Posts on Tuesday, March 25, 2025
President Trump has given remarks supporting National Security Advisor Mike Waltz during an interview with NBC.(snipa) asked what he was told about how Goldberg came to be added to the Signal chat, Trump said, “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.”
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The rest of the DC setup is transparently clear. (1) Goldberg held the story until the day before a long-scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. (2) The SSCI then used the hearing to blast the heads of the Trump administration intelligence silos on the issue of “classified” information
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order requiring people to provide proof of American citizenship when they register to vote and demanding that all ballots be reviewed by Election Day. The order requires government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms, directs the attorney general to enter into information-sharing agreements with state election officials to identify cases of election fraud or other election law violations and conditions federal election-related funds on states complying with federal election integrity measures. [Snip] Documentary proof of citizenship includes a U.S. passport, a REAL ID or military, state or federally-issued identification indicating American citizenship.
Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., quoted Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s disastrous decision in a would-be landmark speech-censorship case in order to argue that the federal government was not engaged in mass censorship of conservatives.
During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on The Constitution hearing, Welch said the Supreme Court “rejected the allegation that government had unconstitutionally censored conservatives by pressuring social media companies to take down posts.”
“That was a 6-3 decision by Judge Amy Coney Barrett that found no merits to the claims.
Johnson stresses Congress’s power over
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday drew attention to Congress’s power over the federal judiciary as Republicans plot how to legislatively channel their outrage over district judges who have blocked Trump administration actions.
“We do have authority over the federal courts,” Johnson said in a press conference Tuesday. “We can eliminate an entire district court. We do have power over funding over the courts and all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”
Johnson clarified that he was not calling to eliminate courts, but rather meant to illustrate Congress’s broad scope of authority, Punchbowl News reported.
There's been a flurry of executive orders today (Tuesday), some already raising the ire of the Left and so-called watchdog groups who don't want their grifts to go away. Looking at you, Stacey Abrams. This Executive Order, Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account, appears to be passing under the radar; or maybe everyone is just too weary to care.
Here's the skinny:
Effective September 30, 2025, the federal government will no longer issue paper checks for any disbursements, including Social Security and other benefits, vendor payments, or IRS refunds. All agencies and executive departments must transition to a form of electronic funds transfer to make and receive payments.
A Pennsylvania Democrat has called for Senator John Fetterman to resign, citing his growing alignment with the Republican Party and President Donald Trump. In a guest editorial published by PennLive on March 22, Matt Roan, chair of the Cumberland County Democratic Party, criticized the senator from Pennsylvania for what he described as an abandonment of Democratic values. Newsweek contacted Fetterman for comment via email on Monday. Why It Matters Fetterman's efforts to work with Republicans, including being the first Senate Democrat to meet Trump after his election victory, follow his break with progressives on issues such as support for Israel
The Trump administration on Tuesday appealed a federal judge’s order that the State Department restore contracts to nonprofits that aid in refugee resettlement. In a late Monday written order, U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead of the Western District of Washington found the department unlawfully canceled contracts to the group, saying executive branch management of a refugee resettlement program did not extend to an order virtually eliminating it. “While the Government enjoys significant discretion in administering (U.S. Refugee Admissions Program), that discretion does not extend to abandoning statutory obligations or rendering the program effectively inoperative,” Whitehead, whom President Joe Biden appointed to the bench, said in the order.
A significant movement of US military assets to Diego Garcia has been observed in recent days, suggesting preparations for a major air operation.
The surge in activity follows the largest US military strikes in the Middle East since President Donald Trump took office in January, targeting Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen.
At least five B-2 Spirit stealth bombers and seven C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft have arrived at the remote Indian Ocean base or are en route, according to open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis of military flight tracking data.
The buildup comes as US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed on Sunday that Washington will continue
Watch: JD Vance Gets the Last Laugh As
He Announces He'll Join Wife Usha on Visit
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He Announces He'll Join Wife Usha on Visit
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"Usha Vance surely knows what she’s doing by going to Greenland right now." That's a headline currently blaring from the front page of MSNBC after news broke of Mrs. Vance's upcoming trip to Greenland. We'll leave out the link because dreck like that shouldn't be rewarded with views.
The second lady announced her visit on Instagram, noting she'd be heading to Greenland this weekend and was particularly excited to experience Avannaata Qimussersua, the island's national dog sled race that is sponsored by the United States, an event she was reading about with her three young children. Mrs. Vance also expressed her eagerness to bring goodwill from the U.S.
Townhall covered how Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett shamelessly mocked Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for being paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. She did so in public remarks she gave at an event for the left-wing Human Rights Campaign. “We in these hot a** Texas streets, honey,” she said at an event for the left-wing Human Rights Campaign. “Y’all know we got governor hot wheels down there, c’mon now! And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot a** mess, honey!”
Safer Streets, Safer Cities: ICE Houston
Scoops Up Over 600 Illegal Alien Criminals
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Scoops Up Over 600 Illegal Alien Criminals
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The streets of Houston, Texas, are a little safer today, thanks to Houston's Immigration & Customs Enforcement troops. Why? Thanks to ICE Houston, over 600 illegal alien criminals have been taken off the streets for repatriation.
There are some seriously bad people among them.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents based in Houston continue to arrest and remove violent criminals illegally in the U.S. In several targeted operations, agents arrested more than 600 criminal foreign nationals, including scores who were previously deported multiple times, confirmed gang members, sex offenders and fugitives.
ICE agents recently removed Orbelin Benitez-Carbajal, a criminal
Border Czar Tom Homan plans to return to Boston “again and again” until every criminal illegal alien that is a public safety threat is removed.
This comes after a major sweep of the city that apprehended 370 illegals in the Boston area last month, which was conducted as part of an enforcement operation targeting illegal aliens with serious criminal records.
Homan told Newsmax that he followed through on the promise he made at CPAC last month.
“I kept my promise. I said at CPAC, I was going to go to Boston and bring hell with me. And that's what we did.
So, what the hell is this story now?
It’s a warning that perhaps more administrative due diligence should be applied when creating these group chats on encrypted and secure messenger apps. Still, while alarming at first, the hubbub is dying down quickly. This story in The Atlantic that secret war plans were disclosed to known anti-Trump fake news writer Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally added to the group, is falling apart faster than a skiff made of paper. [Tweets]
Was it an unforced error by the Trump team? One hundred percent—they’re no angels here, but no classified information was disclosed. There were no war plans.
Trump’s support endures
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Pres. Donald Trump’s job approval ratings stay above 50 percent, despite (or because of?) constant attacks in the media.
I consume a lot of media in the course of my day job. So, I was mildly surprised to discover how robust the President’s job approval numbers are, so far. Rasmussen Reports still does a daily poll, and today’s figure has Trump at 51 percent approval. In fact, at no point since his second term began in January has Trump’s approval level fallen below 50 percent.
RealClearPolitics’ poll of polls tells the same story, where Trump is about breakeven.
This result stands in sharp contrast to the first Trump term,
Media Research Center data indicates that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to implement pro-free speech policies across Meta appears to have had an almost immediate impact. “Zuckerberg has put his money where his mouth is,” said MRC Vice President Dan Schneider. “And he’s fulfilling his promises. Meta still needs to do what’s right for all those conservative outlets that it previously censored, but I’m willing to give credit where credit is due.” MRC has seen a substantial boost in traffic to its websites from social media, particularly from Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram.
Amid the fallout from the controversy over officials accidentally sharing military information with a journalist, President Donald Trump is standing by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg published a piece on Monday claiming he had been accidentally included in a group chat with high-profile Trump administration officials. According to the piece, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, State Secretary Marco Rubio, Waltz, and several others discussed plans for an airstrike on the Houthis in Yemen.
Goldberg claimed Waltz added him to the chat without knowing who he was, which has prompted criticism and calls for Waltz to resign.
A senior political adviser to President Trump slapped the Daily Beast with a defamation lawsuit over its reporting on how much he was paid by the campaign.
Chris LaCivita, a manager of Trump’s re-election campaign, claims the Barry Diller-owned tabloid news site created “the false impression” that he was “personally profiting excessively from his work on the campaign and that he was prioritizing personal gain over the campaign’s success,” according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday.
The lawsuit stems from the Daily Beast’s article published on October 15, 2024, with the headline: “Trump In Cash Crisis-As Campaign Chief’s $22m Pay Revealed.”
Computer security is fun if you have a mind to enjoy it. Even regular intelligence and counterintelligence is fun, at least when something interesting is happening. (I've seen lots of highly classified information over the years, and I promise you, most of it is better than Ambien.)
Of course, this week's attempt at hysterical "Trump's people are morons" is based on the "leak" of a Signal chat that included Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic on a chatroom conversation among a bunch of senior administration officials.
It has, of course, caused a lot of consternation among people who would like nothing better
Democrats were in faux outrage mode in the wake of a report by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic that he was mistakenly included in a chat on Signal with senior Trump administration officials discussing a planned military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Goldberg described the chat as containing “classified” information; however, that is untrue.
So while this wasn’t the scandal that Democrats hoped it would be, the big question that remains is how Goldberg ended up in the chat on Signal in the first place.
According to President Trump, they know that it was a staffer of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
When asked
s there no low the left won't stoop to in its terrorist war on Elon Musk's electric car company, Tesla?
They've gone 'the full Palestinian' in the latest incident -- targeting a handicapped woman's Tesla car for vandalism, leaving her with high costs for repairs. Here is the apparent perpetrator, in all his glory: What comes to mind with this Wichita attack is how filthy terrorists from the PLO in the 1980s once targeted poor elderly Leon Klinghoffer on a Mediterranean cruise ship in 1985 at least in part because he was handicapped in a wheelchair
Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters suggested President Donald Trump should investigate and potentially deport first lady Melania Trump during an anti-DOGE protest in Los Angeles over the weekend. "When he [Trump] talks about birthright, and he's going to undo the fact that the Constitution allows those who are born here, even if the parents are undocumented, they have a right to stay in America. If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he ought to first look at Melania,"
Has American culture arrived at a turning point? Perhaps helped in part by Turning Point USA and Young Americas Foundation, two groups evangelizing for conservative values on college campuses?
Perhaps we should keep the bubbly corked before celebrating a youth revival for the Right. However, as David reported yesterday, the data keep growing for a political earthquake among youth voters. David's post focused on data and analysis published by Ezra Klein in the New York Times that warned that Democrats are losing immigrants, Hispanics, blacks, and younger voters -- and the latter may be the most troubling for progressives.
Later yesterday, YAF published the results of its own polling
Left-wing activist judges are doing everything they can to sideline the Trump administration's efforts to make America safer and more efficient. This includes judges issuing injunctions that try to stop the administration from sending profligate amounts of money to progressive causes overseas and stop the unencumbered flow of illegal immigration.
On Tuesday, we saw two big legal victories for the administration. First, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed a ruling that prevented the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from stopping the flow of money through USAID.
You'll Never Guess Whom WaPo Blames for
Decades of Bad Management at 'Crumbling'
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Decades of Bad Management at 'Crumbling'
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but conservatives have been talking about the dumpster fire at the Social Security Administration (SSA) since at least the Reagan era. Now we discover in the Washington Post that the real problems emerged at the agency when Donald Trump and Elon Musk arrived in D.C. ten weeks ago.
Good grief! Something must be done! Things are falling apart at the seams!
The Post wants you to believe that before Trump and Musk arrived, Social Security was a thriving, well-oiled machine with no problems or waste. There were no 200-year-old people on the government dole; they were only there as placeholders.
The Mass Graves That Weren’t
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The news was shocking. In the last days of May 2021, media around the world reported that “with the help of a ground-penetrating radar specialist” hired by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, an aboriginal tribe in British Columbia, the remains of 215 children had been found buried in unmarked graves on what were once the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. There was just one wrinkle in this horrific tale.
It wasn’t true.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing the FBI to immediately declassify files concerning the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, the agency probe launched in 2016 that sought information on whether Trump campaign members colluded with Russia during the presidential race.
After signing the order, Trump said that now the media can review previously withheld files pertaining to the investigation – although he cast doubt on whether many journalists would do so. "You probably won’t bother because you’re not going to like what you see," Trump said. "But this was total weaponization, it’s a disgrace. It should have never happened in this country.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) has hit reverse on his sneering comment about Tesla stock dropping, saying he was “being a smart-ass” when he said he was reveling in watching it head south. He hastened to add anyone who took offense at his caustic quip lacked a sense of humor to match his own.
“I have to be careful about being a smart-ass, I was making a joke,” Mediaite reports Walz said.
He then referenced those who took offense, saying “These people have no sense of humor [snip} Walz’s semi-apology came after it was reported the Minnesota State Board of Investment’s pension fund owned approximately 1.8 million shares of Tesla stock.
Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) lived up to her reputation as a loose-lipped leftist congresswoman, making waves at the 2025 Human Rights Campaign (HRC) dinner by calling paralyzed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “Governor Hot Wheels.”
Crockett began her speech by going through a list of thank yous, including thanking HRC’s Morgan Cox, [snip]
“Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there,” she said of Gov. Abbott, who is paralyzed, generating laughter and cheers.
“Come on now. And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-ass mess, Honey,
The White House said Russia and Ukraine have both agreed to "eliminate the use of force" in the Black Sea following talks in Saudi Arabia, a sign of progress toward the war-ending peace deal that U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to secure.
In two separate statements on the outcomes of the talks between the sides, the White House said Moscow and Kyiv had "agreed to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea."
Moreover, the United States "will help restore Russia's access to the world market for agricultural and fertilizer exports, lower
Ukraine and Russia reached US-backed agreements on maritime safety and energy infrastructure, seen as a step toward a broader ceasefire.
The United States reached separate agreements on Tuesday with Ukraine and Russia to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea and to implement a ban on attacks by the two countries on each other's energy facilities.
The agreements, if implemented, would represent the clearest progress yet towards a wider ceasefire that Washington sees as a stepping stone towards peace talks to bring an end to Russia's three-year-old war in Ukraine.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to freeze federal family-planning grants worth about $120 million this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The WSJ said the money for the groups, which include Planned Parenthood affiliates, would be held while the administration reviews whether any of the funds were used in diversity efforts, adding that the pause could be announced as soon as this week. "HHS is reviewing grantees to ensure compliance with President Trump’s Executive Orders," a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services told Reuters.
Top intelligence chiefs faced difficult questions from a Senate panel Tuesday about a bombshell report alleging that high-ranking Trump administration officials discussed a sensitive military operation in a group chat, which a journalist had been inadvertently added to.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee just one day after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, published a scathing article accusing National Security Adviser Mike Waltz of adding him to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal which was then being used by top
On March 7, I argued in The Federalist that President Donald Trump should ignore a Supreme Court that would allow lower courts to refuse to uphold the Constitution and instead encroach on executive authority. [Snip] They do not check executive power--they seize it, substituting judicial preference for the president’s constitutional role. Article II gives Trump, not judges, authority over federal agencies and the military. [Snip] If Congress will not curb this overreach through impeachment--and with a divided Senate it likely cannot--the president must step in. [Snip] The American people expect Trump to do the job he promised. In an unprecedented fashion, he is doing just that.
The Democratic Party’s struggle to rebound from bruising losses last year has put it in a vulnerable position ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
It has been nearly four months since Republicans took control of the White House and Senate from Democrats, and the Democratic Party has been unable to rebound. In addition to not putting up a real fight against President Donald Trump’s agenda, the party is bleeding support, and there’s no sign of it stopping. At the end of January, a Quinnipiac University poll had MAGA swaggering as the GOP took its largest-ever advantage over Democrats in favorability ratings.
During portions of an interview with NPR aired on Monday’s broadcast of “All Things Considered,” Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) declared that Democrats “better shape up and put together a plan for progress, starting in the places that have fallen behind where people are voting for change simply because the economy is not working for them.” And that those voters voted for Donald Trump because they knew where they live isn’t great.
Kaptur said, “They heard President Trump say, Make America Great Again. That was something they want to do, and they know where they live isn’t. They’ve seen factories
Officials from the Austin Police Department (APD) in Texas confirmed several suspicious “incendiary devices” had been discovered at a Tesla dealership in Austin, according to several reports.
The APD confirmed it had responded to a report of a “suspicious devices” at the Tesla dealership on Monday morning, according to KXAN News. The APD reportedly labeled the devices as being “incendiary.”
Fox News reported that the police issued a statement that the devices “were taken into police custody without incident.” (PHOTO)
“This is an open and ongoing investigation,” the statement added,
The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and a team of tech savvy young people, is cleaning up the Social Security rolls and clearing out ineligible recipients. More specifically, those who are deceased. (X) President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting at the White House Monday and ridding the federal government of waste, fraud and abuse was a central focus. Musk attended and Attorney General Pam Bondi thanked him for finding fraud the Department of Justice plans to pursue for prosecution.
FBI Director Kash Patel, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are among the witnesses who testify today before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
The SSCI is the center of the organization silo in Washington DC that permits the Intelligence Community to operate as a fourth branch of government. The hearing today on global and domestic threats was previously scheduled and ‘coincidentally’ now falls on the heels of revelations surrounding a group text chat about Trump administration operations in Yemen.
Complaint: LA County Public Health's Ferrer
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One big target for DOGE should be the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) and how it's used (or misused) federal dollars. RedState has exclusively learned that people within LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer's executive office attempted to force a financial analyst to approve a fraudulent invoice submitted for a CDC contract, then retaliated against her so aggressively that she ended up homeless and relying on food stamps to eat. According to complaints filed with the EEOC and the California Civil Rights Department, the analyst was brought into the Office of Planning, Integration and Engagement, located in Ferrer's executive office, in July 2023
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The White House is firing back after a media firestorm erupted over reports that a private group chat involving senior Trump administration officials included a prominent journalist and exposed sensitive discussions about recent U.S. strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi militants.
The controversy centers on a report by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, whose latest report claims 18 top Trump officials used a private group thread to discuss sensitive military actions, including the recent U.S. strikes against Houthi terrorists.
Goldberg, one of the country’s most notorious media hacks, sparked a media frenzy with suggestions that “war plans” were shared i
WASHINGTON — President Trump stood by national security adviser Mike Waltz on Tuesday, one day after he was revealed to have looped in the Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief on deliberations about striking the Houthis in Yemen earlier this month.
“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” the president told NBC News in a brief interview Tuesday.
Trump, 78, added that the addition of Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group that included Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had “no impact at all” on the outcome of the March 15 airstrikes, which the president described as “perfectly successful.” (Phito)
“The only glitch
A sophisticated scam has taken hold across the United States, prompting the FBI to issue an urgent warning over a widespread phishing campaign disguised as toll payment requests. The so-called 'E-ZPass scam' involves fraudulent text messages sent to mobile phone users, claiming they owe money for unpaid tolls. Victims who click the embedded links risk having their personal and financial data stolen.
According to Forbes, the scam is being driven by Chinese cybercrime groups using SMS phishing tactics, or 'smishing'.
According to Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic [SEE HERE], National Security Advisor Mike Waltz invited him to a group chat on the Signal app, where various Trump administration officials and cabinet members were discussing how to address the Houthi rebels in Yemen in advance of military airstrikes.
The media is having a field day with the story, and it does have multiple angles that will unfold in the next several days and weeks. Some media even claiming the story could take down Mike Waltz and/or Pete Hegseth due to the national security implications in the series of events [Politico Here]. However, I wouldn’t go that far at all.
Quite the statement, eh? Let me explain. I’m well into my 60s and for my entire adult life I’ve heard that public school teachers are underpaid. It has been repeated as a mantra for decades.
Ignoring for a moment whether it is true or not -- and the answer to that is generally, it depends -- let’s accept the mantra and analyze why public-school teachers are still underpaid after all these years.
It’s not spending. As most voters know, it seems that every stinking year there is some ballot initiative or measure or legislative move to increase spending for our woefully underfunded public-school systems. It never seems to end.
In a ruling that should outrage every parent, taxpayer, and conservative voter in Texas, a federal judge has stomped all over the authority of the Texas A&M University Board of Regents—greenlighting a sexually charged, ideologically driven drag show to proceed on campus despite a commonsense ban.
Senior U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, appointed by George H. W. Bush, issued a sweeping preliminary injunction Monday that forces Texas A&M to allow the so-called “Draggieland” event—a campus drag show hosted by the “Queer
Our friend Steven Hayward, late of the great Power Line blog, university professor and incisive thinker, wrote a compelling essay last week about “The Nadir of the Climate Change Movement.” If anyone should know about the state of global warming hysteria, it would be Hayward. Here’s how he begins his argument:
The prevailing winds are blowing not toward more windmills but toward common sense on energy.
It is possible that the Trump administration is going to deal the death blows to the long-running climate change hysteria and government hostility to fossil fuels, not just in the United States but around the globe.
When the Trump administration announces the next round of government layoffs, the wailing, the gnashing of teeth, the sob stories will be deafening. For what? A bunch of overpaid, underworked bureaucrats?
Estimates about how many jobs have been cut so far differ. The press claims DOGE has eliminated around 100,000 federal jobs. Challenger, Gray & Christmas says 62,530 were let go in January and February. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded a net loss of only 6,700 federal jobs in February.
Whatever the case, Donald Trump wants big numbers. The Department of Education already said it will chop its workforce in half.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) drew condemnation from personalities on both sides of the political spectrum when she seemingly expressed outrage over recent airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Tlaib responded to reports of a Signal text group that included national security officials, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The group reportedly discussed classified details of upcoming attacks against the armed terror group.
Someone accidentally looped in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of "The Atlantic," into the chat.
"This is an outrageous national security breach, and heads should roll," Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA) told Axios,
Signal, a messaging app known for its end-to-end encryption and focus on privacy, is facing renewed scrutiny in an era where digital security is a growing concern. Questions about its ownership and reliability have surfaced, particularly after a leaked group chat involving Fox News host Pete Hegseth came to light.
According to a report published by The Atlantic on Monday, members of former President Donald Trump's national security team, including his defence chief, used Signal to discuss classified military plans
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Everyone talks about transparency.
The Democrats don’t like it. They’re all about secrecy and censorship.
The right believes in transparency but caves when challenged. So the American people are often left in the dark about most things governmental and are not aware of the rampant duplicity that undergirds everything remotely political.
Obviously, the Democrats’ strategy has been well-planned with the confidence that higher courts, especially the SCOTUS, would not interfere with their lawfare.
Chief Justice Roberts has reason to be ashamed of Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg; he appointed him to the FISA court.
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Setting aside any "national security" concerns arising from letting The Atlantic's Russia-hoaxer Jeffrey Goldberg in on the Administration's Houthi-bombing call, I doubt that any creature more sentient than an amoeba can have been surprised to learn that US cabinet members "loathe" European "freeloading". (Snip) Are you shocked by Hegseth dismissing the Continent as "pathetic"? Well, you should have been around in the Obama era, when Victoria Nuland, She-Wolf of the Donbass, was rather pithier: F*** the EU!
Chief Justice Roberts, the designated non-binary voter on the Supreme Court, has demanded, re the ongoing judicial coup, that Trump allow the lethargic appellate process to play itself out.
A Trump Recession?
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The financial markets have been tanked by the threat of economic damage from President Trump’s tariffs–or that is the narrative, anyway. Democrats are hoping for a full-blown recession, which they are already labeling the “Trump recession.” But perhaps stocks have mostly pulled back a little from high valuations, as happens all the time.
As of today, the Dow is down 3.3% from January 20, when Trump was inaugurated. The S&P is down 4.6%, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ, whose companies are least likely to be affected by tariffs, but whose prices were generally considered to be most over-valued a few months ago, is down 7.9%. Not exactly Black Tuesday territory,
Maybe you've seen this already. It seems to be everywhere today so we might as well talk about it. Just over a week ago the Trump administration announced a series of strikes on the Houthis in Yemen.
The US has launched a "decisive and powerful" wave of air strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, President Donald Trump has said, citing the group's attacks on shipping in the Red Sea as the reason.
"Funded by Iran, the Houthi thugs have fired missiles at US aircraft, and targeted our Troops and Allies," Trump said on social media, adding that their "piracy, violence, and terrorism" had cost "billions" and put lives at risk.
Last week was spring break for students at Columbia University. That means students were off campus when the school effectively conceded to the Trump administration and promised to put in place many changes to how things operate going forward.
Columbia University students were stepping into a new campus environment Monday after their university announced sweeping policy changes while they were away on spring break, seemingly bowing to the Trump administration’s demands over the release of $400 million in federal funding to the school...
The new rules effectively ban protests inside and immediately outside academic buildings, and all demonstration activity is subject to the university’s antidiscrimination and anti-harassment policies.
Incendiary devices were discovered at a Tesla dealership in Austin, Texas, on Monday morning, authorities said, the latest in widespread acts of violence targeting the electric carmaker.
Officers with the Austin Police Department responded to the dealership along U.S. Highway 183 just after 8 a.m. when they found the "suspicious devices," authorities told Fox News Digital.
The bomb squad was called in to investigate.
"The devices, which were determined to be incendiary, were taken into police custody without incident," a police statement said. "This is an open and ongoing investigation."