Posts on Monday, April 21, 2025
A far-left pastor of a Florida United Methodist Church lit a candle wrapped in barbed wire in honor of accused MS-13 gang member and alleged wife beater Kilmar Abrego Garcia during his Easter Sunday service, saying the United States government “kidnapped” him.
The sermon was given by Rev. Andy Oliver of Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, where he compared the El Salvadoran illegal alien to one of the criminals who were crucified alongside Jesus Christ before his Resurrection:
Vice President JD Vance and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday they had agreed on a “roadmap” for negotiations over a trade deal to avert looming “reciprocal” tariffs — while President Trump insisted at the White House that talks with top US trading partners were going “very well.”
Little is publicly known about how negotiations with countries like Japan, South Korea, Australia, Vietnam and the United Kingdom are actually going — with a source close to the administration also telling The Post Monday that “the spin is out of control” and that this person “can’t tell what is cope and what is optimism."
In the latest major deregulation effort by the Trump administration, the Department of Transportation has withdrawn a Biden-era highway emissions rule set to take effect in May.
Without the repeal, state transportation departments would have had to measure carbon dioxide emissions on federally funded highways, set goals for emissions reduction, and send the data to federal agencies.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are going to build great, big, beautiful things again. I slashed this ridiculous climate requirement to ensure no radical political agenda gets in the way of revitalizing America’s highways,” DOT Secretary Sean Duffy said.
The twelve-year reign of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, as the head of the Roman Catholic Church began shortly after the strange and still-unexplained resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, and seven weeks into the second term of Barack Obama as president of the United States. It was fitting that Obama was president during the first four years of Francis’ papacy, as Francis was the Barack Obama of popes: just as Obama did as president of the United States, Pope Francis worked to weaken, instead of strengthen, the institution he was leading, and to provide aid and comfort to its enemies, while confusing and maddening its ardent supporters.
The Trump administration may “soon” institute a plan for illegal immigrant farm workers to leave the country then return legally to work, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said Monday.
“The president at his Cabinet meeting, the one about a week and a half ago, brought that up, and he really fully understands and realizes that our dairy producers, our row croppers, our citrus producers, they have to have labor to be able to feed America, and food security, and America is national security, so it’s incredibly encouraging,” Rollins told The Daily Signal. “He realizes that, but at the same time realizing that you have to secure the border,
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to direct food manufacturers to phase out eight petroleum-based food dyes from cereals, sports drinks, and other grocery staples by the end of 2026.
The directive, expected to be announced in full detail on Tuesday, affects hundreds of thousands of grocery store items containing eight petroleum-based dyes, which health experts have long criticized for potentially causing hyperactivity and other neurobehavioral problems in children, according to a New York Times report.
The Trump administration reupped a $5 million reward Monday for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of Yulan Adonay Archaga Carías, the alleged leader of MS-13 in Honduras.
Archaga Carías, who also goes by “Porky,” directs several of the notoriously violent gang’s criminal activities, including drug trafficking, money laundering, murder and kidnappings, according to the State Department.
The US government’s $5 million bounty for Archaga Carías was first offered in 2023 under the State Department’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program but is being highlighted once again as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to combat the gang, which earlier this year President Trump designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
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Four House Democrats traveled to El Salvador to meet with wife-beater and MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Inspired by Dem Senator Van Hollen, Reps. Robert Garcia (CA), Maxwell Frost (FL), Yassamin Ansari (AZ), and Maxine Dexter (OR) traveled to El Salvador on Monday to try to facilitate the release of Abrego Garcia.
However, unlike these four Democrats, Chris Van Hollen’s trip was funded by taxpayer money.
Van Hollen confirmed on Sunday that hardworking American taxpayers funded his trip to El Salvador so he could meet with an alleged MS-13 gang member currently held at the CECOT prison.
WASHINGTON – Since the pandemic, federal student loan borrowers have been mostly protected from the harshest consequences of not paying back their loans. That's about to change, and quickly. Linda McMahon, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, said the federal government will resume involuntary collections for borrowers in default on May 5. In two weeks, loan holders will start the process of taking money from the paychecks of borrowers who've missed their payments for 270 days or more. They'll also start moving to collect from other federal payments, including tax refunds and Social Security benefits. The change, which McMahon
Watch: Senate Republicans Release Brutal
New Ad Mocking MS-13-Loving Dems Visiting
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New Ad Mocking MS-13-Loving Dems Visiting
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The Democrats have been making fools out of themselves as they go to bat for violent criminal gangbangers who the Trump administration has been deporting to El Salvador for a stay in the country’s CECOT mega-prison. Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen has been the poster boy of shameless failure theater, as he was the first to head down to the Central American country to try to “save” alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
He managed to meet with the detainee, but has danced around the allegations that Abrego Garcia beat his wife and was possibly involved in human trafficking. This after he virtually ignored the brutal rape and murder
BOSTON — Harvard University announced Monday that it was suing the Trump administration to halt a freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus. (Photo)
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In a letter to Harvard earlier this month, Trump’s administration had called for broad government and leadership reforms at the university, as well as changes to its admissions policies. It also demanded the university audit views of diversity on campus, and stop recognizing some student clubs.
President Trump had the perfect response to a reporter asking if he still has confidence in Pete Hegseth after the latest Signal chat leak.
Fake News NPR ran a hit piece on Hegseth and said the White House is looking to replace him as Defense Secretary.
“It’s just fake news,” President Trump said to reporter at the Easter Egg Roll. “You know, he was put there to get rid of a lot of bad people, and that’s what he’s doing. You don’t always have friends when you do that.”
“He is doing a great job … Ask the Houthis how he’s doing,” Trump said referring the US strikes on Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
Secret weapon? Thus far, the Trump administration has deployed plenty of public weapons in the fight to end anti-Semitism and illegal discrimination in Academia, and especially in the Poison Ivies. The most obvious weapon has been money, and that was enough to get Columbia's attention, if not its full cooperation.
For Harvard, Donald Trump and his team have also deployed tax exemptions and access to foreign students and funds -- again, publicly. In fact, as the Wall Street Journal reports this morning, the administration got surprised and infuriated by how public Harvard made it, and now may up the ante:
The Trump administration has grown so furious with Harvard University
Hegseth Smacks Down NY Times for 'Signal
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As we’ve reported, the Democrats and their partners in the mainstream media have been after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth since the day he was nominated. They’re desperate for some sort of scandal in the Trump administration that they can use to regain relevance, since they’ve mostly been reduced to stunt trips to El Salvador and promoting political violence.
They hoped to find their new Watergate in the “Signal chat” story where a left-wing reporter was mistakenly included on a chat with Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and others as they discussed potential military strikes in Yemen. That story eventually died down when an investigation revealed
Pope Francis, RIP
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Six years ago, my wife and I spent some time in Italy. When we were in Rome, we hired a guide to take us through the Vatican. It was a wonderful experience. Our guide was an attractive young woman who obviously was a practicing Catholic.
Some time in the afternoon, after she had gotten to know us a little and probably had figured out that we were not on the Left, she cautiously asked me what I thought of Pope Francis. I said it was probably none of my business since I was not a Catholic, but for what it’s worth, I didn’t like him. I said
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The Trans Superiority Narrative (TSN) tells us men pretending to be women are special. They’re mystically in touch with a higher reality, a higher morality, a more authentic version of their humanity, their true selves. This exalted, superhuman status means they have “trans rights,” which cancel the actual constitutional rights of everyone else. The old axiom: “my right to swing my fist ends where another’s nose begins” doesn’t apply to trans, particularly not trans boys/men who want to beat girls/women in sports.
Normal Americans expected to accept this bizarre interpretation of rights and to fully accept the TSN and laud the “stunning bravery” of trans have long questioned their
We have some pretty darn good relations with El Salvador's charismatic and effective president, Nayib Bukele.
Leave it to Democrats to possibly threaten a good thing, and why?
Where they didn't give two figs about the tiny country a month ago, all of a sudden you can't keep the whiny camera Hoggs...oh. Sorry.
Can't keep the camera hogs out of an airport with their bags packed for Spring in San Salvador.
It's bad enough when one grandstanding progressive shows up out of nowhere to demand facetime with one of your newly repatriated, incarcerated citizens of questionable worth as if he was 'somebody.'
The Truth About That American Citizen
Detained by ICE Comes Out, and Narratives
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Detained by ICE Comes Out, and Narratives
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On Friday, the story of an American citizen being held by immigration officials for ten days burst into the political sphere. It was the perfect storm for the press, who were salivating over the opportunity to turn one of the Trump administration's best polling issues into a liability.
As the original reporting went, Jose Hermosillo was wrongfully arrested in Albuquerque, NM, and held for over a week despite telling ICE officials that he was an American. It wasn't until his family showed up with a birth certificate and a Social Security card that he was released.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has racked up a string of lucrative directorships since leaving office, The Post can reveal, including a multi-million-dollar consulting gig with Ukraine’s top cell phone operator.
Pompeo, whose security detail was revoked by President Trump in January, signed up for an advisory job with Kyivstar and its Nasdaq-listed parent VEON in June of last year, financial filings show.
The 61-year-old had joined the boards of Kyivstar and VEON in November 2023 and May 2024, respectively.
EPA’s Zeldin demands end to Mexican
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The Trump administration is tackling a different border flow after illegal crossings plunged to record lows.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin embarked Monday on a mission to halt the flow of Mexican sewage into the US from Tijuana.
“EPA is going to be on the border with Mexico,” Zeldin told reporters Monday before flying to San Diego.
“There, for decades, has been raw sewage that’s been traveling across the border, and Americans are very concerned with regards to beach closures, degradation of the Tijuana River Valley and concerns of public health, air quality,” Zeldin said.
House Republicans have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to charge former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for making “criminally false statements” to Congress, citing “overwhelming evidence” that an audit he presided over had low-balled nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The House Oversight Committee re-upped the criminal referral after then-Attorney General Merrick Garland declined last year to prosecute Cuomo for allegedly triggering, helping to draft and reviewing a July 6, 2020, report that undercounted the total number of deaths in senior care facilities by 46%.
“Andrew Cuomo is a man with a history of corruption and deceit, now caught
Nadine Menendez — wife of ex-Sen. ‘Gold
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Bar’ Bob Menendez — convicted of sprawling
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Nadine Menendez was convicted Monday of cooking up a crooked scheme with her disgraced husband — ex-New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez — to pocket gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz and other bribes.
Jurors found the 58-year-old Englewood Cliffs resident guilty of federal bribery and conspiracy charges following about eight hours of deliberations over two days.
It came months after Bob Menendez’s conviction for his role in the sprawling corruption web, in which the couple leveraged his lofty Senate post to line both of their pockets.
President Donald Trump “stands strongly behind Pete Hegseth,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday morning, defending the scandal-plagued Defense secretary against escalating criticism from Democrats and former senior officials.
Hegseth “is doing phenomenal leading the Pentagon,” Leavitt said in a “Fox & Friends” appearance. “This is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and working against the monumental change you are trying to implement.”
Her comments came a day after The New York Times reported that Hegseth shared sensitive information about military operations in Yemen in a private chat on the Signal app that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer
President Donald Trump and Melania Trump host the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday, April 21, 2025.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand on the Blue Room Balcony. Donald Trump salutes. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand on the Blue Room Balcony. Donald Trump Jr and Bettina Anderson. Donald Trump colors with children. President Donald Trump blows a gold plated whistle.
This week is significant for Christians worldwide, including myself, as we commemorate Jesus Christ’s death and sacrifice on Good Friday and celebrate his resurrection on Easter Sunday. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has announced new regulations that will severely restrict foreign missionaries in China starting May 1. Citing the need to combat “extremism” and protect national security, these measures threaten religious freedoms.
Under the new regulation, foreign missionaries must obtain government approval for lectures, sermons, and group activities, facing a burdensome application process that details the date, time, location, and attendees.
Remember when your family doctor was actually your doctor? That quaint historical period when physicians made independent medical judgments instead of reading from pharmaceutical scripts? When they looked at you as a unique human being rather than a collection of compliance metrics needing correction? Those days are f--- gone.
Today’s primary care physician is something entirely different—a pharmaceutical compliance officer with a prescription pad, a corporate protocol to follow, and overlords tracking their every move. They’ve transitioned from healers to hustlers, from medical professionals to medication pushers, from trusted advisors to glorified drug dealers with better parking.
I recently had a conversation with a pediatrician that exposed the naked truth
On Monday, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) announced it would cover travel costs for House Democrats to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid his wrongful deportation lawsuit — on one condition.
“The NRCC is offering to pick up the tab for any House Democrat eager to hang out with their new poster child in El Salvador, a confirmed illegal immigrant, MS-13 gang member, and alleged domestic abuser,” the statement said. “We just have one condition: Livestream the whole thing. Snap plenty of selfies with your MS-13 buddies — the same violent criminals you’re trying to reimport into American neighborhoods to rape, kill, and terrorize law-abiding citizens.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s fortune doubled — hitting about $15 million — between early 2019 and the end of 2023 over the course of the pandemic, including “during the worst of the draconian COVID lockdowns,’’ according to records obtained by a watchdog group.
Fauci’s net worth was about $7.6 million in January 2019 before COVID-19 hit and surged to about $15 million by the end of 2023, 141 pages of financial-disclosure forms obtained by watchdog group Open The Books revealed.
The doctor, who previously helmed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, officially left the government at the start of 2023, later than previously known.
His first year of retirement was especially lucrative
Former Fox News host Steve Hilton announced on Monday he will run for California governor, seeking to become the state’s first Republican chief executive since Arnold Schwarzenegger, his campaign confirmed to POLITICO on Monday.
Hilton, who also served as an adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron, had long been considering a run and recently released a book criticizing what he sees as the failings of California’s Democratic leadership and offering policy prescriptions. He is the second major GOP candidate to enter the 2026 field, following Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) drew the ire of victims of illegal immigrant crime everywhere on Thursday when he met with illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the CECOT maximum security prison in El Salvador.
Abrego Garcia had been living in Van Hollen’s home state of Maryland. Despite being in the country illegally, the country’s vast left-wing political machine has tried to advance the incorrect narrative that Abrego Garcia was a “legal resident” of the state. This is not true. Nevertheless, the senator claimed he was worried about Abrego Garcia’s well-being. Yet, that same kind of concern didn’t exist when it came to holding
The shrine to Barack Obama, aka the Obama library at the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), is still under construction in Chicago.
Photos of the building made the rounds on social media recently, and the building is receiving harsh criticism, with some suggesting the barren, characterless building looks more like a prison than a library.
Biz Pac Review notes that the building, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, features an exterior wrapped in granite panels and is one of “numerous buildings on the massive 19-acre Obama Presidential Center campus, which has been priced at about $830 million by the Associated Press.”
The Bishop of Rome and earthly head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has passed away. He was 88 and has died after a lengthy, lingering illness.
He was the first Jesuit pope and the first pope to have been born in South America (he was born into an Italian family in Argentina). As the Jesuit order and the Roman Catholic Church in South America both tend to lean to the left, so also did the twelve years of his papacy.
Pope Francis’ papacy often sparked controversy, much of which he himself sparked. He received much criticism over one particular comment, which the Vatican later explained
The Secret Service is renewing its effort to construct a White House replica “inch by inch.”
The James J. Rowley Training Center, a 500-acre center in Laurel, Maryland, is the anticipated location of a White House replica for Secret Service agents’ training. In the past, agents have resorted to utilizing Tyler Perry’s replica of the residence in his film studio in Atlanta, Georgia.
“In order for our officers and agents to train up properly, they have to see what it’s like to be at the White House. It’s an important complex to know. There’s a lot of ins and outs, and something
Pope Francis' sudden death has thrown the spotlight back on a 900-year-old prophetic manuscript.
The 12th-century ‘Prophecy of the Popes’ — reportedly uncovered in the Vatican’s secret archives — claims to predict the identity of Francis’ successor and even foretells the return of Christ.
The document contains a series of cryptic Latin phrases, each believed to describe a pope, starting with Celestine II in 1143 and ending with ‘Peter the Roman’ in 2027.
Fanning the flames is the eerie fact that there are currently nine frontrunners to succeed Pope Francis — and three of them are named Peter.
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, after a long battle with respiratory illness — during which he was hospitalized for 38 days and nearly died twice — and a number of absolute ghouls on X have spent the morning attempting to blame Vice President JD Vance for the pontiff’s passing.
Vance, who was an atheist prior to his conversion to Catholicism, spent the holiday weekend with his family at the Vatican — and shared photos on Easter Sunday of his brief meeting with Pope Francis. Just hours later, however, the vice president shared his condolences after learning that the pope had passed.
Arizona Democratic Party chairman Robert Branscomb II accused his party's U.S. senators of trying to intimidate and coerce him, prompting sharp rebukes from state and federal officials and pointing to a deep rupture in the state party.
Branscomb alleged in a Saturday morning email to party members that Arizona senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, both Democrats, "threatened" and "intimidated" him after he appointed an executive director who is not their preferred choice. According to Branscomb, one of the senators vowed to "no longer support or participate in state party fundraising," while the other told Branscomb to reverse the decision or "face consequences."
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made an appearance at the 2025 Easter Egg Roll on Monday alongside her husband Nicholas Riccio and their son, nine-month-old Nico.
Leavitt, 27, is rarely seen in public with her spouse, 59, but made an exception for the family-friendly occasion.
Her husband looked age-defying in a tan-colored suit and purple tie, while wheeling their son, who was dressed in baby blue, in a stroller around the South Lawn.
The couple welcomed their first child in July.
The big day of festivities, attended by President Donald Trump and Melania Trump, includes a whole host of activities for families, like an egg hunt and cookie decorating.
President Trump is expected to attend the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican City later this week, sources familiar with the plans tell The Post.
The funeral and interment of Francis, who died early Monday at the age of 88, must take place between four and six days after his death, though the exact schedule has yet to be finalized. (Photos) At the White House Easter Egg Roll, Trump did not say whether he would attend the funeral, telling reporters: “I don’t know yet. We’re going to be briefed on it right now … I just have to look at the timing.”
The debate over parental rights and religious freedom returns to the Supreme Court this week in a case testing whether families have a right to pull their kids from public school lessons featuring LGBTQ+-themed books at odds with their religious beliefs.
The lawsuit over storytime and books with titles such as “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” and “Love, Violet” touches on the type of diversity and inclusion efforts the Trump administration has targeted on college campuses, and in government and private businesses. It is one of three major religious-rights cases on the Supreme Court’s docket this term.
In the opening three months of President Trump’s ambitious “flood the zone” second term, we have witnessed activist federal courts issue a tsunami of national injunctions against the executive branch. Rep. Bob Onder, R-Mo., recently described the third branch’s overzealous blocking of Trump’s executive orders as a “judicial coup d’etat.” [Snip] Over the Easter Weekend, a courage-deficient, seven-justice Supreme Court issued what dissenting Justice Samuel Alito described as a “middle of the night” ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan illegal immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's personal bag was stolen with $3,000 cash inside during a dinner outing at a Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday.
Noem’s bag also contained her driver’s license, passport, DHS badge, makeup, checks, medication, and apartment keys, a spokesperson confirmed to The Post.
Security footage reviewed by the Secret Service showed a white man in a surgical mask snatching Noem’s bag before leaving the restaurant.
The theft was first reported by CNN.
The Secret Service has launched an investigation to trace any use of Noem’s financial instruments. It is not clear whether a suspect has been identified or the extent of Noem’s protective detail during Sunday’s outing.
Monday, on the heels of the news of Pope Francis’ passing, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough launched a scathing attack on the so-called “hard-right” inside the Catholic Church.
Scarbourgh claimed the hard-right inside the church “hated” the recently deceased Pope for being “Christ-like.”
“I was just going say many on the hard right inside the church were shocked that this Pope would actually borrow from Jesus Christ and living that simple life, borrow from Jesus Christ, and they were radical words when he said it and it was like it was sounded the shot of a cannon. It just stunned everybody when the Pope said who am I to judge now?
Ambassador Mike Huckabee formally presented his diplomatic credentials to Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday, amid a warm welcome in a country that he has visited dozens of times since the early 1970s.
“Welcome home,” Herzog said, noting that Huckabee had been a dear friend of Israel for many years already.
Huckabee was humble in his own remarks, explaining that he had not campaigned for the job or approached Donald Trump about it until he received a phone call from the President-elect after the election. He cracked several jokes at his own expense, commenting that Dr. Miriam Adelson, the widow of late pro-Israel
Chevron on Monday announced a massive project, kicking off oil and natural gas production from the Ballymore subsea tieback in the Gulf of America, which is expected to produce upwards of 75,000 gross barrels of oil daily — another major move towards energy independence and dominance for the United States of America.
Ballymore — located in the Mississippi Canyon area — has been described as a “subsea tieback,” meaning the discovery can be leveraged by an existing platform, using three wells tied to the already-standing Chevron-operated Blind Faith facility.
A fact sheet provided to Breitbart News notes that this is far more efficient,
In 2018, Eugenio Scalfari reported the words that Bergoglio supposedly confided to him about his vision of the afterlife: “Sinful souls are not punished: those who repent obtain God’s forgiveness and join the ranks of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, sinful souls simply disappear”. These heretical ravings are directly opposed to the Catholic Faith, which teaches us that there is a particular Judgment for everyone, which Bergoglio could not escape. His soul has therefore not disappeared, nor has it dissolved: he will have to account for the crimes he has committed,...
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò was a frequent critic of Pope Francis during his reign. Viganò frequently spoke out against the pope’s support for open borders and socialism.
In response to Vigano’s constant condemnation, Pope Francis had him excommunicated in July 2024 for schism.
Archbishop Vigano stood up against the destruction of the church, COVID mandates that crushed individual rights worldwide, and stolen elections. He called out the Pope for his destructive actions against the Church and others like support for the World Economic Forum. For this, he was excommunicated from the Holy Catholic Church.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump expected to welcome 40,000 people to the first White House Easter Egg Roll of his second term, though the annual event could turn soggy with scattered showers in Monday’s forecast. The president and first lady were scheduled to address the crowd from a White House balcony before they join the festivities.
Sunday was the day for Easter greetings from many quarters.
But there was something odd that people noticed immediately about the Easter message from the Democrats' X account. Do you see it? (X Photo) What, or should I say who, was missing in this panoply of Democratic occupants of the Oval Office over the years?
You have Jimmy Carter from the 1970s, John F. Kennedy from the 1960s, Barack Obama from the 2000s, and Bill Clinton from the 90s.
But Joe Biden is missing.
Shocking footage shows immigration buses taking suspected Tren de Aragua gang members to a Texas airport being forced to turn around just before the Supreme Court ordered the deportations to be paused.
At least 28 migrants from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson were bound for Abilene Airport when they suddenly made a U-turn as legal battles raged in Washington over the Trump administration’s use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport migrants without a trial, NBC News footage shows.
The buses, followed by a large motorcade of at least 18 police cruisers from multiple agencies, unexpectedly drove past the airport and hauled it back to the detention center.
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will weigh whether the U.S. Postal Service can be held liable for failing to deliver mail to a Black landlord who claims her carriers discriminated against her because of her race.
The justices agreed to hear the federal government’s appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Lebene Konan to seek damages over claims the USPS intentionally refused to deliver mail to two addresses she leased.
Konan claims two USPS employees engaged in a “racially motivated harassment campaign” against her, making it “impossible” for her or her tenants in Euless, Texas, to receive their mail “solely because she is Black.”
The 24-year-old daughter of Minnesota Democrat governor and failed vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz released a TikTok video in which she claimed that if Jesus Christ lived in the United States, the Trump administration would deport him and claim he was part of a deadly gang.
Walz appeared to be making a reference to 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien who was deported to El Salvador and is suspected of being a member of the violent MS-13 gang. Democrats have sought for Garcia to be sent back to the United States, claiming that he has been denied due process.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed a prisoner swap to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday that involves the over 200 suspected Tren de Aragua gang members deported by the United States in March.
In an X post, Bukele outlined the proposal, which includes El Salvador handing over the 252 Venezuelan migrants deported by President Donald Trump for the same number of “political prisoners” held by the Maduro regime.
“I want to propose a humanitarian agreement that includes the repatriation of 100% of the 252 Venezuelans who were deported, in exchange for the release and delivery of an identical number (252) of the thousands of political prisoners that you hold,” Bukele said.
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President Donald Trump ignited a social media frenzy after posting an unforgettable Easter message that took aim at Democrats who facilitate illegal immigration, as well as those who “cheated in the 2020 presidential election.”
In a hilarious Truth Social post dripping with stinging sarcasm, Trump wished his haters and enemies a “very Happy Easter.”
The president is famous for his comically blistering smackdowns, but his acerbic Easter message was one for the ages.
Pope Francis’ death has set off a centuries-old orchestrated series of events to honor his life and legacy, though the funeral for the 266th pope will likely differ drastically from those of his predecessors.
The beloved pontiff, who died on Monday at 88 following a lengthy battle of double pneumonia, made changes to his funeral rites last year that underscore his humility while ditching the traditional pomp and circumstance. (Photo) Typically, papal funerals are held four to six days after the death in St. Peter’s Square, however, Francis had said that, unlike his predecessors, he would not be laid to rest in the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica. Instead,
Guest post by Joel Gilbert...
In the Gateway Pundit, I recently documented how Letitia James misrepresented the number of apartment units in her apartment building when applying for loans and refinancing.
Letitia repeatedly told banks and the US government that her apartment building at 296 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn only had four apartment units, when in fact the official Certificate of Occupancy for her building indicates it had five.
Sam's Club, the Walmart-owned membership warehouse, is rolling out a major change to its grocery payment system and embracing artificial intelligence (AI).
The retail giant plans to phase out traditional checkouts across its 600 stores and create a friction-free shopping experience which will include customers scanning goods on the go with an app and then having and AI scanner verify the goods as customers leave. The technology would eliminate the need for receipt checks at the door.
The system, known as "Scan & Go," was initially launched in April 2024 and allows members to use the Sam’s Club mobile app to scan their products.
Four House Democrats are visiting El Salvador in a bid to support Kilmar Abrego Reps. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Robert Garcia of California arrived in the Central American nation on Sunday to investigate the condition of Kilmar Abrego Garcia,Garcia, a man whom the Trump administration deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison
More Democratic lawmakers are visiting El Salvador on Abrego Garcia’s behalf. Four House Democratic lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador to call attention to the plight of a man the Trump administration deported to a Salvadoran prison and has refused to help return — even after the Supreme Court ruled
Chinese spies have planted surveillance throughout central London, including on park benches and pubs near Westminster, to eavesdrop on British political figures, a report has claimed.
Government sources have reportedly informed the Mail on Sunday that Chinese bugging devices have been discovered in popular areas frequented by civil servants and government researchers.
Such areas allegedly include the popular Red Lion pub, situated just steps away from the Houses of Parliament and Downing Street. A government source told the paper that the historic pub, which stands on the grounds of a 15th-century medieval tavern, is “full of Chinese agents”.
Other targets of Beijing’s dragnet reportedly ranged from five-star hotels to even benches
Earlier this month, 17-year-old high school student Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death at a track meet in Frisco, Texas. Metcalf died in his twin brother’s arms.
As an educator who lives just down the road, I know too well how our system failed to keep Metcalf out of harm’s way.
Karmelo Anthony, also 17, has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing. They had never met before the track meet, according a witness. Anthony brought a knife to the track meet and sat under another team’s tent. When asked to move, he reportedly refused and became aggressive. Metcalf stepped in to ask him to move again, to which
The multinational logistics company DHL Express said it would suspend global shipments worth more than $800 to American consumers, including from Hong Kong, due to U.S. customs regulatory changes.
DHL, which is headquartered in Germany, said the suspension of shipments would begin on Monday. The company said the move is a temporary measure.
The company said the decision was made in response to new U.S. customs rules requiring formal entry processing on all shipments worth more than $800. The minimum was $2,500 before a change was announced on April 5.
A recent report from an education watchdog has found that colleges and universities across the nation are still operating diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and programs, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order demanding an end to DEI initiatives among any organizations that receive federal funding.
Defending Education, the higher education arm of Parents Defending Education, published a report this week detailing how nearly 400 colleges and universities in the U.S. still operate DEI offices and programs. Only 16 colleges and universities have shuttered their DEI initiatives.
According to the report, 242 universities still operate DEI offices or programs, as do 162 schools or colleges. Defending Education also found
As other opponents of the climate hoax do, I eagerly await the Trump administration’s termination of the Environmental Protection Agency’s so-called endangerment finding (EF). I had imagined that the reversal would be accomplished over the course of at least a year and probably more through the conventional administrative process of notice-and-public-comment. But things may get much more exciting, much more quickly.
Some brief history is in order. The EF is a December 2009 determination by the Obama EPA that emissions of greenhouse gases harm the public health and welfare. Since that time, the EF has been the factual and scientific foundation
What an absolute disgrace.
Nikki Hiltz, a runner who claims to be a “non-binary transgender” and was a competitor in the 2024 Paris Olympics, has issued an applause to the Boston Marathon for making the move to allow male athletes to compete against women.
As we all know, the Boston Marathon is one of the most legendary races in the United States. Monday, they will actually be allowing transgender athletes to take part in the women’s division. And to make that even crazier, this is happening even though they already have another category for “non-binary” people.
'Pakistan Day’: Why Is Texas’ Congress
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On March 23rd of 2025, the Texas House of Representatives recognized “Pakistan Day” in the State of Texas. They did not call it “Pakistani Heritage Day” or “Pakistani Americans in Texas Day.” They called it “Pakistan Day,” celebrating the nation itself. Texas is among the most overtly Christian states in the nation. And Pakistan is one of the most hostile places to Christianity in all the world. Why did the Texas House of Representatives choose to honor the nation of Pakistan?
In an article for the Gatestone Institute, Turkish journalist Uzay Bulut put in stark terms the contrast between the observance in Texas and the reality in Pakistan.
Investigation Colony Ridge Gave Greg Abbott
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When the Trump administration’s deportation raids began in Texas, the epicenter was Colony Ridge.
In the first wave of raids alone, more than 100 illegals — including murder suspects, drug lords, sexual predators, and a confirmed cartel member — were nabbed by authorities in the infamous housing development, which ballooned as illegal immigrants flooded the state. The “fastest growing” development in the country markets cheap land to foreigners, and illegal immigrants took the bait: in an area where there was next to nothing less than a decade ago, there are now as many as 100,000 residents and more than 35,000 properties. Through its aggressive marketing of cheap land
Fort McCoy Garrison Commander Col. Sheyla Baez Ramirez has been suspended from her position after reportedly refusing to display official photographs of Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The announcement was made in a brief and carefully worded statement by Fort McCoy’s Senior Commander on Saturday, claiming the suspension was “not related to any misconduct” and that “no further details will be provided at this time.”
The statement reads, “Col. Sheyla Baez Ramirez has been suspended as Garrison Commander at Fort McCoy. This suspension is not related to any misconduct. We have no further details to provide at this time while this matter is under review.”
President Trump reportedly plans to pull an additional billion dollars in funding from Harvard University, just a week after freezing $2.2 billion in multi-year federal grants over the Ivy League school’s refusal to make changes to curb alleged antisemitism and overhaul admissions policies.
Following the week-long escalating dispute, sources told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump administration is looking to withdraw an additional billion dollars from the school’s funding for health research.
"Border czar" Tom Homan told ABC's "This Week" that what's really concerning to him about the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is how Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador to meet him while ignoring the chaos on the Southern border over the past four years and those murdered by illegal aliens in his own state.
"What bothers me more than that is a U.S. Senator traveled El Salvador on taxpayer dime to meet with a MS-13 gang member, public safety threat terrorist," he said. "And in the meantime, the day before he traveled, an illegal alien who was arrested for murder was released
Arch-globalist Klaus Schwab announced on Monday his resignation, effective immediately, as chairman and board member of the World Economic Forum, an organisation he founded nearly 55 years ago.
“Following my recent announcement, and as I enter my 88th year, I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member of the Board of Trustees, with immediate effect,” World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab said in a press release.
“The Board acknowledged the outstanding achievements of the retired Chairman and Founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab.
Almost a year ago, the U.S. Border Patrol was bleeding personnel. In the four years of the Biden presidency, the law enforcement agency lost nearly a quarter of its ranks. U.S. Customs and Border Protection staffing data showed just over 4,200 agents had left the federal agency between October 2020 and April 2024. Many opted to retire, while others quit. Then there was the tragedy on Biden's watch of agents who committed suicide because of the horrors they had to witness under the rampant invasion of the Southern border, coupled with their inability to actually do their job of deterrence and enforcement of the law.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) made a comment on the "Pod Save America" show that is raising a lot of eyebrows.
The episode sounds like it was filmed before Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, but it appears to have just been released over the weekend.
Tommy Vietor explained to Raskin that a Latin American policy expert had suggested to him that Democrats should “threaten to take action against any foreign government that participates in the extraordinary rendition of American citizens.” (Abrego Garcia isn't an American citizen.) He asked Raskin what he thought about that.
When it comes to the lavish $1 million Atlanta home where Sen. Raphael Warnock has lived rent-free since 2023, the Georgia Democrat can’t expect to have his cake and eat it too, an ethics watchdog alleged in a complaint filed Monday.
Warnock’s lavish DeKalb County home came equipped with a plethora of luxury accommodations, including a 100-bottle wine fridge, a bluetooth-enabled cooking range, and remote-controlled privacy curtains. The senator hasn’t paid a penny out of his own pocket to live there because the church where he serves as a part-time pastor is footing the bill, the Washington Free Beacon reported. It’s a great deal for Warnock, but
Joe Biden posted a smiley photo of himself and Jill surrounded by their family on Easter Sunday - however many people online were quick to call him out.
The former Democratic president shared a heartfelt X post wishing his more than 38 million followers a happy Easter from him and his loved ones.
'We wish everyone celebrating today a peaceful and joyful Easter,' he captioned a photo that features his loved ones - without his son Hunter Biden - sitting on a staircase in Delaware.
But swathes of social media users and trolls claimed that Biden had in fact photoshopped himself into the photo.
Several people pointed out that
After the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88, the world is waiting to see who will succeed him, as the Cardinals gather in Rome for the Papal Conclave. He was the first Latin American Pope, so did that signal a wider change within the Catholic Church and will we now see the first black or Asian Pope? Here are the top contenders to become the next Supreme Pontiff...
In the West Bank and Jerusalem, most Palestinians have ignored Hamas's repeated calls for violence against Israel.
"As the dimensions of these unimaginable sadistic horrors are uncovered, I ask you to believe me when I say that I want it to be clear to you, and the whole world, that we stand as your brothers, as human beings, and as citizens of the country, by your side. It is our simple and required moral and human duty to express abhorrence, to cry out loudly against unimaginable crimes. Our voice with be sharp and clear, unapologetic, unhesitant, unfaltering, without proportionality, with no ifs, ands, or buts.
Pope Francis has died aged 88, the Vatican announced today.
The Pontiff spent his final weeks in hospital with an infection that developed into pneumonia in both lungs.
The Conclave - where cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor - will not happen for at least 15 days.
Francis just yesterday greeted Catholic faithful who had gathered to see him at St Peter's Square on Easter Sunday. He delivered his 'Urbi et Orbi' benediction from a balcony overlooking the square following mass to mark the high holiday.
After being tossed out of a press conference and his home swatted by cruel crank callers, the father of slain teen Austin Metcalf nevertheless honored his son by sharing a poignant, heartfelt message on Easter Sunday — almost three weeks after his 17-year-old son was fatally stabbed during a Texas high school track meet.
It came in the form of tear-jerking song by country singer Will Dempsey called “Beat You There” that Metcalf posted on Facebook. He wrote with it, “I love you Austin. Happy Easter.”
The bittersweet opening lyrics and chorus:
I don’t know why God always takes the good ones first
Left-wing Arizona Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that would require local and state law enforcement to cooperate with federal Immigration officials.
The Republican-led legislature passed a bill that outlawed local jurisdictions from passing ordinances that would prevent local police from working with federal immigration authorities or block federal immigration actions and funding, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The bill would also have required locals to cooperate on immigration detainers and to inform federal officials about migrants being held in custody or about to be released from jails and prisons.
Supporters of the bill said the measure was needed to help the federal government
When the House passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on April 10 it took a good first step toward the restoration of election integrity, assuming the Senate also passes it and President Trump signs it into law before the 2026 midterms. Nonetheless, until Congress imposes major reforms on the U.S. Census Bureau and its hopelessly Byzantine methods of gathering data for the constitutionally mandated census, it can’t be relied upon to produce accurate results. In the era of Big Data this bureaucracy’s aging systems and institutional inertia all but guarantee the kind of inefficiency and corruption that DOGE
It’s hard to express how much cruel delight I take in the current dilemma of porcine New York Attorney General Letitia James. You see, the malignant Democrat, who ran specifically on the electoral promise that she was going to find something to sue or convict Donald Trump over, just got herself caught up in a little jam. Actually, it’s a big jam. And it’s hilarious.
Now, I was against the new rule about conducting fishing expeditions on your political enemies with an eye towards finding some criminal act they may have committed or some quasi-criminal act that could be twisted into wrongdoing in front of a solicitous court