Posts on Monday, May 5, 2025
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is withholding support for President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney for D.C., a move that could result in MAGA villain Judge Jeb Boasberg choosing who would fill the role — potentially even former Special Counsel Jack Smith. Trump, who announced in December 2024 that Ed Martin would serve as Chief of Staff at the Office of Management and Budget, installed Martin as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on January 20, 2025, later formally nominating him to take over long-term.
American Consumer Market Just Too Valuable
– India Agrees to Align with Trump Tariff
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– India Agrees to Align with Trump Tariff
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India was under pressure by both sides, the USA and China. Part of the Trump Indo-pacific plan was a geopolitical trade strategy aligning the United States with India. However, Beijing was pressuring India to reject alignment with the USA and form a mutually beneficial trade block with China. India has rejected the Chinese plan and chosen to follow the USA model because access to the U.S. consumer base is the stronger economic influence.
(snip) Reports indicate that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ready to accept all conditions of the US in a trade deal.
CNN thought it was a good idea to air a sympathetic interview with a Sinaloa Cartel member, and it shockingly didn’t go the way they wanted.
X users are dragging the network for asking the anonymous gang member how he felt about President Donald Trump labeling him and his group terrorists after Trump vowed to crack down on drug trafficking. Perhaps the most shocking part of the bizarre interview, filmed in a secret location in Mexico, was that the gangster said that Trump has his “respect.”
Fox Business host Charles Payne tore into people taking advantage of the Biden administration’s decisions to defer or forgive student loans Monday, saying it was time to “pay your damn student loans.”
The Department of Education announced it would resume collections on delinquent student loans, ending a pause from the COVID-19 pandemic that the Biden administration sought to continue, The Hill reported. Payne expressed little sympathy for claims that forcing borrowers to repay student loans would cause them financial hardship.
Pro-migration advocates are denouncing and urging illegal migrants to reject President Donald Trump’s offer of $1,ooo and free airline tickets to leave the country.
“This option might be WORSE for people who take advantage of it,” claimed Aaron Reichlin, a pro-migration advocate for the Immigration Council advocacy group. “For people [illegal migrants] in immigration court, it would likely mean a deportation order. For others [not detained for deportation], it would abandon clear options for staying.”
The economic payoff from subsidized re-migration home could be a huge economic windfall for ordinary Americans who will see better wages, more workplace investment, and cheaper housing.
Ready for an update on the Epstein file release from the “most transparent” administration ever? Yeah, well that “Phase 2”, or anything that’s actually worth a da*n isn’t coming—or as Karoline Leavitt said when questioned about progress on that front during a White House press conference: there’s “no specific” timeline, but Pam Bondi the “bulldog” and the DOJ are working “diligently” to see justice served.The DOJ holdovers that somehow didn’t have a problem “serving” at the direction of Merrick Garland and Joe Biden?
The “bulldog” who never went after Epstein in any capacity while she was attorney general for the state of Florida
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard visited U.S. Army troops at Camp MacKall, a training facility, and Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Friday.
During her visit, Gabbard discussed with warfighters and U.S. military intelligence leaders the best way to integrate intelligence with the military’s operations in an effort to keep Americans safe, secure, and free.
Gabbard also took part in an early morning workout with “50 of America’s best Special Forces warfighters,” Olivia Coleman, the press secretary for Gabbard, revealed in a post on X.
A photo of the workout on a white board revealed that Gabbard and Special Forces warfighters did sandbag burpees, sandbag squats, kettle bell swings, alternate lunges,
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) is pushing amnesty for millions of illegal aliens in the United States in response to President Donald Trump’s newly announced self-deportation program.
On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the launch of a program that will provide illegal aliens with a $1,000 stipend after they have proven to federal officials that they self-deported from the United States using the CBP Home mobile app.
Similar self-deportation programs, Breitbart News reported, have been adopted by European countries such as Germany, Denmark, and Sweden with much success in cutting illegal immigration.
In response, Gallego suggested he opposed self-deportations and instead offered an amnesty plan
Leftists across the country, many of whom are Boomers trying to relive their “glory days” of the 60’s, continue to protest against Donald Trump’s efforts to Make America Great Again.
While they lecture us to “believe all women,” they shout about bringing back a man who woke up in the middle of the night to slap his wife.
They shout about DOGE finding diabolical waste of taxpayer’s hard earned money across every component of the federal government because, apparently, they want the waste.
A legal immigrant from Africa, whose name is Fayz, had strong words for spoiled protestors and their endless public tantrums.
A Secret Service Agent violently pushed a man who appeared to get a little too close to Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner on Saturday night.
The First Daughter and her husband were out in Miami on Saturday night attending and event at Carbone Beach.
Bystanders surrounded the pair as they were leaving the event in South Beach.
A suspicious man carrying a manila folder got too close to Ivanka and Jared so a bodyguard swiftly and forcefully pushed him away.
Liberals will tell you that all illegal immigrants are just good-hearted people who want to work as maids, gardeners, crop pickers, and do the “jobs that Americans don’t want to do.” We always knew that sounded kind of racist and wasn’t true, but Donald Trump has fully exposed the lies of the Biden administration by proving that—despite Ole Joe’s assertion that he couldn’t stop the human tsunami—it could actually be done relatively quickly.
Which is course, is exactly what Trump did.
More and more news has been coming out about how among the millions of illegals Biden welcomed into our country, there are numerous gangbangers and vicious criminals.
National Institute of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya announced this week that the agency shuttered its in-house beagle laboratories.
Over the course of 40 years, thousands of beagles were murdered in the labs for experiments.
In 2016, the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) started an investigation that uncovered that the NIH killed thousands of beagles in barbaric experiments. In one specific example, the NIH pumped pneumonia-causing bacteria into 2,100+ beagles’ lungs, bled them out, and forced them into septic shock for an experiments.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that illegal immigrants who use the CBP Home app to initiate their own deportation procedures will receive a $1,000 bonus stipend.
In a statement on May 5, the agency said that illegal aliens would “receive both financial and travel assistance to facilitate travel back to their home country through the CBP Home App” and that those individuals who aren’t authorized to be in the United States will get the $1,000 stipend “after their return to their home country has been confirmed through the app.”
Trump administration officials have said that using the government’s self-deportation process is likely the best way
There have been a couple of aphorisms the press loves to trot out to the public as a means of describing – or more accurately deflecting away from - their actions and practices. The first is “We are not the enemy of the people.” Another is that they do not need to give equal airtime to issues because if they give Republicans a fair shot at coverage they are platforming what the press deems to be misinformation. Giving both sides of a story will legitimize the “wrong” side, in their elevated thinking.
Now keep these chestnuts in mind
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" had to retract a false claim by former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi suggesting FBI Director Kash Patel spent more time partying at nightclubs than working. It marks another embarrassing blunder that underscores the network's vulnerability to airing unverified allegations made by Figliuzzi.
Figliuzzi, a top FBI official during Obama’s first term and current NBC News analyst, made a sensational claim on Friday's show, suggesting there is "chaos" under Patel's leadership and that he spends significantly more time at nightclubs than he does working.
"Reportedly, he's (Patel) been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building," he claimed without evidence.
We all remember our first jobs. Those were the days! You were pretty sure you were going to be swimming in dough. My first attempt at "experiencing the joys of capitalism," as my dad was fond of saying, was at a movie theatre in my junior year of high school. I think I must have seen "Porky's" about 90 times. I can also remember seeing two different totals on that first paycheck, and my dad explaining to me what was meant by "net" and "gross." A recent video on X of a high school girl getting her first lesson in taxation will bring back memories for all of us,
They said I would be homeless, begging for soup, and regretting my vote for Donald Trump. That latest bit of fake news has imploded like the OceanGate submersible, and the media would like you to forget they were the top manufacturers of this economic panic porn.
In April, they were cranking out these stories about how this would be the worst market period since 1932. Why? President Trump initiated his tariff policy to reset the market, protect American workers, and rebuild stateside high-skill manufacturing sectors.
It’s not like the 1950s regarding some sectors, but the elites and Wall Street tried to turn the public against Trump,
An air traffic controller told an NBC News correspondent that flying into Newark Liberty International Airport is “not safe” for travelers.
“It is not safe. It is not a safe situation right now for the flying public,” the federal air safety employee reportedly told NBC News correspondent Tom Costello, according to multiple reports.
Costello added that this was “really an incredible statement, unsolicited. He just said that to me, and separately, ‘Don’t fly into Newark. Avoid Newark at all costs.’”
Newark Liberty is one of the busiest airports in the country, and the second-busiest in the New York City area.
In recent days, the airport had major delays.
It was only a matter of time.
After years of gender confusion being pumped into public schools, drag queens reading to toddlers in libraries, hormone blockers being given to children behind their parents’ backs, and activist teachers deliberately undermining family values—we’ve arrived at the next predictable, sickening stop on the cultural depravity express: the normalization of pedophilia.
The latest revolting example comes via a City Journal exposé on “B4U-ACT,” a Maryland-based organization that openly campaigns to destigmatize pedophilic attraction. The group pushes for the use of the term “MAPs” (Minor-Attracted Persons) to replace “pedophile,” argues for so-called “affirmative therapy,” and wants to give pedophiles a say in how they’re treated—yes, really.
It’s times like these that remind me that the Latin root of the words “Senate” and “senile” are the same. Of course, all bad senators aren’t senile. Some are just stupid. But sadly, even the stupid ones are necessary because we must keep the Senate in 2026 to make Donald Trump’s second administration a success. That means we must be smart and self-sacrificing, and GOP senators (and aspiring senators) must be smart and self-sacrificing. Which means we have a challenge.
We’ve not only got to keep the majority; we’ve got to expand it. With a small majority, every mediocrity eager for a minute in the spotlight –
Dozens of glamorous bikini-wearing women were frantically rescued from a sinking Lamborghini yacht off the coast of Miami Beach.
On Saturday afternoon, about 30 women jammed onto the luxurious vessel - made for just five passengers - for a boozy day in the sun during Formula One weekend.
They flaunted their ritzy excursion online - posting videos of themselves popping champagne and dancing as they laid out on the boat.
But chaos erupted when the $4.5million yacht started rapidly tipping over and sinking, quickly turning the flashy outing into a dire situation.
Footage from the yacht, shared by passenger Lauren Nicole, showed orange life vests being passed around as the women
The brutal home invasion and murder of a 47-year-old Israeli-American businessman last week led to the arrest of three suspects. The latest twist? How they got into the country.
You guessed the twist already, didn't you?
Yeah, they were illegal aliens.
First responders found Aleksandre Modebadze beaten to death at his home in Woodland Hills on April 26. Two days later, police arrested three illegal Georgian nationals — 38-year-old Paata Kochyashvili, 46-year-old Zaza Otarashvili, and 52-year-old Besiki Khutsishvili.
"In their investigation, homicide detectives determined three suspects had entered the home. After gaining entry, Modebadze was held captive and assaulted," according to a local TV news report.
In a development that should send chills down the spine of every American who cares about the rule of law, Judge James Boasberg — you remember this guy, right? — has somehow ended up with case after case involving President Donald Trump's second term.
The D.C. swamp's judicial machine continues its relentless assault on our duly elected president, with Boasberg emerging as its not-so-secret weapon. The so-called "random" assignment system has produced results that defy probability and reek of deliberate manipulation.
The good news is that House Republicans are fighting back.
Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Darrell Issa (R-Calif), and Chip Roy (R-Texas) are demanding answers from Angela Caesar,
The 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday afternoon from Columbia University in New York.
Widely regarded as the top honor in U.S. journalism, the Pulitzers recognize outstanding reporting, commentary and storytelling.
This year’s awards come at a fraught moment for the press, as journalists confront escalating threats to press freedom from the Trump administration, including efforts to control the White House press pool, oust wire services like The Associated Press and defund public and international media.
President Trump announced his first judicial nominee of his second term, kicking off what will be a historic next four years as he continues to build on the most consequential accomplishment of his first term by appointing even more bold and fearless judges. The stakes could not be higher as Democrat activist judges are actively sabotaging American voters, the presidency, our Constitution, and our country.
Trump nominated Whitney Hermandorfer to a Tennessee-based seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She is a brilliant legal mind and committed constitutionalist who has litigated critical First Amendment issues. Trump's first nomination stands in stark
The Israel Air Force is undertaking a joint counter-strike of the Houthis in Yemen along with the US night following the ballistic missile strike near Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Foreign reports are describing close to a dozen attack sites.
This is the sixth Israeli air strike on the Houthis since July 2024, following over 400 attacks by the Iranian proxy on Israel over the course of the war. Just before 9:00 p.m., the IDF formally acknowledged attacking the Houthis around the Hodeidah seaport in Yemen, approximately 2,000 kilometers away.
Targets included the Hodeidah seaport, which the IDF noted serves as a major
Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez: A billionaire
and a former bartender emerge as Trump
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and a former bartender emerge as Trump
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ATLANTA — The billionaire heir and the former bartender. Many Democrats have been in and out of the spotlight as the party looks for effective counters to President Donald Trump and his second administration. But two disparate figures, Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, have seen their national profiles rise by delivering messages that excite a demoralized and fractured party. The governor, a 60-year-old heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, and the congresswoman, the 35-year-old with working-class roots, both won their first elections in 2018. Both have urged mass resistance and accused their party of
Here’s something most people don’t realize: We didn’t have the type of system-wide, ultra-high-level, utterly catastrophic breaches of the federal government’s network security before a certain server going up in a certain Secretary of State’s bathroom in early 2009. It’s been astonishing to me over the years how nobody seems to have noted this or the timing. Well, it’s about time we did. We’ll do it here. We’ll have a look at how bad it’s been, but first, let’s recall what started it all.
A savvy move to provide incentives in any given matter can be very effective. That's a fancy way of saying, "If you offer to pay people, you can generally get them to do what you want."
On Monday, Fox News' Bill Melugin brought us the story of the Trump administration's plan to offer illegal aliens a deal - a free plane ticket and a $1,000 check to leave the United States voluntarily.
It might work. Mr. Melugin's post continues:
DHS tells @FoxNews this will save American taxpayers 70%, as it currently costs DHS, on average, over $17,000 to arrest, detain, and deport someone from the U.S., while paying
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel approved plans Monday to capture the entire Gaza Strip and to stay in the Palestinian territory for an unspecified amount of time, two Israeli officials said, a move that, if implemented, would vastly expand Israel’s operations there and likely draw fierce international opposition.
Israeli Cabinet ministers approved the plan in an early morning vote, hours after the Israeli military chief said the army was calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers.
The new plan, which the officials said was meant to help Israel achieve its war aims of defeating Hamas and freeing hostages held in Gaza, also calls for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
common talking point trotted out to defend congressional Republicans’ failure to advance conservative priorities is that the party has slim majorities, and therefore, trying to pass anything outside of the usual “uniparty” slop is next to impossible. But if that’s true, why does the same dynamic exist in states where Republicans have much larger legislative majorities and control the governor’s mansion?
On Wednesday, the GOP-controlled Texas House — which is run by liberal Republican Speaker Dustin Burrows — passed a bill that effectively seeks to criminalize the posting and distribution of certain altered media in political advertising.
Trump’s counterrevolution remains on
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Despite the media hysteria, President Donald Trump’s counterrevolution remains on course.
Its ultimate fate will probably rest with the state of the economy by the November 2026 midterm elections.
But its success also hinges on accomplishing what is right and long overdue — and then making such reforms quietly, compassionately and methodically.No country can long endure without sovereignty and security — or with 10 million to 12 million illegal immigrants crossing the border and half a million criminal foreign nationals roaming freely.
Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler told Breitbart News that the legislation she announced with lawmakers this week would help bring back American “economic independence” and supercharge the return of American industry by boosting SBA loans to small businesses.Administrator Loeffler, Senate Small Business Committee Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA), House Small Business Committee Chairman Roger Williams, and Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) make headlines this week when they announced the Made in America Manufacturing Finance Act,
It’s a dark time in New York’s Fire Island, San Francisco’s Castro Street, LA’s West Hollywood, or any of America’s other gay meccas. That’s because, as the New York Times despairingly reports, the “Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health.” But of course, this isn’t the tragedy the Times implies. That’s because, as even the Times reveals, the LGBTQ+ research that is getting cut is almost entirely about making it possible to engage in dangerous behaviors with fewer consequences.
According to the Times:
Gay-porn scandal ensnaring GOP nominee
John Reid splits Virginia Republicans
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John Reid splits Virginia Republicans
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Virginia Republicans are splintering over GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s call for the party’s lieutenant-governor nominee to step aside — after the hopeful was accused of posting gay porn on Tumblr.
Youngkin asked embattled candidate John Reid, a radio host in the Richmond area, to withdraw as the nominee upon learning of the images of naked men posted on an account using Reid’s Instagram handle last month.
Reid has denied the account is his and refused to step aside — leaving party faithful scrambling to unify about six months out from the state’s bellwether 2025 off-year election.
“That’s not my account,” Reid insisted after the scandal was unearthed by the Richmonder.
The Commanders are turning to the commander-in-chief to make a major announcement on Monday.
President Donald Trump will announce on Monday that the NFL draft is headed to Washington, D.C., in 2027, Axios reported.
The announcement will be made with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Commanders owner Josh Harris on hand at the White House, with the plan being for the three-day event to be held at the National Mall.
Trump had interacted with NFL personnel recently, with the Eagles visiting the White House last week and the president golfing and spending the day with Saquon Barkley before that.
President Trump called on his administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz so authorities could send the “dregs of society” to the notorious California prison more than six decades after it closed.
The commander in chief announced Sunday that he was directing the Bureau of Prisons and other federal agencies to get the massive island facility off the San Francisco bay — which has long been the lore of Hollywood — back up and running again to lock away homegrown, repeat criminals.“For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering,”
If you had told me just a few years ago that Michelle Obama would be a presidential candidate, I'd have said she was the most formidable opponent the Democratic Party could put up. Yet, as I sit here in May of 2025, I'm not even sure she'd survive a primary, much less be competitive in a general election.
Things have changed dramatically, and the spiral is continuing for Barack Obama's wife. Her new podcast has not only bombed in the ratings, but she's been using the platform to dish on her husband and call America racist while showing an astonishing amount of entitlement and lack
In perpetuity
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Last week, John wrote about Pres. Trump’s executive order defunding public broadcasting (PBS, NPR) and whether or not it will stand up.
I’m more interested in the reaction of the public broadcasters: unhinged hysteria. From the U.K. Guardian,
NPR and PBS push back against Trump’s order to cut funding: ‘This could be devastating’
PBS’s Paula Kerger and NPR’s Katherine Maher say they’re looking at legal options to defend against White House.
“Legal options.”
We’ve been told for decades that public broadcasting gets only a tiny percent of their funding from the Feds. From NPR itself,
NPR typically receives about 1%
Goodbye To All That
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We have entered a whole new era in our country’s political history. This is something we have written about before, but this current Rasmussen polling offers more evidence: Whites are a relatively weak group for President Trump, as are old people. He scores best with Hispanics, second best with Asians. Sex isn’t a big factor, although Trump is obviously more popular with men than with women. And age doesn’t matter much, either.
In other words, the Democrats’ relentless focus on “identity” is wholly misguided. “Identity” matters less than it ever has in our politics. And if Democrats think they are currying favor with Hispanics by aligning themselves with Central American gangs
During an appearance on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Chevron CEO Mike Wirth praised the Trump administration’s economic policies and downplayed the threat of a U.S. recession.
However, China’s influence over oil-rich Venezuela remains a concern, Chevron’s top executive said.
Transcript as follows:
BARTIROMO: And joining me now with more on America’s energy independence, in this “Sunday Morning Futures” exclusive, is the chairman and CEO of Chevron, Mike Wirth.
Mike, great to have you this weekend. Thank you so much for being here.
MIKE WIRTH, CEO, Chevron: Maria, good morning. It’s great to be with you.
BARTIROMO: I want to get started on the macro story.
Friday, during Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Trafalgar Group pollster Robert Cahaly called out so-called “fake polls” intended to pressure congressional Republicans to back away from the support of President Donald Trump’s agenda.
“You know, it was interesting to watch the focus group, Robert, with Van Jones, that I had in the opening monologue,” host Sean Hannity said. “And you know, people are not regretting voting for Donald Trump and then to watch their polls to say, yeah, if the election were held again today, Trump would still wipe the floor with Kamala Harris or probably any other Democrat for that matter. So, on the one
Netanyahu Backs Trump’s Iran Warning
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared firm support for President Donald Trump’s stance on Iran, which he declared in a post from March, hours after a deadly Houthi attack targeted Israel’s main airport.
Netanyahu posted on X (formerly Twitter) that “attacks by the Houthis emanate from Iran” and warned that Israel will respond at a time and place of its choosing — directly targeting “their Iranian terror masters.”
His post explicitly endorsed the statement by Trump in March, calling it “absolutely” correct.
“President Trump is absolutely right! Attacks by the Houthis emanate from Iran. Israel will respond to the Houthi attack against our main airport AND, at
Lincoln’s First 100 Days
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Among the most fatuous exercises engaged in by the Fourth Estate after the voters elect a chief executive is the publication of the dreaded “first 100 days” editorial. Having endured a protracted and usually acrimonious political campaign, the long-suffering public is subjected to utterly predictable screeds penned by the new president’s enemies and equally inevitable encomia written by his supporters. All of this blather is predicated on the preposterous notion that it is possible to divine the ultimate success or failure of a presidency a little more than three months after inauguration day.