furnaces in small batches as early as 4,000 years ago. In Roman times, Spanish steel was favored for swords. And, in time, iron and steel-making became a major industry in the United States. However, the American steel industry has suffered some in recent decades from foreign competition, and tariffs have been used almost from the country's founding to shore up American steel; in 1791, Treasure Secretary Alexander Hamilton proposed tariffs on steel, among other things, to bolster the growing American industries. All the tariffs he proposed were adopted.
A Michigan woman (we will call her “Gina”) is being hailed as a hero for her fast-acting decision to reach inside her purse and hit “record” on a “voice recording” app on her cell phone when she was approached by a woman who attempted to convince her to commit fraud by knowingly registering to vote in two different counties.
Voters who knowingly or unknowingly vote from more than one address in the same election are guilty of a felony. So, why would this canvasser try to convince Gina to commit a felony by registering to vote and then allowing the canvassing group to assign her an address so she can vote
Mexico president makes deal with Trump
to pause tariffs for a month, put 10K
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President Trump and Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Monday that they had agreed a one-month pause on the imposition of a 25% across-the-board tariff by the US in exchange for concessions on border security by Mexico while a broader deal gets negotiated.
As part of the temporary pause, Sheinbaum agreed to reinforce the US-Mexico border with 10,000 personnel from her country’s National Guard, to help crack down on fentanyl dissemination and illegal immigration into the US, per statements from the two leaders. The US also agreed to ramp up efforts to prevent the trafficking of weapons into Mexico, according to Sheinbaum, who had a call with Trump
President Trump entered the White House for the second time with a bold agenda, which included a spate of executive orders on a wide range of issues. Even the media had trouble keeping up with the changes. But how was Trump’s flurry of orders received by average Americans? They liked it, with the exception of Democrats, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
The online I&I/TIPP Poll queried 1,478 adults across the nation on their view of 12 key Trump executive orders, intended to kick-start his second term in office and set a new direction for U.S. policy. The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.6 percentage points.
I never thought that I would see a Republican figure out the real pillars of Democratic Party power and attack them. Republicans have been too stupid, too scared, and too entwined in the grift to defund the nexus of political power that has led to so many of our problems.
Trump is doing precisely that, and if he succeeds, the Democratic Party in its current form will be dead. There will be a Democratic Party of some kind, but it will look nothing like the one that exists today.
There are plenty of ordinary Democrat voters who support the party because they believe that it represents their values.
USAID is mostly dead. I say "mostly" dead because Miracle Max may still find a way to use a bellow to revive it, but as far as I remember, the process required true love, and the only true love USAID had was for cold hard cash. USAID has been one of the key centers of resistance, with deep ties to the Intelligence Community, NGOs, foreign governments, consulting firms, and, of course, the State Department. It disperses tens of billions of dollars, a tiny percentage of which gets to actual aid recipients, and believe it or not helped fund the Wuhan lab and, therefore, the creation of COVID.
Exclusive: Ohio Elections Chief Launches
Portal Granting Citizens Greater Voter
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Portal Granting Citizens Greater Voter
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Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose launched an online portal on Monday increasing citizens’ ability to ensure accurate voter rolls, The Federalist learned. [Snip] ...the new data webpage will give “daily updates of voter registration changes across Ohio’s 88 counties, including new registrations, updates, and removals from voter rolls.” Ohio law mandates that local election boards “generate daily snapshots of their county voter registration database and provide those snapshots to the Secretary of State’s office,” [Snip] ...citizens are encouraged to “crowdsource” information from the new online portal and use it to “report any discrepancies” to state election officials to maintain accurate voter rolls.
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America," Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama promised on the campaign trail in 2008. Up until that moment, Obama had carefully couched his red diaper radicalism in the language of moderation, of healing, of "one America."
It's impossible to say for sure whether Obama accidentally let slip the real foundation of his candidacy or if he was feeling so cocky that close to election day that he felt he could get away with anything. But I've always felt it was the latter.
Republicans on Capitol Hill have largely fallen in line with Donald Trump’s move to impose tariffs on the US’s biggest trading partners, with the notable exception of the former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, who called it a “bad idea”.
With even Trump admitting that the tariffs – 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on China – might cause “some pain”, there was mostly strong support from the president’s loyalists. Jason Smith, chair of the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives, said the tariffs would “send a powerful message that the United States will no longer stand by
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court will soon decide whether Lower Merion has the authority to limit where guns are sold in the community. The ruling, which will be the next step in a two-year saga over zoning laws, could have implications not just for the township, but for the power of local governments across Pennsylvania. While Pennsylvania state law strictly prohibits local governments from regulating guns, Lower Merion officials have argued that prohibition doesn’t extend to zoning, which regulates land use. If the township wins the case, it may empower other communities to follow suit, and protect several municipalities across the state that already limit gun sales to specific zones.
President Donald Trump on Monday said that he will pause for one month his new 25% tariff on goods entering the United States from Mexico after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to immediately send 10,000 soldiers to her country's northern border to prevent drug trafficking.
The announcement of the pause came two days after Trump slapped 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, as well as a 10% tariff on goods imported from China. "We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty; we reached a series of agreements," Sheinbaum wrote in the tweet, according to a translation from Spanish.
The U.S. Agency for International Development instructed staffers not to show up for work on Monday after Elon Musk announced that he’ll use his post as the head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency to shut down the agency, a cost-cutting measure the tech billionaire says President Trump supports.
Musk has been battling the aid agency in recent days, pursuing measures to enact Trump’s sweeping changes to the federal government.
“It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm it in,” Musk said of USAID on X Spaces early Monday morning. “What we have is just a ball of worms.
A French gynaecologist has been barred from practising for a month because he refused to examine a transgender patient on the grounds that he was only qualified to treat “real women”.
Dr Victor Acharian was accused of transphobia after he turned the patient away in August 2023, and LGBT groups lodged complaints.
In December he appeared before a disciplinary board of the French Medical Council and he has now been suspended for a month from March 1, with an additional five months’ probation.
Édouard Martial, a lawyer representing the patient, said: “We have the satisfaction of having confirmation that what happened that day was totally abnormal.”
SOS Homophobie, a transgender activist group,
The diversity, equity, and inclusion project, often seen as a major element of the so-called “woke” creed along with green fanaticism, keeps popping up as a possible subtext in a variety of recent tragedies. In the case of the Los Angeles fires, Mayor Karen Bass, who cut the fire department budget, was warned of the mounting fire dangers of the Santa Anna winds and parched brush on surrounding hillsides. No matter—she junketed in Uganda. When furor followed, on cue, her defenders decried a racialist attack on “a black woman.”
AUSTIN - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered his annual State of the State address at the Arnold Oil Company in Austin on Sunday night. In his address, he outlined several emergency items he hopes to work with the Texas Legislature on during the 89th session. Abbott is looking to make investments in education, the state's water and energy supply and property tax relief, among other things. The current session of the Texas Legislature began Jan. 14 and will run until June 2.
Elon Musk’s aides have locked career government bureaucrats out of computer systems that operate a federal government human resources agency.
Musk, the owner of social media platform X and the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency — which is tasked with slashing government waste, fraud, and abuse — installed allies at the government resources agency known as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Reuters, citing government officials who spoke to the outlet anonymously, said career bureaucrats have had their access to governments systems revoked.
“We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,” one official said.
Dozens of Democrat leaders are reportedly struggling to find a “coherent message” to fight President Donald Trump.
The New York Times reported Sunday that, at private meetings and public events, Democrats “appear leaderless, rudderless, and divided.”
Democrats have elected Ken Martin to be their next Democrat National Committee (DNC) chair, who will conduct a post-election review largely based on tactics and messaging.
Now, the Times said after more than 50 interviews with Democrat leaders they cannot figure out what the party should stand for, what issues they should focus on, and how to confront Trump.
They’re cleaning house, and there’s nothing these DC bureaucrats can do about it. Even when they try to fight back, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has the full backing of the White House. If they want access to systems, they’ll get it. In short, whatever they want, they get, as USAID found out. A top staffer at that agency tried to counter a DOGE order—the White House placed the troublesome official on leave. This move came after the Trump White House and DOGE recently ordered dozens of security officials to be placed under a similar administrative designation.
Overwhelming number of NYers and Latino
residents want illegal-migrant criminals
booted: poll replies
residents want illegal-migrant criminals
booted: poll replies
An overwhelming number of New Yorkers support deporting illegal-migrant criminals, a new poll reveals.
Nearly 80% of New Yorkers statewide told Siena College pollsters that they back kicking out undocumented migrants who have been convicted of a crime, with that figure including 69% of Democrats and 71% of Latinos, the survey released Monday says.
The new numbers come as federal immigration officials have been conducting high-profile illegal-migrant arrests around the Empire State in the last week. (Photo) Siena also asked registered voters in the poll more specifically whether New York should support President Trump’s deportation initiatives, to which they were less enthusiastic.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he believes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a “criminal organization” that should “die.”
“USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,” Musk posted to the social platform X, which he owns. Musk was responding to the news that senior officials at USAID physically attempted to block people from Musk’s new advisory board, the “Department of Government Efficiency,” from having access to secure systems, NBC News reported.
The Trump administration is making USAID a target in its wide-ranging changes to the federal government.
Ice skater Maxim Naumov surrounded by
family friends after losing both parents
in DC plane collision replies
family friends after losing both parents
in DC plane collision replies
Ice skater Maxim Naumov is being surrounded by his family friends “24 hours a day” after he tragically lost both of his parents in the mid-air collision in Washington, D.C. last week.
Naumov, 23, has been spending time with his loved ones after the unimaginable tragedy, which claimed the lives of 67 people after an American Airlines plane collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter.
Naumov’s parents, 1994 World Champions Evgenia “Zhenya” Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were aboard the doomed aircraft. (Photo) “I know a couple who is with him right now,” Ekaterina “Katia” Gordeeva, a former teammate and close friend of Naumov’s parents, told People.
We all remember how, in the fall of 2020, the Biden campaign scrambled to discredit the New York Post’s bombshell report on Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell.” Just days before a crucial debate, they enlisted 51 former intelligence officials to sign a letter suggesting the laptop was Russian disinformation—giving Biden the perfect excuse to dismiss the story when Trump confronted him. That letter also handed Big Tech the justification to censor the story across social media, making it one of the most brazen examples of election interference in U.S. history.
During a Fox News interview, Senator Lindsey Graham says he is a yes on RFK Jr, Kash Patel and now Tulsi Gabbard, specifically because the latter has now assured him, she will support FISA-702 warrantless searches of U.S. citizen communication. Senator Graham states falsely the 702 authorities only pertain to foreign nationals Remember what I said about Kash Patel being the firewall selected by the Senate to make the American people drop their pitchforks and torches? Listen to Senator Graham through that protective prism and you can hear exactly that approach.
In December of 2016 when we discussed the possibility of President Trump’s then new and unique tariff approach, we predicted negligible impact – if any at all. It was a theory at the time, but predicated on the looming possibility that impacted nations would inevitably devalue their currency. It was the currency devaluation, in combination with directed subsidies, that would offset any tariff impact to U.S. consumers. By the time we got to December 2019, we were no longer discussing theory. Deflation due to currency devaluation, subsidy and a rising dollar actually became reality. The lookback data (2017 through 2019)
Canada’s dollar and Mexico’s peso took a hit Saturday, with Canada’s dollar sliding to its lowest level since 2003, one day after President Trump imposed tariffs on the two nations.
The Canadian dollar dropped 1.4% to roughly C$1.47 against one U.S. dollar. The Mexican peso also fell more than 2% to 21.15 against one dollar U.S., Financial Times reports.
Chief economist at Mexico’s Banco Base, Gabriela Siller, says, “If the tariff stays on for several months, the [peso’s] exchange rate will reach new historic highs.” She added, “If the tariff stays on, it will be a structural change for Mexico . . . and Mexico could go into a profound recession
Below are translations of excerpts from three recent videos from three of my favorite Ukrainian bloggers, who talk about how leftist Ukrainian wolves in sheep’s clothing are in panic mode thanks to recent actions by Trump (use YouTube translate for subtitles but be aware that it often makes mistakes). I have the impression that Americans are not hearing what they are saying. I’ve spent a year in Ukraine during the war (after seven years in Russia) and I understand the language. My income (and ego) does not depend on pushing lies about Ukraine.
President Trump on Sunday defended his decision to impose sweeping tariffs on the United States’s top three trading partners, even as he acknowledged there may be “some pain” caused by the economic fallout.
Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday morning after he signed off on 25 percent tariffs on Canada, 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and 10 percent tariffs on China, which appear likely to set off a significant trade war. Trump hit back at critics and argued the decision was necessary because of “major” trade deficits with those countries.
President Donald Trump recently floated a fantastic idea: Arab nations, he said, should accept large numbers of Gazans as refugees, a move that “could be temporary or long term.”
The accommodation would allow Israel to eliminate the remnants of Hamas, which, in turn, would allow the international community to rebuild Gaza.
Not only would such a policy enhance the prospects of peace, but it’s also humane.
While Gazans shouldn’t be compelled to move from their homes, they should be allowed to escape the generational tragedy foisted on them by the Arab world and their nihilistic leaders. And Israelis should monetarily incentivize them to move to safer environs.
Taiwan will support companies that plan to relocate to the United States, including helping them find partners, the economy ministry said on Monday, outlining assistance it will offer after U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariffs. Trump's orders for additional levies of 25% on imports from Mexico and most goods from Canada, as well as 10% on goods from China, were light on detail. But they kick in on Tuesday and have jolted markets as investors feared a broader trade war could severely hurt global growth. Shares in Taiwanese tech companies with factories in Mexico fell heavily on Monday, with Foxconn closing down 8.1%, Quanta down 9.8% and Inventec off 6.7%.
Likely Dem primary voters in the upcoming mayoral election overwhelmingly say New York City is in crisis — with nearly half saying that if things get any worse, they may leave, a dismal new survey shows.
The pessimism is broad and deep.
Eighty percent of the respondents say they are worried about the current level of crime, while 75% believe their city is in a state of crisis, and 70% are “fearful and anxious” about its future, according to the poll by Democratic strategists with the Honan Strategy Group. (Photo) Nearly half, or 45%, of respondents say that if things get any worse, they “may be forced to move out” of Gotham.
Following an explosion of antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) on Wednesday that ordered law enforcement to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses, including removing pro-Hamas activists with student visas from the country.
"It shall be the policy of the United States to combat anti-Semitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence," the EO reads.
During Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he was still at odds with President Donald Trump despite his election victory last November.
The Kentucky Republican said he still harbored ill-will for what he had alleged was Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
Partial transcript as follows:
STAHL: How would you describe your relationship with President Trump?
MCCONNELL: Well, we haven’t spoken for quite a while. I was very upset about what happened January 6.
STAHL: You had to be evacuated from the Senate along with other leaders. Your staff was in your office. The rioters
Anti-Trump leftists can’t stop spreading disinformation in a desperate bid to make their skewed worldview make sense.
In Chicago last week, local Democratic leaders stoked panic over claims that ICE agents had shown up at a local elementary school.
Chicago Public Schools Chief Education Officer Bogdana Chkoumbova claimed school staff had “kept ICE agents outside of the school” and affirmed that “we will not coordinate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.”
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker piled on, blustering, “After a week of Republicans sowing fear and chaos, the first reports of raids in Chicago are at an elementary school.”
One problem: There were no ICE agents at the school. They were Secret Service agents,
Venezuela agrees to take back illegal
migrants — including Tren de Aragua
gang members: Trump replies
migrants — including Tren de Aragua
gang members: Trump replies
Venezuela has agreed to take back its violent criminal migrants nabbed in the US — including members of the Tren de Aragua gang wreaking havoc on the Big Apple and other cities, President Trump says.
“We are in the process of removing record numbers of illegal aliens from all countries, and all countries have agreed to accept these illegal aliens back,” the president wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
“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 said.
It’s galling to hear sleazy Democrats like Rep. Jamie Raskin and self-serving government bureaucrats whine about “due process” as Donald Trump sets about cleaning house in the out-of-control administrative state.
Last time Trump was president, he and his appointees were sabotaged and obstructed by Machiavellian Deep-Staters who perverted concepts such as “due process” into protective shields around wrongdoers and turned them into weapons against their adversaries — that is, anyone trying to carry out the wishes of the democratically elected president.
That won’t be happening again. It’s called democracy.
The FBI raided Trump’s home and rummaged through his wife’s underwear drawer. They tried to lock him up and bankrupt him.
In a striking prediction, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that Europe would eventually come under the influence of President Donald Trump. Putin’s comments reflect the rising concern among European elite leaders about the return of a strong America led by Trump, whose "America First" policies could alter the balance of power on the global stage. For conservatives, this prediction may validate Trump’s approach to international relations, which prioritized national sovereignty and held European allies accountable for their own defense and economic commitment, making it clear that Trump’s influence remains a formidable force in the world.
President Trump held an impromptu press conference Sunday night on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews as he returned to the White House from Palm Beach, Florida, and he discussed numerous subjects like the newly announced tariffs against Canada and Mexico. One area that stood out was when he lambasted the United Kingdom and the European Union for their unfair trade practices.
They stack the deck, he charged:
[The EU has] taken advantage of, I said, you know, we have over $300 billion deficit. They don't take our cars, they don't take our farm products, they take almost nothing, and we take everything from them—
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he is suspending all U.S. aid to South Africa after the latter passed a law on land expropriation, which many fear could lead to Zimbabwe-style seizures of land owned by white citizens.
The president made the surprise announcement on Truth Social, his own social media platform, on Sunday evening:
(TRUTH) South Africa received $273 million from the U.S. in 2023, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. (Reuters puts the sum at $440 million.) That includes funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). South Africa also has key trade deals with the U.S.
Update: Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori were kicked out of the Grammys.
“Kanye and Bianca were not believed to have been officially invited to the Grammys,” a source told The Sun. “They’ve both since been kicked out.”
The two were seen leaving in a silver car, The Sun reported.
Kanye “Ye” West’s wife Bianca Censori stunned onlookers when she showed up to the Grammys red carpet at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angles completely nude on Sunday evening.