Posts on Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Will U.S. taxpayers ever see a dime repaid? Probably not, because the proceeds will likely end up in the pockets of the professional political class; however, the concept is a good idea in principle. It is more than likely Zelenskyy has sold his “minerals” to several countries in his perpetual tin cup tour. The ‘investment fund’ aspect is just another way to transfer proceeds into the bank accounts of U.S. Senators.
The previously called “minerals deal” is now essentially a fund created between the USA and Ukraine where proceeds from exploiting Ukraine natural resources will be used to rebuild the country and repay the USA for prior financial support
Senate Effort to Block President Trump
Tariff Authority Fails Despite Three Republicans
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Tariff Authority Fails Despite Three Republicans
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Republican senators Rand Paul, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski all voted in support of removing President Trump’s ability to impose tariffs under national security grounds. However, the overall vote failed in the Senate 49-49. The vote was mostly symbolic for the upper chamber as the House previously approved a rule to block any effort to restrict President Trump’s trade authority, and the White House would obviously veto any bill that might pass. However, the vote does showcase the Republicans who are in support of multinational corporations outsourcing jobs and manufacturing. The bill was originally created by Republican Senator Rand Paul and Democrat Senator Ron Wyden.
It seems Bill Belichick’s girlfriend Jordon Hudson’s controversial actions have led to a costly setback for the North Carolina Tar Heels football program.
Despite being praised by Colin Cowherd as 73-year-old Belichick's "PR director" following a questionable CBS News Sunday Morning interview, Hudson’s behavior has had far-reaching consequences. The 24-year-old played a key role in derailing the Tar Heels' opportunity to feature in the popular NFL docuseries Hard Knocks.
Several deep blue states have moved to extend healthcare to illegal aliens, but costs have exploded and enrollments have raced far past the numbers lawmakers expected, causing budget disasters across the board.
In 2019, California became the first deep blue state to allow illegal aliens to enroll in the state’s healthcare program. Since then, the costs have wildly spun out of control. This year it was reported that the costs of the program was more than three billion dollars above the estimates. Now some are asking why.
“We should not bear these costs. Period. But especially in a budget crisis,” California Assemblymember Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) said in March,
Influencer Valentina Gomez probably won’t be asked to attend next year’s Texas Muslim Capitol Day.
On Tuesday, Raw Story reported that Gomez attended this year’s event, and she posted footage to social media platform X of herself taking to the podium while ripping of a hijab and addressing a crowd of Muslims.
Gomez included the caption, “Islam has no place in Texas. Help me to Congress so we can end the Islamization of America. I only fear God.” Speaking into the microphone, Gomez unleashed on the crowd, telling them that “Islam is the religion of rape, incest, and pedophilia where they bow down to a stupid rock and a false prophet.”
Last week CTH noted, “interested political followers in the USA should pay close attention to how the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWA) respond to the corporate media narrative. … Will the International Longshoremen’s Association stand with Trump, or will they drop support as the global trade reset emphasizes domestically manufactured jobs? That will be an interesting aspect to watch because the dockworker union leadership will face massive pressure to comply with the anti-tariff narrative.” (full article)
Yesterday, we got the answer: “The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) unequivocally condemns the recent tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed.”
Ford CEO goes under the hood of massive
Kentucky plant, says it’s what Trump
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Kentucky plant, says it’s what Trump
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Ford CEO Jim Farley got under the hood of the automaker's commitment to American manufacturing Tuesday on FOX Business, telling "Mornings with Maria" host Maria Bartiromo that one sprawling Kentucky truck plant showcases President Trump's vision for the U.S. auto industry.
"This is one of the biggest, most profitable plants in the world. [It's] certainly our most important – it makes the Super Duty, the new Expedition and Navigator, [which are all] super popular vehicles…" Farley said, speaking live from the plant.
Rooted in Louisville, Kentucky, the plant houses over 9,000 employees, providing what Farley coined "good" but "hard" jobs – leaving workers to face temperatures over
As we saw previously in Term-1, President Trump has again divided and assigned trade negotiation responsibility to key cabinet members. In this interview with CNN National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett smiles and walks effortlessly through the narrative engineering attempt by CNN pundit Kassie Hunt.
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Hassett outlines the current status of trade negotiations with some of the biggest trade partners in the world. India and Southeast Asia are being handled by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is in control of the section 232 (national security) tariffs, and USTR Jamison Greer has 19 current Free Trade Agreements outlined with various partners all willing to accept
Signed, Sealed, Deported: USPS Ramps Up
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Efforts to Assist Trump Administration
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stop the Trump administration from tracking down and deporting illegals. And they're reportedly using all means necessary, including the United States Postal Service (USPS), to identify those who are on American soil illegally.
According to a rather disapproving report by the Washington Post, the USPS's storied Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) has joined forces with the mass deportation efforts of President Trump and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The USPS is now apparently playing a major role in the intragovernmental DHS task force that is responsible for finding, detaining, and deporting illegals. The move makes a ton of
Hundreds of angry Chinese workers are marching in the streets of China’s industrial cities to protest layoffs and unpaid wages after President Donald Trump’s tariffs forced their factories to shut down.
Unemployment was already a big problem for China’s faltering post-pandemic economy, particularly youth unemployment, and now analysts are predicting Trump’s tariffs could wipe out more than 16 million jobs.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Tuesday quoted Goldman Sachs analysts who predicted communications, apparel, and chemical manufacturers would be especially hard hit. One of the biggest strikes and protest marches occurred last week at a factory that produces sporting goods. A company representative hastily hung up the phone
During an interview with Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul on Tuesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) responded to a question on whether he would support actions like those taken in the case of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan by stating that while he doesn’t know all of the details of the Dugan case, “they’re not illegal aliens. They are our neighbors. We care about them. We love them.”
Host Amy Hockert asked, “A lot of people read in the headlines in the last couple of weeks, the last week or so, this judge in Wisconsin who was arrested and then charged with obstructing an immigration operation at a courthouse. Would you
As the old saying goes, birds of a feather flock together.
How else can you make sense of or explain how two unrelated state court judges, 1,072 miles (Massachusetts and Wisconsin) and seven years apart, broke federal law by actively assisting an illegal alien evade capture by federal agents who had all of the necessary immigration paperwork to detain or remove the alien from the United States?
The facts of their cases are eerily similar, forcing you to ask yourself, “What the heck was this judge thinking when she knew the feds had already prosecuted another judge for doing the exact same thing?”
The Senate passed a joint resolution to repeal a Department of Energy appliance standard on Wednesday by a margin of 52-46, further advancing the roll-back of Biden-era green energy regulations on household appliances.
Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde is the lead sponsor of the joint resolution of disapproval H.J. Res. 42, which aims to nullify a rule issued by the DOE on October 9, 2024 under former President Joe Biden which added new efficiency and reporting regulations for appliances such as dishwashers, washing machines and AC units.
The Trump administration announced wide-ranging sanctions Wednesday on a vast Iranian oil smuggling network that has generated "hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit funds for Iran's destabilizing activities," according to information provided by the State Department.
The sanctions target five United Arab Emirates-based companies, a Turkish petrochemical supplier, an Iranian cargo firm, and two ships known to ferry Tehran’s illicit petroleum products to foreign markets like that of China. The State Department views the sanctions, some of the furthest-reaching to date, as key to "driving Iran’s illicit oil and petrochemical exports—including exports to China—to zero," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.
Packaging giant Pratt Industries announced Wednesday it was committing $5 billion to support President Trump’s push to bolster American manufacturing.
Atlanta-based Pratt announced the investment ahead of an afternoon White House event touting America’s potential to business leaders.
“To make America great again, we need to make in America again,” owner and executive chairman Anthony Pratt said in a statement.
"That’s why I’m proud to support the president’s call to reindustrialize America and again make the US the manufacturing powerhouse of the world.”
In its announcement, Pratt predicted the investment would lead to 5,000 new jobs across the US, including in key electoral states Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Senior Cuban Regime Official and Castro
Confidant Discovered in Florida Seeking
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Confidant Discovered in Florida Seeking
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Héctor Alejandro Hernández Morales, a senior Cuban regime official identified as the once bodyguard and “trusted man” of both late communist dictator Fidel Castro and his brother and successor Raúl Castro, is presently living in Florida aspiring to obtain U.S. resident status, Cuba-focused outlets reported.
Hernández Morales, 46, was identified as a senior Cuban Interior Ministry official living in Boca Raton, Florida, after entering the United States in August 2024 using a visitor’s visa. The information was first reported by Cuban-American journalist Mario Pentón and then verified by Martí Noticias.
According to the reports, Hernández Morales is hoping to benefit from the 1996 Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA),
Serial Loser Beto O’Rourke Teases Another
Texas Senate Run — Because Three Losses
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Texas Senate Run — Because Three Losses
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Beto O’Rourke is teasing another run for Senate in Texas.
O’Rourke was asked at a recent town hall event whether he would consider running in 2026 for the seat currently held by John Cornyn.
“If it comes to pass that this is what the people of Texas want, that it’s the highest and best use of what I can give to you, then yes, I will,” O’Rourke responded.
O’Rourke, whose real first name is Robert but has styled himself as the Hispanic sounding “Beto,” is somewhat of a laughingstock for his numerous failed campaigns.
A high-ranking official at the U.S. State Department has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $650,000 in taxpayer money — and the media is barely covering it.
Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, of Montgomery Village, Maryland — also known by her alias Levita Brezovic — admitted in federal court today to looting $657,347.50 from the State Department over a two-year span while working as a Senior Budget Analyst in the Office of the Chief of Protocol.
According to the DOJ, Ferrer wielded her signature authority like a blank checkbook, issuing 63 fraudulent checks between March 2022 and April 2024 — 60 to herself,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped a bombshell today that should frighten every conservative nationwide.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, President Trump and his team held a cabinet meeting Wednesday. Team Trump spent a good portion of the meeting touting the president’s impressive record on issues ranging from immigration to the economy.
But amid the celebration, Rubio mentioned some disturbing information. He revealed that Biden’s Department of State had created dossiers with the full intention of spying on the content and censoring Americans’ free speech rights.
‘We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans,” Rubio said.
President Trump is raising the stakes once again in his quest to deport as many illegals as possible.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, President Trump and his team held a cabinet meeting Wednesday. Team Trump spent a good portion of the meeting touting the president’s impressive record on issues ranging from immigration to the economy.
Liberal reporters present at the meeting responded by peppering the Trump Administration with several silly questions, including about MS-13 gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But an actual journalist stepped up and asked a question concerning activist judges outrageously continuing to handcuff Trump’s executive powers, particularly on deporting illegals.
Illegal immigrant busted by ICE after
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hiding in tree for 9 hours: ‘You can
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An illegal immigrant was busted by immigration agents in Texas after trying to hide up a tree for around nine hours.
Guatemalan national Raul Ical, 29, fled into the backyard of a house in San Antonio on Tuesday morning after fleeing a traffic stop by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), KSAT reports.
He then scaled a tree, with video showing him high up it as ICE agents waited below.
Authorities tried going up into the tree at least twice to negotiate with Ical before he finally came down
Watch: Rubio Shuts Down Reporter Trying
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The media's obsession with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien and suspected MS-13 member who was deported to his native El Salvador, continued on Wednesday. During a cabinet meeting at the White House, a reporter asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio if he's "been in touch" with the Central American country about "returning" Abrego Garcia. Let's just say he wasn't interested in playing that game. [Tweet, video]
It's just astonishing to me. There are so many important things going on in the world right now, yet all the press wants to talk about is a guy who allegedly beat his wife and was found driving a human smuggler's car.
Delta Air Lines announced its employees worldwide will be receiving a pay raise this year, marking the fourth consecutive year the company has increased wages.
Each employee will receive a 4% wage increase, which is in accordance with what CEO Ed Bastian announced in January at a leadership conference, according to a Delta news release.
The increase in wages comes just three months after the company paid out nearly five weeks of extra pay in February as part of its profit-sharing program. Delta said it shares profits with employees more than any other U.S. airline or company, totaling over $10 billion in payouts over the past 10 years.
Drugmaker Merck said Tuesday it is investing $1 billion in a new Delaware plant to expand domestic production as it prepares to deal with President Trump’s tariffs.
The new facility will produce biologic drugs and Keytruda, becoming Merck’s first in-house US site to make the blockbuster cancer treatment, the company said.
Merck said last week its biggest tariff exposure is through Keytruda and it has enough US inventory for this year. It estimated $200 million in additional costs for the levies implemented to date.
Samsung mulls moving production of TVs,
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home appliances in response to Trump tariffs: report replies
Samsung Electronics is considering moving production of some of its TVs and home appliances as it looks to mitigate the impact of tariffs imposed by the Trump administration — even as its core chipmaking business struggles under the weight of American export restrictions targeting China.
Samsung did not disclose where the production might be shifted, according to the Japanese news agency Nikkei.
Currently, most of the televisions Samsung sells in the US are manufactured in Mexico, though the company also maintains a TV production facility in California.
For home appliances like refrigerators and washing machines, Samsung operates plants in both South Carolina and Mexico.
Democrats have been losing their minds over the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly obstructing federal agents from arresting an illegal alien, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz.
The agents had been waiting for him out in the hallway. The judge allegedly directed them away to see Milwaukee County Chief Judge Carl Ashley. Then, she allegedly hustled Flores-Ruiz out another door.
Democrats have been talking about how the arrest is an outrage, a constitutional crisis, and an affront to the rule of law. You even had Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) saying we should "fight this with everything we have." All of that was insane and utter nonsense.
Even for non-Catholics, the pope is a figure of world significance who can affect politics in every nation around the globe, as Francis, the first pope from Latin America, clearly did. On the latest episode of The Drill Down, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Institute avoid theology but instead follow the money the church received from the Biden administration, and it leads to the church’s role in the immigration crisis in the U.S.
Schweizer notes that a startling 80 percent of the cardinals who will choose the next pope were appointed by Francis himself. The worldwide breakdown of where those cardinals come from has changed, too.
Cuba Rearrests Anti-Communist Activist
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for Peaceful Protests Along with Family,
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Cuba on Tuesday once again arrested José Daniel Ferrer, leader of the largest dissident organization in the country, the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), three months after his release.
Ferrer’s sister, Ana Belkis Ferrer Garcia, first denounced the arrest of her brother using the activist’s social media accounts, adding that Castro regime officials assaulted Ferrer’s house in Santiago de Cuba, which doubles as UNPACU’s headquarters. The regime thugs reportedly ransacked it and took away Ferrer, his wife Nelva Ismarays Ortega Tamayo, their infant child Daniel José, and other activists.
The FBI reassigned many agents that were photographed kneeling during a 2020 protest after the death of George Floyd.
The reassignments are part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to remove “woke” and other politicized elements from within America’s intelligence community.
One former FBI official told CNN the reassignments raise concern the bureau bypassed its typical disciplinary process, which can reportedly take months or more than a year to review incidents.
American taxpayers must continue funding attorneys for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) facing deportation, United States District Judge Araceli Martinez Olguin has ruled.
Olguin, born in Mexico City, Mexico, and appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, has issued a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump from ending taxpayer funds being used to pay for lawyers for UACs.
The Trump administration had sought to get Olguin thrown off the case, revealing that she once worked as a managing attorney for one of the lead plaintiffs in the case, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto.
Attorneys for the Trump administration said Olguin’s handling of the case presents an
Tucker Carlson has claimed Michelle Obama hates her husband Barack, and that people like her, who aren't happily married, are to blame for society's collapse.
The former Fox News anchor made the blistering comments on The Megyn Kelly Show as he discussed the Obama's much-talked about 30-year marriage.
Carlson said former First Lady Michelle 'really dislikes her husband and it's super obvious.'
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I'm not just saying that to be catty... I think I'm trying to feel compassion for her but her hostility toward the guy is unbelievable.'
The conservative pundit went on to claim 'there's nothing more destabilizing than an unhappy marriage' and that's why he believes Michelle's
The Department of Transportation is “not going to fund” projects for states or localities if they continue to give licenses to illegal immigrants or continue diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
“We have what is called follow the law. We have so many states and municipalities that don’t follow the law,” Duffy said. “So whether it’s DEI — discriminating against Americans — whether they give illegals driver’s license or they’re sanctuary cities or states, if you don’t follow the law, if you’re giving license to illegals, if you’re having DEI policies,
Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Border Patrol
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United States District Court Judge Jennifer Thurston, appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California by former President Joe Biden, is blocking Border Patrol Agents across most of California from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant for their arrest.
This week, Thurston issued a preliminary injunction that will prevent Border Patrol agents in California’s eastern district, the largest judicial district in the state, from carrying out arrests of suspected illegal aliens without a warrant and halting such arrests unless agents have a “reasonable suspicion” the suspect is an illegal alien.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Democrat who once lived in the White House is now pretending to fear the very policies they helped pioneer. This week’s installment? Michelle Obama—the woman who spent eight years riding in Air Force One, dancing with Jimmy Fallon, and planting kale in the White House garden—now claims she lies awake at night fretting that Donald Trump might deport people of color.
Please.
Let’s cut through the coddled, media-fed hysteria and hit some cold, hard truth: if there were a presidential medal for deportations, Barack Obama would have a matching set. The man deported over three million people during his tenure.
Citing broken promises and unpaid response costs, the East Palestine City District Board of Education sued Norfolk Southern on Wednesday.
The board’s lawsuit wants $30 million to recover losses it says it incurred as a result of the Feb. 3, 2023, train derailment that led to a toxic chemical burn and economic and environmental concerns across two states.
“This disaster upended our students’ lives,” East Palestine Superintendent James Rook said in a statement. “Norfolk Southern promised it would not ‘walk away’ and would help our community ‘recover and thrive.’ But Norfolk Southern did walk away from our students. East Palestine has not recovered from the perception of contamination and long-term health consequences.
President Donald Trump’s Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, used the site of former President Joe Biden‘s fake Oval Office to address some members of the new media outlets that have been granted access to the press pool.
Leavitt used the fake set to emphasize the difference between the last and current administrations.
"This beautiful…auditorium…he used this like it was a fake Oval Office, weirdly, oddly. He was missing in action. He called lids at two in the afternoon!” Leavitt urged.
“That is NOT acceptable around here!” she added.
The Department of Homeland Security called out liberal media, Democrat influencers, and members of Congress who are spreading a “false narrative” claiming U.S. citizen children are being deported.
DHS said they are attempting to “demonize our ICE enforcement agents” with such claims.
“In both of these cases, the mothers had a final order of deportation,” DHS explained to CNN. “Rather than separate their families, ICE asked the mothers if they wanted to be removed with their children or if they wanted ICE to place the children with someone safe the parent designates. Both mothers chose to deport with their children.”
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has released the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for the 2024 school year. Known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” NAEP assesses the reading and math skills of America’s fourth and eighth graders. The latest report reveals something surprising: after adjusting for demographics, the reading and math scores of students in Mississippi and Louisiana, two heavily Republican states and among the poorest in the nation, have surpassed those in deeply Democratic states such as California and New York.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday in order to prevent the termination of three board members.
The CPB helps fund public media corporations such as NPR and PBS, which the Trump administration has targeted as it seeks to cut back on spending. Trump sought to remove three of the five CPB board members from their positions, but the corporation responded with a lawsuit arguing that the president lacks authority to remove board members.
Trent Morse, the deputy White House director of presidential personnel for the executive office of the president, sent an email on Monday informing three CPB board members they were "terminated effective immediately."
A group of illegal immigrants were detained in New Mexico for breaching a national defense area that was set up by the United States Army, according to a report from the Associated Press.
The Army created a “buffer zone” along 170 miles of the border with Mexico in cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
On Monday, federal prosecutors applied a charge for incursions into this defense area against illegal aliens who were detained by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Reportedly, the charges against at least a half-dozen immigrants for unauthorized entry on military defense property were signed by U.S. Attorney Ryan Ellison, an Alamogordo, New Mexico-native sworn into office April 18.
If you want to know what mass immigration without assimilation produces in a country, look no further than Scotland. Immigrants from Pakistan now constitute an ethno-religious voting bloc in that country with their very own politicians advocating for nakedly sectarian interests.
Recently, a video clip from 2022 resurfaced on social media of Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar standing in front of the flag of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan claiming that “change is coming” and forthrightly calling for ethnic and Muslim sectarianism in Scottish politics. Sarwar doesn’t mince words: He wants his people to take control of every level of government in Scotland.
A trio of House Democrats asked to be removed as co-sponsors of a resolution to impeach President Trump, a sign that many in the party do not want to go down the path of trying to remove the president from office — at least at the current moment.
Reps. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.), Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) and Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) had signed on as co-sponsors of Rep. Shri Thanedar’s (D-Mich.) impeachment resolution — which includes seven articles of impeachment — but Tuesday afternoon, they went to the House floor and asked for their names to be taken off the legislation. The House clerk granted their request.
In a stunning reversal that validates President Donald Trump's hardline stance, China caved on Tuesday and lifted its punitive 125% tariff on American ethane imports.
The communist regime had desperately slapped this tariff on U.S. ethane earlier this month in a failed attempt to counter Trump's brilliant Liberation Day tariff offensive. Obviously, it couldn't sustain the tariff — China depends on American ethane for its survival, gobbling up about half of our total ethane exports annually, according to federal energy data.
The reality is that major Chinese manufacturers like Satellite Chemical, SP Chemicals, Sinopec,
Wildfires spreading near Jerusalem, as a fire official says it "maybe the largest there has ever been in this country."
Large brushfires began Wednesday morning local time in the hills to the west of Jerusalem, but the fires are now spreading eastward, The Times of Israel reported.
“We are amidst a very large wildfire, maybe the largest there has ever been in this country,” said Fire and Rescue Service’s Jerusalem District commander Shmulik Friedman during a press conference held in Eshtaol on Wednesday evening.
Nuclear energy in the United States is undergoing a revival.
FOX Business correspondent Jeff Flock, reporting Wednesday from the site of a planned Natura Resources small modular nuclear reactor in Texas, said the U.S. has a "voracious appetite for energy" that nuclear reactors can help meet.
Natura Resources, founded by Doug Robinson, is developing molten salt reactors, a type of advanced small nuclear reactor. Its molten salt research reactor at Abilene Christian University in west-central Texas is scheduled to go live in just a couple of years.
In a shocking-not-shocking exclusive report in The (UK) Times, Europe "would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine" as part of a postwar peacekeeping force. Defense Editor Larisa Brown "was given a rare insight into conversations between Europe’s defence ministers and military chiefs as they thrashed out plans for a 'coalition of the willing' force," and the results are as disappointing as they are sobering.
And you know how much I hate sobering.
British defense chief Admiral Sir Tony Radakin asked European defense ministers "if they could put together a 64,000-strong force to send to [Ukraine] in the event of a peace deal."
Following her arrest for assisting a criminal illegal alien attempting to avoid capture, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended Judge Hannah Dugan from all judicial proceedings.MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, saying Tuesday that it is in the public interest to relieve her of her duties as she faces two federal charges.
[…] In its two-page order, the state Supreme Court said it was acting on its own initiative and not responding to a request from anyone. Liberal justices control the court 4-3.
[…] She is set to appear in court for arraignment May 15.
President Trump brushed off a poor economic report Monday — denying that his tariffs are contributing to business uncertainty and declaring that stocks will gain ground when more duties take effect.
“This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s,” the president wrote on Truth Social after the Department of Commerce announced that GDP had plunged 0.3% in the first three months of 2025.
“I didn’t take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang.'”
After Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, stirred the water by using her royal title five years after she was told not to do so publicly, a new report said she will lose that title when Prince William ascends to the throne.
Meghan acquired the right to use “HRH,” which stands for His/Her Royal Highness upon her marriage to Prince Harry. In 2020, when Harry and Meghan broke away from the Royal Family, Queen Elizabeth said the title was not to be used again in public, although no formal document was signed, as noted by the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
Meghan’s right to use the title became a subject of controversy when
Democratic Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is facing scrutiny after a bombshell 7News I-Team investigation revealed her office failed to properly disclose funding sources for a series of lavish trips.
Despite Bowser’s repeated claims that her domestic and international travels are part of economic development efforts, public records raise alarming questions. Bowser’s administration reportedly has no expense filings on record for trips to the Masters Tournament, Las Vegas, Miami, Mar-a-Lago, Dubai, or Doha, even though several of these outings appear to have been paid for by third-party entities, including foreign nations and
Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro announced that his regime will use the upcoming “May Day” Marxist holiday to demand the “liberation” of a two-year-old Venezuelan girl allegedly “kidnapped” by the U.S. — whose illegal alien parents are Tren de Aragua members — and the release of 252 Venezuelan illegals who also belong to the foreign terrorist organization and were deported from the U.S. to El Salvador.
“We will turn the great march on May 1 into a great march for the freedom of the kidnapped girl in Venezuela and for the freedom of all those kidnapped in El Salvador,” Ma
duro said
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins
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Drops All Charges Against Beleaguered
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Government overreach has always (and will always) be a problem, but the Biden administration seemed more than willing to take it to the next level. Overregulation was piled on overreach was piled on overzealous enforcement, and there can be no better example of this than the case of Charles and Heather Maude. The Maudes are South Dakota ranchers who had a dispute over land that had been leased by the Maudes for grazing, and instead of sitting down and talking with the Maudes, the Biden Department of Agriculture filed criminal charges. We originally brought you the story last September.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters that President Trump is looking to make it highly profitable for companies to bring production back to America with a combination of tax incentives, deregulation and cheap energy.
In a briefing on Tuesday, Bessent referenced the president’s 2017 tax bill and noted that one of its most powerful provisions was that it allowed “full expensing of equipment” to incentivize the construction of new factories in America.
Bessent said that Trump, in his speech to Congress, promised to make that provision retroactive to Jan 20 and is also looking to add “full expensing for factories” which will
Connecticut Democratic lawmakers are proposing that taxpayers foot the bill for high utility costs in the state, which policy experts who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation largely attributed to state-funded renewable energy projects.
Senate Bill 1560 proposes removing the public benefits charge — a required surcharge on utility customers’ bills that funds state-mandated programs, including renewable energy investment — from electricity bills. Instead, the state would borrow up to $2.4 billion by selling bonds, thus transferring the financial burden from utility customers to taxpayers.
Rep. Shri Thanedar, who no one had heard of until now, filed seven articles of impeachment against President Trump. He claimed that the President had violated the Supreme Court’s order to return the Maryland dad, Abrego Garcia. We previously reported that Yale scholar Jed Rubenfeld explained that President Trump didn’t violate the Supreme Court order.
Shri’s background seems too bizarre to be true.
Laura Loomer is researching him and believes he filed the articles of impeachment to get himself out of his $800,000 campaign debt.
If you’re of a certain age, you remember how president Gerald Ford became the butt of national jokes for falling on a staircase. During a trip to Austria, Ford got to the bottom of the stairs exiting the airplane and tripped, falling down the last few steps. Everyone from Saturday Night Live on down to local bar comics mocked him for looking like a slapstick character out of a silent picture.
Had that been Joe Biden (and it was, during Biden’s presidency), and had the year been 2020-2024, there would have been no joking in the national press or entertainment outlets. Even noticing that Biden fell
Marines Explore Counter-Drone Capabilities
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As modern warfare continues to evolve, so too must the tools and technologies used by the U.S. Marine Corps.
One area of particular concern in recent years has been the threat posed by unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones—particularly as demonstrated in ongoing global conflicts.
At this year’s Modern Day Marine expo in Washington, D.C., Marine Corps officials emphasized the need to modernize their Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) platform, with a specific eye toward integrating a counter-drone capability.
Col. Tim Hough, the Corps’ program manager for advanced amphibious assault, told attendees that lessons drawn from the war in Ukraine have brought the threat of drones into sharper focus for military planners.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones discussed the current challenges facing the Democratic Party, acknowledging that Democrats have yet to define a clear political platform beyond opposing President Donald Trump and entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Jones praised Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker for speaking out, stating, “I applaud Gov. Pritzker (D-IL). We do need people to stand up, and we do need people to try to raise the stakes.”
He continued, “Most people are sheeple, they’re going to look around and try to figure out what they’re supposed to do.
Federal ‘Job Corps’ Spends Up To $764K
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A Labor Department program designed to train 16- to 24-year-olds to join the workforce spends more per person annually than Ivy League colleges, but participants wind up making minimum wage on average — raising questions about whether it should continue to exist.
The Job Corps pays teenage runaways, high school dropouts, and twentysomething ex-cons to live in dormitories and receive their GEDs and vocational training. The national cost per graduate was $188,000, with the average graduate staying 13.5 months. Of more than 110 campuses, the 10 least efficient averaged a cost of $385,000 per graduate.
Why an Official Language Matters
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Around 15 years ago, during the recession, I finally landed a job running the photo studio for a large national company that sells office supplies. This after being out of work for about a year. I was ecstatic and could not wait to start the new job. When I showed up for my first day, the guy I was replacing told me not to unpack my bags because within several months, they were moving Photo to the middle of Iowa in a village with a huge warehouse, a stoplight, and not much else. Human Resources had neglected to mention this during the onboarding process,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday that he was fixing an initiative he said had gone “woke” under President Joe Biden’s administration — a move which prompted an object lesson in trying to meet liberals halfway.
Hegseth announced an end to the Women, Peace and Security program — described by The Hill as “a Pentagon program meant to advance women’s participation in peace-building and conflict prevention” — via X.
“WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops — distracting from our core task:
CNN pundit Scott Jennings is mulling a run to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), according to a new report, but he’s waiting to hear first from President Trump.
“If the president wants me, I’ll run,” the conservative political strategist spilled at an afterparty following the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, last Saturday, according to the Daily Beast.
“If he wants somebody else, I’ll support that candidate,” added Jennings
Former vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., continued a self-described “listening tour” across the country at a Harvard Kennedy School forum on Monday night, ruling out a 2028 presidential bid and revealing why former Vice President Kamala Harris chose him as her running mate.
Walz said Harris chose him, in part, because, “I could code talk to White guys watching football, fixing their truck” and “put them at ease.” The Minnesota governor described himself as the “permission structure” for White men from rural America to vote for Democrats.
President Trump humiliated ABC’s Terry Moran by revealing why he picked him for “the break of a lifetime” in getting to interview him on his 100th day in office.
The commander-in-chief put the senior national correspondent in his place during a tense exchange in which Moran challenged him about suspected MS-13 tattoos on deported illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
“Hey, they’re giving you the big break of a lifetime, you know you’re doing the interview,” Trump said. “I picked you because frankly, I never heard of you."
Virginia Giuffre is dead, and Attorney General Pam Bondi is nowhere to be found. The most prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex trafficking ring died by reported suicide in April—despite having previously warned that powerful people wanted her silenced and that she was not suicidal. Her death has rocked the survivor community, where other victims, like Juliette Rose Bryant, have now come forward expressing fear for their own safety. And yet, despite overseeing a massive cache of Epstein-related evidence promised to the American people in February, Bondi has gone quiet. Her failure to act decisively—despite weeks of mounting questions and a public desperate for answers
The Republican-led Texas House has officially caved to the radical Left’s war on free speech—and shockingly, it’s being spearheaded by none other than the state’s own scandal-plagued former House Speaker Dade Phelan.
On Tuesday, House Bill 366 passed with bipartisan support, making it a potential crime in the state of Texas to share or distribute AI-generated and “altered media”—including political memes—without a government-approved disclaimer on political ads.
According to the bill:
“A person may not, with the intent to influence an election, knowingly cause to be published, distributed, or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording,
Donald Trump held a rally in Michigan Tuesday evening to celebrate his first 100 days in office. While Republicans cheered for the president’s success in effectively closing the southern border to illegal immigrant crossing—exposing Joe Biden’s outright lie that it could not be done—his deportation efforts, his cutting of government waste and fraud with the help of DOGE, his removing of divisive racist DEI ideology from our federal institutions... the list of achievements goes on.
Democrats, however—and their friends in the lapdog legacy media—put on their sad faces and moaned about all the disasters that Trump has wrought upon our country. Seems to me, things aren't quite that apocalyptic;
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy continued his reign as the most quotable member of Congress with his latest description of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
In an interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity, Kennedy described the Democratic New York congresswoman as only he can.
Hannity prompted the Republican senator by discussing how the resistance party has refused to pivot even an inch since they were wiped out in the election, noting they are now the party of the Squad, "grandpa Bernie [Sanders]," AOC, and Jasmine Crockett.
Kennedy replied that he believes "Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is the leader of the Democratic Party today."
Don’t Believe the Anti-Hype
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You have undoubtedly heard the propaganda—apparently, Donald Trump’s in trouble in the polls. Apparently, Trump’s supporters are wracked by regret at having voted for him instead of for the half-wit who replaced the quarter-wit on the Democrat ticket. Apparently, Trump, who is doing absolutely nothing that he didn’t promise to do, has completely undermined his own popularity by doing what he promised to do.
If you believe that, after all that has happened since Donald Trump rode down that escalator almost a decade ago, your fellow American First patriots need to stage an intervention over your addiction to black pills.
It’s all a nonsense narrative.
Q. What’s the 2028 version of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?
A. J.B. Pritzker and Stacey Abrams. Their campaign slogan is Make America Morbidly Obese Again.
Pritzker has subtly, but very clearly called for political violence against Republicans. He deliberately timed this call for the first week of warm weather in the Chicago area. And there’s really no telling what will happen this weekend, or the rest of the summer, as a result.
We have a president who was targeted by active shooters — not once, but twice. He was actually shot once. There have been many other credible threats against Donald Trump’s life, including a plot
At a town hall meeting last week, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez — one of the few moderate Democrats left in the world — made a perfectly common-sensical statement: “Americans believe that only U.S. citizens should be determining the outcome of American elections.”
She was greeted with a torrent shouts, boos, and profanity, signs that said “shame” from her constituents, and was ushered out of room for “security reasons.”
After President Donald Trump called for a “revolution of common sense,” it spread like a virus – except among Democrats, who appear to have a natural immunity.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) declined on Tuesday to comment on its active investigation into Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the citizen of El Salvador deported last month, after two attorneys with the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS) informed The Tennessee Star of the federal investigation.
The revelation that Abrego Garcia is subject to an active investigation made to The Star after it inquired about the status of the Open Records Request filed on April 17 by Michael Patrick Leahy with TDOSHS, which the agency effectively denied due to its failure to respond within seven business days, as required by the Tennessee Public Records Act (TPRA).
I don’t know how to respond to Rep. Shri Thanedar's (D-MI) announcement: the man is filing several articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. Who is this guy? This move isn’t shocking, as Democrats were bound to do it at some point because derangement syndrome still runs high, though Elon Musk has become the new target of the Left. [Tweets, videos]
Still, it’s telling that no one is rallying around this no-name Democrat. It shows that the party remains a rudderless vessel with no leader or message. There is no alternative agenda—it’s all raging against Trump.
Amal Clooney could be barred from US under
Trump sanctions over ICC case against
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Trump sanctions over ICC case against
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Amal Clooney could be barred from entering the United States — where she lives with her Oscar-winning husband, George, and their daughters — for her role in influencing the International Criminal Court to charge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza.
The UK Foreign Office warned several senior barristers that they could be slapped with sanctions by the Trump administration for their involvement in the controversial case that saw the ICC issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant in November, the Financial Times reported.
Trump, 78, ordered ICC officials, employees and their immediate family members
Daily Caller senior editor Amber Duke perfectly turned the tables on a Democrat who called in to a C-SPAN show and tried to accuse her outlet of being racist.
John from Plainfield, New Jersey, said his question to Duke on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Sunday was, “Why we, as African Americans, should trust conservative media and Donald Trump?”
“I just don’t think ya’ll fair, and I personally feel that you want to bring back Jim Crow,” he asserted.
Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church died Easter Monday morning and his funeral was attended by thousands of mourners and a few faux Catholics like the Bidens and Nancy Pelosi.
Almost immediately after his death was announced, the media was swarmed with responses from Hollywood stars and other celebrities expressing their sympathy for the passing of this ‘beloved’ pontiff. Many other Catholics, conservative and fundamentalist, more likely silently thought, Ding, Dong, the pope is dead.” I, myself, do not believe that Pope Francis was an evil man,
Heeding the call to ban artificial ingredients by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., PepsiCo isn’t wasting any time getting started.
Ramon Laguarta, PepsiCo Inc. chair and chief executive officer, said in an April 24 conference call that the company will reduce artificial ingredients and has already begun doing so, as Food Business News reported.
“We’ve been leading the transformation of the industry now for a long time on sodium reduction, sugar reduction and better fats,” Laguarta said.
“Sixty percent-plus of our (portfolio) today doesn’t have any artificial colors,” he said — and the company is “undergoing that transition.”
Laguarta cited examples such as Lay’s and Tostitos,
Shocking video shows the moment a tourist stupidly climbed into a crocodile’s enclosure to pose for selfies, only for the animal to turn around and attack him.
The brainless visitor, 29, thought that the 15-foot reptile was a statue in the zoo in Zambonga Sibugay in the Philippines.
In the video, the man is seen climbing over a chain-link fence and wading through water before pulling out his cellphone and grinning.
Suddenly, the fully-grown female croc, named Lalay, charges toward the man, sinking her fangs into his arm.
Homeland Security agents in California rescued two teenage migrant sisters from the clutches of alleged sex traffickers after they came across the border as unaccompanied minors.
It’s the latest effort by the Trump administration to track down more than 320,000 migrant children who went missing under President Joe Biden’s watch — kids whom whistleblowers have warned are vulnerable to exploitation.
Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations saved the girls, ages 16 and 18, Saturday from captivity at a hotel in West Covina, California, where Christopher Ramirez was allegedly “pimping” the young sisters out, sources told The Post.
President Trump upset the Left on Tuesday morning by summarily dismissing three board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting appointed by President Biden. In response, CPB and the dismissed board members sued the Trump administration, insisting the CPB is a private corporation immune from such dismissals. This underlines the bizarre nature of the CPB, and how PBS and NPR tout it like an oxymoron: "A private corporation funded by the American people." The system is designed to be unaccountable to Congress or the president, to preserve their so-called "independence."
During an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that he could tell El Salvador to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia but “I’m not the one making this decision. We have lawyers who don’t want to do this,” and “If I were the president that just wanted to do anything, I’d probably keep him right where he is.” But he would push El Salvador if he thought Abrego Garcia was a good person.
While discussing the Abrego Garcia case, ABC News Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran said, “You could get him back. There’s a phone on this desk,
A report that Amazon would display price increases due to tariffs on its goods — which the company has since denied — landed CEO Jeff Bezos a phone call from President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Breitbart News can confirm.
CNN White House reporter Alayna Treene, citing two senior White House officials speaking anonymously, reported that Trump personally called Amazon’s founder to confront him about the report. A source familiar verified to Breitbart News that there was a call between Trump and Bezos in the morning. Punchbowl News first reported on Amazon’s alleged plan “to showcase how much tariffs were contributing to the price of goods sold on their platform.”
Illegal Alien Gets 25 Years in Prison
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An illegal alien, already deported from the United States once, was sentenced this week after pleading guilty to raping a woman in a Madison County, Mississippi, restaurant.
Jose Rigoberto Mejia-Cubias, a 37-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole or early release for raping a woman at Fernando’s Mexican Grill in Madison County.
According to prosecutors, on January 30 at around 1:00 a.m., a woman called police to report she had been raped at the restaurant by the bartender who had been serving her drinks all night. The bartender was Mejia-Cubias.
The woman said she woke up hours later on the restaurant’s floor
During an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that DOGE has saved a lot of money and he doesn’t think that the department has moved too quickly and without enough caution but he has had to undo some of the cuts made by the agency and “There are things that I’m considering, right now, putting back. But overall, we’ve saved hundreds of billions of dollars.”
ABC News Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran asked, “Elon Musk and DOGE, everyone knows that there’s wasteful government spending, it’s really important. But the cuts have had some serious consequences. There have been cuts to foreign aid programs that save lives
When Democrats are in power, they style themselves Dr. Jekyll; when out of power, they are Mr. Hyde.
To be sure, Democrats are not immune to protests from the far left, but in the main, we get lectures about norms and lectured by politicians like Obama that "elections have consequences." When Republicans get elected--and especially when Mr. Trump managed to make his way into office-- Democrats spend an awful lot of time explaining why assassins (Luigi Mangione), riots (George Floyd riots), vandalism (Tesla terrorism), and harassment of administration officials are all good, right, and necessary. Riots and harassment become the norms of the day.
Did warmonger John Bolton issue Pete Hegseth a thinly veiled threat?
Former NatSec Advisor to Trump John Bolton appeared on CNN on Tuesday to discuss media attacks and leaks against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
A series of leaks have battered Pete Hegseth for his use of the double-encrypted Signal app.
Use of the Signal app was approved during the Biden Regime, but it has only become a scandal under Trump 2.0.
Bolton ripped into Pete Hegseth and said he should resign for his “own safety’s sake.”
“Do you believe Hegseth should still be on the job?” CNN’s Pamela Brown asked John Bolton.
The stunning collapse of the Conservative Party's lead in the polls has led to this: The Liberals, having replaced Justin Trudeau with Mark Carney as their leader, are on the cusp of attaining an outright majority in the Canadian Parliament.
That sucks.
Before Trudeau bowed out of leadership and his role as Prime Minister, the Conservative Party looked set to cruise to victory. Canada was well and truly tired of the effete Trudeau, who, whether he truly is the son of Fidel Castro or not, certainly exhibited authoritarian tendencies. His antics no longer entertained, so he was rushed out the door.