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Good morning kids. In noting the passing of the longtime Democrat Rep-robate from Arizona Raul Grijalva, considering some of the items making news this morning , perhaps the word of the day is harbinger. And he's the second Dem congress-vermin to join the choir invisible this week. A few notes from his rap sheet at the invaluable DiscovertheNetworks:
Former Democrat Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Former member of MECha, which seeks to facilitate Mexico’s reconquest of the Southwestern U.S.
Former leader of the Raza Unida Party
Supporter of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens
Vaya con... something Raul. Certainly not Dios, since he is heading south of the border - between the Lithosphere and the 9th Circle of the Infernal Reaches. Let's leave it at that, but from my perspective we need more Wallenbergs, and no more Grijalvas.
With Democrats threatening to force a partial government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is being confronted with a warning he delivered just last year.
The “Rapid Response” account on X for President Donald Trump’s White House posted on Thursday a “flashback” clip of Schumer’s remarks from September — when the top Democrat pinned a potential shutdown at that time on Republicans. “If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans who suffer most. A government shutdown means seniors who rely on Social Security could be thrown into chaos …” Schumer said.
“So what changed, Chuck?” the White House account asked. . . “The Trump Derangement Syndrome continues,” said Sen. Thom Thillis (R-NC). “One of the first things Democrats did when they controlled the Senate was to make a failed push to nuke the filibuster because [Joe] Biden was President. Now they are shamefully filibustering and on the verge of shutting down the government to appease their radical base because Trump is President.” Elon Musk, who is overseeing the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), replied: “Paging 2024 Schumer …”
The Democrats for years as we all know have shrieked about how shutting down the government will cause death and destruction from coast to coast, unless they get to raid the treasury to fund their bureaucracy (the real doomsday machine as we all know. So now the Democrats are having to swallow their own bullshit rhetoric about shutting down the government lest the public finally understand how generally unnecessary thbulk of the federal government is. And that only reinforces what DOGE is all about. And, so long as Mike Johnson and the GOP don't cave (a tall order) they have the chance at accomplishing in Congress what w is their duty, in slashing the budget and size of government through the budgetary process. One way or another, a lot of politicians are going to be foisted on petards of their or Trump's making!
To me, it sounds like a nail bragging about its rivalry with a hammer. (Or a bag of doughnuts bragging about its rivalry with Lizzo.) But nonetheless, here we are:
“We have the Republicans on the run!” announced House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Turns out the Democrats aren’t just bravely battling back against President Trump. They’re actually winning — and now Old Man Trump is running scared!
In a call with party leaders, Jeffries described Trump’s recent speech to Congress as “one of the most divisive speeches by a president in American history” and predicted, because of the economy, MAGA’s end was nigh:
Keep huffing those whippets Hakeem.
Of course, when cornered, Democrats go to their strength: Incite violence. Do I really have to quote slithering vermin like Maxine Waters and Jeff Merkley? It's in the links for those who really need to get their blood boiling.
And talk like that gets the blood flowing, mostly from knife and bullet wounds, as well as from bricks hurled a la Ignatz Mouse at Krazy Kat's head - - prepositioned on pallets from sources unknown. Patel and Bondi need to go after Soros, Antifa and ActBlue because that's where all the violence ultimately begins.
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Anyone affiliated with or even speaking an ounce of praise towards President Donald Trump’s administration have become targets of a violent left that knows they have no coherent arguments, or propagandistic arguments, that work anymore, so they’ve resorted to basically declaring Civil War against anyone that doesn’t chew their tongue like they do. After the “alleged” murder of InfoWars reporter Jamie White Sunday evening, yet another InfoWars reporter/host has been targeted by, “allegedly,” by an ideological counterpart. InfoWars host Chase Geiser posted to X, along with a video, that he was “swatted” twice within 12 hours. Domestic Terrorism? Attempts on Conservative Journalists & Their Families Lives, 'Swatted' Multiple Times
Bowman said, “It’s definitely organized at a broader level. There is a website up that people can go visit that’s out there today, and I’ve actually posted this on my X account, I’ve shared some of these events, but they’re coordinating it with people locally across…not just the Indivisible groups, really, but, like, multiple groups and individuals that are, like, posting these events where people show up and they already have, like, pre-printed graphics…signs and stickers and things like you mentioned that basically depict Teslas being set on fire.” Revealed: Tesla Vandalism, Terrorism Coordinated Across Vast Leftwing Online Network
The layoffs themselves aren't the problem. Anyone who has worked outside of government can relate to layoffs; when your employer isn't making enough money to pay you, she can't pay you. End of story. The government hasn't been making enough money since the Newt Gingrich days to pay its way, so there's that. But the way the layoffs are being administered is galling to those who have worked hard and played by the rules. These are the people who witnessed up close the sin of government waste, fraud, and abuse and who emphatically voted for Trump and DOGE. We want to keep them on board. DOGE Is Ticking Off Some of the Good Guys
While ICE has not publicly disclosed the identity of the former Cuban intelligence officer at press time, HSI’s Miami division published a photo of the arrest Wednesday afternoon through social media, stating the arrest was carried out in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Former Cuban Intelligence Official Arrested for Obtaining U.S. Residency Illegally
“Well George Stephanopoulos gave an interview and I think on 11 occasions he said Donald Trump committed rape. In the E. Jean Carroll civil suit, she alleged that she was sexually attacked by him. The jury found that he did not commit rape but that he had committed, there was a likelihood he’d committed sexual assault,” Hanson said. Victor Davis Hanson Flags Possible Error That Could ‘Be Cause For Reversal’ In Trump’s E. Jean Carroll Case
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The exchange was a masterclass in both rhetoric and substance, as Gorka completely ripped Tapper a new one. The only consolation for Tapper is that this was on CNN, and how many people are still watching CNN? Watch As Sebastian Gorka Destroys Jake Tapper in Epic Fashion
Melber said, “[W]e see Trump trying to bend the government to help Musk, and it goes well beyond what you see just in these kind of sort of embarrassing efforts to hawk cars. If they’re great cars, why do you need the government involved in selling them in that manner? But a Trump prosecutor also made a possibly illegal vow to investigate members of Congress who criticize Elon Musk. That’s, again, helpful to Musk, coming from the Trump administration.” MSNSDAP’s Melber: People Committing Anti-Tesla Violence Are ‘People Who Protest’ Tesla
Daniel Greenfield: A battle between the 2nd richest man and his employees offers a disturbing answer. Who Owns the Media?
Asked what Trump’s team has already done to help fight this economic disaster that Biden left behind, Bessent said the “first thing” has been to get government spending “under control,” and he pointed to the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by businessman Elon Musk. Then he pointed to work U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins has done to bring down the price of eggs — and then to what Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright are doing to unleash American energy production. This broad vision, he said, is an “all-hands-on-deck, all areas of government” approach to stabilizing the U.S. economy. Exclusive- Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent: ‘All Hands on Deck’ from ‘All Areas of Government’ in Trump Admin to ‘Bring Down Inflation,’ ‘Help Affordability’
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The Brazilian government has called the highway “sustainable,” but critics have pointed to the irony of clearing rainforests for a climate summit. (they have to kill the planet in order to save the planet! - jjs) Brazil clears Amazon rainforest to build highway for climate summit
A green nonprofit connected to Democrats says it may have to fold if it cannot access the massive grant funding awarded by the Biden administration that Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now working to terminate. Dem-Linked Nonprofit Admits It’s Going Bust Unless It Can Access Biden Bucks
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Parents in the state still value education savings accounts for their kids, but they’re increasingly frustrated with the program’s bureaucratic overreach. An ESA Lesson from Arizona
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The Democrat Party’s lawfare efforts against President Donald J. Trump during his first two months in the White House have reached unprecedented levels. In his first two months in office, President Trump has faced over 100 legal challenges to his administration’s policies, more than double that faced by any other president at the same point in their term.According to data published by Just Security that tracks court filings against the Trump administration, the total number of legal actions taken since the America First leader was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, has reached 119. Nearly 20 legal actions were filed against the Trump White House during President Trump’s first week in office. LAWFARE: Trump Faces More Than Double The Number of Lawsuits Than Any Prior President In First Two Months.
The nomination, announced last November, faced opposition primarily due to Weldon’s views on vaccines and autism. These views had aligned Weldon with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A medical doctor, Weldon has insisted, “I give shots, I believe in vaccination”—but he also believes the CDC has attempted to “short-circuit important research and draw premature conclusions” to dismiss any connection between vaccines and the development of autism in children. Trump Admin Pulls Dave Weldon’s CDC Nomination Moments Before Senate Hearing.
“Under a shutdown, Trump and Elon Musk would have carte blanche to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster rate than they can right now,” he added. “I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country, to minimize the harms to the American people, therefore, i will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down.” Republicans have a 53 vote majority in the upper chamber. In order to overcome the 60-vote threshold, they will likely need eight Democrats on board because Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has opposed the House GOP measure to avert a government shutdown. Chuck Schumer caves, won’t vote to block GOP plan to avert government Schumer-shutdown in dramatic U-turn
Fetterman blasted Democrats’ opposition to the government spending bill as “total theater” and emphasized the importance of avoiding a lapse in government funding, citing the risk of a recession in a post on X Thursday morning. His scathing criticism upends Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s claim that Democrats are unified in opposition to the GOP spending bill that will fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year. ‘Total Theater’: John Fetterman Lays Into Dems’ Shutdown Antics
According to Allen and Parnes, Kamala Harris sought the mantle of the “change candidate” — the one who’d shake up the status quo. With record numbers of Americans unhappy with the direction of the country (and “Bidenomics” 30 points underwater), even if she wanted to, Harris couldn’t run as Biden, Part II. It would’ve been political suicide. ‘No Daylight': How an Insecure Old Man Sabotaged Kamala’s Presidential Campaign
America’s Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff flew into Moscow’s Vnukovo airport on Thursday morning, having travelled from Doha, Qatar by way of European airspace on a Gulfstream executive jet. Witkoff and a team of negotiators are in the Russian capital to attempt to hammer out an agreement on the proposed Ukraine War 30-day ceasefire. Witkoff, American Delegation Arrive in Moscow For Ceasefire Talks With Putin
President Donald J. Trump is directing the Pentagon to develop plans for a strategic increase in U.S. military personnel at the Panama Canal as part of the American First leader’s goal of retaking control of the vital shipping passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The move follows President Trump’s joint address to Congress last week, in which he pledged that “to further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal.”U.S. Southern Command is evaluating various strategies, ranging from enhanced collaboration with the Panamanian military to more aggressive measures such as a potential military takeover of the canal, Pentagon officials say. The necessity of military action would depend on Panama’s willingness to cooperate. A number of draft strategies are believed to have already been presented to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth by the head of Southern Command, Admiral Alvin Holsey. Trump Admin Weighs Military Options for ‘Reclaiming the Panama Canal.’
Ugandan judge Lydia Mugambe, 49, "exploited and abused" the victim, prosecutors said, forcing her to work as an unpaid maid and caregiver while barring her from seeking other employment. A jury found Mugambe guilty of multiple offenses, including facilitating illegal immigration, forced labor, and witness intimidation, the Independent reported. UN Judge, Onetime Columbia University Human Rights Fellow, Found Guilty of Slavery
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Mohammad Sharifullah (also known as Jafar) was believed to be one of the orchestrators of the deadly suicide bombing at the Kabul airport as the U.S. withdrew troops from Afghanistan in August 2021. The attack killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians. Sharifullah managed to evade capture until early March 2025, when President Donald Trump announced during his Joint Address to Congress that the suspected terrorist had been apprehended and would “face the swift sword of American justice.” ‘Personal Manhunt’: Trump Officials Detail How Administration Prioritized Abbey Gate Terrorist’s Capture
DC AIRLINER/COPTER COLLISION, Philly, Toronto Air Crashes AFTERMATH
When bureaucrats detect a single ill animal, the whole herd must be killed. How long before it’s like that with people, too? Scorched-Earth Disease Control
…Now that the undocking is complete, more docking attempts are expected to evaluate: How precisely ISRO can execute multiple docking maneuvers, how well the algorithms perform under various conditions, how the integrated inertial systems function and how the propulsion system performs during repeated operations. Indian engineers successfully undock its two Spadex robot satellites
In a March 12 media roundtable, Tory Bruno, president and chief executive of ULA, said the anomaly was traced to a “manufacturing defect” in one of the internal parts of the nozzle, an insulator. Specific details, he said, remained proprietary. “We have isolated the root cause and made appropriate corrective actions,” he said, which were confirmed in a static-fire test of a motor at a Northrop test site in Utah in February. “So we are back continuing to fabricate hardware and, at least initially, screening for what that root cause was.” ULA pinpoints reason a nozzle fell off a Vulcan rocket side booster during last launch
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“Today we sent a strong message that West Virginia stands with women,” Morrisey said in a statement. “West Virginia will not bow down to radical gender ideology — we are going to lead with common sense, and the Riley Gaines Act does exactly that.” WV Gov. Patrick Morrisey Signs Riley Gaines Act into Law Protecting Women’s Spaces
According to this, federal Judge Richard Young ruled that Autumn Cordellione (born Jonathan Richardson), a mentally ill man who believes he’s a woman, must be provided sex change surgery paid for by the state despite a state law banning the use of government funds for gender-bending procedures for trans-identifying inmates. The ACLU had filed a suit in defense of Cordellione, claiming that the state denying him his genital mutilation request violated his 8th Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment. Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules 'Trans' Baby Killer Must Be Given Tax-Funded Gender Surgery 'At the Earliest Opportunity'
He is believed to have committed suicide after suffering severe complications from gender-transition surgery. The Tragedy of Yarden Silveira
Rainer Zitelmann's The Origins of Poverty argues that economic freedom, not socialism, lifts nations from poverty, using global case studies to show how incentives drive wealth and happiness. The Liberty Road Trip Everyone Should Take
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Because copyright law prevents you from making copies of protected works. It doesn't prevent you from reading them or learning from them. It doesn't mean you can't cite them, use facts from them, remake the ideas from them.
More specifically, OpenAI is asking for federal clarification of what the law is, with a flood of varying state laws and district court decisions currently all differing on the question.
The Ars commentariat helpfully clarifies this issue by being so stridently and consistently wrong. And they're against it.
Apparently Google Play Games for Windows launched three years ago - in beta, and only supporting a few games, but still - and I only learned of five minutes ago.
Though it's still in beta, it now theoretically supports all games that run on Android.
Basically a grown-up version of a TI graphing calculator. It's a $75 kit and nothing is soldered down; it takes a full-size Pico with pins attached, and works with either the original or Pico 2 model.
My high school had a setup that I suspect has long vanished — the open campus. In practice, that meant coming and going wasn’t monitored. One could just walk off campus and leave, so skipping school was extraordinarily easy, whether one took a full or a partial day.
Heck, during my senior year, I left after sixth period basically every day since journalism conflicted with one of my AP courses, meaning that I had journalism during seventh period. The teacher didn’t show up because it wasn’t the normal class period, so neither did I — especially since my physical attendance had no bearing on whether or not I submitted my reviews of the latest grunge releases for the school paper (my musical focus at the time was a tad monomaniacal).
Which isn’t to say my friends and I never outright skipped, opting to not even bother showing up before leaving. The open campus still made it easier to avoid detection in those situations. (The fact that we worked in the attendance office made it easier to obscure the record the next day.) For example, if your father saw you at your friend’s house, he could assume it was because it was lunchtime. At least, he could assume that until the school called because you needed to fill out a form for a writing contest you were selected to participate in, at which point your friend’s phone rang.
See, I remember high school being the same way. I tried to get my son to enjoy the freedom he was earning, but sometimes he just didn't want to. He'd rather have his face burried in this phone than go outside.
According to historian George F. Milton Jr., by way of U.S. Representative Walter P. Brownlow, by way of his uncle, Tennessee Governor and U.S. Senator William G. Brownlow, at one point Johnson managed to insult all the foreign ambassadors at once[49] when he turned and said, "And you, gentlemen of the Diplomatic Corps, with all your fine feathers and geegaws."[53] The New-York Tribune described the speech as "almost impossible to follow," described wildly varying volume and projection (vacillating between "backwoods" shout and inaudible mumble), and wrote that Johnson "intimated very broadly that Tennessee was personified in Andrew Johnson" and "repeated 'I announce here to-day' at least 20 times in the 20 minutes misused by Mr. Johnson."[54] The Hamlin biography claims that the outgoing vice president tried to intercede: "Leaning forward quietly, to attract as little attention as possible, Mr. Hamlin took hold of Johnson's coat, pulled it gently, and whispered, 'Johnson, stop!' But this had no effect; Johnson was thoroughly excited, and wound up for a speech."[43] Brooks confirms as much, writing that from the press gallery he could see Hamlin periodically reminding Johnson that it was getting past time for the President's inauguration.[46]
Read the whole thing. Sounds like he was shitfaced for weeks straight.
Reading further, I am reminded that my initial attitude was bemusedly and mulishly obedient, a grudging “whatever, let’s just try to make the best of a bad situation.” But this is when I start to feel an acute twinge of pain, and it becomes hard to go beyond that without pausing for a deep breath. Because I remember what happened next. I remember what was taken from me. I remember what they took from my son. And I am once again painfully overwhelmed by the lone true emotion that dominates my memories of the Covid Era: rage.
This is the real reason I haven’t written about Covid. I cannot summon memories of that era without becoming furious at what I suffered through, without reliving the sense of utter betrayal from all authority we experienced during that period. I have never felt more despairingly abandoned, and in fact actively oppressed, by every level of government than in those dark years. For some people — say, those lucky enough to live in Florida — this matter is largely one of political principle. For me it is deeply personal.
It's a tragedy the way his son was treated, but he also references a tweet from the time where he said Covid was “20X more fatal than the flu”. We all know now that that wasn't true.
It’s not just Parker. Many Black people are finding joy in activities that were once inaccessible because of systemic racism or were not culturally traditional pursuits in Black communities. These forays have become emblematic of the ways Black people celebrate the freedom and flexibility they have, and how they are using it to escape the rigors of life — personally, socially and politically.
The activities have health benefits, too, such as stanching the release of cortisol, a so-called “stress hormone” that affects blood pressure, blood sugar and inflammation, said Linda Goler Blount, president of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, which focuses on health and wellness for Black women.
Race, race, race, race, race. It's all they've got, and it is sooo tiring.
Nearly half of young Canadians surveyed in a 2022 study said they believed humanity is doomed because of climate change, while more than three-quarters said they were frightened. No wonder. They have grown up bombarded both by footage of natural disasters, not just in Canada but around the world, and by activists’ claims that climate change is making the planet unliveable. But that’s just wrong.
The ubiquity of phone cameras and our ability to instantly communicate mean — the “CNN effect” — that the media can show more weather disasters now than ever before. But that doesn’t mean the disasters are deadlier or costlier.
That “half of all young people” is going to be a real problem down the line.
These LGBT activists are so insanely obsessed with anti-LGBT hate that they’ve created a new category where an LGBT person can commit “anti-LGBTQ hate” against his own partner. Ironically, they reveal an important truth in this fanatical need for victimhood: The most dangerous threats to LGBT people are usually other LGBT people.
When researching fatal violence against men identifying as women, for example, inevitably the biggest cause is domestic violence. It is the risks associated with online relationships in the LGBT community that really need attention.
In 2023 Kierstyn Williamson was allegedly killed by a romantic partner when she went to meet him in person. In 2020, a 25-year-old gay man was brutally tortured and murdered by an anonymous sex partner he met on Grindr. In 2024 a 14-year-old boy was lured into a park and brutally assaulted, murdered, and then dismembered, allegedly by a man he met on the same gay sex app. LGBT advocates refuse to address this pattern, instead positioning all violence against LGBT people as caused by non-LGBT hate and bigotry.
So a mentally ill person was tortured and killed by other mentally ill people, and we're supposed to be surprised?
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Trump Set to Invoke Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to Speed Removal of Illegals
—Ace
NEW: The Trump administration is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime authority, in the coming days, sources familiar w/ the move tell @priscialva @jmhansler & me
The move is designed to speed up the president's mass deportation pledge
The announcement, which could be made as soon as tomorrow, will come in the form of a presidential proclamation
The move would likely pave the way for quicker removals of certain immigrants
President Donald Trump is reportedly set to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to facilitate the mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
The president repeatedly vowed to take such action on the campaign trail and after he was elected last year. Now, it appears the plan will be set in motion, according to CNN White House correspondent Alayna Treene who reported the move in a post on X.
During his second inaugural address, Trump declared that, "By invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities and inner cities."
It is unclear exactly how the administration will carry out this strategy, but there are indications that it will be used to target criminal gangs. A senior White House official told CNN in February that "Labeling Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization was the first step."
The advantage of invoking this law is to deport criminal aliens without allowing them to remain in the US while their phony asylum claims are processed. It takes 6-10 years for the immigration courts to resolve an asylum claim -- and of course most of these claims are frivolous, and the illegal alien ignores his ultimate deportation order anyway.
After having 3-6 anchor babies, naturally.
But CNN talked to some "experts."
Experts told CNN last year that if the Trump administration does invoke the Alien Enemies Act, immigrant and civil rights advocates are likely to argue it's illegal to use the law to detain and deport foreign nationals under these circumstances.
"There is no military invasion or military predatory incursion being perpetrated by an actual foreign nation or government," says Katherine Yon Ebright of the Brennan Center at New York University. "And so, irrespective of how broadly or narrowly he would like to apply it, we would oppose any invocation as an abuse of a wartime authority."
Relatedly: Now it can be told. Biden "cooked the books" on illegal alien deportations to make it seem like he was deporting illegals while in reality, he was keeping almost all of them.
Check this fraud out: When they released an illegal alien they found illegally crossing the border into the country, they counted this as an "arrest."
Hey, they did stop the illegal alien for five minutes before releasing him. That technically counts as an "arrest" (a stop in movement, however temporarily).
ICE uncovers Biden Admin "cooking the books" on illegal alien arrests
Thu Mar 13 2025
ICE officials revealed that the Biden administration falsely inflated illegal alien arrest numbers by counting individuals processed and released into the U.S. as ICE arrests. Since President Trump took office, actual arrests have already surpassed all of 2024.
Key Details:
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons stated that the Biden administration misled the public by categorizing released individuals as "arrests."
A review found tens of thousands of falsely recorded arrests in 2024.
ICE has made 32,809 arrests in less than two months under Trump--nearly surpassing the 33,242 at-large arrests from all of 2024.
Over 1,150 gang members have been arrested since Trump took office, more than double the same period last year.
Diving Deeper:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has accused the Biden administration of manipulating arrest data to mislead the American public about its enforcement actions against illegal immigration. According to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, an internal review found that the Biden administration had been classifying individuals who were simply processed and released into the U.S. as ICE arrests.
"We have uncovered that the previous administration... was cooking the books on ICE data," Lyons told reporters Wednesday. "They were purposely misleading the American people by categorizing individuals processed and released into the interior of the United States as ICE arrests."
Trump was asked about the aged nobody when he met with the Irish PM.
When a reporter asked Irish Prime Minister Martin why he allowed the American comedian to move to the country, Trump was quick to respond.
"Ireland is known for very happy, fun-loving people," a reporter noted to Martin at the White House.
"Why in the world would you let Rosie O'Donnell move to Ireland?" the reporter asked. "I think she is going to lower your happiness."
Before Martin could answer, Trump chimed in and replied, "That's true, I like that question. Do you know you have Rosie O'Donnell? Do you know who she is? You're better off not knowing."
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Trump made the comments after the comedian revealed she has been living in Ireland and is in the process of applying for Irish citizenship.
"It's been pretty wonderful, I have to say," the 62-year-old said in a video on TikTok. "And the people have been so loving, so kind and so welcoming. And I'm very grateful."
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Despite her ongoing sparring with Trump, O'Donnell said she and her daughters are "happy" in Ireland.
"I miss my other kids," she added of her five grown children. "I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home. And I'm trying to find a home here in this beautiful country. And when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that's when we will consider coming back."
The "Flintstones" star additionally said she thinks about the U.S. every day, and "I am hoping that we can turn things around. I'm counting on you, all of you, to do what's right. And I think deep down inside we all know what that is."
Well, she did it. I at least have to give Rosie O�Donnell credit. She moved to Ireland. She at least followed through with her word and left the country.
Now waiting for all the other liberal hacks to leave like they promised.
You're Not Going to Believe This, But Democrats' Line of Attack on Trump Is Spreading Lies About Trump Cutting, Get This, Social Security
—Ace
Wigged-out leftwing harridan Karen Tumulty got the lie-ball rolling:
Karen Tumulty
@ktumulty
SCOOP: Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service. Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions, by @hannah_natanson
Oh no! Cutting phone service! Seniors won't be able to get their checks!
A Democrat congressmen pushes the lie along:
Jared Moskowitz
@JaredEMoskowitz
Okay, I've seen some all time boneheaded plays but this takes the cake. Seniors are already waiting hours on the phone for social security , and you're gonna cut more phone agents or push seniors to the internet or AI?
The truth: Fraudsters use the phone lines to change the method of payment to seniors, sending their payments to their own accounts and stealing the money from the seniors (and also costing the government billions).
Musk and Trump want to require in-person appearances to have money diverted from the old bank account to the new one, because foreign fraudsters in India and Niger and Russia obviously aren't going to walk into a US office to perpetrate their fraud.
Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
Jared is lying to you. The big change is they are not going to allow you to alter your routing number over the phone because people are defrauding Social Security recipients by calling in and changing how they get their direct payments. That�s the change. It�s pathetic how these people lie to you.
Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
The Trump administration stopped social security bank routing numbers from being changed over the phone (because it's so easy to commit fraud), and journalists rushed to claim seniors couldn't make claims anymore.
Some might suggest you can't hate the press enough.
You don't hate the media and the left enough. But I repeat myself.
Democrats also use every other government money tool to attract and retain illegals, like unemployment insurance, disability insurance, tax rebates on nonexistent income, SBA loans, student loans, COVID payments, FEMA money for luxury hotels, etc, etc https://t.co/zRFt5Y52yT
It begins with CNN's biased anti-Trump know-nothing Bill Weir asserting, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that the Trump press release stating that he would reform "OOOO" was a "typo" or "place-holder" for the real section name which would be added later.
Kaitlin Collins says "Oooops," mockingly.
WEIR: Uh, today, Lee Zeldin put out a video on X, and they were putting out press releases with such a flurry, about 31 different actions and rollbacks, that some of them had typos or placeholders at the top. We have one of those there. Trump EPA announces zero, zero, zero, you can see there.
COLLINS: Oops
WEIR: It's sort of shoot first, fill out the press release later.
But here's the thing that these "journalists" and "truth-tellers" never bothered to look up: "OOOO" is not a "place-holder" nor a "typo." "OOOO," or "Quad O," is the actual name of the section Trump is talking about reforming.
It's not zero-zero-zero-zero, it's Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh, and it's a real part of the law.
The "fact checkers" do not bother with two second searches to check their own fake "facts."
This is why the "fact-checking" industry is such a joke. It is filled with supposed "experts" who have no idea what they are actually talking about, yet are more than willing to make false assertions with total confidence. The press release shown in the clip does not read, "Zero, zero, zero." Those are the letter "O," and they are the identifier for a specific regulation under the Clean Air Act.
Zeldin took to social media to correct the record after Weir's embarrassing flub.
ZELDIN: Another media "fact check" face plant where the fact checker doesn't have the slightest clue what he's talking about. "OOOO b/c" is not a typo. 40 CFR Part 60 Subpart OOOO, or Quad O, is a federal reg under the Clean Air Act.Also, those aren't zeroes, it's the letter "O".
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My absolute favorite part of this entire thing, though, is Collins sarcastically mocking Zeldin by saying "Oops," even as it is her correspondent that is in the midst of getting the story completely wrong. That is the kind of arrogance that has led to the press suffering its worst approval ratings in history. Will she correct the record and apologize on her show on Thursday night? She should, but somehow, I doubt she does.
They're being arrested. This means nothing. They'll be released within hours and then, months from now, they'll sue and New York City will settle their claims for $25,000 each. Like they always do with leftwing insurrectionists.
David Harsanyi
@davidharsanyi
I simply can't wrap my head around the argument that the US has a responsibility to give citizenship -- the greatest gift we hand out -- to a America-hating terror fanboy. You're literally bringing in someone who wants to destroy our way of life. Insanity.
Among those demanding we allow terrorists in: Alleged "conservative" Mona Charen, who now grifts for the Bill Kristol grift The Bulwark.
She's doing exactly what neocons used to mock the left for doing -- the old, "I don't support terrorism but..." routine.
As the neocons themselves used to say: You can ignore everything before the "but." Everything after the "but" is the real position.
And her position is that of course she wouldn't have "preferred" granting Khalil Mahmoud a green card, buuuuut now that the terrorist is here, we have to keep him here and heed his Terror Wisdom.
Breaking: Putin Agrees to Peace Talks, But Says He Wants to Talk to Trump and Wants to "Remove the Initial Reasons for the Crisis"
—Ace
That is, he wants Trump to agree that Ukraine will not be allowed in NATO and he will keep the land he's conquered.
He may also have additional demands, like that Ukraine won't be armed by America or Europe, which is probably a non-starter.
This is certainly not an agreement to a lasting peace. But peace can only happen if you can get the warring parties to stop shooting at each other and start talking. So this isn't an end to the war, but it is a necessary step if the war is to ever end.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Russia agrees with U.S./Ukraine ceasefire, but wants to speak to Trump first.
PUTIN: "We agree with the proposals for the ceasefire, but our position is based on the assumption that the ceasefire would lead to long-term peace, something that would remove the initial reasons for the crisis."
Trump increased pressure on Russia by slapping sanctions on banks that processed Russia oil sales to the EU. Biden, who was supposedly such a Hard Guy on Russia, had not done this. In fact, he specifically suspended sanctions on banks processing Russia oil sales.
BREAKING: Trump had cut off all Russian oil sales to EU!
Treasury has ended the Biden exemption that allowed sanctioned Russian banks to process European payments for oil sales. Now no one in Europe can purchase Russian oil pic.twitter.com/zOCqzlc0Di
— Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 (@marcthiessen) March 13, 2025
Biden wanted cheap oil for his reelection, so he wasn't going to squeeze what actually needed to be squeezed.
Posted by: Leupold
What a statesman. A modern day George Washington.
Will this lead to peace? Who knows. But Trump is the only one who's gotten the ball this far. Sure it's on the fifteen yard line but he's the only one that even got the ball on to the field.
Capital One Bank, emboldened by the Nazi media and authoritarian left, "debanked" all Trump supporters located in Washington DC on Insurrection Day (which will one day become a federal holiday celebrating freedom and #Resistance against a corrupt regime). They debanked the Trump Organization and other Trump concerns as well.
On Friday, the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, DJT Holdings, and other entities under the Trump Organization run by Eric and Donald Trump, Jr. sued Capital One in Dade County, Fla., federal court for "unjustifiably" closing the Trump organization's bank accounts.
The 22-page complaint alleges that on March 8, 2021, Capital One "notified Plaintiffs that hundreds of bank accounts that they controlled, were beneficiaries of, and actively used to transact would be closed on June 7, 2021. Capital One did not provide Plaintiffs any recourse, remedy, or alternative--its decision was final."
Trump world contends that it "suffered considerable financial harm and losses caused not only by the interruption to their access to Capital One's banking services, but also by the devastating impact on Plaintiffs' ability to transact and access their monies."
The Trump Organization alleges that though its entities had been Capital One's customers for decades, the bank, because of its "woke beliefs ... needed to distance itself from President Trump and his conservative political views. In essence, Capital One 'de-banked' Plaintiffs' Accounts because Capital One believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so." The Trump entities also allege that Capitol One broke consumer laws in North Carolina, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Nebraska.
Eric Trump said the company's treatment of the Trump Organization "was a clear attack on free speech and free enterprise that flies in the face of the bedrock principles and freedoms that define our country. Moreover, the arbitrary closure of these accounts, without justifiable cause, reflects a broader effort to silence and undermine the success of the Trump Organization and those who dare to express their political views."
Capital One insists the allegations are untrue.
Capital One isn't the only one accused of discriminating against customers for their political viewpoints. Bank of America is, too. Even Sen. Liz Fauxchahontas Warren's staff counted 11,955 people who complained that BOA cut them off without warning or explanation.
Great! Let's make Greenland a protectorate or a colony or a territory or whatever legal definition suits us. It's too big to tip over, and it would be fun to poke the EU in the eye and take a chunk of one of their pseudo-countries. They can't do much about it, except make squawking noises and threaten us with stern letters and mean editorials. And it certainly sends a message to the world (read: China and Russia) that once again we are going to take seriously the defense of our borders and our air and sea lanes.
Except... what the hell do we get out of Greenland that we can't get out of good old America? Strategically important minerals? Oil? A shrimp and cod fishery? An economy that requires huge subsidies? A rabid environmentalist population?
A shift in our natural resources policy will allow us to mine our own rare earth and other strategic materials. We have plenty of oil. We also have plenty of shrimp and cod. And... sadly... we have the inner cities that require immensely expensive federal and state subsidies. And as for loony environmentalists? We have California and Oregon and Vermont and...
All the other stuff is silly and unimportant in the geopolitical game we are playing. We don't need to annex Greenland, which unfortunately comes with 56,000 Greenlanders, who really, really, really don't want to join America. Something like 85% expressed that opinion.
What we need to do is obtain an ironclad agreement, in perpetuity, for unimpeded access to Greenland for military use. Denmark can continue to subsidize the island, Greenlanders can puff out their chests and proclaim their sort-of independence, and we get a vital air base that we can use to protect the North Atlantic and the Arctic from the depredations of our geopolitical rivals. We can throw in some sort of "Most Favored Nation" status for mining and oil extraction, but Greenland is a nasty place to do that sort of stuff, so maybe just negotiate the option and worry about it when we really need it.
“We don’t want to be Americans, nor Danes; We are Kalaallit,” he said in a March 5 Facebook post, referring to the Inuit people in Greenland who form the island’s majority population. “The Americans and their leader must understand that. We are not for sale and cannot simply be taken. Our future will be decided by us in Greenland.”
A poll of Greenlanders in January found that 56 percent of Greenlanders would vote for independence, with 28 percent opposing it and 17 percent being unsure. The same poll found that 85 percent of respondents opposed joining the United States.
President Trump is doing what he does best; keeping everyone rocked back on their heels, trying to figure out what he is going to do next. And that is a marvelous thing, up to a point. Are we really going to choose a military option and take Greenland by force, when 85% of them don't want to join us? Doesn't that give implicit permission to communist China to waltz over the Taiwan Straight and take the Republic of China? Hell, more of them want to join China than Greenlanders want to join America!
It is absolutely marvelous to see a muscular and unapologetic America emerge on the world stage. Europe has no idea what to do, China and Russia are trying to figure out what the hell is going on, and the Americantraitors left is having a collective stroke over the president's actions.
Am I worried about war with Greenland and Denmark? No. We aren't going to send the Marines to take an ice covered island that we can probably buy from Denmark for less than the cost of one amphibious assault ship's trip to Qequertarsauq or Ujarasussuk. President Trump will make a deal that is beneficial to both America and Greenland. Everybody will eventually calm down, and Bostonians and Portlanders won't have to live in fear of a massive counter-attack of angry Greenlanders in their fishing boats, throwing rotten cod at them as they have cocktails on the harbor.
In the clip, Moulton responded to a question from CNN host Audie Cornish on the Trump administration potentially classifying violence against Teslas or Tesla dealerships by stating, “So, Trump thinks that if you try to kill cops to overthrow the government and change an election, that’s not domestic terrorism, but, somehow, having a protest in front of a Tesla dealership is?” And “The bottom line with Trump is, freedom and liberties belong to people who agree with him, and that’s it. That’s his view of America. That’s not a view that people who believe in our Constitution share.”
. . . “So, he’s basically justifying terrorism here, because he will not condemn the terrorists. … He doesn’t even do the pro forma, I condemn all acts of political violence, which you should do. But he doesn’t do that.”
Let's unpack this and get to the crux of the biscuit. First of all, Moulton is referring to j-6 where Malig-Nancy Pelosi and the FBI/DOJ's false flag op resulted in innocent protesters being murdered by her goons and no police were attacked at all. They in fact were the attackers at her and her party's behest.
But that aside, Even if that was true, how can he justify the terroristic firebombing of Tesla dealerships by not only ignoring the attacks but labeling them as "protest" and legitimate and constotutional. If one more scumbag like him hides behind the very document they have shredded for 200 years and claim the mantle of patriots, my head will explode.
A masked man vandalized a Tesla charging station and attempted to burn it down using molotov cocktails in North Charleston, South Carolina, ultimately setting himself on fire in the process. The maniac spray-painted “Long live Ukraine” next to a vulgar message aimed at President Trump at the scene.
The Post and Courier reports that in a bizarre incident that unfolded in North Charleston, South Carolina, a masked Trump hater vandalized and attempted to set fire to Tesla charging stations, only to end up setting himself ablaze in the process. The incident, which took place near a Mellow Mushroom pizzeria at 4855 Tanger Outlet Blvd., has left the community stunned and authorities searching for answers. According to witnesses, the masked individual, wearing a gray jacket or hoodie, spray-painted the message “(expletive) TRUMP LONG LIVE UKRAINE” near the bank of Tesla charging stations before proceeding with his ill-fated attempt to destroy the electric vehicle chargers. The man reportedly used beer bottles as makeshift Molotov cocktails, setting them on fire and hurling them at three charging stations. However, during this act of arson, the man inadvertently set himself on fire, with witnesses reporting flames spreading across his back.
As onlookers began calling 911, the masked individual fled the scene, running past a nearby Zaxby’s restaurant and towards the hotels behind it. The North Charleston police department has not yet identified or arrested the suspect, but the incident has resulted in an estimated $60,000 in damages to the Tesla charging infrastructure.
Such indifference to the outrageous lawbreaking, harassment and intimidation that has consumed universities, which have echoed for months chants for Israel’s destruction and the murder of Jews, throws into even sharper relief the shocking revelation that support for Israel in America has fallen to below 50% for the first time.
The latest Gallup polling revealed only 46% of Americans say their sympathies lie more with Israel than the Palestinians, while 33%.
Thirty-three percent sympathize more with the Palestinians, up by 6 percentage points from last year.
How could this have happened?
American support for Israel has long been as reliable as the sun rising in the morning.
Israel is not only regarded as America’s indispensable bulwark in the Middle East; Americans’ support for it has been more full-throated and emotional than among many Jewish communities around the world.
The huge drop in support overall has been caused by Democrat supporters, who have registered a stunning 59% support for the Palestinians versus only 21% for Israel.
In sharp contrast, Republicans support Israel over the Palestinians 75% to 10%. . .
. . . So why have the Democrats turned against the Jewish state?
. . . Jewish values are at the very heart of Western and American culture.
Concepts at the core of democracy — limited government and the rule of law founded in the consent of the people — were introduced to the world by the Hebrew Bible.
They were explicitly drawn upon by America’s Founding Fathers when they laid down the principles of the US Constitution and defined the American nation.
That nation and its foundational values have been under sustained assault by liberal universalists led by the Democrat Party.
Scratch an opponent of Israel and you’ll find someone who believes the worst of the West and rubbishes its institutions.
Scratch a protester against the West and you’ll find an enemy of Israel.
The war against Israel is a war against the West; and the war against the West is a war against the Jews.
BINGO! And this is why it is perfectly acceptable in the eyes of Democrats to hurl firebombs at Tesla dealerships, beat up Jews on campuses, attempt to assassinate Donald Trump and on and on and on.
So, unless and until a very large segment of the disaffected Democrat base sees all this for what it is, and finally lets the scales fall from their eyes, this next item is meaningless.
As Mel Gibson discovered, the recent LA fires so thoroughly destroyed his home that the remains would fit inside an urn. For this disaster, Gibson cited willful neglect on the part of Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, who decamped to Africa while the smoke was rising, and Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was busy promoting his bullet train project in the central valley. . .
. . . Newsom claimed that those who voted no the recall “were really saying ‘yes’ to vaccines, science, inclusion and pluralism.” If Californians thought voter fraud carried the day it would be hard to blame them. The millions of illegals registered to vote by the DMV prompted little if any curiosity from the state’s press corps. For all but the willfully blind, the illegals constitute California’s imported electorate, and this is the Democrats’ plan for the entire country. When Kamala Harris ran for the US. Senate, Gov. Newsom named Alex Padilla to replace her. The senator nobody voted for now wants the Treasury Department to register voters at federally funded tax-preparation centers for those with “limited English,” code for illegals in the style of “migrant” and “undocumented.” This is a version of motor-voter for the millions of illegals Biden brought in, with no criminal background checks or health records. Trump is deporting as many as possible, violent criminals first, but there’s more he can do. All federal aid to California should be conditioned on ballot reform, specifically targeting illegal voters. Anyone who supports voting by illegals forfeits any claim to follow the rule of law. Voter fraud should be a front-line issue leading into the mid-terms and 2028. In the meantime, we’ll have to see what happens with the recall for Gov. Newsom, now joined by Mel Gibson. “California was ill-prepared and had scant resources to deal with the inevitable fires.” Gibson explains. “So are we supposed to believe our elected officials didn’t know that? Of course they knew that. Governor Newsom and Karen Bass let us all down.”
My reaction to all of this is, Meh, so you get rid of Newsom and you replace him with who?!
This is just more swapping of deck chairs on the Titanic, when the passengers need to abandon ship and move over to a U.S.S. CONSTITUTION. Literal and figurative.
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Never in the 236-year political history of the United States has there been a more expansive, criminal, and blatant scheme to manipulate the electoral process than the actions of ActBlue in league with the Democrat Party. Is ActBlue a Criminal Enterprise?
Glenn Reynolds:Now, with Republicans in charge of Congress and Trump in the White House, ActBlue’s management and staff are bolting. Most importantly, we need to shrink the size of both the federal government and its budget. USAID is no more, and Trump has promised to abolish the Department of Education. That’s just the beginning. Many more cuts to the bureaucracy must follow. Trump is deworming Washington — now to keep the parasites out for good
Melanie Phillips: ” Jewish values are at the very heart of Western and American culture. Concepts at the core of democracy — limited government and the rule of law founded in the consent of the people — were introduced to the world by the Hebrew Bible. They were explicitly drawn upon by America’s Founding Fathers when they laid down the principles of the US Constitution and defined the American nation. That nation and its foundational values have been under sustained assault by liberal universalists led by the Democratic Party. Scratch an opponent of Israel and you’ll find someone who believes the worst of the West and rubbishes its institutions. Scratch a protester against the West and you’ll find an enemy of Israel. The war against Israel is a war against the West; and the war against the West is a war against the Jews. Democrats’ Israel betrayal: How the party flipped on its staunchest ally
“After 3 weeks, >200,000 cards have been de-activated,” the statement revealed. “Great progress this past week by @HHSGov [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] @Interior [U.S. Department of the Interior].” DOGE Cancels 200,000 Federal Government Credit Cards
The foreign-born share of the United States population hit an all-time high in January, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). At 15.8 percent of the total U.S. population, the ratio of foreign-born individuals living in the country to native-born now exceeds prior highs reached during the mass immigration influxes experienced in 1890 and 1910. Foreign-Born Share of U.S. Population Hit All-Time High in January.
Lyons confirmed a “comprehensive review was done internally here with ICE,” finding “tens of thousands of cases that were recorded as arrests when, in fact, these instances were illegal aliens that were simply processed and released into the American communities,” he said. Senior officials report that the majority of the 113,431 arrests made in FY 2024 were so-called “pass-through” arrests, meaning that ICE did not take enforcement action against those migrants and instead released them into the interior. No arrests made by ICE under the Trump administration have been pass-through arrests: “What we are doing now is actual immigration enforcement, not enforcement theater,” an official said. Trump’s ICE Reveals Biden Regime ‘Cooked the Books’ on Illegals, ‘Purposely Misleading’ the Public.
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian Columbia University graduate and U.S. permanent resident now detained in a federal jail in Louisiana following his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Saturday night, previously worked with the British government. Khalil emerged as a key figure during the anti-Israel campus encampment in the spring of 2024, serving as a lead negotiator for student protesters. His arrest over the weekend prompted a federal judge to issue a temporary block on his deportation, leaving his fate hanging in the balance as legal proceedings unfold. Trump’s ‘Radical Pro-Hamas’ Student Deportee Has UK Govt Security Clearance: REPORT. (UK now means the "Ummah Koran!" - jjs)
Mamdani, who is running for mayor of New York City, wrote in a post on X, that he “confronted” Homan, while he was in Albany. In a video on Mamdani’s post, he was seen shouting at Homan, asking him, “How many more New Yorkers? How many more New Yorkers will you detain? How many more New Yorkers without charge? Do you believe in the First Amendment? Do you believe in the First Amendment Tom Homan?” New York Lawmaker Screams at Border Czar Tom Homan Over Arrest, Detention of Pro-'Palestinian' Activist
But now, in the wake of pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest at the hands of the Trump administration, numerous high-profile Democrats have become staunch defenders of free speech, despite their long history of advocating for censorship. It’s politics, after all. Party Of Censorship Suddenly Cares About Free Speech
Kassem has represented terrorists including Ahmed al-Darbi, an al Qaeda member convicted in 2017 for the bombing of a French oil tanker, as well as several other Guantanamo Bay detainees, including a "close associate" of Osama bin Laden. He went on to serve as an immigration policy adviser to former president Joe Biden as a member of the White House's Domestic Policy Council. Like his new client, Kassem was also involved in anti-Israel activism as a student at Columbia, where he lobbied to rename a sandwich called the "Israeli wrap" in the student dining hall, claiming the terminology was offensive to Muslims. He attended Columbia Law School on a fellowship funded by Paul Soros, the elder brother of Democratic megadonor George Soros. Lawyer for Radical Columbia Grad Student Repped Al Qaeda Members—Including 'Close Associate' of Bin Laden
The ADL expressed its support for Khalil’s detention, citing the need for significant repercussions for those involved in activities such as providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations and inciting violence. The organization added that Khalil’s arrest should serve as a deterrent against future antisemitic protests. Ex-Obama Aides Slam ADL for Backing Trump Deportations.
In the same survey, Israel saw a modest increase in positive perception of just three percent since October 2023. Currently, 50 percent of respondents have a positive opinion of Israel, while 19 percent hold a negative opinion. Poll Shows How Many Americans Hold Favorable View of Hamas.
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
A masked man vandalized a Tesla charging station and attempted to burn it down using molotov cocktails in North Charleston, South Carolina, ultimately setting himself on fire in the process. The maniac spray-painted “Long live Ukraine” next to a vulgar message aimed at President Trump at the scene. Trump Hater Sets Himself Ablaze While Torching Tesla Charging Station in South Carolina
In the clip, Moulton responded to a question from CNN host Audie Cornish on the Trump administration potentially classifying violence against Teslas or Tesla dealerships by stating, “So, Trump thinks that if you try to kill cops to overthrow the government and change an election, that’s not domestic terrorism, but, somehow, having a protest in front of a Tesla dealership is?” And “The bottom line with Trump is, freedom and liberties belong to people who agree with him, and that’s it. That’s his view of America. That’s not a view that people who believe in our Constitution share.” (Molotov cocktail is protest?! - jjs) ‘Moderate’ Dem Rep. Seth Moulton (the semen lipgloss user) Uses Tesla Terrorism Epidemic to Attack Trump
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The VA secretary took specific aim at a Feb. 5 story authored by Kime titled, “Elon Musk Aide Is Now Working at VA and Accessing Its Computer Systems.” Citing unconfirmed reports, the Military.com reporter wrote in her piece that, “Rumors began circulating Tuesday that DOGE representatives visited the VA on Tuesday with an intent to mine data on disability compensation and benefits.” ‘Innuendo And Rumor Stories’: VA Secretary Collins Blasts Media Hacktivist’s Anti-DOGE Hatchet Job (Innuendo is an Italian suppository - jjs)
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
While American households are still laboring under the weight Biden-era inflation, the worst in forty years, their opinion of the president’s handling of the economy has surged higher with the changing of the guard at the White House. CNN Poll Shows Surge in Presidential Approval on Economy Under Trump
Here's how it works: Democrats sit on their hands and do nothing about spending until the budget deadline looms. Once they are operating in a time-crisis setting, Democrats put forth a grotesque, bloated, and usually immoral omnibus spending bill rife with grift for their friends and economic incontinence. Republicans naturally recoil at this abomination and refuse to vote for it. Democrats and their media allies then bray that Republicans are obstructionists. Shutdown Schumer and the Shifty Democrats Plot to Bring Government to a Standstill
So with all the tongue chewers foaming at the mouth over the prospect of President Donald Trump’s administration laying off nearly half of those at the Department of Education (DOE), with the caveat that the entire department could become a thing of the past, it was these same people who espoused the same “get rid of non-essential” people agenda years ago before they became “oppose Trump no matter what” swamp monsters. FLASHBACK: Never Trumper Kristol Jokes About No One Being 'Essential' the Dept. of Education
Victor Davis Hanson: Elite universities face a reckoning as public backlash and new legislation threaten their finances, admissions policies, and ideological excesses, forcing them to reform or risk irrelevance. Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education?
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
The D.C. Board of Elections will head to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday to fight to preserve a district law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections. The lawsuit centers around the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022, which permits noncitizens eighteen or older who have lived in D.C. for at least 30 days prior to an election to vote for local officials and on ballot initiatives. D.C. Is Home To 10,000 Spies. Democrats Want To Let Them Vote
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel announced his agents have arrested an allegedly corrupt federal government official charged with executing a scheme to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and lying to federal agents. On Wednesday, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan announced charges against Serina Baker-Hill, a career federal employee who serves as the director of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Center for Excellence and Expertise over Automotive and Aerospace Engineering for the alleged fraud plot. Kash Patel’s FBI Arrests Corrupt Federal Bureaucrat Who Stole FEMA Funds.
National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) released a statement on Shaheen’s retirement from the Senate, welcoming the choice of yet another Senate Democrat to exit. “Another one! Shaheen’s retirement is welcome news for Granite Staters eager for new leadership,” Scott said, predicting change in 2026. “New Hampshire has a proud tradition of electing common-sense Republicans—and will do so again in 2026!” Shaheen’s announcement follows those of Democrat Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Democrat Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), both of whom announced in earlier this year that they, too, will not seek reelection in 2026. ‘It’s Just Time’: Democrat NH Sen. Jeanne Shaheen Will Not Seek Reelection
The Democrat Party’s radical stances and cultural missteps could doom it to the same fate as the Whigs. (if only we had polling data from 1860 to analyze and compare - jjs) The Demowhigs’ Race to Extinction
The election comes amid intense discussion of Greenland’s potential independence domestically and global attention over U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated overtures to the country to become part of the United States. As things stand, Greenland is now a region of its former colonial master Denmark, and as well as being divided between left and right, its politics are also split into pro- and anti-independence camps. Left-Wing Punished in Surprise Greenland Election Result, Next Govt May Be More Trump-Friendly
Since World War II, Europe has been dependent on America—and resented that dependence. Trump’s tough love approach aims to end that destructive cycle. America’s New Tough Love Foreign Policy BIDEN/HARRIS AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
All the evidence suggests this guy was doing spying for China. For one, he was arrested at the airport as he tried to board a plane back to flee back to China. Second, when confronted by security he lied about his actions, trying to hide the drone. Third, he had an accomplice who security people foolishly allowed to get away, who is still unidentified and still at large (assuming he is even still in the country). Chinese man convicted of flying drone over Vandenberg illegally
National lobbyists, who rarely, if ever, show up to Charleston, came out in full force to oppose HB 2354, which would ban the in-state sale of any food products containing Red 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2 and Green 3. Big Soda Floods State Capitol In Unprecedented Fashion To Lobby Against MAHA
SpaceX had previously tried to bring Starlink to India by selling subscriptions directly to customers but was forced to pull back when the government denied it regulatory approval. These two deals suggest that the government wanted SpaceX to partner with Indian companies, keeping some of its profits in-country. SpaceX inks Starlink deals with India’s two largest telecom operators
That Saturn has so many moons should surprise no one. Saturn actually has possibly millions, maybe even billions, of moons, if you count every particle in its rings. In fact, the gas giant poses a problem for astronomers in defining what a moon actually is. How small must an object be before you stop calling it a moon? Astronomers discover 128 more moons around Saturn (Still no Klingons on Uranus - jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The latest NIH grant cancellations come just a week after DOGE announced the cancellation of grants from the agency that were geared toward transgender experiments on animals, Breitbart News reported. DOGE Cancels NIH Grants to Prevent Pregnancy in ‘Transgender Boys’
Washington, D.C., District Court Judge Ana Reyes, during arguments regarding the Pentagon’s attempt to ban transgender individuals from the military, demanded that Hegseth remove the post by Monday, according to Fox News. Reyes had previously said in arguments regarding the ban that the existence of only two biological sexes, male and female, was not “biologically correct.” Biden-Appointed Judge Demands Pete Hegseth Retract Social Media Post About Trans Policy
If you do a comparison search between two CPUs or GPUs you are often directed to UserBenchmark.
Unfortunately the site is run by a meth-addled hobo living under a bridge in Centralia, Pennsylvania, who has been defying government attempts to relocate him to a safer location for thirty years.
It's well-equipped with I/O, including two 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, HDMI and USB4 for video output, and OCuLink for external whatevers.
I can see a use for this as I run a small Linux cluster on some Beelink mini-PCs and I have a portable monitor to plug in when I need to work on them locally. If I could just glance over and see what they were all doing that would be neat.
I doubt the price would be particularly welcoming for that use case though.
It is. I mean, mostly you can still turn it off and get a usable device, but with all the effort going into AI that doesn't work, nothing is actually improving.
I found a channel on YouTube with remastered versions of 70s, 80s, and 90s music videos. Often what is available either has third-generation VHS video quality or the video is fine but the audio is barely listenable, so a few times I've had to post just the audio version instead.
Disclaimer: Also they shouldn't be region-locked, though they might spontaneously combust due to copyright strikes.
A special welcome to those who have given up commenting on Ace of Spades for Lent and have assumed temporary lurker status. The rest of you know what that means. More commenting to take up the slack. This site is fueled by comments. It doesn't run on pixy dust (umm...wait a minute...nevermind). Comment of the week honors are at stake.
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Speaking of commenting, the Weekly Commenter Stats for the week of 3/9/2025 have arrived. These people are not lurkers.
Top 10 commenters:
1 [479 comments] 'Bulg' [68.03 posts/day]
2 [433 comments] 'whig'
3 [401 comments] '...'
4 [360 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein'
5 [342 comments] 'Christopher R Taylor'
6 [321 comments] 'Harry Paratestes'
7 [298 comments] 'I used to have a different nic'
8 [255 comments] 'Anna Puma'
9 [244 comments] 'rickb223 '
10 [242 comments] 'Sebastian Melmoth'
Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [137 names] 'Invasive Species' [19.46 unique names/day]
2 [80 names] 'Hysteria yes but also authoritarianism '
3 [75 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
4 [73 names] 'I gotta ask '
5 [69 names] 'Big Homo, democrats and Sheryl Crow'
6 [49 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'
7 [39 names] 'Duncanthrax'
8 [38 names] 'mindful webworker - this is social mediacracy'
9 [37 names] 'Miklos is just warming up'
10 [30 names] 'Count de Monet'
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No respect at all...
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Update for those of you participating in the 2025 Ace of Spades Wednesday ONT Prediction challenge.
Justin Trudeau is on the way out but not yet formally gone. Rumored later this week.
Epstein and JFK documents still pending.
Looking less likely that SpaceX will make 18 Starship launches this year.
Chatter, but daylight savings time arrived but no move (yet) to make it permanent.
RFK Jr. remains in office.
Chatter, but PBS and NPR still getting money.
Iran leader still in place.
No SCOTUS resignations.
No recent chatter about Diddy files.
Stay tuned!
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Hiyooo!! Hello Rick Allen!
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More interweb wisdom.
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Groan. But you did smile, didn't you?
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This one's for you, Bulg...
A woman decides to have a face lift for her 50th birthday. She spends $15,000 and looks sensational. On her way home, she stops at a news stand to buy a newspaper. Before leaving, she says to the clerk, "I hope you don't mind my asking, but how old do you think I am?"
"About 32," is the reply.
"Nope! I'm exactly 50," the woman says happily.
A little while later she goes into McDonald's and asks the counter girl the very same question.
The girl replies, "I would guess about 29." With a big smile, the woman replies, "Nope, I'm 50."
Now she is feeling really good about herself.
While waiting for the bus to go home, she asks an old man waiting next to her the same question.
He replies, "Lady, I am 78 and my eyesight is going. Although, when I was young there was a sure-fire way to tell how old a woman was. It sounds very forward, but it requires you to let me put my hands under your bra. Then, and only then I can tell you EXACTLY how old you are."
They wait in silence on the empty street until her curiosity gets the better of her. She finally blurts out, "What the hell, go ahead."
He slips both of his hands under her blouse and begins to feel around very slowly and carefully. He bounces and weighs each breast and he gently pinches each nipple. He pushes her breasts together and rubs them against each other.
After a couple of minutes of this, she says, "Okay, okay.....How old am I?"
He completes one last squeeze of her breasts, removes his hands, and says, "Madam, you are 50."
Stunned and amazed, the woman says, "That was incredible, how could you tell?"
"I was behind you at McDonalds."
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Molly Malone's melons are the bewb newz from Ireland:
The majority of people will touch her boobs for good luck, that's a misogynistic tradition.
A lot of people clamour around her, kiss her on the cheek, kiss her boobs, it's all inappropriate. It's reducing her to this derision and not giving her the status of being a national treasure.
I walk by the Oscar Wilde statue in Merrion Square every day. You don't see people rubbing his crotch for good luck.
With the Statue of David, if you were to grope him, people would feel that's inappropriate and offensive. But when the same happens to Molly Malone, they don't even think twice.
The breasts of the Juliet statue in Verona Italy, the testicles of the Charging Bull in New York, the bulge in the pants of Victor Noir's statue at his grave in Paris, the foot of St Peter in the Vatican, and the bronze mice at the Old Bridge in Heidelberg could not be reached for comment.
In the hierarchy of virtue signaling, self-appointed "advocates" speaking on behalf of inanimate objects have to be near the top.
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Commander Adam Bryan leads the Blues to the moon!
As previewed earlier, here�s a couple of my favorite frames from the @BlueAngels practice yesterday. Sad winter training is over, but excited to see the airshow season start! #blueangels#f18pic.twitter.com/kysyW0sRTs
Thunderbird close ups during their stay at NAF El Centro for joint training with the Blue Angels. Great seeing them practice again this year! #afthunderbirds#f16pic.twitter.com/RglLINZOcV
No idea if real or not, but made me realize that I had no idea how much a Globe of Death cost. I asked Grok and it confirmed that a second hand standard Globe of Death might be in this range but a new custom Globe of Death might be closer to $100k. Now you know...
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Because we can:
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Dear Wednesday ONT readers, I give you...the record for the most concerts by a vegetable orchestra. Really? This qualifies as a WORLD RECORD? I was told as a child not to play with my food and they give these people a plaque? Better than eating it I guess... The fresh sounds coming from the world's first vegetable orchestra
Even after reading and watching, it still seems like a parody sketch to me.
I might make it look a little easier than it is but I'm burning up here, I really feel it. The peppers, they really hurt a lot.
At least his feat involves pain and discomfort. Harder than playing a celery kazoo or whatever the veggie orchestra plays to earn themselves a record. The story does not report how the proud new record holder handled his subsequent trip to the little boys room...
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A little virtual insanity for a big ONT finish:
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Eleven billion Canadian dollars to overseas gender and transgender propaganda.
In American dollars, that's like four hundred buck!
WNBA " " " Star " " " (I only am allotted so many quotation marks) hints that the ladies of the WNBA might just go on strike if they're not paid as much money as real basketball players are paid.
Before reading this, keep in mind that the real NBA, the men's league, actually would allow any woman to play if they were good enough. They're not a men's only league by rule, but by practical fact.
Also keep in mind the NBA makes fifty (five-zero) times as much money as the WNBA, and the WNBA is, was, and always will be heavily subsidized by the NBA, who take less money to give more money to the women's league players.
It's already the Welfare National Basketball Association and of course they demand more welfare.
Reese and fellow WNBA player DiJonai Carrington addressed the next WNBA collective bargaining agreement during Reese's podcast Friday.
"I've got to get in the meetings because I'm hearing like, 'If y'all don't give us what we want, we sitting out,'" Reese said.
"The WNBA don't pay my bills at all. I don't even think it pays one of my bills. Literally."
The sports comedy X account "Hater Report" then posted a video of Reese missing the layups with the caption, "Angel Reese DESERVES more money. PAY HER PLEASE."
Other users got in on the parade of sarcastic comments.
"GIVE HER THE MAX," one user wrote.
Another user joked, "Please give this girl a raise before she decides to sit out the next season."
Reese went right out and showed why she should be paid as much as the real basketball players:
WNBA player Angel Reese may not have helped her negotiating leverage much with a viral lowlight Monday.
During an Unrivaled game, Reese missed three straight shots while standing right under the basket, and one of the shots hit the bottom edge of the backboard.
Reese was able to at least come away with two offensive rebounds on the possession but fell to the hardwood after missing her third shot.
Footage of the sequence quickly spread across social media, and many mocked the timing of it after Reese ignited controversy with recent claims WNBA players may refuse to play games to negotiate higher pay.
Fans rip Angel Reese over her performance after star threatened to strike over lack of WNBA pay rise
Fans were left unimpressed by Angel Reese's performance in an Unrivaled game on Monday night as a video of her missing layups went viral.
Reese, who is playing in the 3-on-3 league ahead of the WNBA season in May, recently threatened to boycott the W if if the league does not meet players' demands for the new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
And fans remembered those remarks as she struggled offensively against Vinyl BC, with a video on X showing her missing four shots down low, some of which were closely contested by defenders.
While her team won 74-46 on the night, Reese shot just 5-13 for 10 points, and fans mocked her over her previous boycott comments.
'She gotta be worth at least 25-30/year. Not million,....... cents,' one said.
What are we going to do if she sits out this coming WNBA season?,' another sarcastically asked.
'But she wants to be paid more,' a third said.
And a fourth asked, 'How does one get to the WNBA playing like this? Doesn't seem like it should be possible.
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While the average salary for Unrivaled players is said to top $200,000 for the eight-week season, Reese is set to make just under $75,000 playing for the Sky in 2025, according to Spotrac.
McDonald's is currently offering some kind of "Angel Reese Combo Meals." This is more welfare for her and the WNBA. The sales appeal of having the name "Angel Reese" on a product is less than the current value of a Hunter Biden watercolor.
No matter how I'm treated by some colleagues, nothing diminishes my awe and gratitude at getting to represent Delaware in Congress. It is truly the honor and privilege of a lifetime. I simply want to serve and to try to make this world a better place.
Oh, man up already.
A judge has sanctioned Michael Mann for bad faith actions in his long-running lawsuit against Mark Styen:
A "climate scientist" sued conservative commenters for defamation after they dared to question his climate numbers, only to be sanctioned by the court for misleading the jury with massive "errors" when it came to another set of numbers (his purported damages). https://t.co/Mc1exkFkjW
A "climate scientist" sued conservative commenters for defamation after they dared to question his climate numbers, only to be sanctioned by the court for misleading the jury with massive "errors" when it came to another set of numbers (his purported damages).
ActBlue is being investigated for... financing terrorism operations against the left's American enemies.
🚨 #BREAKING: Rep. Darrell Issa has formally requested the Trump administration to open up an investigation into ActBlue, accusing them of potentially accepting payments from TERR0R organizations
ActBlue is said to be linked to financing attacks on Tesla showrooms and Elon Musk,� pic.twitter.com/YtusP2QvZW
Kash Patel Announces the Prosecution of a "Director Level" CBP Employee Who Defrauded the Federal Government of FEMA Funds and Lied to Federal Agents
—Ace
The best and the brightest.
FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
TODAY: Following efforts with our interagency partners, I can report that a career Director level employee at US Customs and Border Protection has been charged with allegedly attempting to defraud FEMA, as well as lying to federal agents.
This is part of the new FBI�s renewed efforts to crack down on public corruption and deliver accountability for the American people.
Justice will be done.
Thanks to our partners @AGPamBondi @TheJusticeDept and our @FBIDetroit
team for their work.
Here's the scam: She claimed that flooding damaged her basement, and then claimed further that FEMA should pay to fix the damages. I don't know if those claims are real.
She then doubled down on fraud and claimed she could not live in her house while her basement was being fixed, so she asked for, and received, rental subsidies to pay her rent as she lived in a rented apartment.
But she didn't rent another place. She stayed home and pocketed the money which was supposedly paying for her necessary second residence.
DIRECTOR AT CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION CHARGED WITH SCHEME TO FRAUDULENTY OBTAIN DISASTER AID AND LYING TO FEDERAL AGENTS
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Michigan
DETROIT -- A federal criminal complaint was unsealed today charging the Director of United States Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Center for Excellence and Expertise over Automotive and Aerospace Engineering with engaging in a scheme to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and lying to federal agents, Acting United States Attorney Julie A. Beck announced.
Beck was joined in the announcement by Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Daniel Altman, Executive Director of CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).
Serina Baker-Hill, 55, of Detroit, is a career employee of CBP. Following a series of floods in the Detroit area in August of 2023, Michigan's request for a federal disaster declaration was approved, which allowed residents to apply for FEMA assistance. Baker-Hill applied for FEMA assistance for flood damage and a FEMA inspector determined there was damage to the basement in Baker-Hill's home. During the inspection, Baker-Hill informed the inspector she was not able to live safely in the home while the repairs were being made. Consequently, FEMA approved benefits for Baker Hill to assist with home repairs and for two months of rental assistance. The approval letter from FEMA indicated that the rental assistance money was to be used solely to help Baker-Hill pay rent and essential utility costs while she was in temporary housing.
According to Baker-Hill's bank records, none of the FEMA money was used for rental, hotel, or utility expenses. Video surveillance at the home showed that Baker-Hill and her husband continued to live in the home after receiving the rental assistance funds from FEMA. Additionally, records for the home do not show a significant drop in utilities consistent with the property being unoccupied during this time.
Baker-Hill was later interviewed by FBI and CBP-OPR agents and informed them that she has never committed illegal activity of any kind and had never defrauded the U.S. government.
According to the Washington Times, this dedicated Civil Servant (thank you for your service) is also being investigated for drug trafficking.
Senior DHS official investigated for drug trafficking, charged with disaster fraud
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Wednesday, March 12, 2025
A senior official at the Department of Homeland Security was being investigated for potential involvement in drug trafficking, according to new court files unsealed Tuesday.
The revelation came in a case in which authorities charged the official, Serina Baker Hill, with bilking the government out of thousands of dollars in disaster relief money for a home she claimed was made unlivable because of flooding.
Court documents show agents detected the disaster scam while listening to wiretap conversations between Ms. Hill and her husband, Maurice Hill, whom they suspected of drug trafficking. They were monitoring Ms. Hill's communications too because of her role as director of Customs and Border Protection's Center for Excellence and Expertise over Automotive and Aerospace Engineering.
"During the course of the investigations, it was discovered that both HILL and Maurice had engaged in a scheme to defraud FEMA after flooding occurred in Detroit, Michigan on August 24, 2023," wrote FBI Special Agent Andrew J. Matas.
When agents confronted Ms. Hill in a 2024 interview, she lied to them, Mr. Matas said.
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Ms. Hill is charged with lying, wire fraud, disaster fraud and making false statements to the government. That latter charge stems from her denying that she had never defrauded the government.
In the court documents, Mr. Matas said the FBI has been probing Mr. Hill for drug trafficking and "other offenses." That's why they were monitoring his phone and electronic communications.
Democrats will be holding sparsely-attended rallies for the criminal within days. She has a perfect defense against the charges: Muh Racism.
FBI Scientist Explains Why American Intelligence Now Favors the Lab Leak Theory (and In Fact Always Did)
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The CIA also concluded with "low confidence" that the virus was cooked up in Fauci's Wuhan branch, but that finding was suppressed by Biden, and only revealed when John Ratcliffe became CIA Director.
Here's how Vanity Fair spins this revelation to its readers: Somehow, this is all Trump's fault, doncha know:
As bird flu spreads, and Team Trump begins dismantling America's public health apparatus, a former FBI scientist and investigator speaks out about the evidence that led the bureau to suspect that COVID-19 was sparked by an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
America's public health apparatus has lied to us for five years and hasn't done jack squat to contain any viral outbreak. In fact, it created the biggest one of all time.
It's time to shut it all down.
Despite their efforts to undermine him, the scientist's disclosures badly damage the Fake Consensus of a wet-market "spillover."
Vanity Fair can now report that FBI scientists closely scrutinized the research activities of a group of graduate students and researchers who worked under Shi Zhengli, the lead coronavirus scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). For at least three years prior to the pandemic, those scientists performed risky research on a group of viruses that included one of the closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. The FBI found that Shi's researchers, in their publications, were not candid about the inventory of viruses in their possession and the true breadth of their work, which was conducted in labs with a low biosafety level. The intelligence community also determined that, in the autumn of 2019, three of Shi's researchers fell ill with COVID-like symptoms.
WIV scientists, Bannan says, had "thousands of samples in their lab" that they'd collected from bats in Yunnan Province in southern China. The WIV had been researching them "for years," he says. Among them were viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2. Intelligence agencies still don't have a complete picture of which virus samples were housed at the WIV. But the scientists' "lack of candor" about their inventory, as well as their years of work manipulating coronaviruses to determine the changes necessary to infect humans, added to the circumstantial evidence indicating that the outbreak might have started among the WIV's researchers. Shi Zhengli and a WIV administrator did not respond to requests for comment.
More spin from VF: They want you to continue trusting Saint Anthony Fauci.
Don't believe these FBI Science-Liars!
A moderate-confidence assessment does not equal certainty. Nor does it mean that the FBI is correct. Typically, it means that an intelligence agency has information that is "plausible," with sources that are "proving to be high quality," but it may need more sources to reach a high-confidence assessment, says Shawn Turner, former public affairs director for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under President Obama.
"We were not asked to prove anything," says Bannan. "We were asked to make an assessment," which involves the weighing of evidence. Though he considers a natural origin possible, he says, "To me, there is enough scientific evidence to say it is likely this was a lab incident."
Bannan, a registered Democrat, has a PhD in microbiology, and spent almost 20 years as an FBI scientist. In 2009, he was among the recipients of the FBI Director's Award for outstanding scientific advancement for his work on the anthrax investigation. He says he decided to come forward for several reasons. One was to counter what he described as inaccurate claims espoused by some proponents of the natural-origin theory, their discrediting of government scientists, and the branding of the lab hypothesis as a right-wing conspiracy theory. He also wanted to counter what he described as the bias toward a natural spillover in the government's reviews to date, and the sidelining of scientific evidence supporting a laboratory origin.
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Shi tracked the origin of the outbreak to horseshoe bats. Her research--some of it funded by the National Institutes of Health through an American nonprofit named EcoHealth Alliance--found some bat viruses that could infect human cells through a protein called the ACE2 receptor.
In March 2020, when Bannan was assigned to assist the FBI team investigating COVID-19's origins, the group confronted an obvious question. How had a bat virus seemingly primed to infect humans arrived in Wuhan in the first place? The bats in question are not believed to be native to Wuhan, and many of the horseshoe bats that Shi studied lived roughly 1,000 miles to the southwest, in Yunnan Province.
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With COVID-19, however, no infected animal has ever been identified, despite an extensive search. As Bannan puts it, "How and where the SARS-CoV-2 virus became well adapted to humans is the question that compels scientists to examine the laboratory origin."
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The WIV team hunted far and wide for bat-coronavirus samples, but one source in particular--an abandoned mine shaft in the mountains of Mojiang County in Yunnan Province--stood out to Bannan and the FBI scientists.
In 2012, six miners became gravely ill after shoveling bat guano from the floor of the mine shaft. Their symptoms included cough, fever, and labored breathing. They were treated at the First Affiliated Hospital at the Kunming Medical University in Yunnan's capital, where a medical student chronicled details of the incident in a thesis.
The pulmonologist who consulted on their case was one of China's top SARS experts. Suspecting a viral SARS infection, Dr. Zhong Nanshan learned that the guano came from rufous horseshoe bats, the same species implicated in the 2002 SARS outbreak. Within months, three of the six miners were dead. The WIV tested their blood samples and found four of them positive for SARS antibodies, according to a separate thesis by a graduate student at China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The mine shaft became a hot spot for studying viral emergence, and the WIV collected numerous samples from there, including one it named Ra4991.
Six years later, with SARS-CoV-2 overtaking the world and an army of scientists searching for a progenitor virus, Shi Zhengli and several colleagues published a paper noting that the WIV possessed a viral sample they had named RaTG13, which proved to be 96.2% similar to SARS-CoV-2. That meant RaTG13 was the closest known match at the time to the virus that caused COVID-19.
What Shi failed to mention in her paper was that RaTG13 had been renamed. Its original name was Ra4991--the virus from the abandoned mine shaft where three miners likely contracted a fatal illness.
As internet sleuths connected the dots between RaTG13 and Ra4991, Shi updated her published work, and tried to explain the omission.
Brian Cranston is a nasty leftwing idiot I never understood why people joined the mass delusion that he was a "serious actor." He's Tim Watley, that's it. That's as good as he gets.
The Ivy Exodus"As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap." "Jewish" academics rejected their religion and culture long ago, and chose instead to worship progressivism. And they are paying for it! It would take a heart of stone not to laugh! [CBD]
Podcast: CBD and J.J. Sefton dig into the Ukraine cease fire, the Z-man bending the knee to Trump, deporting a Hamas cheerleader from Columbia University, Taxing the rich by taxing endowments, egg prices, tariffs, and more!
Podcast: CBD and J.J. Sefton are joined by Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, perhaps the world's expert on the reality of Islam. We discuss the failure of Europe, the rigidity of Islam, the blindness of the West to that rigidity, and the possibilities for the future.
Correction on Gavin Newsom story: Newsom didn't go on Charlie Kirk's podcast. Charlie Kirk was the first guest on Gavin Newsom's new podcast, which he calls "This is Gavin Newsom," apparently intending it to be an Oprah Winfrey style star vehicle for making himself president
CORRECTION: I inadvertently reported that our NSA and CIA "intelligence" professionals were talking about "anal bleaching" in government checks while on the taxpayers' dime. In fact, they were discussing "butthole lasers."
"Butthole lasers" may be used for anal bleaching, but also for anal fistulas.
Laser treatments for the anus and rectum can be used for a variety of conditions, including hemorrhoids, fissures, and fistulas. Laser treatments can also be used for hair removal and anal bleaching.
I apologize to all "intelligence" professionals I maligned. I regret the error and vow to do better in the future.
