In A Mine! In A Mine! Where A Million ONTs Shine!
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Hello everybody, and welcome to Friday night! Crack open a cold one or pour a few fingers of a smooth one and let's get on with the show!
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Good Friday Cafe
—Ace
Your Easter parade displays need work, guys.
"Angels" singing prayers in Italy (IG). A little awkward, but cute-ish.
Cows are excited to be allowed outdoors for the first time since winter.
You had my interest, now you have my attention.
The staircase to the top of Yellowstone Falls (IG). Blind cat finally finds the toy he's hunting. One of the rarest creatures on Earth -- a Star Wars fan who's under 50. Five year old girl leads her dog through an agility course. I don't think the dog listens to her much. Dog is so happy her human has landed. When you're not home, your cat is doing crimes. Good to know: The Easter Bunny is not a pagan invention. It traces back to German customs in the 17th century. Well after Germany was Christianized, of course. Continue reading
Katy Perry is going to claim this stunt in the name of the Divine Feminine. (IG)
The Week In Woke
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Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_NEW: DHS has provided @FoxNews a bodycam image & HSI report from when Kilmar Abrego Garcia was pulled over by Tennessee Highway Patrol & was suspected of human trafficking in 2022. Per report, he had 8 people w/ no luggage in the car w/ him, & claimed to be driving them from TX to MD for construction work. Every passenger gave the same home address as Abrego Garcia's address. The report says Abrego Garcia was evasive during questioning, and had an expired license.
He was not arrested or charged with any crime in relation to the incident.
DHS says the report has yesterday's date due to redactions made of law enforcement sensitive info for public consumption, but this is an old document.
Abrego Garcia's wife was asked by liberal news clown Michael Strahan why she filed domestic abuse complaints against her MS-13 Maryland Husband in 2021. She refused to answer.
When Trump began listing the court documents establishing that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 human smuggler and wife-abuser, MSNBC decided to stop broadcasting. Here are the remarks Trump made that MSNBC censored from its lunatic assassination-promoting viewers.
Chris Van Hollen got back from his El Salvador stunt. His press conference was standing room only. Assuming "standing room only" means only one sad man standing in a big room.
El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele can't stop goofing on Van Hollen.
A Minnesota state government analyst was arrested for vandalizing Teslas. Why, it's almost as if the government exists to give the unemployable psychotic radicals of the Democrat Party jobs (or "jobs") in between their paid "protest" gigs.
That annoying trans activist called ICE agents "Nazis."
In the UK, a man is arrested for having said to someone "Speak English." He's told this is a hate crime. Speaking English in England is a hate crime.
Teacher insists that teaching kids about how to use butt plugs is her duty and her right and if you disagree you're saying "all queer sex is disgusting" and you're attacking the kind of sex she and her friends enjoy.
In California, Oregon, and Connecticut, the top-rated "women's" high jumpers are all male. The thing that never happens continues not happening at an escalating pace.
The brave woman who refused to fence the mentally-ill dude says "There's no end to the backlash that you may face" for standing up to shmen. She points out that referees will begin penalizing your for violating their religious cult doctrines.
Maine's AG, suing Trump to prevent the loss of funds to Maine, claims there are "no safety concerns" concerning men playing contact sports against girls.
After the U.S. Department of Justice sued Maine for putting women and girls at risk by allowing males to compete in their sports, the state's attorney general claimed -- with zero evidence -- that Maine's ideology poses "no concerns of safety.""There are no concerns about individuals who are just choosing which gender they want to give themself in order to participate," Democrat Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said in an interview with CNN. "So that, that too is really after a lot of work on whether or not there's any issue here that warrants this intrusion by the federal government into what's going on in Maine schools."
Frey was on CNN to defend his state's refusal to comply with Title IX federal civil rights law by continuing to allow men to compete against women. His appearance came after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a civil lawsuit against Maine for its noncompliance in the wake of multiple federal agencies trying to get the state to stop putting women and girls at risk for weeks.
"We've been working through to understand what, if any problem, really exists with the participation, if some of the harms that are being alleged really are of some concern, and what we've identified is, there really is -- there are no concerns of safety," Frey told CNN.
Frey either has no clue what he is talking about or is lying through his teeth, because it is not hard to find instances of serious injuries to women and girls at the hands of the biologically stronger and larger males they are forced to compete against.
Take Payton McNabb, for instance. She was invited as one of President Donald Trump's guests to his address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year because she suffered a concussion, brain bleed, and other trauma when a male athlete spiked a volleyball violently directly into her face. She still has issues with vision, partial paralysis, and mental health concerns associated with such injuries.
Which causes me to wonder, for the thousandth time: Then why do we have sex-segregated sports at all? If there's no meaningful difference between men and women in sports (btw, apropos of nothing, the top woman sprinter in the world's best time is slower than those of the top 1,500 high school boys in the US alone), then get rid of "girls'" sports and make them compete with the guys. We're all the same, right?
The Mayo Clinic renamed its Office of DEI to "Office of Belonging" to fake-comply with Trump's executive order.
People sometimes think that there's no harm done if an adult female teacher has sex with a male student. But what you forget is, most female pedophiles are heinous just like most male pedophiles are heinous. You don't want this on your sexual resume, kids. Say "no" to heinous pedophiles. At the current rate this country is going, you'll have sex at age 12 anyway, so hold out for something better.
Liberal "man" who looks like he'd totally prosper in a civil war environment calls for the killing of his political enemies.
Future Hero of the Pumpkin Spice Wars
This bulging-biceps Internet Tough Guy has some interesting theories on the forced cuckolding of fathers. Scan down to his "think" piece about whether women should be fertilized by randos' sperm so that no children could be said to "belong" to a father.
More calls for assassinating our duly-elected President, this one at Kent State. Sure hope another president doesn't have to call out the National Guard...
A California mom -- whose child had been "transitioned" by the school -- tried to offer a prayer at a school board meeting. The school board shut down this Terrorism immediately. "We don't do prayer," the chair of the board intoned.
Another Likely Terrorist is shouted down by peaceful trans activists. The school board yells at the Terrorist to stop addressing "the audience," which is heckling him.
They're going to have "trans" Easter events. That's nice.
libs of TikTok @libsoftiktokDEMONIC. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an "order of queer and trans nuns" are hosting a transgender Easter event at a public park in San Francisco this weekend which includes a "Hunky Jesus & Foxy Mary" drag contest and events for children.
They literally say that their show is inappropriate for children while still encouraging children to attend.
Make it make sense
Sorry to spoil Good Friday with that one.
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NPR: Trump's Plotting to Cut All of Our Funding
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The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.The memo, which the administration plans to send to Congress when it reconvenes from recess on April 28, will open a 45-day window in which the House and Senate can either approve the rescission or allow the money to be restored.
The official, who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity, confirmed the existence of the draft.
In a statement on Monday that did not refer to the memo, the White House said: "For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'" The statement includes examples of what the White House said is "trash that passes as 'news'" and "intolerance of non-leftist viewpoints."
NPR produces the award-winning news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered, while PBS is best known for its nightly PBS News Hour and its high-quality children's programming, such as Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.
There's a little commercial for NPR tucked right into NPR's article about NPR.
No bias here!
This month, on social media platforms, President Trump blasted the two primary public broadcasting networks, posting in all caps: "REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT 'MONSTERS' THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!"Trump is expected to propose rescinding $1.1 billion -- two years' worth of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a congressionally chartered independent nonprofit organization that in turn partially funds NPR and PBS.
Gentlemen, here are your talking points: "$1.1 billion is less than one-one-thousandth of our multi-trillion dollar budgets therefore we must never cut billions from the budget."
In making the move, the president appears to be drawing impetus from a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing in late March. The panel called NPR's and PBS' chiefs to testify, alleging the networks' news coverage is biased against conservatives.In a statement, NPR said: "Eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would have a devastating impact on American communities across the nation that rely on public radio for trusted local and national news, culture, lifesaving emergency alerts, and public safety information."
"We serve the public interest. It's not just in our name -- it's our mission. Across the country, locally owned public media stations represent a proud American tradition of public-private partnership for our shared common good," it said.
Paula Kerger, PBS' CEO and president, said the Trump administration's effort to rescind funding for public media would "disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people."
"There's nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress," she said.
NPR added this: This article was written by people working for NPR, who would therefore lose their jobs if NPR's funding was cut, but they didn't allow the ludicrously biased head of NPR to review the article, therefore, it's free of all bias or self-interest.
Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR correspondents David Folkenflik and Scott Neuman. It was edited by deputy business editor Emily Kopp and Managing Editors Gerry Holmes and Vickie Walton-James. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no NPR corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.
The article claims NPR and PBS aren't biased. Another lie.
The Free Beacon reviewed a bunch of PBS "documentaries." The main thesis of these "documentaries? Literally everything is racist.
PBS receives roughly 15 percent of its $373 million operating budget from the federal government. In addition to its member stations and on-demand streaming shows, some of the money goes to Independent Lens, the weekly series through which PBS airs documentary films. They often have to do with racism.The 2022 Independent Lens flick Racist Trees, for example, chronicles a black neighborhood in the overwhelmingly liberal "LGBTQ haven" of Palm Springs, Calif. The neighborhood's residents feel that a "wall of trees" that lines a nearby golf course was "intentionally planted to exclude and segregate" the neighborhood, and want the trees removed.
"They say that these trees are not racially motivated, that they were not racially planted there," one interviewee says in the film. "They can prove that by one simple act. Remove the trees."
Other Independent Lens documentaries similarly center on claims of racism, misogyny, and homophobia. There's Our League, the story of a transgender woman who "comes out to her old-school Ohio bowling league." There's also Ferguson Rises, a documentary in which PBS shadows the father of Michael Brown. And in Breaking the News, PBS documents the "women and LGBTQ+ journalists" who launched nonprofit newsroom The 19th to "buck a broken news media system." One interviewee in the film argues that it's easier for a white woman "to vote in space than it is for a black woman to vote in Philadelphia."
It's documentaries like those that have motivated the Trump administration to call to scrap taxpayer funds for PBS. The White House plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the entity that funds NPR and PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS has hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with deep ties to the Trump administration, to push back.
Video at the link.
Drew Holden
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I’m not sure people realize just how egregious some of NPR's "journalism" has been. Amid the debate about defunding the network, I wanted to walk down memory lane to revisit some of its worst coverage.
There's a lot.
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Minnesota AG and Islamist Keith Ellison Is Distancing Himself from a Fake "Charity" That Stole $250 Million in Covid Funds, Supposedly for Feeding Poor Children
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His grubby fingerprints are all over this, says David Strom.
The scandal, about which I have written a bit, can be condensed into a few sentences: DFL politicos hooked up with Somali immigrants tied to Ilhan Omar to rip off the state and federal government by charging hundreds of millions for meals they never provided to children during COVID.Hundreds of millions, and that is only one of the scams that Somalis have run with the cooperation of the Democrat-controlled government. There has been a similar fraud related to child care subsidies and home care services that never happened. All told, somewhere between $500 million and a billion dollars has been conned out of Minnesota taxpayers, and the local Democratic Party is deeply connected to it all.
In the case of this particular scandal, the lead conspirator was a former top official in Amy Klobuchar's office, not that you would ever know it from the news coverage. Aimee Bock was the ringleader, but most of the minions were Somali refugees with deep political ties to Ilhan Omar, Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey, and our very own Attorney General and former Democratic Party Vice Chair Keith Ellison.
Ellison is claiming he had nothing to do with the scam charity that stole a quarter of a billion dollars out of the mouths of poor children, but he's on tape pledging his support to the fraudsters.
Keith Ellison, Minnesota's attorney general, can clearly be heard pledging his support to individuals who would soon become his family's campaign donors and later Feeding Our Future criminal defendants.His recorded statements flatly contradict his contemporaneous public statements and raise uncomfortable questions about the intersection between political fundraising and constituent services.
American Experiment has exclusively obtained the complete 54-minute, 44-second audio file of a private December 2021 meeting between state Attorney General (AG) Keith Ellison and key figures in the Feeding Our Future scandal.
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As a document, it exceeds expectations. Voices can be heard clearly and are clearly identifiable. The highlights, which are many, tend to be front-loaded. I've included below some clips from the meeting to highlight a few points.
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The meeting proper begins at the 1:28 mark with introductions. The female voice heard beginning at 1:45 belongs to Ikram Mohamed. She is Feeding Our Future Defendant No. 63, overall, in the case and is expected to stand trial in December 2025.
Ikram worked as an employee/consultant for Feeding Our Future for a time and also participated in the free-food program independently. She has pled not guilty in the case.
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The first, but hardly the last, accusation of racism is dropped at 4:20. Beginning at 6:00, Omar describes (offers) his organization's fundraising prowess (6:30) on behalf of "elected officials who are willing to protect communities of color." To repeat, Omar has never been accused of any wrongdoing.
At 8:00, Ellison offers his initial thoughts on the meeting's introductory remarks:
Ellison describes his interventions with then-DHS Commissioner Jodi Harpstead starting at 8:15. Harpstead left her post earlier this year...
Ellison states on the recording that "we are in the middle of the battle with the agencies now" at 8:59. At 9:07, Ellison asserts that:
"Walz agrees with me that this piddly, stupid stuff running small people out of business is terrible."
At 9:22, Ellison can be heard drawing a diagram on a whiteboard. At 9:50, Ellison agrees with the proposition that there is state agency discrimination against East African businesses.
At 11:30, Ellison brags that:
"Just being able to say, just getting the question, just getting the inquiry from the AG is sometimes enough to make people knock it off."
See the article for more, and to hear the clips.
Another recording of Keith Ellison meeting with Feeding Our Future Vacation Homes grifters has dropped.
Another leaked audio recording links Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Feeding Our Future (FOF) scandal. This much earlier recording (June 2021) raises more questions about Ellison's public statements on the case and his office's less-than-adequate representation of the state Department of Education (MDE) in an FOF-filed lawsuit.Last week, American Experiment exclusively published a 55-minute audio recording, dated December 11, 2021, featuring AG Ellison meeting with a half-dozen or so individuals associated with the nonprofit Feeding Our Future (FOF). Feeding was the rogue nonprofit behind a $250 million theft from a taxpayer-funded program meant to feed children from low-income families.
That audio was recorded just 9 days before Ellison received several campaign donations from individuals linked to FOF. One month after that (January 20, 2022), FBI raids shut down the fraud and closed FOF.
To be clear, no one mentioned by name in this post has been accused of any wrongdoing in the Feeding Our Future case.
Well, may be. But the investigation is young.
...American Experiment was sent the following 19-second video.
The man standing on the left is Abshir Omar, the Feeding Our Future consultant. The man seated on the right is state Sen. Omar Fateh (DFL-62, Minneapolis). According to campaign finance records, Abshir Omar donated $1,000 to Sen. Fateh's re-election campaign on November 20, 2021. In addition to Abshir's, Sen. Fateh collected six other donations on that date.
It is alleged that the video above was shot on November 14, 2021. From the short video, it is not clear what subject is being discussed. The word "food" is mentioned by Abshir at the 11-second mark.
Below are the campaign donations accepted by the Ellisons (father and son) and Sen. Fateh from individuals linked to the Feeding Our Future scandal.
From the contributor list above, Abshir Omar is Donor "E."
We were also sent a 54-second audio recording, allegedly recorded much earlier on June 22, 2021. From the audio, it sounds as if the recording is of a telephone call or a Zoom meeting.
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The subject matter appears to be the ongoing state lawsuit between Feeding Our Future and the state Dept. of Education ("MDE"). The audio mentions (0:05) a contempt ruling filed against MDE, which occurred in June 2021. MDE was represented in the lawsuit by Ellison's office.
At the 24-second mark, Ellison respond to a question by stating that he had heard of the FOF/MDE case "late this afternoon." This contradicts Ellison's statement on the later December 2021 audio tape that he was unaware of the lawsuit.
The Self-Declared "Party of Science:" We Don't Want to Know Why Autism Rates Have Increased 1300% Over the Past 50 Years, Bigots
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RFKJr. talked about the skyrocketing rates of autism in children -- now 1 in 31 kids are autistic.
The numbers are worse for boys: 1 in 20 boys are autistic. In California, that number is 1 in 12.5, or about 8%.
RFKJr. wants to find out why 5% of our boys are now autistic (or 8% in California):
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Supreme Court Will Hear Trump's Argument to Overturn "Birthright Citizenship"
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Birthright citizenship is the theory that if someone is born in America, even if their parents are here illegally, they are American citizens by birthright.
This is the majority rule in the Western Hemisphere, but almost no European countries have this rule.
Birthright citizenship was never passed into law. Rather, it was asserted by the Supreme Court in a 19th century case.
Trump wants the rule changed so that anchor babies born here are not American citizens.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments May 15 on President Donald Trump's order to end birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants. While the justices declined to lift the nationwide pause on the policy, their decision to fast-track the case signals its legal and constitutional importance.Key Details:
Trump's executive order, signed on his first day in office, remains blocked by federal courts in three states.
The court will not immediately rule on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship but will review the legality of nationwide injunctions.
Trump hailed the court's decision to hear the case, saying he was "so happy" and calling the policy's origins misunderstood.
Diving Deeper:
In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear oral arguments on May 15 over former President Donald Trump's executive order ending automatic birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants and non-citizen residents. The announcement came via a brief, unsigned order that offered no reasoning, as is typical in emergency requests, but underscored the case's significance by granting expedited review.
At issue is whether lower courts overstepped their authority by imposing nationwide injunctions on the Trump administration's birthright citizenship policy, which the former president enacted on his first day back in office. The policy would eliminate automatic citizenship for individuals born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally--a direct challenge to a longstanding interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
That interpretation has held since 1898, when the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that nearly all children born on American soil are citizens, regardless of their parents' immigration status. Legal scholars have debated this for years, with some conservatives, including Trump ally John Eastman, arguing that the 14th Amendment was never intended to apply so broadly. Others, like New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, have called Trump's order "blatantly unconstitutional," pointing to post-Civil War intent and more than a century of legal precedent.
CNN: Trump and Musk Murdered a Federal Worker By Worrying Her With DOGE Cuts Until She Had a Heart Attack
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You've got to be ****ing kidding me with this sh** now, CNN.
You cannot be serious. You simply cannot be.
I know what you're thinking -- this bureaucrat was probably in terrific shape, which means that the heart attack was caused not by 50+ years of unhealthy living but just by Trump's and Musk's nefarious plotting.
And you're absolutely right -- she was an original member of the George Floyd Memorial Crossfit Center.
As you can see, she was a real health nut.
Healthy at any size -- but who can survive the combined evil of Trump and Musk?
CNN is really doing this:
In a federal workforce racked by stress and fear, one family shares a story of deathBy Sean Lyngaas
He's a "cybersecurity reporter," which we know now just means "he pushes censorship and propaganda behalf of the left and the Deep State."
Here's another example of his neutral, objective reporting:
'It's a bloodbath': Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies
It's almost as if he's a propagandist who is fighting for bureaucrats to keep their phoney-baloney jobs by This One Neat Trick of claiming every run-of-the-mill redundancy is a "bloodbath" or "slaughter" or, as in this case, a stealthy murder committed by use of the ultimate poison: Dark MAGA DOGE.
Stress and anxiety had been building for weeks in Monique Lockett, a 25-year veteran of the Social Security Administration, about the fate of her colleagues and the sensitive agency data she had vowed to protect, her sister Ksha told CNN.
That's apparently not a typo. Her name is "Ksha," no vowel in the beginning.
I believe Ksha is the third moon of Planet Vulcan but I'll have to double-check that. Please do not pump that disinformation out there until it's confirmed.
In February, amid sweeping changes to the federal workforce, Monique was five years from retirement but was facing one of the most uncertain periods of her career, according to Ksha. She was growing increasingly concerned about what Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency might do to the agency."My sister had a lot of anxiety around the changes that were happening in other agencies and, inevitably, what would happen to Social Security," Ksha told CNN. "She was concerned about the overall well-being of everybody that she worked with because it was stressful for a lot of people."
Yes, that's because she was crazy and neurotic. And her morbid obesity probably contributed to that. Obesity puts strains and stresses on the body, and therefore on the mind.
The Trump administration's demolition of federal programs and jobs has sent waves of anxiety and depression through a government workforce that is experiencing anger, hopelessness and worries about people harming themselves, according to interviews with federal workers, their family members and mental health professionals who spoke to CNN.
Mental patients should not be working for the federal government. Sorry not sorry.
Since the beginning of the DOGE-led program cuts, falsehoods have proliferated online about alleged fraud and wasteful programs, fueling a caricature in some Americans' minds of an inept or corrupt federal worker.
You're literally erasing the existence of bureaucrats, Hater Bigots.
Monique's final days were spent in that climate of fear and stress while feeling devalued in the workplace, before dying on the job two months ago, according to her sister.
By the way, CNN then links to this related story:
Related article 'It is a wrecking ball': Former DOGE worker describes Musk-led government-slashing effort from the inside
Gripping stuff.
Back to the "Trump and Musk did a murder" exposé:
"It was very upsetting to her to hear that what they did wasn't valued, what they did wasn't important and certainly that what they did was wasteful," Ksha said.
Monique died of hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease -- a buildup of plaque in the arteries -- according to Stephanie Moore, a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland.
As everyone knows, people build up lethal levels of plaque in their arteries over a matter a few months. Your arteries are clean, Trump gets elected, and then bang, four months later, you're as dead as Hunter Biden's legal career. And watercolor career.
Note she died two months ago so Trump and Musk worked their deadly spells over just two months, January and February.
This... is CNN.
It is impossible to know exactly what factors triggered Monique's health emergency that day. Chronic stress can increase the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to medical experts.
How about chronic morbid obesity? Does that have any impacts on people's cardiovascular health?
Or is it just the Heart Attack Laser Beams that Musk fires out of his eyes?
Ksha believes that stress may have been a factor in her sister's death.
Well as long as you can cite that to an expert, like the woman's sister "Ksha."
Monique usually called Ksha when she got to the Social Security Administration's vast campus outside of Baltimore, but Ksha's phone didn't ring the morning of February 18. Monique came in and went to her desk, where she fell asleep, according to a Baltimore County Police report that the agency shared with CNN. Paramedics spent about 40 minutes trying to revive her, the report says, but the 53-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sleep is a telltale symptom of lethal stress, as you know. Whenever I get stressed out so bad it hurts my health, I take a little nap. It puts me right out, like cheddar cheese.
Complications from Monique's disease can include a heart attack or stroke. According to the report, Ksha told police that Monique had obesity and high blood pressure, which she was taking medication for. Co-workers told the responding police officer that Monique was "not in a [sic] visible signs of distress" prior to falling asleep, the report said.
Oh so there are alternate theories in this Murder Mystery.
But nah, it was probably Trump.
When a cause of death is related to atherosclerosis, "stress can certainly play a role by increasing blood pressure and cortisol levels" -- a "stress hormone," said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University. "Chronic stress can also lead to increase in inflammation, which plays a role in both formation of new atherosclerosis and acute events."
A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration, or SSA, confirmed to CNN that an employee died at the agency's headquarters on February 18 but did not respond to further questions.
February 18th -- Trump took office on January 20th.
He killed her not in a couple of months, as I stupidly claimed above, but in just 29 days. Just one Leap Year February was all it took for Trump and Musk to choke her arteries with budget-induced plaque.
The DOGE team at SSA has grown to at least 10 people in the administration's three months in power, according to court documents. The Trump administration has tasked DOGE representatives, some of whom are detailed from other agencies, with finding fraud in the Social Security payment system -- while granting them access to sensitive data on millions of Americans.
That has nothing to do with the bizarre main claim in the article. It's just additional propaganda this "journalist" wanted to get in.
Here CNN links to another CNN exclusive:
Related article GOP states go 'DOGE-ing,' mimicking Musk's branding as they call attention to spending cuts
Back to Sean Lyngaas's breathless propaganda:
A federal judge on March 20 blocked DOGE's access to the SSA data that contains personal identifiable information and accused DOGE of being "essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA ... without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack."The multiple emails, sometimes on weekends, that the Trump administration has sent to SSA employees asking them about their productivity has had a "whiplash effect," according to a former SSA employee familiar with projects that Monique worked on. "It's creating a level of anxiety that's making it hard to do their jobs. These are good people who are being traumatized."
Monique "was an integral part of ... making sure that people's information was kept safe," Ksha said, and that "the right people had access to the right information."
She died protecting illegal aliens from having fraudulently-obtained benefits from being blocked. What a hero.
...A spokesperson for DOGE did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails seeking comment.
Because you're a silly pussymouth bitch specializing in Teen Beat panic porn for psychotic aging white leftwing women who are dead from the waist down and who can no longer feel any emotions except for fear and outrage.
"What happened to Monique was truly sad and tragic, literally shook me to the core," an SSA employee told CNN. 'Total fear and demoralization'Other current and former federal employees told CNN they have felt depressed or were concerned about colleagues harming themselves amid the layoffs and reorganizations. Alex Berman, an Internal Revenue Service employee who is a union leader in the Philadelphia area, said he has heard directly from colleagues who have experienced panic attacks and anxiety attacks in recent weeks.
In nearly 20 years as a union official, Berman said, he has talked with "a lot of people at the ends of their ropes."
"A lot of times, I'm happy to say that I was able to stand between them and the end of the cliff," Berman, whose agency is facing a potential 20% reduction in the workforce by DOGE, told CNN. "The few who could not step back from the cliff's edge will forever haunt me. And I can't help foreseeing more to come."
People do get stressed about the fear of being fired from their jobs... this happens all the time in the private sector. Every time one company buys another, everyone is afraid for their jobs as they know the first thing that will happen is that many of the employees of the old company will be fired.
Again, this is just standard life stress that everyone has to deal with.
Everyone, that is, except our precious extremely-highly-paid bureaucrats, who get paid like lawyers but have the job protections of longshoremen.
And they can retire at 58.
CNN saw that the Daily Beast was getting Outrage Clicks over their own story of woe and heart-ache, and wanted to get in on that scam.
Ultimately she was dragged out of the office by, quote, "DOGE goons."
DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker From Desk
The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.
A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to The Washington Post.Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency's data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.
The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk's DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the "death master file."
Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card. The goal was to push migrants who were granted a temporary legal status under former President Joe Biden to "self deport."
Jim Francis, a consumer law lawyer who is suing Social Security for wrongly entering a Maryland woman into the file, cast the repercussions in dire terms."It's the source of that data that the whole world uses, which is why, if it's inaccurate, it has such devastating impacts on people," he told the Post. "Overnight, you literally become financially paralyzed."
Fatal heart attacks and now paralysis.
...DOGE had been working on a strategy to push out immigrants since February. A group of about a dozen civil servants from Social Security were assigned to help Musk's goons--and agents from the Department of Homeland Security--with the plot.
February? Why that's when they killed young, healthy Monique?
Coincidence? I don't want to start any conspiracy theories but the theory that Musk and Trump have conspired to spray the Social Security building with Heart Attack Paralysis Gas is now proven.
THE MORNING RANT: The Slippery Slope to (Re)Normalizing American Slavery Keeps Getting Slipperier
—Buck Throckmorton
In my post earlier this week I expressed my concern that Principled Free Traders pretty much openly express their support nowadays for the use of overseas slave labor in the manufacture of consumer goods imported into the U.S., and what this situational tolerance for slavery portends.
The disturbing end point for this “libertarian” passion for the elimination of labor expense, despite the ongoing need for human labor, is a return to the “peculiar institution” that western nations finally abolished in the 19th century. Principled Free Traders are already quite open about their enthusiasm for the use of overseas chattel labor in the name of increased corporate profit and lower consumer prices. What is the principle that allows free trade libertarians to be comfortable with foreign slavery but not domestic slavery? It seems like a slippery slope.
I also noted how those most passionate about offshoring American industrial jobs tend to be the same people most enthusiastic about opening the U.S. border to an off-the-book, in-the-shadows workforce for those jobs which cannot be offshored. The common denominator is that there is a passion to reduce labor expense to as close to $0 as possible, be it with overseas slaves or with domestic illegal labor.
Isn’t it puzzling that “free market libertarians” who do chest-bumps and grave dances to celebrate American industrial workers losing their jobs are also passionate about importing off-the-book labor to do “the jobs that Americans won’t do.”
It’s all coming full circle now. Slavery is back in the American South, and it’s the perfect confluence of the libertarians’ ideal labor forces – foreign slaves serving as unregulated domestic labor…
Employees were Chinese nationals who had been recruited through a temporary visa program and promised high salaries. Instead, they were allegedly required to work 12-hour shifts, and they were not allowed to leave the factory or their residence. [Assistant District Attorney] Waldo said there were several calls to authorities reporting slave labor-like conditions, WBHF reported.
Libertarians and Principled Free Traders swoon at the idea of being able to control Chinese nationals who work 12-hour days and are prohibited from even leaving their apartments without their master’s employer’s consent, which coincidentally enough was not given. It’s funny how slave owners don’t like to give their chattel any passes from 24-hour control.
The authorities’ arrival at Wellmade Industries in Cartersville, roughly 40 miles north of Atlanta, was the culmination of what an official described as a “massive” labor trafficking investigation. At an April 4 news conference, Steven Schrank, special agent with a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said law enforcement encountered 60 victims of “horrific” forced labor.
Who owns Wellmade?
These sweeps yielded two arrests: Wellmade Industries’ owner, Zhu Chen, and his nephew, Jiayi Chen. A third person connected to the company, Jian Jun Lu, was arrested April 5. All three face felony charges of “trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude.”
The operation that Wellmade ran in Georgia is exactly what Principled Free Traders advocate for when they celebrate American jobs being replaced by Wellmade-style slaves in China and elsewhere.
Again, if slavery is wrong when practiced in the state of Georgia, how can we condone the exact same slavery being used to produce goods being sold on American shelves so long as the slaves are located in foreign lands. If re-shoring slavery would result in lower consumer prices, how could libertarians object? They already embrace and endorse slavery, at this point we’re just talking about its geographic location.
As I said, it’s a slippery slope that’s getting slipperier. And to be clear, slavery is an abomination before God that should not be tolerated anywhere. It is beyond despicable that there are “respectable” voices on the right who advocate for the exploitation of slave labor in the name of “free trade” and “lower consumer prices.”
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The Morning Report — 4/ 18 /25
—J.J. Sefton
Good GOOD FRIDAY morning kids!
Can the Democrats be so utterly clueless and tone-deaf or is it something else? Does Chris Van Hollen really think that sucking down margaritas with this criminal illegal alien in El Salvador, who has been linked to human trafficking as well as being accused of beating his wife is going to win friends and influence the electorate? Well, if Hillary Clinton, Jasmine Crockett and every other execrable Democrat wants to make this the hill to die on, who are we to oppose them. They painted themselves into this corner because they cannot concede an inch that President Trump might be right in any way shape or form.
And whatever legal procedural process may or may not have been violated in removing this fiend from our country, regardless of his violent criminal record and association with gangs are, the salient point is, from my knowledge of the law, he and other foreigners are not afforded the same due process rights as actual American citizens on American soil. His mere presence here is a crime that is punishable by immediate deportation. He may have been accidentally deported to the wrong country, but that should not mean he must be returned here. Send him back to his country of birth so he can help enrich their heritage. What has the Left shrieked about? We're deporting people who will cure cancer and invent the next great thing or some such rot.
While it's encouraging that illegal border crossings are way down and deportations and arrests even at businesses that employ illegals are up, I want to see the actual employers arrested, charged, tried, convicted and then fined heavily and/or imprisoned. That would deter the invasion like no wall ever could, IMHO.
I'll keep it short this morning but I want to wish all of you a most joyous and blessed Easter in advance. Have a great weekend.
And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
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Daily Tech News 18 April 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- A federal judge has ruled that Google is operating an illegal monopoly - again. (Associated Press)
Google's search engine was found in violation of antitrust laws last August, and the company's ad division has now joined it on the naughty list.
This doesn't mean that either one is an absolute monopoly, and they're not. But companies with a dominant market position are restricted from certain business practices that are not in themselves illegal, and that's where Google has run aground.
Now the DOJ will be arguing for specific penalties (most likely forcing Google to spin off a small number of products into separate businesses) and Google will be trying to tie this up in appeals until the Sun goes out.
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Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It's ONT We Go!
—WeirdDave
Greetings, Horde! Welcome to Thursday night. Say, anyone know what's going on in Florida?
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Husky Serenade Cafe
—Ace
by @BenStraussPhoto
A Japanese commercial for Mouse. I didn't know what "Mouse" was before the commercial and I don't know after, either.
A drone gets a little too close to the action (IG).
These homeless bum squatter bears are out of control (IG).
Forest firefighters dump water on to a blaze as a fan watches. (IG)
Cool looking magic trick, but the technique, as usual is dumb. (IG). This is why they say "never tell your magic secrets." It's because the secret is usually dumb.
FDC Willard, the world's greatest scientist who is also cat. (IG)
BTW, I know some of you don't like Instagram (IG) posts. I'm linking them, though, because it's hard to find good photos on Twitter now. Most searches for "photography" turn up videos and pictures of Japanese "models" and likely prostitutes. (Who are not hot -- so don't bother looking.)
So I go to Instagram to find photos, and wind up finding videos I don't want to waste, so I post them. It's hard to find photos on IG now, too, unfortunately.
Sure he's only benching an empty bar but you gotta admire the focus.
In Sweden, it's Moose Migration Season. Remember to set your clocks back, Mooses.
Four-year-old plays Beethoven.
Rescued lioness touches grass for first time.
The family that bikes each other likes each other.
The CIA's former head of disguise -- who is coincidentally married to the CIA agent who ran the "Argo" op -- always claims that the CIA have these "five-second disguises" you can just put on and fool people so long as they're not closely inspecting you. She claims these masks can fool a person even if he's "within three or four feet of you."
I kinda thought she was exaggerating, but I guess not. Some guy posted his own latex disguise on X, and dang, it's pretty convincing.
Second look at Mission: Impossible?
A tree so huge that people had to build supports for its massive limbs.
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Quick Hits
—Ace
Oh, no! Greedy corporations are going to make a "shoplifting desert" in Chicago!
Another BB story about senior astronaut Katy Perry.
Oh my: Shakedown artist Joe Biden is advertising his availability to give you a rambling incoherent speech for -- get this -- $300,000 a pop, but it turns out that oligarchs no longer so eager to pour money into his pockets.
It's not just Biden family artwork that's struggling to sell these days.Former President Joe Biden's attempt to bill $300,000 per speaking appearance is finding few takers, The Post has learned -- as some of his own former aides say it's time for the 82-year-old to leave the spotlight for good after reminiscing about "colored kids" Tuesday in his first public address since leaving office.
A source familiar with Biden's faltering speaking career said that the 46th president's standard pitch is $300,000 -- 25% below Barack Obama's $400,000 asking price upon leaving office in 2017.
It's unclear how negotiable Biden's rate is.
If travel is required, a private jet and expenses for five staffers also is expected for Biden, who has been repped since leaving office by the Creative Artists Agency.
"CAA is having trouble booking gigs, which isn't surprising," the tipster said.
A second source said they had heard of people close to Biden floating an even higher desired speaking fee, despite the ex-commander in chief having a history of peddling glaring inaccuracies before his political career came to a crashing end when he delivered incoherent debate remarks that prompted a Democratic mutiny.
Biden's use of "colored" to refer to black people while speaking at a disability conference in Chicago earlier this week has some former aides hoping he will spend more time at his Rehoboth Beach house.
"This was hard to watch," said one former White House official. "It felt like seeing someone you care about start to regress. We just wanted him to enjoy retirement like other presidents -- not go out like this."
Boy, remember the old days, Joe? When you could just tell a country to fire a prosecutor investigating your son's influence-seeking business and they'd comply?
Trump commented on the Biden Presidency: "Worst administration in our country's history. Jimmy Carter died a happy man. You know why? Because he wasn't the worst president, Joe Biden was."
Rubio announces that he's shutting down the State Department's censorship program. If this sounds familiar, that's because he already shut it down, but the Deep State kept it going under a different name. (Stop me if you heard this one before.)
Now he's shutting it down under its new assumed name.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the closure of a State Department effort that he accused of spending millions on censorship."I am announcing the closure of the State Department's Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI), formerly known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC)," Rubio said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
"Under the previous administration, this office, which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year, spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving," Rubio asserted.
The GEC closed in December, according to an archived State Department website content that is still viewable online.
Rubio asserted in a piece published on The Federalist that the GEC had not actually ended, but was simply re-branded.
"When Republicans in Congress sunset GEC's funding at the end of last year, the Biden State Department simply slapped on a new name. The GEC became the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R-FIMI) office, with the same roster of employees. With this new name, they hoped to survive the transition to the new administration," Rubio wrote. "Today, we are putting that to an end. Whatever name it goes by, GEC is dead. It will not return."
The Deep State is so corrupt that even its agencies have criminal aliases.
Ed Morrissey reports that a new Politico poll shows that some voters are getting tired of the Democrats' endless "resistance" to democratic choices made by the public.
Those voters? California Democrats.
In a dual survey of California voters and political professionals who are driving the state's agenda, the electorate is strikingly more likely to want a detente with the White House. Voters are also more divided on issues like immigration and climate change, where Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers have asserted progressive ambitions that rebuff the president's agenda.A plurality of voters is skeptical of legal immigration, and less than half think the state should be able to set its own strict standards on vehicle emissions, an authority California has used for more than half a century.
The results suggest a disconnect between the policymaking class and voters in an overwhelmingly blue state where Trump made broad inroads in 2024 amid widespread frustrations over crime and a prohibitively high cost of living. Registered Democrats, however -- who comprise nearly half the electorate -- are more enthusiastic about progressive policies and more eager to challenge Trump's Washington.
The poll shows that even Democrats want moderation, not more extremism and election-denial.
Bernie and AOC understood the assignment, and the assignment was Grift 'em Until Their Eyes Spin.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has crisscrossed the country on his nationwide Fighting Oligarchy Tour to rail against billionaires and supposed "oligarchs" like Elon Musk--while traveling like an oligarch himself.Campaign expenditures released Tuesday and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show Sanders's main campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, spent $221,723 chartering private jets during the first quarter of 2025, with the first payment coming just days before the launch of his tour in February.
"We will not accept a rigged economy where working people struggle while billionaires become richer," Sanders said during the tour's latest event in California on Tuesday. "We have got to create an economy that works for working people, not just Mr. Musk and the billionaire class." But Sanders has had no issue splurging on private jets far beyond the means of working people, even as he has ramped up his attacks on the rich.
The revelation is just the latest contrast between his socialist rhetoric and his millionaire lifestyle....
Contrast? His socialist rhetoric is how he earned his millionaire lifestyle!
The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFoxNEW: Scott Jennings torpedoes Democrat shill's entire MS-13 gang member defense--with one devastating question.
It didn't feel like a CNN panel.
It felt like a National Geographic nature documentary--where a predator stalks its prey, just waiting for that one fatal misstep.
Democrat strategist Julie Roginsky tried to defend deported MS-13 gang member Abrego Garcia.
Her argument? That he wasn't a gang member and he was "disappeared" without due process.
"There's due process that exists in this country for everybody," she said. "And the fact that this man received no due process--he was effectively disappeared to a foreign country, a country which he came from."
Then she slipped: "He got asylum--"
@ScottJenningsKY
pounced."That's not a foreign country. He lives there."
"Excuse me! No, he does not live there," Roginsky snapped.
"He's a citizen of El Salvador," Jennings replied.
"Excuse me! No, he does not live there!"
"He's a citizen. Does he have asylum?" Jennings pressed.
She backpedaled: "Excuse me! Let me finish. No, sorry. No, it's not that he got asylum. He got a judge to say that he could not be--"
Jennings closed in: "Does he have a deportation order?"
"Excuse me! He could not be--can you let me finish? He could not be rendered back to El Salvador," she said, "because he was at risk of being harmed in El Salvador."
Jennings went for the jugular:
"By who? By who?! By who? I'm asking you!"
"Who was he at risk of?"
Roginsky froze. "Who could he be at risk by? I don't know..."
Then came the kill shot:
"A rival gang. A RIVAL gang."
Jennings turned to the camera and grinned like a lion licking its chops after a fresh kill.
Argument over. Her narrative? Obliterated--by her own words.
Mark Penn @Mark_PennRunaway Judge
Judge Boasberg reminds me of Merrick Garland -- well educated and intelligent and yet partisan to the core.
Boasberg did nothing when the rights of officials were being violated under FISA warrants that should not have been issued and gave a slap on the wrist to the FBI attorney who deliberately changed an email from the CIA that said Carter Page was a source they worked with and he deliberately added "NOT" to reverse the meaning and used the fake email to get a secret warrant to issue illegal wiretaps.
Now he is threatening criminal prosecutions of Trump officials and says he might even settup a special prosecutor under his own authority so he could become both prosecutor and judge.
The Supreme Court said his orders were null and void -- that they never should have been issued and that he had no jurisdiction. And now he says that even "erroneous" court orders must be followed. Really.
He has now gone overboard in his attempt to reassert his authority when he had none in the first place. So judges can make erroneous rulings, be completely overturned, and then keep going anyway? In this case, it's Boasberg who needs a restraining order on his now clearly partisan behavior here.
Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter"I am shocked, shocked I say, by the total lack of due process involving these undocumented immigrants!"
"You mean how there was no due process to allow them into the United States in the first place?"
"No, not that kind of due process. That kind of due process is bad. You know, the kind that protects Americans?"
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Race-Murderer Karmello Anthony Is Given $500,000 In Donations for Killing an Innocent White Kid
—Ace
He's now renting a luxurious $900,000 home in a gated community.
Oh, so now he knows the meaning of people having their own reserved space.
The Texas teen accused of fatally stabbing a high school football star at a track meet allegedly lives in a $900,000 home with his family inside a luxurious gated community -- despite requesting that a judge lower his $1 million bond because of financial difficulties, according to a report.Karmelo Anthony, 17, is holed up with his family at the pricey home inside the gated community of Richwoods in Frisco, Texas, after he was released from jail Monday on a reduced $250,000 bond for allegedly killing Austin Metcalf earlier this month, the Daily Mail reported.
The home -- where rent is estimated to be $3,500 a month -- had a white Suburban, a black Acura, and a third sedan in the driveway on Tuesday, according to the outlet.
A neighbor said the family had just bought a new ride."He got a new car," the resident told the outlet. "If you look at the license plate, it's got a paper tag and it says it expires June 4."
Richwoods is about a mile from Centennial High School, where Anthony went to school and ran track.
Residents in the gated community were allegedly unaware the family was living at the home until Anthony was released Monday, and have voiced concerns about having the accused killer in their exclusive neighborhood.
"Not good. Not good. I don't think he should be out," an anonymous mother in the neighborhood told the Daily Mail.
Don't say that to him or he'll stab you in the heart with a Mostly Peaceful Knife.
...The home has also been getting flooded with deliveries, allegedly for Anthony, with Amazon trucks being seen making multiple drop-offs at his home, the outlet reported.
"The best thing they can do is move," said another neighbor. "I think that would be best for everyone."
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Initially, he was being held on a $1 million bond until a Collin County judge slashed it to $250K and ruled that he may await trial at home with an ankle monitor under 24-hour supervision from his parents or an "adult designee."
The lowered bond came one week after Anthony's attorney said they would ask the court to reduce the "excessive" $1 million bond and asked the local district attorney to make "a better determination" of the charges.
"Given that Karmelo has no prior criminal history and given that this young man has not been in any sort of trouble before, $1 million is not necessary," Howard said.
Except that he's an admitted murderer. He admitted he killed the victim. And of course witnesses saw it.
He is a major flight risk, has a stack of cash thanks to his fellow Helter Skelter revolutionaries, and you only reduced this psycho killer's bail because he's black.
Two tiers of justice. It's not just for the UK.
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"Journalist" Gayle King Thinks She's an Astronaut Now, Attacks Sexism for Denying Her Credit
—Ace
Some of you are probably tired of this story. I'm not. I'm just getting warmed up.
This energizes me.
But I do know this is now three days old so I'll only have this post up for 40 minutes before I post another one.
"Journalist" Gayle King is now also an "astronaut," the talentless, corrupt hanger-on now claims.
CBS host Gayle King responded to the backlash over the Blue Origin space flight on Tuesday and suggested the all-female crew was being held to a different standard than men who've been to space.The journalist and talk show host was part of a historic flight on Monday that also carried Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sánchez; pop star Katy Perry; film producer Kerianne Flynn; NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe; and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen.
Nothing says Scientific Flight like "civil rights activist" or "film producer" or "pop star" or "Jeff Bezos' Current Slam-Piece."
The rocket landed safely after roughly a 10-minute flight. The high-profile trip drew some criticism from those who questioned if the brief flight was a worthwhile use of resources.
Leftwing critics are bemoaning the use of resources and filling the air with carbon dioxide (the Invisible Killer, longtime readers will remember).
Other people are just laughing at them for spending three minutes in "space" after two days (!!!) of "training." And oh, the "training" was about how to enter and exit the capsule and how to secure your seatbelts.
That's needed "training" but... I don't think that if I'm on a plane and they give me a demonstration of how to put on an oxygen mask I'm a pilot.
They were space tourists, period. The "training" is legally required. Yes, they did show some amount of bravery -- barely -- by chancing the trip, but people take greater risks waiting for NYC subways every single day.
The criticism is not about what they did -- which was fine -- but over the inordinate amount of praise they're pouring on themselves and demanding others repeat.
Everyone knows that if you do something praiseworthy, you're supposed to say thank you, but deflect the compliment and say "It was no big deal, it was really all thanks to my fellow team-members and also, most of all, thanks to God."
You're not supposed to say "I'm awesome for being a passenger for 10 minutes! I'm a Space Astronaut and I touched the Divine Feminine," which is what these loopy broads all did.
King responded to the backlash in comments to Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, where she compared the Blue Origin flight to the historic space flight taken by American astronaut Alan Shepard in 1961."Please don't call it a 'ride,'" she added, claiming people don't use this term when talking about men going into space.
"We duplicated the same trajectory that Alan Shepard did back in the day, pretty much. No one called that a 'ride,'" King said. "It was called a flight, it was called a journey."
Shepard was trained to take control of his capsule if necessary.
Were you? Did your two days of training include five years of pilot training?
"There was nothing frivolous about what we did," she added.
People take cruises and do not usually call themselves mariners.
What you did was a pastime, not "science." I don't begrudge you a pastime but we also don't hand out Medals of Honor to people who kill 100 Germans via head-shot in Call of Duty.
"I'm very disappointed and very saddened by it," the CBS host continued. "And I also say this, what it's doing to inspire other women and young girls, please don't ignore that."
Inspiring girls to do what? Make friends with Oprah and turn that into a career so you can take one of three diversity slots in a billionaire's space tourism capsule?
She also addressed liberal critics who complained about the environmental impact, saying that Bezos' mission with Blue Origin was to discover if the rocket would be able to take waste from Earth into space to "make our planet cleaner.""Space is not an either/or. It's a both/and. And because you do something in space doesn't mean you're taking anything away from Earth," King argued.
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King previously told critics at a press conference on Monday that anyone bashing the flight "doesn't really understand" the historical significance of the space flight.
"We can all speak to the response we're getting from young women, from young girls about what this represents," she added.
I've flown in a plane a few times. I'm a pilot! I'm just like Chuck Yaeger!!!
She's basically claiming that going on Space Mountain makes you a part of Star Fleet.
Bonus: This may shock you, but "journalist" and "astronaut" Gayle King was spreading disinformation when she claimed men are never said to have merely "taken a ride."
From the Wikipedia entry on Hamish Harding, the British billionaire who died when the OceanGate Titan imploded:Harding flew to space as part of the suborbital Blue Origin NS-21 mission, on 4 June 2022, on the fifth crewed spaceflight of the New Shepard rocket. After travelling to space, he advocated for space tourists (paid recreational spaceflight passengers) to be called astronauts.Why is this relevant? Because Harding, like King, chafed at being described as what he was: a tourist.
Not just a man, but a billionaire white man! *He* was a tourist, too, Gayle, and he wasn't happy about his trip being called what it was: tourism. But it *was* called that, and so was he.
So stuff it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Noted Feminist Megy Kelly does not feel inspired or empowered by these astronauts' immense accomplishments.
As Megyn lamented on Monday's show, the narrative surrounding this trip was one of "female empowerment," but she did not see much to celebrate. "I don't feel empowered. If there had been six female astronauts going up, then, yes, okay," she said. "But what did these women do? The one gal is engaged to a billionaire, and these are a bunch of celebrities she wanted to befriend."...
Amy Schumer also took to Instagram to poke fun at the mission in a bit Ungar Sargon called the funniest the comedian has been in years. "So I'm going to space, and I'm so excited," she said in a video. "Lauren Sánchez, Katy Perry and Amanda Nguyen have been my guiding lights through this whole journey, which I just got called to be part of this space team this morning. And I'm loving it. I've always wanted to go to space, and also I just have to say, How high were the people who came up with the name for space? Were they like, 'What should we call it? It's got so much, like, space.'"
Jeff Bezos' Current Slam-Piece, who is such a super-astronaut she had two industrial-strength flotation devices bolted on to her rib-cage, demands you respecc her.
The Blue Origin crew has not taken kindly to the blowback, with Sánchez and King, in particular, trying to defend the excursion. The former said she gets "really fired up" when she hears the criticism."I would love to have them come to Blue Origin and see the thousands of employees that don't just work here but they put their heart and soul into this vehicle," Sánchez said. "So when we hear comments like that, I just say, 'Trust me. Come with me. I'll show you what this is about, and it's, it's really eye-opening.'"
What do they have to do with you? No one's attacking the people who really achieved something by putting your useless ass into "space" (for three minutes).
This is the typical liberal politician move -- "How dare you attack the children!"
We're not attacking the children, we're goofing on you.
King, meanwhile, suggested misogyny could be at play as she likened her experience to -- wait for it -- that of astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to travel to space.
KING: Please don't call it a 'ride' that is not a friggin ride. Whenever a man goes up, you have never said to an astronaut, 'Boy, what a ride.' You know, we duplicated the same trajectory that Alan Shepard did back in the day. Pretty much. No one called that a ride. It was called a 'flight.' It was called a 'journey' because a 'ride' implies it is something frivolous or something that's light hearted. There was nothing frivolous about what we did, and the machine that we were on, and what it took for the people to get that machine up and running, to get us up, and get us back down safely. So, you know, I'm very disappointed and very saddened by it.
She also claimed the trip was an inspiration to many. "What it's doing to inspire other women and young girls, please don't ignore that," King continued. "I've had so many women and young girls reach out to me -- and men too, by the way, men too -- that say, 'Wow, I never thought I could do that, but I see you doing it at this stage in my life. Who would have thunk it? Not me' and how inspired they are."
The Disconnect
Megyn said the attempted defense reveals just how out-of-touch the women are. "I'm still stuck in the fact that Gayle King actually used the word 'astronauts'... You are there on a vanity project of Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, you've done absolutely nothing to deserve this," she noted. "You're sitting next to Katy Perry, and if you don't want people to think it's frivolous, Gayle, then don't have the f-cking Kardashians and Oprah [Winfrey] craftside as you take off... That might have something to do with our reaction to this as a non-serious event and a PR stunt."
I don't mind that tourism isn't "serious" and I don't mind that this is a "PR stunt." It is that -- it's an ad for future Blue Origins space tourism jaunts, and that's fine. Show off your wares to the world.
It's the credit-grabbing and "Stolen Valor" of it all. I think either Megyn Kelly or Greg Gutfeld said that.
None of this would have happened if you just did what every well-mannered person knows to do, which is to refuse any praise of yourself and deflect it on to "the Real Heroes."
But leftwing feminist women are all about seizing credit for other people's (mostly men's) work. Their whole "careers," all of their "achievements" are based on making extravagant claims about yourself and then daring any Sexist Misogynists from contradicting you.
Well, dare taken. You did nothing more than a eight-year-old kid does when he rides his first "adult," "42 inches or taller" rollercoaster. I can't fault that kid for feeling excited about his big ride, but I'm also not going to praise him or nominate him for a Nobel Prize.
By the way, Gayle King also claims that someone aboard the capsule did "science" experiments or something.
On an 10 minute ride. With only three of those minutes in what people are calling "the very lowest level of what can charitably called 'space.'"
Can't wait to see the data that this experiment generated.
Also, once again, this has nothing to do with Gayle King. But like all "reporters," she believes that just by talking to a scientist she becomes, for all legal purposes, a scientist herself.
What exactly is the "first" they're claiming? Matt Walsh ran down possible claims.
Are they the first female "astronauts"? No, of course not, other women have been trained as actual astronauts and have flown in space.
The first female space tourists? No, other women have flown on Blue Origin before.
The first all-female crew in space? Or, "space"? No, Walsh pointed out that a female cosmonaut was shot into space by the Russkies. She flew solo, making it an "all-female crew."
I also think the Space Dog Laika was a female dog, so.
Laika probably was more qualified to seize the controls, too.
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DHS Secretary Noem Announces the Freezing of $2.7 Million in Grants to Harvard
—Ace
I know I've reported that this was in the offing, but this makes it official.
These new cuts are in addition to the $2.2 billion (with a b) that Trump already froze.
DHS Sec. Kristi Noem announces $2.7 million of Harvard's grants are canceledQuick Hit:
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has canceled more than $2.7 million in federal grants to Harvard University, citing the school's alleged tolerance of pro-Hamas extremism and anti-American ideology on campus.
Key Details:
Noem rescinded two DHS grants totaling over $2.7 million.
Harvard is accused of enabling antisemitic and extremist behavior.
The Trump administration has frozen $2.2 billion in multiyear federal grants and is scrutinizing the school's nonprofit tax status.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Wednesday the cancelation of two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grants to Harvard University, citing national security concerns and the university's failure to confront what she called "anti-American, pro-Hamas ideology" on its campus.
The decision revokes a combined $2.7 million in federal funds. One of the grants, valued at $800,303, reportedly supported a study that characterized conservatives as "far-right dissidents." The second, totaling $1,934,902, was described by DHS as financing "public health propaganda." The department's press release stated that both projects "undermine America's values and security."
"Noem's move is a clear signal from the Trump administration: institutions that benefit from taxpayer dollars must uphold American principles, not promote hostility toward them," the DHS said. In a separate letter, Noem also demanded records from Harvard detailing any foreign student visa holders involved in "illegal and violent activities."
Her blunt assessment of Harvard's trajectory struck a nerve.
"Harvard bending the knee to antisemitism -- driven by its spineless leadership -- fuels a cesspool of extremist riots and threatens our national security," Noem said. "With anti-American, pro-Hamas ideology poisoning its campus and classrooms, Harvard's position as a top institution of higher learning is a distant memory."
Did you know that American universities rely on foreign students for their funding? It's true. They love admitting rich foreign students because they pay the full nominal cost of tuition, no scholarships, no breaks for coming from a low-income family.
I mention this because Trump is also looking to block any foreign Harvard student from obtaining an educational visa to come get "educated" at Harvard, which will also badly damage Harvard's finances.
He wants Harvard to turn over disciplinary records for its foreign agitators so that the government can review their visa status. Harvard is refusing -- and might get their ability to enroll any foreign student terminated.
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Vice Chair of the DNC David Hogg: I'm Really Fighting for the Great Progressive Cause So If You See Some Sick Scandalous Claims Made Against Me, That's Just My Enemies Trying to Stop My Crusade for Justice
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Shyeah, okay.
What did you do, David? What did you do?
I know everyone wants to say "He's a gay!" but that's not a scandal in the Democrat Party. They throw parades for that.
And how dare you bigots even think such a slander.
So close to Pride Month. So close to Pride Month.
Hogg is doing something that will earn him some enemies -- targeting Democrats he considers insufficiently zealous for primary challenges.
David Hogg, a controversial Democratic National Committee vice chair, is pledging to upend Democratic primaries by funding candidates who will challenge "ineffective, asleep-at-the-wheel" Democrats.The move puts Hogg, the now 25-year-old who first gained national stature as an outspoken survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, on a collision course with his own party and some Democratic House members.
Leaders We Deserve, which Hogg co-founded in 2023, announced plans on Tuesday to spend $20 million in safe-blue Democratic primaries against sitting House members by supporting younger opponents. In an interview with POLITICO, Hogg said the group will not back primary challenges in battleground districts because "I want us to win the majority," nor will it target members solely based on their age.
"We have a culture of seniority politics that has created a litmus test of who deserves to be here," Hogg said. "We need people, regardless of their age, that are here to fight."
It's an unprecedented, and controversial, move from a national officer within the Democratic Party that will enrage some insiders. Democratic Party committees, like the DNC, have traditionally not opposed incumbents in their own party, focusing instead on attacking Republicans, while the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is explicitly set up to protect incumbent members by providing resources, fundraising and strategy.
This is the sort of thing Republican agitators should be doing. Clear out the dead wood. Elect new wood. Increase our number of wood.
That wasn't the greatest analogy I've ever made. I'd say it's "David Hogg Level."
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DOJ Releases More Evidence Against "Maryland Man"
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The Department of Justice released new documents with evidence of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's membership in the MS-13 gang, amid ongoing legal efforts to return him to the U.S. after his deportation.Key Details:
Abrego Garcia, who entered the U.S. illegally in 2011, was deported to El Salvador in March after courts found him to be a public danger due to gang ties.
A Board of Immigration Appeals ruling in 2019 upheld findings that he was a "verified member" of MS-13, despite his attempts to dispute the classification.
DOJ and DHS documents cite gang-related clothing, testimony from a reliable informant, and even a domestic violence restraining order filed by his wife.
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The Department of Justice on Wednesday released documents showing what immigration officials, police, and federal judges have long alleged: that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a previously deported illegal immigrant, is a member of the violent MS-13 gang.
Abrego Garcia, who was removed from the U.S. in March and sent back to his native El Salvador, had long denied his gang affiliations. But the newly released files paint a different picture--one of a man embedded in MS-13's criminal network, known by the moniker "Chele" and reportedly holding the rank of "Chequeo" within the gang's Westerns clique.
Included in the dossier is a 2019 ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals that upheld an immigration judge's determination of Abrego Garcia's gang ties, stating he had failed to prove he was not a "danger to property or persons." That judgment followed his 2019 arrest in a Home Depot parking lot in Prince George's County, Maryland. Police noted his attire--specifically a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with images of cash-covered faces--as gang-related symbols. A trusted informant corroborated his gang affiliation during that arrest.
Adding to the DOJ's case, the Department of Homeland Security released records showing that Abrego Garcia's wife had sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, further undermining his claims of being no threat to the public.
It gets worse, reports David Strom.
@MrAndyNgoIn 2022, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained in Tennessee on suspicion of human trafficking. The TN Highway Patrol was instructed to release him and the seven other people in the car by Biden's FBI. Garcia was transporting them from Texas to Maryland.
The Tennessee Star's report on the human trafficking allegation:
The Tennessee Star learned on Wednesday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) who was deported to El Salvador under President Donald Trump amid legal action claiming the removal was by mistake, was suspected of being engaged in human trafficking by a Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) officer who detained him in December 2022, leading the THP to contact the FBI for guidance. Within two hours, the FBI ultimately requested the THP release Garcia and the passengers in his vehicle. THP complied with the request.The Star learned from sources familiar with the incident that Abrego Garcia was stopped for an unknown reason on December 6, 2022, and that the THP officer responsible for the stop immediately discovered Abrego Garcia was transporting seven passengers, with eight individuals inside the vehicle.
During a nearly two-hour traffic stop, the THP officer determined that Abrego Garcia (pictured above) was operating the vehicle without a valid driver's license and began searching for information about him.
Something about the traffic stop caused concern in the mind of the THP officer that other law enforcement agencies should be alerted. One source told The Star that THP ultimately discovered Abrego Garcia was on a terrorist watch list, but could not locate Abrego Garcia on a deportation list. Another source told The Star that THP did not discover Abrego Garcia on a terrorist watch list but that another one of the seven passengers in the vehicle may have been on a terrorist watch list.
So why wasn't he and the passengers in the car arrested and deported?
Because Christoper Wray's FBI ordered the cops to release them all:
THP subsequently called the FBI, which was then led by former Director Christopher Wray under the Biden administration. The FBI instructed the THP officers at the scene to capture photographs of all eight people in the vehicle and document its contents.
Once the photographs were captured, this source told The Star that the FBI requested THP release all eight individuals and that the THP officers complied with this request.
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