Posts on Friday, April 18, 2025
Anti-Trumpers are planning a massive, nationwide protest against President Donald Trump as part of actions from the 50501 movement over Easter weekend.
The 50501 movement works under the phrase, “50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement” and describes itself as a group fighting to “uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach.” The organization’s next “day of action” falls on Saturday, April 19 — the day before Easter Sunday. “We are trying to protect our democracy against the rise of authoritarianism under the Trump administration,” Hunter Dunn, a spokesperson for the group, said according to the Washington Post. They claim that their group is not partisan in nature,
MSNBC’s Morning Joe proved once again that when it comes to violent crime, especially involving illegal immigrants, their instinct is to deflect, downplay, or dismiss. On Thursday, the panel spent over seven minutes hand-waving away mounting evidence against an alleged MS-13 gangster, more concerned with spinning the narrative than acknowledging the brutal realities tied to the Biden administration’s reckless open-border policies. Rather than confront the serious implications of letting dangerous individuals slip through the cracks, the hosts fell back on tired talking points and partisan gaslighting, showing just how out of touch the liberal media remains on law and order.
President Donald Trump shared a photo of the tattoos on the knuckles of illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an accused MS-13 gang member, wife beater, and human trafficker amid Democrats’ complaining about the man’s deportation to his native El Salvador. “I was elected to take bad people out of the United States,” Trump said. “I must be allowed to do my job.”
“This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such ‘a fine and innocent person,'” President Trump quipped in the caption of his post, sharing a photo of himself holding an image of Abrego Garcia’s hand.
The White House practically broke X on Friday with a post showing Hollywood star Vince Vaughn posing for a photo with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
In the now-viral post on X from the White House's official account, Trump is pictured sitting behind the Resolute Desk with the 55-year-old actor standing next to him.“President Donald J. Trump & Vince Vaughn in the Oval Office,” the post read. It included a movie-type poster with their names and the title “White House Crashers.”
It was an obvious reference to one of Vaughn’s bigger movie hits, the 2005 romantic comedy “Wedding Crashers” with actor Owen Wilson.
One of the most important insights of public policy is the understanding that most laws are predicated upon a (stated or unstated) quid pro quo. Take, for example, the roiling monthslong debate about President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda. Prior to the media uproar over the much-ballyhooed MS-13-tied "Maryland man," the since-deported Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, there was a similar hullabaloo surrounding the arrest and initiation of removal proceedings against Mahmoud Khalil, the green card-holding Hamas sympathizer at Columbia University.
Tonight is the 250-Year Anniversary of
Paul Revere’s Ride – Read His Personal
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Paul Revere’s Ride – Read His Personal
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Two hundred fifty years ago tonight Paul Revere rode into history, intent on warning John Hancock and Sam Adams of the British intent to arrest them.
Patriots’ Day, April 18/19 1775…(snip)
Many are familiar with the poem Paul Revere’s Ride, however, far fewer know that Paul Revere actually memorialized the events of the April 18 and 19, 1775, in an eight-page letter written several years later.
Each Patriots’ Day I remind myself to read his letter from a copy handed down, and I think about how Paul Revere was really just a common man of otherwise undue significance…. yet, capable to the task at hand.
The New York Times are claiming the team around El Salvador President Nayib Bukele set up the photo-op with margaritas in order to embarrass Maryland Senator Van Hollen. Even if they did, it’s still funny. (photo)“Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” ~ Nayib Bukele White House Senior Policy Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, responded to press questions about Garcia earlier this afternoon. Video Below:
Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, who was recently deported to El Salvador, was suspected of partaking in labor/human trafficking, according to a 2022 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) report obtained by Fox News. The report also stated that "official law enforcement investigations" revealed that Abrego-Garcia was a member of the notorious gang MS-13organization(snip)a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper stopped Garcia after he was "observed speeding" and unable to stay in his lane. The trooper noticed eight individuals in the car with Abrego-Garcia, who said he began driving three days prior from Houston, Texas, to Temple Hills, Md. to "perform construction work."
A Maryland father wrongly deported to El Salvador and held in a notoriously violent prison told a U.S. senator that he was traumatized by the experience.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia reported to Sen. Chris Van Hollen during a meeting in El Salvador that he was moved nine days ago from that country's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, to another facility with better conditions.
Abrego Garcia said he had been traumatized by his time in CECOT and that he had been taunted by other prisoners.
“He said he felt very sad about being in a prison because he had not committed any crimes,” Van Hollen said.
Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) claimed on Friday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that the Trump administration was attacking the freedoms of speech, religion and the press.
Co-host Pamala Brown said, “You talk about due process, that brings me to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen was able to finally get a face to face meeting with him. The administration admitted that he was wrongly deported to El Salvador. Where do you think this goes from here?”
Dingell said, “You know, I don’t know where it goes. I’m glad that the senator was able to see him yesterday.”
A former US Attorney found a glaring abuse of power in Judge Boasberg’s latest court order in the Alien Enemies Act case.
Former US Attorney Jay Town pointed out that it appears Boasberg just appointed the ACLU as counsel for every single Tren de Aragua member in the United States.
On Wednesday evening lawyers for the ACLU representing Tren de Aragua gang members in the Alien Enemies Act case asked Judge Boasberg in DC to keep his case going by allowing them to file ‘habeas claims’ for gang members deported to El Salvador.
Tyler Fischer, a comedian who appeared occasionally on Fox News‘ “Gutfeld!” primetime show, claims the network has “kicked me off” for his “woke crime” of asking “an employee out for coffee.” But Fischer’s interaction with the female Fox News employee reportedly disturbed the staffer to the to the point where she called for assistance from security.
“After almost 2 years I will no longer be on @Gutfeldfox TV show. Sadly, they have gone full woke and kicked me off for a reason that is beyond hard to believe,” Fischer wrote in
The White House has revamped the COVID-19 guidance page, which now states the likely origin of the virus was a lab leak involving gain-of-function research.
The website features the heading “Lab Leak,” with a subheading of “The True Origins of COVID-19.” The White House lists five key points regarding the coronavirus’s genesis:
“The virus posses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.“
“Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.”
The O’Keefe Media Group released undercover video of Jonathan Ferrer, the HR Director for Summit Public Schools, a charter network operating in California and Washington, admitting to race-based hiring.
Ferrer admitted to violating Title VII, California FEHA (prohibits discrimination) and school policy.
“You get presented with, on equal merits, like a white person or a black person or whatever. Yeah, we’re going with the black person,” Ferrer told the undercover OMG reporter.
“Whenever there’s a qualified candidate and they happen to identify differently or present differently, we’re probably going with that person… That’s what DEI is all about,” Ferrer told the undercover journalist.
Breaking: Federal Housing Agency Refers
NY AG Letitia James to DOJ for Mortgage
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NY AG Letitia James to DOJ for Mortgage
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In a stunning development that threatens to upend New York’s legal and political landscape, the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has formally referred New York Attorney General Letitia James to the Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution related to alleged mortgage fraud.The bombshell referral, dated April 14, 2025, and signed by FHFA Director William J. Pulte, outlines a pattern of alleged misrepresentations spanning multiple properties and decades. The document was sent directly to Attorney General Pamela J. Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche requesting criminal investigation. We have obtained and published the full referral letter here.
This federal investigation appears to validate the extensive “real-time audit” we’ve conducted
WWE legend Hulk Hogan's Real American
Beer launches in Walmart less than 1 year
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Beer launches in Walmart less than 1 year
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Hulk Hogan's Real American Beer, founded last June, has now hit the shelves at Walmart.
The mega-store will now be selling the beverage in eight states: Florida, Illinois, Idaho, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin.
"Americans deserve a real American beer, and now they can grab Real American Beer at Walmart — America’s store. Our team is passionate about building a beer that brings America together. We are a beer for great American pastimes — sports, racing, grills, tailgates, family," Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, said in a statement.
Federal Judge Temporarily Limits DOGE’s
Access to Social Security Data over Privacy
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Access to Social Security Data over Privacy
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The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been placed under updated restrictions, per a recent decision by U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander in Baltimore.
DOGE’s access is now limited when it comes to Social Security systems that contain personal data on citizens across the nation, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Thursday, noting that Hollander issued a preliminary injunction in the case after issuing a temporary restraining order.The case was brought by several labor unions and retired individuals who claim DOGE has violated privacy laws and its work has resulted in a risk to security.
In her ruling, Hollander said the objective to uncover government waste and fraud
A 13-year-old boy is dead after a school bus full of kids blew a tire and flipped on a South Carolina highway on Thursday, authorities said.
Two other students were injured in the crash, which occurred when a bus carrying middle schoolers home from a field trip had a blowout, careened into a guardrail, and bounced onto its side on an interstate in Lexington County, according to WBTV in Charlotte.
The bus had been carrying around 35 children and three adults. Eleven people were rushed to the hospital and five were in critical condition, the outlet said.
A graduate student who was wounded in the Florida State University shooting Thursday survived the harrowing attack by closing her eyes and “playing dead,” she said Friday.
Madison Askins, 23, was walking with a friend near the student union Thursday morning, when she was shot in the buttocks from behind, she told ABC News.
She fell to the ground and did everything in her power not to move.
“I released all the muscles in my body, closed my eyes and held my breath,” she said. “And I would take short breaths in between when I needed to.”
As Matt and Sarah have touched on this week, New York's Democratic Attorney General may soon find herself in hot legal water. Letitia James famously told voters she'd use her powers to come after Donald Trump, which she then proceeded to do, pursuing a civil case for "fraud" in which the supposedly defrauded victims denied that they were defrauded or victimized. James' office used a legal approach that even the Associated Press admitted had never been applied in the same manner to anyone else, ever (James' fellow anti-Trump partisan Alvin Bragg did something similar on the criminal side in Manhattan, of course). But now,
Notorious race hustler and far-left activist Reverend Al Sharpton won’t let diversity, equity, and inclusion go down without a fight.
The Associated Press reported Thursday that Sharpton and other members of his National Action Network met with Target Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell.
Sharton and NAN have urged consumers to avoid retailers like Target after terminating their DEI initiatives, calling for boycotts.
Essentially, Sharpton, who called his meeting with Cornell “very constructive and candid,” aims to blackmail any company no longer trying to hammer customers and employees with DEI drivel.
The acting head of the IRS is reportedly being ousted after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Donald Trump that Elon Musk pushed to place him in the role without Bessent’s assent.
Gary Shapley, who gained prominence for testifying as part of the Republicans’ corruption investigation into Hunter Biden, is being replaced as acting IRS commissioner just days after being appointed to the role, according to multiple reports.
If you think the American Medical Association (AMA) is a credible group of doctors in white lab coats, think again. The AMA is a private trade association that wields vast influence over medical practices in this country, has found a government-mandated way to line its pockets, and promotes a radical trans agenda. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs to eliminate the AMA money grab to protect our families.
Here is the One Thing Trump Needs to Do
That Changes EVERYTHING: Prove the 2020
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That Changes EVERYTHING: Prove the 2020
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President Trump is the G.O.A.T. - the greatest president of my lifetime, and by the end of his 2nd term, I’m betting he will be seen as the greatest president of all time. So far, what he has accomplished in only 2 1/2 months is amazing, unimaginable, and breathtaking. In 2 1/2 months, he has already achieved more great things than my hero Ronald Reagan did in eight years! But there is one thing Trump should be focused on above all else. President Trump must prove the 2020 election was stolen, bring the hard evidence to the American people, and charge the Democrat party with RICO.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his family were at the Vatican for Good Friday services to celebrate Easter. The convalescing pope did not attend.
Reuters notes Vance, visiting Italy with his family over the Easter weekend, joined a Celebration of the Passion of the Lord mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on the day Christians mark Jesus’ crucifixion. The second family entered the service with more than a dozen Secret Service members just a few moments before the start of the liturgy, the National Catholic Reporter set out.
The faculty senates in the Big Ten Academic Alliance are creating a “mutual defense compact” to fight against President Trump’s ongoing attacks on higher education.
The faculty senate of Rutgers University began the initiative, passing a resolution April 6 to establish the compact among the Big Ten’s 18 universities.
“Be it resolved that, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance,” the resolution said.
The small town of San Pedro Cutud in the Philippines continued its annual tradition of staging real crucifixions to mark Good Friday, honoring its most prolific participant, carpenter Ruben Enaje, with the bloody ritual for a 36th time.
Enaje, 64 years old, told reporters that he expects this to be his last year nailed to a cross, as he “really can’t do it anymore.” He was one of ten men crucified this year, the highest number in recent memory. Warning – Graphic Images: (Video) Good Friday is the Christian holiday that observes the day Jesus Christ was crucified and killed. It is part of Holy Week,
Arizona GOP Rep. Andy Biggs announced Friday that one of his children recently died from cancer.
"Earlier this week, our daughter Cosette lost her battle with cancer," Biggs wrote in a statement posted on the social media platform X. "We are devastated by her passing but take comfort knowing she is at peace with the Lord."
Biggs said she died peacefully surrounded by family.
Floridians gathered to protest Anthony Fauci’s two lectures at the acclaimed Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota
Monday, in a two-part rally across southwest sections of the state. The event demonstrates increasing public skepticism about Covid lockdowns and Fauci, lockdowns’ foremost champion.
Fauci refused to make himself available to media at the Florida event, another reversal for the famous TV and publicity hound. While Fauci retired in 2022, his wife was recently laid off by the Trump administration’s cuts to Fauci’s former agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The press was unexpectedly ushered out of Friday afternoon’s swearing-in of Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
President Trump was speaking when what appeared to be a medical emergency halted the proceedings.
The ceremony began as planned, with President Trump delivering brief remarks alongside Dr. Oz and other officials.
Midway through the event, the press was rushed out of the room.
In video of the incident, it appeared that a young girl may have been suffering a medical emergency.
First Lady Melania Trump sent a message of hope to Americans ahead of Easter and talked about the preparations underway for the upcoming White House Easter Egg Roll. “As families across the nation gather to celebrate Easter, I extend my gratitude to the dedicated East Wing Staff for their tireless effort in preparing the upcoming White House Easter Egg Roll,” Melania wrote in a post on Friday on X ahead of the event on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21.
“This cherished tradition, rooted in history since 1878, brings joy, storytelling, and laughter to America’s children,” she added. “I look forward to watching all of the smiles
Anyone who went to COVID.gov on Friday hoping to find information about where to get their 10th booster was in for a big shock.
The website, created by the Biden administration to spread information about vaccines and other government COVID policies, now redirects to a page explaining how the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.
“LAB LEAK: The True Origins of COVID-19” walks readers through the pandemic’s origins and exposes Dr. Anthony Fauci and other government officials who attempted to discredit the now-vindicated lab leak theory. The website explains how the coronavirus likely originated at the Wuhan
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in mental decline, a rival in the upcoming New York City Democratic mayoral primary is alleging.
“I don’t think the City of New York can afford a Joe Biden moment,” Democratic state Sen. Jessica Ramos said during a meeting with the New York Post editorial board, per the Post.
“His mental acuity is in decline,” Ramos added.
“I think that there are real reasons why he’s not answering questions,” Ramos said, referring to Cuomo’s testimony before the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic,
He's talking tough on big tech—but banking on their servers.
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, a freshman Democrat who represents Northern Virginia, is sounding the alarm about the large data centers that have cropped up in his district, blasting them as "invasive" pollutants that could attract cyberattacks. Those centers support more than 78,000 jobs in Northern Virginia. And while Subramanyam doesn't want them in his backyard, he owns hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of stock in the companies that own them, records show.
By now, the official narrative of January 6 has completely imploded—and Revolver News has been at the center of that unraveling.While the media called it an “insurrection,” we exposed it for what it really was: a “fedsurrection.” A totally manipulated event, crawling with fed involvement, unanswered questions, and a phony threat to democracy used to justify a slew of political crackdowns and North Korea-style arrests.(snip) Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley are demanding information from the Justice Department’s inspector general on whether any unassigned or “untasked” confidential human sources (CHSs) from DOJ agencies beyond the FBI were in or around the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Charles McGonigal may be the most corrupt FBI official in modern history—and yet somehow, his name has barely made a blip on the radar. This wasn’t some mid-level pencil-pusher. McGonigal was one of the top counterintelligence agents at the FBI’s New York field office. He was directly involved in the bureau’s most sensitive operations, including the infamous “Crossfire Hurricane” probe into (phony) Trump–Russia “collusion.” And after that whole fraudulent mess, it turns out that he was secretly taking money from a Kremlin-linked oligarch and helping shake down Albanian oligarchs on the side. You can’t make this up, right?
Republican Gov. Kelly Armstrong signed legislation on Wednesday prohibiting the use of ranked-choice voting (RCV) in North Dakota elections, making it the 15th state to do so.
“Now more than ever, we need a consistent, efficient and easy-to-understand voter experience across our entire state to maintain trust in our election system,” Armstrong said in a statement. “This is one more in a series of proactive, common-sense steps our Secretary of State and Legislature have taken to support election integrity.”
There are a ton of geopolitical influences happening in the background and foreground of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Trump voice and envoy Steve Witkoff, and Keith Kellogg meeting in Paris with delegations from France, U.K, Ukraine and EU stakeholders. The intent is to get the EU/UK on board with a Trump/Putin ceasefire plan. (smip) The EU, specifically represented by France and the U.K representing the interests of the NATO/Corporate industrial military complex who want bigger conflict and more war, sit at the table with officials from Germany and Ukraine. The only elements who want the ceasefire are Witkoff and Rubio.
A 21-year-old straphanger was stabbed multiple times with a metal knuckle knife in a random subway attack in the Bronx early Friday, police sources said.
The frenzy unfolded as the perp was going between carriages on a southbound 2 train at about 7 a.m., according to cops and sources.
Responding officers found the “conscious and alert” victim at the 219th Street station in the wake of the attack, the NYPD said. (Photos)
He was suffering from multiple stab wounds to his right forearm and was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi in a stable condition, according to cops.
Top Dem asks Noem how TSA will prevent
'major disruptions' as many travelers
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'major disruptions' as many travelers
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The top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee demanded answers from the Trump administration over potentially stranded American travelers once REAL ID requirements take effect May 7. [Snip] "Following the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, Congress passed, and then-President George W. Bush signed, the REAL ID Act of 2005,... [Snip] "The purpose of REAL ID is to make our identity documents more consistent and secure." [Snip] "...make identification harder to forge, thwarting criminals and terrorists. 81% of air travelers hold REAL ID-compliant or acceptable IDs. DHS will continue to collaborate with state, local, and airport authorities to inform the public, facilitate compliance, curb wait times and prevent fraud."
On Wednesday, Rachel Morin’s mother, Patty, joined White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for an emergency press briefing. Rachel, a mother of five, was brutally raped and murdered by an illegal alien.
Patty shared, in heartbreaking detail, what her daughter was subjected to at the hands of the monster who brutalized her and robbed five children of their mother.
On Monday, a Maryland jury found illegal immigrant Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez guilty of murdering Morin in August 2023.
But, according to Media Research Center, ABC/CBS/NBC devoted zero seconds to the trial on their evening and morning shows.
The biological mother of accused Florida State University shooter Phoenix Ikner kidnapped him and fled to Norway amid a bitter custody battle a decade before the deadly shooting, court documents reveal.
Anne-Mari Eriksen took her then-11-year-old son to the Scandinavian nation in March 2015 in violation of the custody agreement she had with Christopher Ikner — after telling the father she was taking him to South Florida for spring break, according to a probable cause affidavit from the Leon County Sheriff’s Office viewed by The Post.
Eriksen and Phoenix Ikner — who at the time went by his birth name, Christian Gunnar Eriksen — both have American and Norwegian citizenship.
President Trump slammed the failed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday after Powell hinted at delaying interest rate cuts.
President Trump slammed Powell on TRUTH Social following Powell’s latest mistake that will once again punish America’s working class.
Trump is now openly calling for Powell’s termination before he does any more damage to the lives of tens of millions of American workers.
President Trump: The ECB is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th time, and yet, “Too Late” Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete “mess!”
A pro-mass migration group, funded in part by Alex and George Soros’s left-wing nonprofit network, is behind a lawsuit trying to preserve the nation’s anchor baby policy, where the United States-born children of illegal aliens are rewarded birthright American citizenship. The case will be heard next month before the Supreme Court.
Immediately after taking office, Trump signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens — a policy once also opposed by Democrats. Annually, about 250,000 anchor babies are born in the U.S. every year, anchoring their illegal alien parents in the country.
‘We Are Not the Same:’ Trump Meets
with Angel Mom as Chris Van Hollen Meets
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with Angel Mom as Chris Van Hollen Meets
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While President Donald Trump met with Angel Mom Patty Morin, whose 37-year-old daughter Rachel Morin was murdered by an illegal alien MS-13 gang member in Maryland, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) met in El Salvador with a deported illegal alien accused of being an MS-13 gang member, domestic abuser, and human trafficker.
Trump met with Patty Morin this week in the Oval Office as she also took to the White House press secretary podium to tell the establishment media of the brutal rape and murder her daughter, a mother of five, suffered at the hands of an illegal alien MS-13 gang member in her home of Harford County, Maryland, in 2023.
Ukraine and the United States on Thursday signed a memorandum as an initial step towards the clinching of an agreement on developing minerals in Ukraine, Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine's first deputy prime minister and economy minister, said.
"We are happy to announce the signing, with our American partners, of a Memorandum of Intent, which paves the way for an Economic Partnership Agreement and the establishment of the Investment Fund for the Reconstruction of Ukraine," Svyrydenko wrote on the social media platform X.
And so, we’ve come to the point where the much-fought-about ‘Minerals deal’ seems to finally be about to be signed by the US and Ukraine.
The news was first broken by a top Ukrainian official that ‘a memorandum’ has been signed with Commerce Secretary Scott Besset.
Reuters reported:
“Ukraine and the United States on Thursday signed a memorandum as an initial step towards the clinching of an agreement on developing minerals in Ukraine, Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine’s first deputy prime minister and economy minister, said.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama was spotted in Los Angeles on Thursday without her husband former President Barack Obama, amid rumors of marital strife between the two.
But former first lady seemingly sent a signal to skeptics of her relationship as she proudly wore her diamond engagement and wedding rings as she visited The Academy headquarters in North Hollywood.
However, her husband Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen as she made a public outing with her brother and new podcast cohost Craig Robinson.
President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social media account to jab Sen. Chris Van Hollen over his visit with alleged gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Trump described Van Hollen (D-MD) as a "fool" looking for attention and finding it in the worst possible way - fighting tooth and nail for a gang-affiliated illegal alien. "Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland looked like a fool yesterday, standing in El Salvador begging for attention from the Fake News Media, or anyone," the President wrote early Friday morning. "GRANDSTANDER!!"
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters in Paris on April 18 about the prolonged peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. (snip) frustrated Rubio warned that the U.S. could “move on” from its involvement in negotiations to end the war if no progress is made “within a matter of days and weeks.” That’s the mainstream media narrative.
The non-pretending summary is that Ukraine, France, Great Britain, the EU, NATO et al are all trying to retain their interests in the conflict. Russia has simple terms, but the war machinery controlled by the intel apparatus (CIA and EU) and the financial stakeholders in the EU
Texas on Wednesday finally passed a comprehensive school choice bill after years of trying and failing. The legislation could reshape the way the LoThe state House vote followed a long day of deliberations that lasted well after midnight before passing. Now, the measure will go to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk for his signature.
“This is an extraordinary victory for the thousands of parents who have advocated for more choices when it comes to the education of their children,” Abbott said.ne Star State does education.
Kamala Harris’s campaign paid $50,000 to the production company of billionaire NBA superstar LeBron James, who endorsed the failed Democratic candidate in a deceptively edited video attacking Donald Trump days before the presidential election.
The Harris campaign paid James’s SpringHill Entertainment on Jan. 28 for "campaign event production," according to campaign disclosures released this week. James, a forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, did not appear at any campaign events for Harris. But he did post a 75-second video on his social media accounts on Oct. 31 that portrayed Donald Trump as racist.
As we reported on Thursday evening, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) finally did get to see the illegal alien and alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, for whom he took his grandstanding tour to El Salvador to see and bring "home." It was a bizarre set of optics.
But it was as a result of 4D chess move by El Salvador's President Nayib Buklele, who decided that he could blow up the Democratic narrative showing Abrego Garcia was fine and get that damning picture of Van Hollen sipping drinks with him at the same time. Meanwhile, he definitely said he wasn't letting Abrego Garcia out of custody.
In observance of Holy Week, the White House Faith Office has been rolling out various memorandums while hosting celebratory events.
President Donald Trump held an official Easter dinner on Wednesday night, just ahead of the major Christian holiday on Sunday. The dinner was said to be filled with prayer and worship.
Paula White, senior advisor to the White House Faith Office, told Fox News Digital in an interview on Wednesday ahead of the event, referencing the full array of Holy Week activities, "It’s going to be an amazing time."
At the pre-Easter dinner, the president delivered remarks as planned.
Also on the schedule for the Wednesday night event were hymns
Muslims Threaten to Sue Spain in Strasbourg
Over Holy Week Processions, Claim They
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Over Holy Week Processions, Claim They
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A group of British Muslims of Iranian origin, led by Anjem Choudary, is threatening to file a lawsuit before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
They allege that Spain's traditional Holy Week processions are an “offense to Islam” and to the Prophet Muhammad, demanding their immediate ban.
The Muslim group intends to sue Spain in Strasbourg over these Catholic processions, with Choudary arguing that these religious events, rooted in Catholic tradition since 1978, are a “provocation” against Muslims.
A growing number of companies are working to replace traditional airport commutes such as hail rides, cabs and trains with flying taxi services.
One of them, Archer Aviation, announced Thursday that it’s developing an air taxi network in New York City in partnership with United Airlines.
The goal of the service is to fly passengers to their flights within minutes by its piloted electric air taxi, Midnight. Built at the company’s manufacturing facilities in San Jose, California, and Covington, Georgia, Midnight is designed to carry four passengers, who will eventually be able to book these air taxi flights as an add-on
The Trump administration rolled out a revamped COVID.gov website Friday showing the "true origins" of the coronavirus, while admonishing Democrats and the media for discrediting the theory the virus leaked from a lab and alternative health treatments, and for imposing strict mandates.
"This administration prioritizes transparency over all else," a senior administration official told Fox News Digital Friday. "The American people deserve to know the truth about the Covid pandemic and we will always find ways to reach communities with that message."
The website, which previously had focused on promoting the coronavirus vaccine to Americans, now walks readers through evidence supporting the lab leak theory, how former
Top GOP senator calls out Code Pink, The
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People’s Forum allegedly pushing CCP
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Code Pink, the liberal antiwar group known best for disrupting hearings in their trademark fuchsia garb, may need to register under a 1938 law requiring disclosure of political behavior benefiting foreign entities or governments, according to a top Senate Republican.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote a letter Wednesday to FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi openly considering whether Code Pink, as well as the New York-based socialist "incubator" The People’s Forum, must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
"The Department of Justice has a duty to ensure compliance with the [FARA, which] remains a priority tool to combat adversarial foreign governments from influencing
FCC Chief Brendan Carr: Comcast Outlets
Misleading Americans About MS-13 Gang
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Misleading Americans About MS-13 Gang
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr on Wednesday said Comcast-owned outlets have mislead the American public about the so-called “Maryland man,” who is a “member of the violent MS-13 gang.”
“Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public — implying that [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia was merely a law abiding U.S. citizen, just a regular “Maryland man.” When the truth comes out, they ignore it. Comcast knows that federal law requires its licensed operations to serve the public interest,” Carr wrote.
He continued, “News distortion doesn’t cut it. Abrego Garcia came to America illegally from El Salvador, was validated as a member of the violent MS13 gang — a transnational criminal organization
President Trump has appointed Fox News host Mark Levin and a host of others to lead his “revamped” Homeland Security Advisory Council.
“I am proud to announce the formation of my revamped Homeland Security Advisory Council [HSAC], which is comprised of Top Experts in their field, who are highly respected by their peers,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Thursday.
Levin, who is the host of Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin,” will be joined by ex-NYPD detective Bo Dietl, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Florida state Sen. Joseph Gruters (R-Sarasota).
A Venezuelan migrant has been arrested for the sixth time in the past year for allegedly robbing a woman at gunpoint, just days after prosecutors in an Illinois sanctuary city dropped additional charges against him.
Edmonds Peraza Cortez, 25, is facing one felony count of armed robbery with a firearm, according to the Chicago Police Department.
Cortez allegedly was riding a bike on April 11 when he approached a 41-year-old woman, brandishing a gun and yelling, "Money! Money!"
Cortez allegedly demanded the woman hand over her cellphone, wallet and electric scooter.
Police located and arrested Cortez less than an hour after the alleged robbery. The incident was caught on surveillance footage,
Long classified files pertaining to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy are now available to the public, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed to The Daily Wire in an exclusive interview.
“Today is a big day,” Gabbard said during an interview from the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. “It is the first time the country will be able to see the documents that have been sitting here, at the National Archives records agency, around the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.”
Speaking from the lab where government employees busily worked to prepare documents to be digitized, scanned in high capacity scanners, and then ultimately uploaded
US senators probe Wall Street over soaring
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US lawmakers have launched an investigation into soaring prices and wait times for fire engines that have slammed fire departments nationwide — and probing whether private equity firms are to blame.
The bipartisan investigation by US Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) was prompted by widespread complaints from fire departments detailing delayed deliveries, faulty components and rapidly escalating prices.
Prices for ladder trucks have jumped from $750,000–$900,000 in the mid-2010s to around $2 million today, while pumper trucks now often cost over $1 million.
Delivery times have likewise exploded, stretching from less than a year before the pandemic to as long as four-and-a-half years in some cities.
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More than 10,000 pages of previously classified documents related to the assassinated of Robert F. Kennedy have been released.
The trove of files about the 1968 assassination, published at President Trump’s directive, were previously sitting in storage at The National Archives, according to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. (Photos)
“Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government,” said the late senator’s son, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.“I commend President Trump for his courage and his commitment to transparency. I’m grateful also to Tulsi Gabbard for her dogged efforts to root out and declassify these documents.”
Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s office is mum about how much the taxpayers had to shell out for his trip to El Salvador — or whether he or someone else paid — in a failed effort to win the release from prison of a former illegal immigrant who resided in his state.
Spokespersons for the Maryland Democrat’s office did not respond to several phone and email inquiries from The Daily Signal on Wednesday and Thursday asking about the cost of the trip and about how many staffers accompanied the senator when he met with El Salvadoran officials to attempt to get Kilmar Abrego Garcia out of prison.
Arkansas on Thursday reportedly became the first state in the country to formally allow state and local governments to accept payments in gold or silver as legal tender if desired, after GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the bill into law.
Sanders' signature comes just days after the Arkansas state Senate unanimously passed the bill in a 33-0 vote. A similar bill passed the Utah legislature, but was vetoed by Gov. Spencer Cox last month.
The move is also being considered in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
New York— An emotional former opinion page editor for The New York Times delivered a tearful apology Thursday to Sarah Palin as he testified about a 2017 editorial that she says damaged her reputation.
James Bennet testified that he “blew it” when he erroneously wrote that the former Alaska governor’s political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence before a member of Congress was severely wounded in a 2011 mass shooting in Arizona.
The Times has acknowledged the editorial was inaccurate but said it quickly corrected the “honest mistake.”
Bennet got choked up and teary as he apologized to the onetime Republican vice presidential candidate,
President Donald Trump could sign a sweeping executive order banning gain-of-function research — research that makes viruses more dangerous in the lab — as soon as May 6, according to a source who has worked with the National Security Council on the issue.
The executive order will take a broad strokes approach, banning research amplifying the infectivity or pathogenicity of any virulent and replicable pathogen, according to the source, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about the anticipated executive action. But significant unresolved issues remain, according to the source, including whether violators will be subject to criminal penalties as bioweaponeers.
The United States will do whatever it takes to get peace in Ukraine as long as “either side or both” actually engage in the process, but as things stand now America will “move on” within days if there are no signs of progress.
Neither Ukraine or Russia are engaging in the peace process properly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested on Friday morning as he boarded his flight back to the U.S., saying if there isn’t a breakthrough in the peace process within days the United States would disengage. The United States is not willing to attend endless unproductive meetings, and meetings for the sake of having meetings, Rubio told press
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes President Donald Trump “wants control of New York” and that he will continue to assert influence in the city’s operations.
Cuomo is running for mayor of New York City against incumbent Eric Adams, running as an independent, and myriad progressive Democratic challengers.
“Donald Trump wanted to retain control of the mayor,” Cuomo said in a Daily Beast podcast interview released Thursday, responding to a question about the alleged “quid pro quo” between the Adams administration and the federal government.
“Because I think Donald Trump wants control of New York. Because he is a New Yorker. He wants New York back. He wants
On this historic Good Friday, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has assumed his post and visited the Western Wall of the Temple Mount, depositing a prayer written by President Donald J. Trump in the wall. “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon,” Huckabee stressed.
Visiting the HaKotel (Western Wall) was the ambassador’s first action in Jerusalem, less than 24 hours after arriving to take up his post, even before he presented his credentials to Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
“As you heard from being at the wall a moment ago on this, my very first day as the Ambassador to the state of Israel, it was such an honor and
The ladies of the highly publicized 11-minute “Blue Origin” rocket trip might have wished they’d stayed in space a little longer, because after their cringeworthy antics upon returning to Earth, they’ve been the subject of widespread mockery. Singer Katy Perry has been roasted the most, because as Bonchie reported, she acted like she’d just returned from a 10-year trip to Mars and immediately upon landing launched into a Kamala-like word salad about how space had taught her about love or something. Left-wing TV news personality and Oprah Winfrey BFF Gayle King, meanwhile, said the short flight was "a reminder that we need to do better, be better human beings."
Convicted FBI lawyer spared from prison
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Convicted FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith — whom Judge James Boasberg gave a slap on the wrist for his crimes years before becoming a public foe of President Donald Trump’s deportation policies — was more deeply involved in the deeply flawed Crossfire Hurricane investigation than previously known.
Clinesmith, who worked on both the FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation and on the Trump-Russia collusion inquiry, pleaded guilty to falsifying a document during the bureau’s efforts to renew FISA authority to wiretap Carter Page, who was an adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign.
Newly-declassified details about Clinesmith’s involvement include a wide swath of information about his role in the case. He was a key go-to for
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denies
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Liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Wednesday denied an emergency appeal to stop the deportations of four Mexican migrants who claimed they would be targeted by cartels if they returned.
The four filers, all family members, were ordered to report to immigration officials on Thursday for deportation, but attempted to get it delayed so they could file a petition for formal review, according to Fox News.
Kagan, who oversees appeals from the Ninth Circuit, did not comment on her decision or refer the matter to the full court.
Attorneys for the filers claimed that their clients, who are in the U.S. illegally, all face
A Republican-backed bill allowing Tennessee citizens victimized by illegal aliens to sue non-governmental organizations that provided housing to that illegal alien has been sent to Governor Bill Lee’s desk.
The bill was passed by the Tennessee House 70-23 on Wednesday, advancing the bill to the governor’s desk. The legislation would give citizens harmed by an illegal alien a private right of action to sue entities enabling illegal immigration.
“This is a public safety bill in keeping with the Trump administration’s renewed focus on illegal immigration,” Republican Rep. Rusty Grills, who sponsored the legislation, said on the House floor. “What we’re doing with this bill is anyone who is a victim of
After Canceling Passover Seder, Boston
Hotel Welcomes Anti-Israel ‘Squad’
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Hotel Welcomes Anti-Israel ‘Squad’
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A Boston hotel owned by an infamous slumlord cancelled two Passover meals at the last minute. It hosted anti-Israel Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib instead.
The Iris Hotel Boston in Brookline — a Boston suburb with a large Jewish population — was supposed to host two Passover Seder meals on Saturday evening. But just two days before the dinners were set to take place, the hotel canceled, a source involved with coordinating the events told The Daily Wire.
The Seders had been referenced on a schedule for staff posted in the hotel, which was reviewed by The Daily Wire.
Joe Biden, 82, is still eligible to run for president again in 2028, and hasn't ruled anything out. The frail geezer shuffled gingerly back into the national spotlight this week, giving the keynote address at a convention of disability rights advocates in Chicago.
It was Biden's first major speech since leaving office, and it didn't get off to a great start. He wandered up to the microphone and started talking while his Bruce Springsteen entrance music was still blaring over the loudspeakers. The speech was supposed to be about Social Security. Naturally, the former president opened with a long-winded, inscrutable anecdote about Delaware's history as a slave state,
The Los Angeles Fire Department has shared a report outlining the impact that an increasing homeless population has had on its resources in recent years. (Snip) The report pointed out that the homeless population has “significantly increased,” placing an increased demand for emergency services on the LAFD. From 2018 to 2024, the unhoused population in Los Angeles has grown by 44.6% from 31,285 to 45,252 individuals, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Meanwhile, fire calls involving homeless persons during that same period accounted for 32.91%, or nearly one-third, of all LAFD fire activity, the report states. More specifically
When I first saw a post about this on social media, I wondered whether it was real, because somebody could easily have produced a fake video. Then I saw that Rachel Maddow over at MSNBC said it’s true, and we trust her to report accurate information, don't we? Well, actually no, but other outlets have confirmed it's happening so here we go: To wit, some wiseguy (or girl) has apparently hacked into crosswalk signals in cities like Seattle and Palo Alto and given them the voices of prominent folks in Big Tech—namely Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Instead of some
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg believes that President Donald Trump is now in the “early stages of consolidating total power.”
“The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power,” Buttigieg wrote, sharing a video detailing his warning to Americans.
“We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before,” he continued.
In the video, Buttigieg stated that America is “seeing right before our eyes what it looks
President Donald Trump has extended his federal government hiring freeze for another three months.
Trump signed a memorandum to bar civilian hirings through July 15 on Thursday.
“No federal civilian position that is presently vacant may be filled, and no new position may be created,” the memorandum states. The extension does not apply to the military or positions related to national or public security or the Executive Office of the President, the document states.
According to a White House fact sheet on the memorandum, if the hiring freeze is not extended and expires on July 15, agencies will only be able to hire one employee for every four that depart from federal service.
Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe claimed Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that Harvard University will “outlast” President Donald Trump’s actions against them.
Host Jake Tapper said, “How long do you think Harvard can financially afford this standoff with the Trump administration, even with your huge endowment?” Tribe said, “We’re going to stand up for basic principles for the rights of our students, for the rights of research, for the survival of the teaching hospitals as long as it takes. We can outlast this bully. What we have discovered is that he is a combination of ineptitude, vindictiveness, lawlessness and bluster.
Employees at the Internal Revenue Service only had to show up to work in person once a week before President Trump took over and canned federal telework policies, The Post has learned.
Under the IRS’ most recent collective bargaining agreement brokered between the agency and its union last October, employees were eligible to telework up to eight days per biweekly pay period.
IRS officials had raised concerns that the generous telework policy would “impede on the agency’s ability to serve its client, the IRS, and taxpayers” and adversely impact worker performance. They cited their experiences during the pandemic, when remote work became widespread.
They also fretted that the cushy policy
The appointment, however, of several officials to key national security positions in the Trump administration, who vehemently oppose direct military action against Iran, has raised concerns that the White House might be backing away from its commitment to eliminate the threat Iran poses to global security.
In particular, these concerns relate to the recent appointments to the Pentagon of influential figures such as John Byers for Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (South and South-East Asia), and Michael DiMino, a former career CIA military analyst and counterterrorism official, for Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Middle East).
The father of a teen boy who was stabbed to death at a track meet in Texas was thrown out of a press conference for his alleged killer and targeted with shocking insults from the accused's supporters.
Austin Metcalf's father Jeff Metcalf crashed a press conference on Thursday organized by the supporters of 17-year-old alleged killer Karmelo Anthony.
Metcalf, who had been standing with the press, was escorted out of the venue after police were called to the Next Generation Action Network's headquarters in Dallas.
Minister Dominique Alexander delayed the event until Metcalf, who refused to leave on his own when asked, was forced out of the room by security.
The Democrat senator who traveled to El Salvador to meet with a deported illegal migrant and alleged MS-13 member was seen drinking what appeared to be margaritas, infuriating many online.
Chris Van Hollen, the junior senator from Maryland, met Thursday in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.
But it was his decision to sip margaritas with Abrego Garcia, as El Salvador´s President Nayib Bukele put it, that caused a wave of outrage.
President Donald Trump wants to help illegal migrants self-deport from the United States as some of his supporters complain about the slower-than-hoped pace of deportations and Democrats launch a massive resistance.
“We’re doing a self-deportation [program], and we’re going to make it comfortable for people, and we’re going to work with those people to come back into our country legally — the good ones,” Trump told the Spanish-language division of Fox News. He added:
The only thing I haven’t determined is what are we going to do? We’re going to give him a stipend, we’re going to give him some money and a plane ticket,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday reported “good progress” on negotiations for a mineral rights deal between Ukraine and the United States.
“The basic legal stuff is almost finalized, and then, if everything moves as quickly and constructively, the agreement will bring economic results to both our countries,” Zelensky said in his daily address to the Ukrainian people. According to Svyrydenko, Ukrainian negotiators have “adjusted several items within a draft agreement.” If the American side is satisfied with those adjustments, a memorandum of intent could be signed very soon.
Zelensky’s remarks echoed the assessment given by Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who said “significant progress” has been made on the deal.
Gaza? Tunnels? Tehran? Yes, the IDF hit Hamas in all of those places, including in Iran's capital when Israel took out its top leader Ismail Haniyeh.
However, the Wall Street Journal reports that the IDF and Israeli intelligence have struck hardest at the heart of Hamas -- its wallet:
Israel last month cut off supplies of humanitarian goods to the enclave, some of which Hamas had been seizing and selling to raise funds, according to Arab, Israeli and Western officials. Its renewed offensive has targeted and killed Hamas officials who played important roles in distributing cash to cadres and sent others into hiding, Arab intelligence officials said.
Death row inmates granted clemency by former President Joe Biden sued the Trump administration on Wednesday for ordering their incarceration under the most “oppressive conditions” available. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office that directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure 37 death row inmates were “imprisoned in conditions consistent with the monstrosity of their crimes and the threats they pose,” which the lawsuit alleges is unconstitutional...