Posts on Saturday, April 5, 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday said that he is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and to restrict any further issuance to prevent entry into the United States. The reason for the move is the failure of South Sudan's transitional government to accept the return of its repatriated citizens in a timely manner, Rubio said on social media.
"I am taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and to restrict any further issuance to prevent entry into the United States, effective immediately, due to the failure of South Sudan's transitional government to accept the return.."
Thousands of protesters gathered for various so-called “Hands Off!” rallies throughout the United States to protest President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
A video posted to X by ABC News showed “thousands of protesters” who had “flooded the streets” in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of a “Hands Off!” Rally. Breitbart News’s Sean Moran previously reported that protesters were slated to gather across the nation on Saturday for the “Hands Off!” rallies to tell Trump and Musk to take their “Hands Off!” people’s healthcare, Social Security, “civil rights,” and their freedom and education.
House Republicans Call Out the Budget
Plan Passed by the Senate As 'Unserious,'
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Some in the U.S. Senate stayed up way past their bedtimes on Friday night, voting into the wee hours in a battle against mainly Democrat amendments attempting to derail President Donald Trump's agenda before managing to pass a budget plan. After the six-hour vote-a-rama ended, the legislation passed nearly along party lines, with "no" votes from Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Susan Collins (R-ME), 51-48, around 2:30 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday morning.
Here is what we know so far about the plan:
On paper, the new Senate budget outline allows for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts, a seemingly modest amount. But that figure disguises
After the meltdown in the markets in the last few days, both the USAID-media and the Democrats were pretty sure that US President Donald J. Trump was about to pay a hefty political price for the sweeping, historical tariffs that he unleashed on the world on ‘Liberation Day’.
As it often happens, it appears that they were wrong.
Trump appears to be increasingly more popular than before he levied these tough measures.
DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners heard over 1,000 registered voters conducted from March 31 to April 3 – and what they found is sending Globalists into a panic.
The Montana Republican Party has formally censured nine Republican state senators for betraying the will of GOP voters and aligning themselves with Democrats during the 69th Legislative Session.
The state party’s Executive Committee has made it clear: these lawmakers are no longer recognized as Republicans.
The nine rogue senators—Jason Ellsworth, Wendy McKamey, Gayle Lammers, Josh Kassmier, Butch Gillespie, Gregg Hunter, Denley Loge, Russ Tempel, and Shelley Vance—have repeatedly sold out conservative priorities, voting with Democrats
The Justice Department filed an application for an emergency stay of an order requiring an adjudicated MS-13 member be brought back the United States that stopped within inches of calling the district court judge who issued the order a moron. In a tersely worded brief that demolished the entire proceeding, the Justice Department's brief ridiculed the order by Obama-appointed Judge Paula Xinis to “facilitate and effectuate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the US by Monday night, saying: "Because the United States has no control over Abrego Garcia, however, Defendants have no independent authority to “effectuate” his return to the United States—any more than they would have the power
President Donald Trump said that the United States is in the midst of an “economic revolution” and urged Americans to “hang tough” for a “historic” result.
Trump’s comments came in a Truth Social post on Saturday, just days after he announced his worldwide reciprocal tariffs aimed at offsetting trade imbalances the United States has with other nations. (TRUTH)
“China has been hit much harder than the USA, not even close. They, and many other nations, have treated us unsustainably badly. We have been the dumb and helpless ‘whipping post,’ but not any longer,” Trump wrote.
Notable tariffs Trump announced on Wednesday that are set to take effect on April 9 include
The attorney for Karmelo Anthony, the 17-year-old accused of murdering football star Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet, insists he doesn’t have “any reason” to think the killing “wasn’t in self defense” — and will request the teen’s bond be lowered from $1,000,000.[snip]
he was charged with fatally stabbing Metcalf, also 17, and leaving him to die in his twin brother’s arms during the athletic event in Frisco Wednesday morning.
After briefly meeting with the teenager for the first time on Friday afternoon, Anthony’s attorney Deric Walpole told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth that at this point in time he believes his client acted in self defense
Trump After Bombing Houthis Gathering
for Attack Instructions: ‘Oops, There
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President Donald Trump on Friday posted a video on his social media accounts of a U.S. military strike against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen who have been targeting American ships in the Red Sea.
“These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!” he posted. (X Video) Since 2023, the Houthis have shot at United States warships at least 174 times and commercial vessels at least 145 times in the Suez Canal, Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden, according to the White House.
The Canadian Parliament was put on lockdown Saturday after a man barricaded himself inside — prompting authorities to urge the public to “hide.”
Ottawa Police and Parliamentary Protective Services responded to the scene just before 3 p.m. local time and have since evacuated the East Block, Ottawa Police said in a X post.
(Photo's) Parliament Hill is still operating under a shelter-in-place order. The Parliamentary Protective Services issued an alert at 2:45 p.m. urging people inside to “seek shelter in the nearest room, close and lock all doors and hide,” according to CTV News.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has fired one of his deputies for taking a "lavish" trip to Antarctica with his wife during Nowruz, the Persian new year. The president's office described Shahram Dabiri's trip as "unjustifiable and unacceptable given the ongoing economic challenges" in Iran. A picture of Dabiri and his wife posing in front of MV Plancius, which was bound for Antarctica, circulated widely on social media and caused outrage in Iran.
Watch: Trump Shares Incredible Footage
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Strikes against the Houthis continue apace despite the left's best efforts to make "Signal-gate" a thing. On Friday, President Donald Trump decided to do a little messaging on the subject, posting incredibly clear footage of a strike on the Yemeni terrorists. He then dunked on them, stating, "These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis." (X Video) Yeah, I don't think those guys will be doing any more harassing of international shipping lanes.
Bette Midler is getting rid of her Tesla in protest of the car company's founder, Elon Musk.
Midler ‒ the outspoken star of screen and stage, whose politics lean left ‒ shared the news with fans in an Instagram post Wednesday.
"What a joyful day!" a picture Midler posted said. "I sold my (gulp) Tesla! No longer do I have to drive a symbol of racism, greed and ignorance! Life is suddenly so much better!""
Midler's comments were seemingly made in reference to Musk's involvement in President Donald Trump's second administration as the Tesla and SpaceX founder seeks
Parent of trans student wins key ruling
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A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against a Northern California school district by a mother who was not told that her 11-year-old child had identified as transgender. The court did not say whether the district had violated the mother’s rights, however, and instead set guidelines for the judge who had previously dismissed the suit. While the Supreme Court has upheld “the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children,” that right “is not unlimited,” said the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court told U.S. District Judge Mendez to determine whether rights claimed were “deeply rooted in this nation’s history"
Former New York Rep. George Santos is facing an 87-month prison sentence for his part in a fraud scheme.
The Justice Department detailed its case against Santos in a 26-page letter to United States District Judge Joanna Seybert. Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney John J. Durham, who was appointed by the Trump administration, submitted the letter.
Durham is following up on an investigation spearheaded by Biden administration EDNY attorney Breon Peace, who saw Santos plead guilty to several charges, including wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in August 2024.
A rising star in the bull riding community was stomped to death at a Texas event Thursday.
Dylan Grant, 24, was in the second round at the Wharton County Youth Fair Xtreme Bulls show when he was bucked off a bull named Commander, according to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
Commander then “stepped on” Grant, delivering mortal injuries. It is not immediately known how much Commander weighs, but some bulls can reach 2,000 pounds. (Photo)
Grant, of Wyoming, was rushed into an ambulance and then airlifted to a Houston hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz talked about his ideas for cost-saving measures within the healthcare system and stated that the federal government is going to get back the large sums of money that California has gotten from the federal government and used to provide free health insurance for illegal immigrants in the state.
In response to a question from host Sean Hannity on how to cut costs, Oz said that empowering beneficiaries with more information under an executive order from President Donald Trump will help and that giving medical professionals better information would also lower costs.
President Trump’s tariffs are already having an impact.
Earlier this week, Trump announced a sweeping new trade policy that included a universal 10 percent tariff on all imports into the United States.
In addition to this baseline measure, the administration introduced a system of reciprocal tariffs targeting countries with significant trade surpluses over the U.S.
The tariffs vary in severity, with higher rates imposed on nations deemed to have particularly unbalanced trade relationships or who refuse to buy American goods.
Mr. Schumer — You Make No Sense!
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Commenting on President Trump’s efforts to pull our country out of a serious national debt crisis through the use of tariffs, Senator Chuck Schumer stated, “It is a crazy idea in his head that hurts American families and does very little benefit and in an untargeted way that makes no sense.”
Unfortunately, I had to hear Schumer’s statement on my drive to work at 5:30 AM, which charged me to write this article.
Mr. Schumer, let’s talk about things that make no sense. You became a senator, supposedly representing New York beginning in 1999, led the Democrat caucus since 2017, and served as Senate majority leader from 2021 to 2025.
A dark web doxxing website targeting Tesla owners and allies of Elon Musk appears to be compiled from hacked data originally stolen from a massive ParkMobile app breach in 2021, according to records obtained by a data privacy group.
The site, known as DogeQuest, first appeared in March and publishes names, home addresses, contact details, and other personal information tied to Tesla drivers and Department of Government Efficiency staff. Marketed as a hub for anti-Musk “creative expressions of protest,” the platform has been linked to real-world vandalism and remains live on the dark web. Federal investigations into DogeQuest are already underway,
So China slapped the U.S. with a 25–34% tariff on select imports, and the headlines screamed “retaliation!” But let’s be honest: if this is what Beijing thinks passes for strong economic diplomacy, then we’ve got even more proof that the Chinese Communist Party is playing checkers while the U.S. is mastering 4D chess.
The truth is simple: China’s move is frail, desperate, and ultimately doomed to backfire.
For starters, China needs us far more than we need them—a reality the media elite won’t say out loud but that every business leader worth their calculator knows. The United States is the hottest, wealthiest consumer market on the planet. We innovate, we buy,
Allegedly, Barack Obama was going to take a step back from meddling in politics after the 2024 election, but he spoke at Hamilton College this week, and, of course, he had to weigh in on the new Trump administration. His stunning display of historical revisionism and self-righteous indignation would be comedic if it weren't so dangerous to our republic.
"Uh, let... Imagine if I had done any of this," Obama pontificated to his adoring audience, playing his favorite game of hypotheticals while conveniently ignoring his own track record. “Let, let, let me just... I, I, I just wanna be clear about this. I- i- i- ima- imagine that...
Tariffs introduced by President Donald Trump this past week have been praised by U.S. seafood harvesters who say the president “threw us a lifeline” in the country’s struggling domestic shrimp industry.
“The U.S. domestic shrimp industry has been on a downward trajectory for decades now as a direct result of the unfair trade in the overseas aquaculture industry for growing shrimp overseas,” Leann Borsarge, the COO of Bosarge Boats, told Fox Business on Friday. “And these tariffs threw us a lifeline that we needed to hopefully live to fight another day in our industry in this country,” Borsarge added.
Winston Churchill was famously quoted as saying, "Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war." We could also make the case that meeting, as it were, economy to economy is better than war. And, when you match the United States and our economy, not to mention our ability to place financial sanctions on rogue states like Iran, well, Iran just can't match us. President Trump, on resuming office, reinstanted the "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran. And it's working. Iran's currency, the rial, is in the basement and still sinking.
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) argued that if there are tariffs imposed “on dirty steel from China and Russia, then we’d be leveling the playing field. So, I don’t necessarily think tariffs are always bad. But I think tariffs on our close partners and allies should be used sparingly, if at all.”
Coons said legislation he has with Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) that “requires a study of emissions intensity so that we know and can prove to the world that our steel is cleaner, that our glass and our aluminum and our fertilizer, heavy industrial products, where we compete globally —
Some leftists have become so triggered by President Trump that even his innocuous words are considered by them to be hate speech.
Chris Whipple, the author of “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History,” revealed one behind-the-scenes incident that will have conservatives in stitches. It concerns Harris’s concession call to President Trump following her landslide defeat.
As The Daily Mail notes, after her aides botched the call transfer the day after the election, Harris got on the phone and spoke to Trump.
Tariffs are just “one chapter of the book of the Trump economic agenda,” Sen. David McCormick (R-PA) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, discussing tariffs and the latest jobs numbers.
The latest jobs numbers, he began, are a “reflection of a number of companies already starting to invest in jobs in the United States,” or “an early response to the Trump economic agenda.” “And listen, you know, the last month has been tariffs, tariffs, tariffs… And I will talk about that in a minute. But the tariffs are just one chapter of the book of the Trump economic agenda,
Former White House doctor Kevin O’Connor will be among those grilled by House Republicans for hiding President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline from the American public, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) told The Post.
“Dr. Kevin O’Connor will absolutely, positively be implicated in the cover-up of this. He is a massive, massive part,” said Jackson, a physician by trade who served in the White House Medical Unit under three presidents before being elected to Congress, where he now chairs the House Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
“I guarantee you Kevin O’Connor has medical information that the American people don’t have,” Jackson went on. “He was probably putting President Biden on lots of
King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
The sun rises, and the sun goes down… all streams run to the sea… what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.
In his prescience, King Solomon no doubt knew that one of the things that would remain the same was the obdurate persistence––over thousands of years––of maniacal Jew-hatred and a fanatical loathing of Israel.
If it weren’t so serious, and deadly, it would be almost comical, considering that the massive, heavily armed, immensely populated, and hugely influential empires that tried to annihilate the Jews—the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Assyrians,
Barack Obama has called on US citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Donald Trump’s political agenda – and warned Americans to prepare to “possibly sacrifice” in support of democratic values.
“It has been easy during most of our lifetimes to say you are a progressive or say you are for social justice or say you’re for free speech and not have to pay a price for it,” Obama said during a speech at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, on Thursday.
The two-term former Democratic president painted a picture of the Trump White House looking to upend the international order created after the second world war
In a stunning revelation, a new poll shows Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) leading Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) by double digits in a hypothetical head-to-head New York primary matchup. This surprising shift in the political landscape highlights the growing power of the far-left faction within the Democratic Party as Ocasio-Cortez continues to build her base among younger, more progressive voters. Schumer, long seen as the establishment figure in New York and national politics, now faces a growing challenge from within his own party, signaling that even the most entrenched political figures could be vulnerable.
Wall Street’s bloodbath spilled over into a second day on Friday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by more than 2,200 points after China unveiled stiff retaliatory taxes to President Trump’s tariffs.
The Dow tanked 2,231 points — a day after suffering a 1,679-point drop, its previous worst session since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The two-day selloff wiped out $6.4 trillion in market value.
The Apoplexy Over the Trump Tariffs is
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During one of the 2016 Republican debates, the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Stassel challenged Donald Trump on the projected revenue from his proposed tax plan.(snip)claimed some economists doubted the growth factor Mr. Trump projects in his tax proposal.What was highlighted within the question was one of the larger hurdles Trump faced as he needs to re-educate an entire generation on a fundamentally new vision of the U.S. economy. A return to a goods-based manufacturing and industry driven economic model.
President Trump’s MAGAnomic trade and foreign policy agenda is jaw-dropping in scale, scope and consequence. (snip)
many people have forgotten a 1991 (35 years old) video of Donald Trump testifying
We have no doubt that Leavitt’s prediction will come true. Whether it’s remembered for being a success or as Smoot-Hawley 2.0 remains to be seen.
“It is going to work,” Leavitt said. “And the president has a brilliant team of advisers who have been studying these issues for decades.”
That’s a bit of an odd boast, given that the economists who have been studying tariffs and trade policy for decades had long ago decided that tariffs are a sledgehammer approach that rarely work as intended, that they are a wildly expensive way to create jobs, don’t spur economic growth, protect uncompetitive U.S. firms, and are an ineffective diplomatic tool.
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) is preparing to launch a 2026 gubernatorial bid in Georgia, according to a Friday report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Bottoms served as a city council member and spent three years in the White House as a senior adviser during the Biden administration. She was also a close confidante of former Vice President Kamala Harris throughout her 2024 presidential campaign.
Two of the most divisive politicians in recent American history emerged from hiding this week to play Monday morning quarterback against President Trump, and the Trump White House was not pleased in the slightest.
As ABC News reported, Barack Obama and Kamala Harris launched cheap shots the president in separate speeches on Thursday over his imposition of reciprocal tariffs and ‘attacking’ American values.
“Look, I don’t think what we just witnessed in terms of economic policy and tariffs is going to be good for America, but that’s a specific policy.
Arizona Man Convicted in Hate-Fueled Plot
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to Target Christian Churches with Hoax
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An Arizona man has been convicted of serious crimes related to a chilling plot targeting Christian churches, shedding light on the growing threat to religious freedom in America. The individual had planned to harm congregants and disrupt the peaceful practices of Christian churches in the southwest, including Arizona, with his intent to convey a hoax bomb threat. After an 11-day trial, a federal jury found Zimnako Salah guilty of attempting to disrupt a Christian church in Roseville, California. The 45-year-old male was convicted for placing a backpack on a toilet at the church
Congressman urges FBI to investigate whether
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Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., a member of the House Oversight Committee and DOGE task force, is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate whether New York state is defrauding Medicaid with a "large financial scheme" involving matching payments for hospitals.
"Recent evidence suggests that for nearly two decades, the State of New York has deprived Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) of more than $1 billion in Medicaid funds," Burlison wrote in a letter to America's top two law enforcement officials on Thursday.
"The state stands accused of violating
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet wrote to President Donald Trump offering to drop tariff levels certain U.S. imports and negotiate.
"Cambodia proposes to negotiate with Your Honorable’s administration at the earliest convenient time and wishes to request that your esteemed government consider postponing the above-mentioned tariff implementation," he wrote on Friday.
"I would like to inform Your Honorable President that the existing practice of Cambodia’s maximum tariff rate tops at 35%. In expression of our good faith and in spirit of strengthening our bilateral trade relations, Cambodia is committed to promote U.S. based product imports with an immediate reduction of 19 product categories from our maximum 35% tariff bound rate to 5%
The more we learn about Kamala Harris’ disastrous campaign, the more entertaining it gets. It’s also a little baffling. The core of her team was seasoned political operatives from the Obama operation who knew how to win elections. Then again, that was a different Democratic Party, one not soaked in far-left wokeism. Democrats knew how to reach voters to win elections. Now, that coalition is dead, as the youth flocked to the GOP, union workers went MAGA, and immigrant voting communities swung 23 points toward the GOP. There was no way Democrats were going to win. Neither Kamala Harris nor Joe Biden was going to beat Donald Trump.
Jaguar Land Rover will pause shipments of its Britain-made cars to the United States for a month, it said on Saturday, as it considers how to mitigate the cost of President Donald Trump's 25% tariff.
Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by India's Tata Motors (TAMO.NS), opens new tab, confirmed the temporary export suspension after the Times newspaper reported the plan.
"As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions, including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid- to longer-term plans," JLR said in an emailed statement.
President Donald Trump and his team have been cracking down hard on border enforcement and on the worst illegal migrants still in the country — great.
But a longer-term fix — also of great use in speeding deportations now — requires cleaning up the mess of US “law” regarding the supposed rights of border-jumpers, as well as our obsolete asylum system.
Gridlocked not just on party lines but by ideologues and interest-group lobbying, Congress has failed for decades to update these laws; instead, activist judges and presidential decrees have created “legal” roadblocks to evicting people here illegally.
President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariffs, announced Wednesday, have received strong support from the U.S. shrimp industry, which sees them as an opportunity for survival.
After peaking in the 1990s, the U.S. shrimp industry has faced a precipitous decline over the past 15 years. Cheaper imports of farmed shrimp, facing no import duties, have undercut U.S. wild-caught shrimp. The U.S. shrimping industry has lost half of its market value since 2021, according to the Southern Shrimp Alliance, ending the businesses of many.
A new report is circulating that half of the Spanish women killed so far this year were murdered by “foreigners,” i.e., migrants, most particularly Arab/Muslim migrants. The religion of peace strikes again, thanks to the ideology of wokeness.
It ought to be blindingly obvious that bringing in many thousands of foreigners who practice a religion and come from a culture that encourages exploitation, violence, rape, and murder — all of which Islamic holy texts explicitly endorse — would create a crime crisis. But Western wokies are willfully deluded, and in the name of tolerance and progressivism, large numbers of violent foreign men have swarmed into Europe.
The Border Crisis Is Over
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On New Year’s Eve 2020, as President-elect Joe Biden was at home in Delaware celebrating his imminent move into the White House, a mob of some 300 Cubans stormed out of Juárez, Mexico, in a mad banzai charge over one of the international bridges toward El Paso, Texas.
They swept past Mexican border guards, leapt pell-mell the wrong way over Mexican pay turnstiles, and sprinted for America in a crisscrossing stampede through traffic over the bridge lanes.
But alas, the outgoing Donald Trump was still in office,
Democratic strategist James Carville in a Friday video demanded a “reckoning” for entities that have collaborated with President Donald Trump’s administration.
Carville alluded to France during World War II when some women faced humiliation, including head-shaving, for allegedly collaborating with Nazis. The strategist, with an empty or near-empty wine glass on his nightstand, said he does not believe Trump “collaborators” should be assaulted but said they must at least face an “intellectual reckoning.”
One of the most loathsome members of the Biden regime got an unpleasant surprise while traveling back home as he was confronted with several brutal questions regarding his massive failures while employed.
As TGP readers know, perhaps no Biden regime member was more responsible for the despicable open border than former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Because of his deliberate negligence, he became the first cabinet secretary to be impeached in nearly 150 years and the first sitting cabinet secretary in history to be impeached.
In February 2024, he was convicted of two articles of impeachment:
A single Republican senator — Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) — voted against the nomination of Harmeet Dhillon to serve as assistant attorney general, veering away from the rest of her GOP colleagues who voted in favor.
After her nomination in December, lawmakers finally held a formal vote Thursday and Dhillon was approved in a 52-45 vote. However, Murkowski opposed the nomination and sided with Democrats. President Donald Trump announced in December the nomination of Dhillon to work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Florida Man Living Near Mar-a-Lago Arrested
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A Florida man living just over 20 miles outside of Mar-a-Lago has been arrested for posting multiple threats against President Donald Trump.
The Jupiter Police Department (JPD) late Friday night announced the arrest of one Glen DeCicco on charges of "Making Written Threats to Kill" the President. "The investigation began after JPD was alerted to a concerning Facebook post," a statement reads. "Detectives reviewed DeCicco’s social media activity and confirmed that he had made a written threat directed at the President."
The JPD notes that they coordinated with the Secret Service to investigate DeCicco and take him into custody.
Two US Border Patrol officers charged
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Two US border inspectors in Southern California have been charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes to allow people to enter the country through the nation’s busiest port of entry without showing documents, prosecutors said.
US Customs and Border Protection officers Farlis Almonte and Ricardo Rodriguez were assigned to immigration inspection booths at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
They were charged after investigators found phone evidence showing they had exchanged messages with human traffickers in Mexico and discovered unexplained cash deposits into their bank accounts, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday.
Wall Street Capitulates to Trump’s Tariffs
It’s hard to say what finally broke Wall Street’s will. Maybe it was the retaliatory 34 percent tariff from Beijing, or the sight of Jerome Powell brushing off the carnage like a man who’d just changed a flat tire. Maybe it was the unmistakable conviction in Donald Trump’s voice when he said, “China played it wrong. They panicked.” Or maybe it was the simple realization—years in the making, but somehow still a surprise—that this president is not going to hand back the steering wheel to the Chamber of Commerce.
Officials of the Department of Homeland Security are looking to use FEMA funding allocated for housing migrants for immigration enforcement instead.
The funds were directed to the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) back in 2019, but the program was a target of Republican ire and identified by Elon Musk’s DOGE as wasteful funding.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has since terminated grants under the reasoning that the program payments “no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities,” according to CNN.
Sue the B*stards
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Earlier this week, Matt Taibbi was called as a witness by the Republican majority of a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Before his testimony began, Democratic Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove slandered him:
Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a Democrat representing California’s 37th district in Los Angeles, began her opening remarks in a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing Tuesday with a comment directed to me. “To distract from the dumpster fire this administration is pursuing,” she said, the Republicans were “elevating a serial sexual harrasser as their star witness.”
That assertion was an outrageous lie, but presumably Ms. Kamlager-Dove believed she was protected by the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause,
The West needs to recognize the intentions of Iran's rulers. The regime has made it clear that it has no plans to abandon its nuclear or ballistic missile programs. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has openly stated that Libya's Muammar Gaddafi made a fatal mistake by giving up his nuclear program.
Each time Iran's regime finds itself under pressure, it calls for talks. The goal, however, is never to reach a real agreement. The goal is to delay.
Tehran knows that once talks begin, the focus will shift from its nuclear violations to the negotiation process.
Journalist Amie Parnes of The Hill recently appeared on CNN with Jake Tapper and said that the Democratic party is still a mess and in even worse shape than they were right after their massive loss in the 2024 election.
Parnes suggests that there is still tons of infighting among members of the party and that some strategists on the left want to ‘burn the house down’ and start over.
Democrats still have no leader, no message and no ideas on how to solve these problems.
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Trump on Friday shared video of a recent airstrike on Houthi rebels, writing, "They will never sink our ships again."
"These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!"
The black and white aerial footage appeared to show a group assembling before a massive blast leaves nothing but a crater. The Trump administration has been conducting daily airstrikes on the Iranian-backed rebels for the last 20 days
A North Carolina appeals court has ruled that more than 60,000 voters who voted in the state’s Supreme Court election in November 2024 must verify that they are eligible to vote.
The ruling from the appeals court ordering “more than 65,000 voters” to prove their eligibility comes after Judge Jefferson Griffin, who ran against North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs in November, challenged the results of the election, according to NBC News. Per the outlet, voters “now have 15 business days to provide state elections officials with the necessary proof of identity that would verify their votes,”
Barack Obama made a shockingly honest admission about the state of his marriage to Michelle Obama.
“I was in a deep deficit with my wife,” Barack, 63, told Hamilton College President Steven Tepper in a conversation Thursday, according to the Daily Beast.
“So I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by doing occasionally fun things.”
The former president of the United States has previously suggested that his back-to-back terms in office from 2009 to 2017 took a toll on his relationship with the former first lady.
Trump Extends Reprieve of TikTok Ban in
New EO; China Was 'Not Very Happy' About
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New EO; China Was 'Not Very Happy' About
Reciprocal Tariffs replies
As we previously wrote, during the executive order signing event in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, President Trump announced a swath of reciprocal tariffs on imports from every country, including the People's Republic of China.
Then as my colleague Mike Miller wrote on Friday morning, China lashed out with a 34 percent tariff on all U.S. goods entering the Middle Kingdom. Later on Friday morning, Trump shared on his Truth Social account that the administration is extending its reprieve of the U.S. ban on TikTok via a revised executive order, expressing hope of a "deal" being struck for the social media platform with connections to the Chinese
Another week has come and gone in the nation’s capital, which means congressional Republicans are either doing nothing productive, wasting taxpayer money, or losing major policy fights. In the case of this week (and many others), it’s all of the above. On Americans’ dime, the GOP-run House was all but forced to abruptly end work on its legislative agenda on Tuesday for the remainder of the week amid efforts led in part by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to allow representatives who are new parents to vote by proxy. [Snip] ...Luna took an oath to represent her constituents on a full-time basis.