Hundreds Of ODNI Jobs On Chopping Block
As Pulte Begins Trump-Mandated Cuts
Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 6/19/2026 7:42:40 PM
Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte reportedly arrived early for his new role and requested a full list of the office’s roughly 1,800 employees to evaluate potential firings. President Donald Trump has directed Pulte to shrink the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), describing the agency as “unnecessary and/or too big” and urging further staff reductions after previous cuts under former DNI Tulsi Gabbard, per The Wall Street Journal. Pulte assumed the acting DNI post on June 19, 2026, succeeding Gabbard, who resigned last month, as previously reported by The Dallas Express. He will continue serving as director of
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American Olympic canoeist arrested for
allegedly vandalizing Lincoln Memorial
Reflecting Pool 8 replies
allegedly vandalizing Lincoln Memorial
Reflecting Pool 8 replies
A former US Olympian was arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC.
David Hearn, a three-time Olympic canoeist, was cycling past the monument on Friday when he said he stopped and noticed a piece of the pool’s liner floating in the water.
Hearn, 67, claimed to the Washington Post he reached out and touched the detached piece and was quickly taken into custody by Park Police at the beleaguered monument. Video of the incident went viral, with Hearn shown looking bewildered as he’s confronted by members of the National Guard and then put in cuffs by US Park Police.
“I didn’t vandalize anything,” Hearn told The Washington Post.
Biden administration buried whistleblower
complaint alleging Fauci lied to Congress
during pandemic 3 replies
complaint alleging Fauci lied to Congress
during pandemic 3 replies
An intelligence community whistleblower formally accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of lying to Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Biden administration took the unusual step of yanking the complaint from the government's independent watchdogs and referring it instead to the political appointee overseeing the Health and Human Services Department, bombshell memos released by departing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard show.
The effort to divert the investigation of Fauci to then-HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra occurred shortly after the government's top pandemic doctor engaged in a discussion with the CIA
The White House has compiled a secret “blacklist” of prominent MAGA influencers who have been accused of taking money to post social media content aimed at shifting the discourse on important political issues or offering access to President Donald Trump, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
The White House is now monitoring signs that influencers may have been paid off by domestic or foreign lobbies to target the president and his supporters, according to the Daily Mail. The outlet named MAGA influencers C.J. Pearson, Rob Smith, Arynne Wexler, Emily Wilson and Ryan Fournier, co-founder of Students for Trump, as among the alleged offenders. “I just have utter contempt for them, there’s
Two political dynasties flamed out in Maine’s ranked-choice gubernatorial primaries earlier this month.
Republican Jonathan Bush, the nephew of former President George H. W. Bush and a cousin of former President George W. Bush, was eliminated from contention following the sixth round of tabulation.
On the Democratic side, Angus King III, the son of Sen. Angus King (D-Maine), was eliminated following the first round.
Democrat Hannah Pingree — the former speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and the daughter of Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) — and Republican Bobby Charles will compete this fall to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, the Maine Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Friday.
Zohran Mamdani made clear Democrats won’t be moderating anytime soon, urging the party to push further left at a New York City rally titled “Our Year, Our Team, ”alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, as they campaigned for a slate of democratic socialist candidates. “For far too long, our party has seen its job as managing decline instead of delivering material change for working people,” Mamdani said. “It has seen its job as explaining why we cannot instead of showing how we can, and that old way of thinking will lose on Tuesday. And frankly, it will lose in South Carolina and New Hampshire. It will fall short of 270 electoral votes
Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte reportedly arrived early for his new role and requested a full list of the office’s roughly 1,800 employees to evaluate potential firings.
President Donald Trump has directed Pulte to shrink the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), describing the agency as “unnecessary and/or too big” and urging further staff reductions after previous cuts under former DNI Tulsi Gabbard, per The Wall Street Journal.
Pulte assumed the acting DNI post on June 19, 2026, succeeding Gabbard, who resigned last month, as previously reported by The Dallas Express. He will continue serving as director of
For years, a South Florida nursing school operator sold a simple proposition: Skip the schooling, buy the diploma, become a nurse. Nearly 3,000 people took her up on it. On Monday, the scheme caught up with her. Carleen Noreus, 52, of Plantation, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering following a two-week trial in Fort Lauderdale. She had taken her chances before a jury rather than accepting a plea deal, changing her mind mid-trial, a decision prosecutors say will factor in her favor at sentencing.
Conservatives by temperament only reluctantly admit that anything, anywhere, has ever improved. But this most certainly has.
In short, the Vietnam War veterans who returned home to neglect or abuse from liberals have received their just due.
On Thursday at the White House, President Donald Trump provided literal physical support to 88-year-old Retired Marine Maj. James Capers while bestowing upon the patient, patriotic, and impossible-to-kill Capers a Congressional Medal of Honor he ought to have received decades ago.
A federal judge on Friday denied former President Joe Biden’s attempt to block the release of dozens of hours of audio recordings he made while working on his memoir.
The audio tapes were obtained by the Justice Department during its investigation into concerns that Biden mishandled classified materials. The Heritage Foundation initially filed a Freedom of Information Act request in April 2024 to obtain the conversations after the DOJ declined to press charges against the former president. When the Trump administration in February indicated its intent to reverse a Biden-era DOJ hold on the tapes, Biden retaliated with a lawsuit, arguing he holds “a right to privacy
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued a plea to foreign travelers visiting the United States for the FIFA World Cup, urging those with a newfound love of ranch dressing to pack bottles in their checked bags when flying. "If you’re visiting for a very large sporting event & you happen to discover RANCH while you’re here… pls pack it in your CHECKED BAG on the way home. Thank you," the TSA wrote on Thursday. Other posts from the TSA on the subject of flying with ranch include, "ok, please avoid chugging your ranch outside security the airlines will check it for you,"
Joe Biden wanted you to believe his last-minute pardon spree on January 20, 2025, was an act of selfless protection for loyal public servants and family members under siege from the incoming Trump administration. New reporting on Dr. Anthony Fauci's pardon blows that story to pieces.
It turns out Fauci didn't sit back and receive a gift from a grateful and cautious Joe Biden. He asked for it. He pushed for it. His lawyers hounded the White House for it right up until the literal final hours of the Biden presidency. Does that sound like the behavior of an innocent man being shielded out of generosity? Not to me.
The Conservative Americans PAC has financed a series of outside efforts tied to multiple primary election races in which they tried to elevate weaker Democrat candidates over their stronger primary opponents.
The group participated in contests across Nebraska’s 2nd District, Pennsylvania’s 7th, Texas’ 35th, New Jersey’s 7th, and Maine’s 2nd District, including working alongside affiliated political action committees (PACs) such as Lead Left PAC and Real Change PAC, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller. Conservative Americans PAC admits it aimed to influence Democrat primary elections, boosting weaker Democrat candidates for the benefit of Republicans in November’s general election.
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom slammed the “tradwife” trend on social media and blamed sexism for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris’ presidential election losses in a recent wide-ranging interview. She stopped in for the interview to promote her new movie, “Miss Representation: Rise Up,” while the Justice Department investigates the tax conduct of her and her husband, California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Siebel Newsom says the “tradwife” trend — which originated from the prominent roles women played in households within the 20th century and prior but has evolved into a social media subculture — oversimplifies women. “For the tradwife phenomenon, it’s like, you
As he prepared to sign his “memorandum of understanding” with the Islamic dictatorship of Iran, President Trump again insisted that his deal was much different than that of his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
He’s right — it’s probably worse.
Obama’s treaty did not prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, it simply punted the issue down the road in exchange for cash.
Trump’s agreement has the same vague promises, the same payouts, but with the added twist that Iran can and will take the world hostage by shutting the Strait of Hormuz at will.
On Friday, just days after the signing of the MOU, Iran moved to close the Strait,
Three elderly hikers died in apparent heat-related deaths while traversing the Grand Canyon's inner trails as temperatures spiked above 100 degrees. Rangers and emergency personnel responded to two separate heat-related incidents on June 12 and June 16, according to the National Park Service. "In both cases, the deceased hikers were hiking trails in the Inner Canyon, where temperatures can exceed 109 F in the shade during midday hours," the statement said. Emergency responders arrived to find the hikers already deceased on the trails. A 72-year-old man was found dead June 12 on the South Kaibab Trail due to heat-related symptoms
Team Algae and Filth has been busy at work, supported by CNN, ABC and various leftist media, in an attempt to grow algae back in the DC reflection pool, and cut out the newly installed lining. A few arrests have been made by DC park police.Yes, these folks are that unstable. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
President Trump responds to the effort via Truth Social:
“We’ve cleaned, renovated, and beautified over 45 Monuments and Memorials, 28 Statues, and 22 Fountains in Washington, D.C. Things are really looking good in our Nation’s Capital,,(snip) However, we’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool, which sits between The Washington
The chief medical examiner for New York City reportedly determined the death of Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) executive Kendal Ascher was related to a cosmetic procedure.
His death was due to acute respiratory failure because of pulmonary embolism linked to foreign material following cosmetic filler injections, the New York Post reported, citing the city medical examiner’s statement Tuesday. (snip) His husband, William Howe, attempted to assist, but Ascher tragically died in his arms.
The Trump White House is lashing out at some of its most reliable allies as a bitter civil war erupts on the right over the administration’s controversial Iran agreement.
Conservative commentator Batya Ungar-Sargon became the latest target Friday after she blasted the deal as an “utter humiliation” for the US and accused Vice President JD Vance of unfairly attacking Israel while defending Tehran.
Within hours the official White House rapid-response account on X unloaded on the conservative pundit in a pair of scathing posts.
“The only humiliation here is Batya desperately begging for an additional brain cell because her failing TV show—
Controversy over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is drawing national attention again after “Pro-Algae” protesters began a demonstration opposing the Trump administration's cleanup and restoration of the historic landmark. Independent journalist Emily Miller interviewed the self-described “Team Algae” protesters who reportedly return every day to protest the Reflecting Pool's cleanup.
“We have reached peak circus here,” Miller said, as National Park Service crews removed the green algae using advanced nanobubble technology.
This video, posted on YouTube, recorded the pro-algae protesters. Miller reported on X that at least one male protester was arrested for jumping into the water and grabbing hoses from female Park Service workers who were clearing the algae.
Sometimes, there's just so much smoke; you know there's got to be a fire there somewhere. Such would seem to be the case with the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been ducking and weaving frantically to avoid various investigations and inquiries ever since Joe Biden shambled out of the White House.
RedState's own Susie Moore reported on Fauci's latest woes earlier on Friday: Susie writes:
Thursday was Tulsi Gabbard's last day as the Director of National Intelligence, as she departs the Trump administration to address her husband's battle with bone cancer.
Buzz Patterson was the Air Force pilot who, as a Major, carried the nuclear football for Bill Clinton. He has since written several best-selling books about his experiences in the Clinton White House. He has also written about those experiences on X. The Daily Mail provides some insight:
[Patterson] said he primarily lived in the White House and was 'always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill', which made him quickly learn that the mood of the day 'depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary.' [skip]
He said in his X post that the day-to-day work for Clinton varied dramatically based on Hillary's whims,
American Olympic canoeist arrested for
allegedly vandalizing Lincoln Memorial
Reflecting Pool 8 replies
allegedly vandalizing Lincoln Memorial
Reflecting Pool 8 replies
A former US Olympian was arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC.
David Hearn, a three-time Olympic canoeist, was cycling past the monument on Friday when he said he stopped and noticed a piece of the pool’s liner floating in the water.
Hearn, 67, claimed to the Washington Post he reached out and touched the detached piece and was quickly taken into custody by Park Police at the beleaguered monument. Video of the incident went viral, with Hearn shown looking bewildered as he’s confronted by members of the National Guard and then put in cuffs by US Park Police.
“I didn’t vandalize anything,” Hearn told The Washington Post.
There are two primary obstacles to finding the truth in any given situation: Cognitive dissonance and propaganda. One always feeds into the other. Effective propaganda works because it caters to the biases or fears of it’s target audience. Cognitive dissonance is the open door through which propaganda enters the mind and controls it.
When it comes to Donald Trump and his administration, there is a LOT of propaganda and cognitive dissonance, and the vast majority of it is weaponized against him rather than for him. If you are unbiased,
Two political dynasties flamed out in Maine’s ranked-choice gubernatorial primaries earlier this month.
Republican Jonathan Bush, the nephew of former President George H. W. Bush and a cousin of former President George W. Bush, was eliminated from contention following the sixth round of tabulation.
On the Democratic side, Angus King III, the son of Sen. Angus King (D-Maine), was eliminated following the first round.
Democrat Hannah Pingree — the former speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and the daughter of Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) — and Republican Bobby Charles will compete this fall to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, the Maine Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Friday.