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Thousands of fired federal employees have their complaints tossed for lack of merit.

Roughly 2,000 fired federal probationary workers who challenged their dismissals under President Trump have had their complaints thrown out by the Office of Special Counsel, signaling a sweeping reaffirmation of the administration’s authority to overhaul the federal workforce.

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The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) dismissed complaints from about 2,000 former federal workers, citing a lack of merit.

These workers are part of the larger group affected by the Trump administration's federal workforce reforms.

OSC is now led by Jamieson Greer, a Trump appointee who previously served as U.S. Trade Representative.

Jamie Raskin frequently blasts Trump for "attacking" his enemies and seeking "vengeance" against them.

So here's Jamie Rasking threatening El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele (now that I learned how to spell it, I'm going to put that learnin' to good use) that he'll be seeking vengeance against him when the Democrats claw their way back to power.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Inside with Jen Psaki," Rep. Jamie Raskin took direct aim at Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for cozying up to President Donald Trump, cautioning, "The Trump administration is not going to last forever." Raskin's remarks appear aimed at undermining Trump's efforts to build stronger ties with conservative-leaning foreign leaders, a foreign policy posture that has gained traction since Trump returned to the Oval Office in January 2025.

Video of his threat to get vengeance on any world leaders or country "complicit" with Trump (that is, treating Trump as the duly elected president of the US).

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

REP. JAMIE RASKIN: We should be talking about cutting off aid to El Salvador and @NayibBukele right now. He has the power to return Kilmar Garcia. When we come back to power, we are not going to look kindly on people who facilitated authoritarianism.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is now fighting for, get this, actual equality in employment opportunity.

They are investigating actual racial discrimination in hiring, for the first time ever.

The Trump administration is taking unprecedented steps to dismantle the influence of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in elite legal circles. Using the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the administration is now scrutinizing top law firms for potentially discriminating against white candidates in pursuit of racial quotas. Critics within the federal agency and the broader legal profession are sounding alarms, but for many Americans, this marks a welcome return to merit-based principles and a rejection of ideological hiring practices that have plagued major institutions.

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The EEOC has launched investigations into the hiring practices of 20 top corporate law firms.

These probes target DEI-driven recruitment, particularly for Black and Hispanic candidates, which the administration views as discriminatory toward white applicants.

Several firms have already settled, agreeing to eliminate DEI language and shift to merit-based hiring.

So close to Pride Month, HBO?

Not Gay Enough: LGBTQ+ Mob Rips HBO's 'The Last of Us' After Teen Lesbian Sex Scene Cut

LGBTQ+ activists are ripping the second season of HBO's hit video game adapted drama The Last of Us after news broke that a lesbian sex scene between two teenaged stars was cut.

With the airing of the second season's second episode, gay fans are comparing the TV version to its video game predecessor and finding that a key gay moment from the video game was left out of the dramatized version of the zombie apocalypse story.

In the The Last of Us Part II video game, upon which season two of the TV version is based, the characters of Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Diana (Isabela Merced) are seen having sexual relations. But gay activists were chagrined this week when the appropriate time in the plot came and went in the TV broadcast and no sex scene was included.

It should be pointed out that both Ellie and Diana are teen girls in this dramatized version of the video game.

The first season did include a brief scene showing Ellie kissing her friend Riley (Storm Reid), so the series did establish the teenaged character's lesbian proclivities at least once already.

But the next LGBTQ moment seems to have passed without acknowledgement, and Pink News is worried that the lesbian romance will remain unrealized.

"Some fans therefore think it's unlikely we'll get to see the moment between Ellie and Dina elsewhere in the season," the gay news website wrote.

Despite the fears of LGBTQ activists, though, season two co-star Isabela Merced has insisted that there is a lot of LGBTQ representation in this season and promised that "the gays are going to be fed."

Wonderful. "The Last of Us II" was already a cursed woke production. The game drew the ire of right-leaning cultural critics for featuring a very butch woman, who looked a lot like a transgender, executing the first game's hero Joel in the first couple hours of play. And then the game portrayed that transgender-looking character as a tragic hero.

People wondered if the show would follow the game in this divisive plot point. Click here for the answer to that.

The did slightly adjust the plot-line: they hired an actress who looks feminine to play the brutal golf-club murderer. So that's something.

On the plus side: Less Pedro Pascal and his low-energy dadbod James Edward Olmos impression.

Kanye West makes a confession that I didn't want to hear.

Rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West took to social media on Monday morning to announce he has released a new song about childhood incest, writing, "I sucked my cousin's dick till I was 14."

"This song is called COUSINS about my cousin that's locked in jail for life for killing a pregnant lady a few years after I told him we wouldn't 'look at dirty magazines together' anymore," West wrote in a Monday morning X post, sharing an apparent music video of a new song.

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"Perhaps in my self centered mess I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was 6 and then we acted out what we saw," the "Heartless" rapper continued in his post.

West went on to say, "My dad had Playboy magazines but the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different."

"My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins dick till I was 14," West concluded in his X post.

While the lyrics in the rapper's new song, "Cousins," may be difficult for some to understand due to apparent autotuning, some of the lyrics clearly include the words, "I gave my cousin head."

"Hanging with my cousin, reading dirty magazines, we seen two niggas kissing, we ain't know what that shit means. Then we start reenacting everything that we had seen. That's when I gave my cousin head," the lyrics state.

On the plus side, he has badly damaged his ability to spread anti-Jewish propaganda.

Ryan Lizza -- the guy whose fiancee cucked him with RFKJr., which he then leaked to the press -- has been fired by Politico.

Ryan Lizza, the pencil-necked leftist credibly accused of misconduct with two women, is out at the far-left Politico.

Lizza, a one-time precious in the regime media and shameless Russia Collusion Hoaxster, announced this week that after working at the New Republic, New York Magazine, CNN, the New Yorker, Esquire, and GQ, he will now go his own way via Substack, which tells me he can harass all the women he wants without getting fired.

"I recently left Politico, where I've served as the Chief Washington Correspondent since 2019," Lizza explained at his Substack--the one that can't fire him for sexual misconduct onaccounta he's the boss.

John Nolte recaps these sordid allegations at the link.

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The good news is that we can add Ryan Lizza to our ever-growing list of Regime Media elites who have committed career suicide or just plain given up due to Trump Derangement Syndrome:

Ruth Marcus -- Washington Post columnist, resigns.
538 -- Disney/ABC's wildly biased polling site shutters.
Paul Krugman -- Always wrong New York Times columnist forced out.
Jim Acosta -- CNN anchor forced out.
Norah O'Donnell -- Failed CBS anchor out.
Chuck Todd -- NBC's former Meet the Press host, DEI'd out.
Andrea Mitchell -- NBC harridan ages out of job.
Chris Wallace -- Son of Someone out at CNN.
Joy Reid -- Racist MSNBC anchor, too racist for MSNBC. Fired.
Neil Cavuto -- Fox News anchor, scurries away.
Alex Wagner -- Demoted at MSNBC.
Ayman Mohyeldin -- Lost MSNBC show.
Olivia Nuzzi -- Out at New York Mag for allegedly stalking RFK Jr.
Katie Phang -- Lost MSNBC show.
Jonathan Capehart -- Lost MSNBC show. Steps down as Washington Post editorial board.
Lester Holt -- Out as NBC Nightly News anchor.
One-third of New York Times Editorial Board -- Say, bye.
Eugene Robinson -- Washington Post columnist quits in snit.
Ryan Lizza -- Scurries to Substack over credible misconduct allegations.

What a glorious, glorious time to be alive.

Lizza ripped Politico for not being anti-Trump enough.

Politico's former top reporter Ryan Lizza, whose ex-fiancée Olivia Nuzzi was embroiled in a sexting scandal with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., abruptly announced his exit from the online outlet -- wildly trashing its weak coverage while asking for money for his new venture.

In his first post for his new "Telos News" Substack, Lizza said he had "recently left" the publication because he believed "their style of political coverage is not meeting the unprecedented moment of democratic peril we are facing."

"This publication is my earnest attempt to cover the crisis in Washington with a clear-eyed understanding of what is actually happening," wrote Lizza, who had been Politico's chief Washington correspondent since 2019.

He noted the new venture would be funded solely by readers -- as he called on them to pay for subscriptions to help boost it up.

"I have never written a fundraising appeal, and just typing this paragraph is deeply cringe-inducing for me. But we want to create not just a news outlet, but a news community," he said.

RFKJr. just announced that he'll be sexting with your "news community" and seducing them into dropping your substack to sign up for "RFKJr.'s Sexy Autism-Investigation Substack."

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Elsewhere in his first post, Lizza accused his former employer and other outlets of apparently kowtowing to President Trump after the commander-in-chief started publicly ripping his critics and threatening legal action.

"I saw up close how easy it was for a media conglomerate to grovel before the Trump administration when the wrong people are in charge," he wrote.

Lizza ripped the outlet for opting to send one of its reporters to be an onstage guest at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) after Trump "attacked Politico for selling subscriptions to the federal government."

He described the conference as a "sewer of media bashing and cheerleading for the degradation of our democracy where some activists were publicly organizing an unconstitutional third term for Trump -- in other words, a coup."

"A friend of mine who served in Iraq once tried to explain to me how psychologically disorienting warfare can be for soldiers the first time they're in full-scale combat. It's so horrific, so unlike any human experience, that the initial instinct is to deny that what's happening is actually happening," Lizza said.

"That's the psychology that has seized many newsrooms, law firms, and other elite institutions in Washington for months. We need to wake up."

Journalists are soldiers except more courageous and self-sacrificing. But you knew that already.

Menacing women seems to be a standard tactic.

This bizarre hulking brute says that women don't complain when he Hulks his way into their bathrooms and pisses everywhere like he's marking territory. Yeah, that's because you're a frightening monster and women are terrified of you. No, it's not that men are just "threatened" in our masculinity by your bizarre gender hybrid appearance. It's just that men have an innate instinct to defend actual women from dangerous weirdos who pose a danger to them.

The Democrats invented a lie out of whole cloth: They're claiming that eggs are increasing in price-- actually, they've fallen by more than half since the Biden high -- and absurdly, are claiming that people are dying potatoes instead of eggs.

I don't want to go Full Jake Tapper -- never go Full Jake Tapper -- but...

Cite?

The Democrats made up this "trend" in online postings, and the NY Times is pretending people are really doing this.

WITHOUT EVIDENCE. To go Full Jake Tapper again.

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