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“I want to come to America. I want to see a country where the poor people are fat.”

NavyMatters.

China is cranking out high end warships at an impressive rate … at least compared to our anemic shipbuilding effort. That means they’re cranking out serious, high level firepower in various forms. We, on the other hand, seem hell bent on ditching our high end firepower in favor of ever less lethal unmanned toys. The latest idea I came across is Naval News website speculating about cancelling the Constellation program and replacing it with small, unmanned vessels

With a price tag approaching $1.1 billion to $1.2 billion dollars each for the USS Constellation (FFG-62) frigate, Naval News asked RAND and CSIS if the Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) and the DARPA No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) can replace the troubled FFG-62 frigate program.

… can MUSVs and NOMARS substitute for the FFG-62 frigates in terms of missions, roles, weapons coverage, and functionalities?[1]

As repeatedly documented on this blog, the Constellation is a poor excuse for a WARship but it is still worlds better than any unmanned asset.

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I think we can presume that the ‘climate change’ gravy train has officially stopped.

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June 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark parental rights decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters.

That historic opinion recognized “the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.” It also famously declared that “the child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.”

Sadly, despite that—and even now—many federal programs continue to encroach on parental rights.

Though parents have a fundamental right to raise and educate their children, and America’s history and tradition recognize the integrity of the family and parents’ rightful role as their children’s primary decision-makers, many courts have failed to properly treat parental rights as constitutionally protected. Instead, they have eroded parents’ rights by not applying the highest level of legal protection. That has contributed to the problems that still exist with many federal programs.

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A whistleblower from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has charged that the Biden administration was actively operating a policy of forgiving loans to farmers based on the colour of their skin.

My, what a surprise.

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With the MAGA movement in full swing, maybe now is a good time to Make Air Travel Great Again. I have fond memories of flying in the 70s; easy, simple, inexpensive, relaxing, meal on board. And nowadays it’s unbelievably awful.

New York Post.

The Secret Service has suspended two uniformed officers who were reportedly caught on camera fighting each other outside former President Barack Obama’s home last week.

During the brawl, one federal officer allegedly grabbed her radio and threatened to “whoop this girl’s ass.”

Video published Tuesday shows the female agents punching and shoving each other.

Remind me why we have female Secret Service agents.

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A visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation praised the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to revoke waivers from California and Oregon universities which allowed them to use federal education funds to assist illegal immigrant college students.

The purpose of the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth program is to help students with disabilities and low-income students obtain a college education. However, the Biden administration allowed universities in California and Oregon to divert the funds to illegal immigrants, according to a department news release. Under the previous administration, TRIO programs could extend benefits to “illegal aliens.”

The waives have since been revoked, drawing praise from Adam Kissel, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former deputy assistant for higher education programs in the first Trump administration.

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In February, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uncovered $4.7 trillion in payments made by the US Treasury that are “almost impossible” to trace – as Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) identification codes were optional in the system. This left billions in payments blank and unable to be traced.

s”Of the 1.5 billion payments that we send out every year, they are required to have a TAS, a Treasury Account Symbol. We discovered that more than one third of those payments did not have a TAS number,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services earlier this month.

“In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible,” DOGE announced via its X account. Thanks to DOGE, those “optional” days are over. “…this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going,” DOGE added.

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Top Haitian officials called for urgent security support from neighbors at a meeting of the Organization of American States on Thursday, while the U.S. signaled it would not continue current funding aimed at holding back the nation’s armed gangs.

Because, as we all know, fighting gangs in Haiti is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. – and the U.S. taxpayer.

The Antiplanner.

New York University’s Transit Costs Project has been asking the question, “Why do U.S. transit projects cost so much more than similar projects in Europe, Asia, and South America?” A recent report from the project proposes to significantly speed up trains in Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor for only $12.5 billion (plus another $4.5 billion for new rolling stock), which is far less than Amtrak’s proposal to spend at least $110 billion in the same corridor.

Amtrak’s plan called for building a new line for the entire 457 miles between Boston and Washington. The Transit Cost Project’s plan instead proposes to fix specific bottlenecks on the current line. The result, says the project, would be trains that could travel between New York and either Boston or Washington in less than two hours, as opposed to 3 hours (New York-Washington) to 3-2/3 hours (New York-Boston) today.

The most important lesson from this report is that it inadvertently answers the original question: why are U.S. costs so high? That answer is that U.S. transit agencies, including Amtrak, always seek the high-cost solution to any problem. They have no incentive to make a profit because doing so would lead Congress and the states to reduce their operating subsidies. They have no incentive to find affordable solutions to any problem because they regard the federal government and state taxpayers as bottomless pits of money.

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Gold has been at the heart of the US monetary system since the nation’s founding, evolving from a direct anchor for the dollar to a strategic reserve asset.

Though it no longer backs the dollar, gold remains a cornerstone of central bank reserves, a discreet but powerful force in global finance.

Throughout American history, monetary resets have been a recurring theme—and more often than not, they have revolved around gold because gold is money.

Understanding this history isn’t just about the past—it’s about the future. And if history is any guide, another reset may be coming sooner than most expect.

Gold, as of this morning, is ‘worth’ $3,331.41 per troy ounce. In 1933, when Roosevelt stole everybody’s gold, a twenty-dollar gold piece contained one troy ounce of gold.

So, in reality, the dollar today has 1/166th the value of a dollar in 1933. That’s how bad American inflation has been.

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The Treasury Department will follow through on President Donald Trump’s order to stop producing pennies, Newsmax has confirmed.

New pennies will cease being put into circulation by early next year, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Businesses eventually will need to begin rounding up or down to the nearest 5 cents due to not enough pennies being available for everyday cash transactions, the Treasury said.

Who uses actual pennies? The only time I see pennies In Real Life is in the little Give A Penney Get A Penny dish by company cash registers.

The Mint projects an annual savings of $56 million in reduced material costs by ending penny production.

Which ought to have been done a decade ago when it became plain that the penny was a useless coin. When I was a child in the 1950s a penny could actually buy something – but the steady drip-drip-drip of inflation has reduced its value to insignificance.

UPDATE: Say goodbye to the penny  The Treasury Department placed its final order of penny blanks this month, a spokesperson said. (Alice Tecotzky/Business Insider)

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Current FBI Director Kash Patel is closing down the agency’s Washington, DC, mothership office and moving at least 1,500 employees out of the DC area to regional offices.

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During the Biden Administration, it was determined that the 50-year-old Hoover building headquarters was structurally decrepit. More germanely, no prior FBI director had ever explained why nearly a third of the FBI workforce was centered in offices in Washington, far from where most of the serious crime in America occurs.

The news is welcome for reasons well beyond the safety of agents in an apparently unsafe headquarters.

It is no exaggeration to state that most of the FBI scandals of the last decade were born in the Hoover building headquarters, suggesting that the agency had long become top-heavy, politically weaponized, and deeply embedded in and compromised by the Washington apparat.

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FBI Director Kash Patel suggested in a recent interview that the agency under former Director James Comey operated independently from the Trump Department of Justice by choosing which cases to prosecute, and ostensibly how it chose to report that information to the public.

While speaking to “Sunday Morning Futures” on the Bureau’s investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James over alleged mortgage fraud, Patel told host Maria Bartiromo that the agency was biased in its Crossfire Hurricane investigation, when it tried to paint President Donald Trump as a patsy to Russia.

“You asked in the beginning,” Patel said, “how the FBI was weaponized. Well, the FBI hijacked the constitutional responsibility of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General, and James Comey and others specifically decided what cases to prosecute and not prosecute. Don’t believe me? Go to the videotape in the Hillary Clinton investigation.”

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The Justice Department will pursue charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., after an altercation with immigration agents outside a detention center in Newark last week, the New Jersey Globe reported.

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US Naval vessels today regularly take far longer to build than scheduled, and greatly exceed their already-high cost estimates. A 2018 GAO report found that more than 80% of both lead ships (the first ship built of a series) and follow-on ships (subsequent ships of the series) were over budget, sometimes dramatically so. The first Zumwalt-class destroyer was over budget by 38%, and the first two Littoral Combat Ships were over budget by 150%.

Similarly, of eight lead ships reviewed by the GAO, every one was delivered behind schedule, and five of the eight ships were delivered two years late or more. Delays and cost overruns are wasteful and hamper the effectiveness of the Navy: reducing them would mean getting more ships, faster.

Delays and cost overruns are in part driven by the Navy’s ship design and acquisition process. Broadly speaking, the Navy creates high-level requirements for complex, multi-role ships, and then outsources the design of these ships to third-party contractors. Once a design is selected, it is turned into production drawings (so-called “detail designs”), which are used to produce the ships. In an effort to reduce the time it takes to deliver a ship, ship construction is often started before ship design is complete. However, this strategy frequently backfires: as design work is completed, changes to under-construction ships are often required, resulting in costly and time-consuming rework.

There is no excuse for this. If Apple used this procurement process, there wouldn’t be an iPhone until 2015 and it would cost $10,000.

The Foundry.

The Biden administration issued billions in taxpayer-funded green grants—many to large multinational corporations. Now the Trump administration’s Energy Secretary Christopher Wright ordered a review of 179 recipients to save $15 billion.

Meanwhile, some recipients of the Biden-era green grants told The Daily Signal they plan to proceed with the projects.

One of the biggest sources of green grants under the Biden administration was the Energy Department’s Industrial Demonstrations Program. The program was slated to dole out $6.3 billion to 29 taxpayer-funded projects.

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Though details remain limited, the Houthis got worryingly close to downing a U.S. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and reportedly several American F-16 Vipers, during a surge in airstrikes on targets in Yemen this spring. Houthi air defense capabilities are largely rudimentary, but this also makes them a unique and vexing challenge for American combat aircraft. Made up of mainly mobile systems, they can appear virtually anywhere, disrupting carefully laid mission plans. Many of them are also improvised, leveraging non-traditional passive infrared sensors and jury-rigged air-to-air missiles that provide little to no early warning of a threat, let alone an incoming attack.

Last month, TWZ published a deep dive feature on the Yemeni militants’ air defense arsenal that you can access here. You can also get up to speed about what is known about the Houthis’ attempted intercepts of U.S. crewed combat jets earlier this year in our initial reporting here.

Houthi air defenses appear to have prompted an increased use of stealthy aircraft like the F-35, especially for direct strikes on targets in Yemen, as well as costly standoff munitions, in recent months. The U.S. military launched its expanded campaign of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, dubbed Operation Rough Rider, in March. Last week, the U.S. government announced a ceasefire with the militant group, which authorities in Oman had helped broker.

Long-time readers will recall that I think that the F-35 is a flying piece of shit that costs too much and does too little, and that badly.

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“President Trump and Republicans are protecting Medicaid—and that starts with kicking 1.4 million illegal immigrants off the program to prioritize the Americans who need it,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to The Daily Signal.

The markup removes “people without verified citizenship, nationality, or satisfactory immigration status who would be covered in state-only funded programs under current law.” That’s estimated to be 1.4 million by 2034.

Last month’s budget resolution tasked the House Energy and Commerce Committee with slashing $880 billion in spending. Since then, swirling rumors—especially about Medicaid cuts—have stirred chaos on Capitol Hill.

Democrats have accused Republicans of cutting Medicaid for Americans, failing to note that Republicans are actually cutting coverage for illegal immigrants.

“Republicans are rushing the markup and hoping to pass the bill in the middle of the night because they don’t want people to realize what’s in it, or how many Americans are going to lose their health care as a result,” a spokesperson for Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats said in a statement.

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President Joe Biden’s energy loan czar gave out billions to green energy companies. Now, he’s trying to help them to leave the United States and seek subsidies from European governments.

Jigar Shah, the former director of the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, has been “talking to officials in Brussels about re-domiciling companies in Europe,” Bloomberg reported this week.

Shah has reportedly started working with “many of the companies that benefited from Biden-era programs [that] are now looking to shift all or part of their business outside the US.”

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

A brief standoff unfolded on Capitol Hill after library workers turned away two top Justice Department officials installed by Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, who has been named acting librarian.

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The Department of Education under President Joe Biden loosened requirements for a student loan program specifically for public servants and nonprofit employees a few months after unions that stood to benefit from the change sent a letter to then-Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.

The watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust, which obtained the letter via a Freedom of Information Act request, faulted the unions for self-dealing when they demanded the Biden administration cancel the student loan debt of all public sector and nonprofit workers who completed 10 or more years of service, leaving taxpayers to pay off the balances. The revelation comes as the Department of Education under President Donald Trump is revising the program to root out alleged abuses.

The unions defended their move as keeping in line with the goal of the legislation that created the loan program. Either way, the letter arguably demonstrates unions’ large degree of influence in the Biden administration.

“These unions were lobbying for a direct financial benefit for their members at the expense of the American public,” Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday.

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SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, is one of the nation’s largest welfare programs.

And, like all welfare programs, it is massive, it has grown prodigiously over the years and it is inefficient.

One glaring issue, which is gaining attention as a result of new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again campaign, is the kinds of foods that recipients of SNAP funds can purchase.

And here we have convergence of bodily health and fiscal health.

The “N” in SNAP stands for nutrition. The point of the whole program is to help poor Americans eat and not forgo nutrition as result of insufficient funds to buy food. So why should government funds be used to purchase foods that are not fundamental to meeting the requirements of basic nutrition?

The program is funded by the federal government but administered by the states.

Any government program inevitably descends into cronyism, waste, fraud, and corruption–especially if Democrats are involved to any extent.

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Results: Immunohistochemical analysis was performed to evaluate the expression of transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-?1), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), caspase-3, and anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) in ovarian follicles. Both vaccines induced significant increases in TGF-?1, VEGF, and caspase-3 expression, with more pronounced effects in the mRNA vaccine group. Conversely, AMH expression in the granulosa cells of primary, secondary, and antral follicles showed marked reductions (p < 0.001). The counts of primordial, primary, and secondary follicles decreased significantly in the inactivated vaccine group relative to controls and further in the mRNA vaccine group compared to the inactivated group (p < 0.001). Additionally, the mRNA vaccine group exhibited a decrease in antral and preovulatory follicles and an increase in atretic follicles compared to the other groups (p < 0.05). The serum AMH level was diminished with the mRNA vaccination in comparison with the control and inactivated groups.

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Sounds like a step in the right direction.

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The deep state and its allies have launched a judicial insurrection against President Donald Trump, and Chief Justice John Roberts effectively just admitted he’s not doing his job to stop it.

Roberts made a rare public statement back in March, criticizing Trump and other Republicans who have suggested impeaching judges to prevent them from taking it upon themselves to make national policy through injunctions. Yet Roberts refused to address the underlying issue, and he dodged again in public remarks Wednesday.

“What do you think of these calls for impeachment of judges based on the decisions that they’ve made?” Judge Lawrence Vilardo asked Roberts in an interview in Buffalo, New York.

“Impeachment is not how you register disagreement with decisions,” the chief justice said, repeating the substance of his comments in March.

“That’s what you’re there for,” Vilardo responded.

“That’s what we’re there for,” Roberts agreed.

Again, Roberts overlooked the underlying issue. Republicans aren’t calling for the impeachment of justices because they disagree with one particular decision—they’re exasperated because judge after judge after judge is effectively usurping the president’s authority by issuing so many nationwide injunctions.

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A U.S. district judge has allowed the CIA to proceed with firing its top physician, who had previously sought a restraining order against the agency, Politico reported.

UPDATE: Judge lets CIA fire doctor who pushed mandatory Covid vaccines for military (Politico)

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Good to hear.

The legal maxim “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” was fine in the day when the only things against the law were things that everyone could be presumed to know were wrong: murder, rape, arson, robbery, etc. It has been a fantasy ever since the rise of the bureaucratic state under Roosevelt.

This has been badly needed for longer than I’ve been alive.

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Amtrak is cutting roughly 20% of its senior management positions, aiming to reduce expenses amid uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s infrastructure investment plans, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

The federally-owned passenger railroad – which operates as a for-profit entity, is targeting $100 million in annual cost reductions through these cuts, a source disclosed anonymously, sharing details not publicly announced.

In an official statement, Amtrak confirmed the elimination of roughly 450 management roles, reiterating the goal of achieving $100 million in yearly savings. The company emphasized these layoffs only impact corporate-level positions and assured that operational railroad jobs would remain unaffected. As of 2024, Amtrak employs approximately 22,700 people. (what!?)

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

Because, as we all know, screening West Virginia coal miners from blacklung is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

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Accountability–it’s not just for white people any more.

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The Biden administration’s failed humanitarian mission to build an offshore pier and floating causeway for aid delivery to Gaza was more dangerous and costly than the Pentagon has publicly acknowledged.

UPDAAE: More Than 60 Service Members Were Injured While Working on Biden’s Gaza Pier Boondoggle: Report

UPDATE: Biden’s Floating Pier Debacle In Gaza Was Even Worse Than We Thought; IG Report

UPDATE: Biden’s Gaza pier was more dangerous and costly than previously known (Alex Horton/Washington Post)

UPDATE: Biden Gaza pier fiasco left 62 US forces injured, one dead and caused $31M in damages: report (Caitlin Doornbos/New York Post)

Jerking back the curtain.

One favorite Democrat trick is to start with someone who is a political appointee and then figure out some way to convert him to a civil service position, thus entrenching proglodyte views in the permanent bureaucracy. Thus is the Deep State born and strengthened.

Left-leaning federal bureaucrats aim to oppose President Donald Trump from within the administrative state, and some Biden administration appointees have attempted to “burrow in” to the federal bureaucracy by switching from “political” to more permanent “career” positions.

While presidents appoint more than 3,000 people for political positions, the federal government directly employs roughly 2.3 million people, most of whom serve in ostensibly nonpolitical, career positions.

“The biggest challenge that every single new Cabinet secretary and their subordinates will face is the entrenched bureaucrat,” Stewart Whitson, senior director of federal affairs at the Foundation for Government Accountability, told The Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday.

“Some of it is overt, and we saw an example of that with the FBI employee trying to coerce his subordinates to ‘dig in’ against the administration,” he noted, referencing an email FBI agent James Dennehy wrote in January shortly before his retirement.

“What’s worse is the quiet insubordination,” Whitson warned. He said many bureaucrats will “slow policy,” simply ignoring the president’s orders.

Power Line.

Self-deportation is the only practical way to deal with more than 10 million illegal immigrants, and the federal bureaucracy is similar. It is hard to fire government employees, so getting them to quit can be an optimal solution. That is what is happening in the Department of Justice:

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Good. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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For sufficiently ass-covering values of ‘cleared’. This report contradicts itself.

An investigation has cleared the Federal Emergency Management Agency of any wrongdoing stemming from accusations that employees of the agency were instructed to deliberately avoid assisting homes of then Trump supporters in hurricane ravaged Florida, Politico reported on Tuesday.

The investigation found “no evidence” the agency’s upper management had told field workers to purposely avoid homes with Trump yard signs thereby denying them federal disaster relief benefits, following the devastation caused by back-to-back Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the fall of 2024.

In November it was reported that Marn’i Washington, a FEMA official, gave a directive both verbally and via a Microsoft Teams chat used by relief workers to pass over homes with signage supporting then candidate Donald Trump. FEMA employees told the Daily Wire that a minimum of 20 homes displaying Trump signs were passed over.

Task & Purpose.

‘Sex neutral’ seems to be the popular euphemism for ‘ignoring that men and women are actually different’.

Navy Matters.

A F-18 Super Hornet being towed rolled off the deck of the carrier Truman and fell into the Red Sea.[1] No, this is not an April Fool’s post.

I know the Navy has real problems with competency but this is bad even by Navy standards.

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Why precisely were Anthony Fauci and his cohorts so anxious to blame SARS-CoV-2 on bats and later pangolins in wet markets? It was not just to deflect attention from the possibility that the novel virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan doing gain-of-function research. There was a larger point: to reinforce a very important narrative concerning zoonotic spillovers.

It’s a fancy phrase that speaks to a kind of granular focus that discourages nonspecialists from having an opinion. Leave it to the experts! They know!

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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, the eclectic entrepreneur, has revealed what most of us suspected: our huge deficits are a function of government-led grift.

Billions of dollars of quasi-criminal spending are being uncovered.

This explains why, in best case scenarios, as taxpayers, we are paying ever more for ever less; in the worst, we are paying ever more to feed a beast intent on destroying our civilisation.

“One of the biggest scams we have uncovered, which is really crazy, is that the government can give money to a so-called non-profit with very few controls”, Elon Musk explains in an interview with Ted Cruz, the Texas senator, adding “and there is no audit subsequently of that non-for-profit”.

The managers of these then “gives themselves extremely lavish…. insane salaries, and expense everything to the non-for-profit”.

The Antiplanner.

Transit’s fiscal cliff is the responsibility of transit agencies, advises the Chicago Tribune, and transit riders, taxpayers, and legislators should not be panicked into giving the agencies huge amounts of money to make up for this supposed crisis. Noting that Metra (Chicago’s commuter-rail agency) is paying its lobbyist more than $4.6 million to get more funding from the state, the Tribune suggests that money would have been better spent operating trains.

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“Operation Tidal Wave,” four days of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids working with Florida’s local law enforcement in a “first of its kind” arrangement, have netted nearly 800 illegals for arrest.

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$521 billion. That’s the estimate the federal government itself put forward of annual fraud levels. That’s enough money to rebuild every crumbling bridge and school in the country—all squandered due to government incompetence.

In fiscal year 2024, just 16 agencies reported improper payment estimates that totaled $162 billion—money lost to error, fraud, overpayments, or ineligible claims. That’s part of a staggering $2.8 trillion lost since 2003.

And that’s just what’s been reported. Fraud-heavy programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and housing subsidies likely push the total higher.

This isn’t a mere accounting error; it’s a heist on taxpayers, stealing cash that could’ve stayed in your wallet.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

How are ‘firefighter health and safety programs’ the responsibility of the Federal government? And Federal taxpayers?

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) was created to help advance clean-energy infrastructure and technologies that allegedly had the potential to be adequate energy resources but struggled to secure private investment. With discussions underway about staffing and budget changes, defenders of the climate-centric status quo in energy policy rushed to preserve it, claiming LPO is essential for energy dominance and manufacturing growth.

In reality, LPO is a taxpayer-backed ATM for unreliable energy technologies and infrastructure that can’t compete without federal funding.

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As illegal crossing fall rapidly at the U.S.-Mexico border under President Donald Trump, a dramatic shift is also taking place at the border with Canada, according to recent data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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The Supreme Court’s ruling in J.G.G. v. Donald J. Trump was not an unqualified triumph for the Trump administration’s deportations of foreign gang members, but it was a definite rebuke not just to Judge Boasberg, but to the entire D.C. Circuit Court shadow government.

The ACLU filed J.G.G. v. Trump in defense of five Venezuelan inmates in New York and Texas. All of the men claimed that they were not gang members and there was no indication that any of them were being deported, denying them any actual standing for coming before the court.

Especially before Judge James Boasberg who is thousands of miles away in Washington D.C.

Despite the lack of standing and the case being filed in the wrong venue, Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court, not only blocked the deportation of all gang members back to Venezuela, but ordered that planes currently over international airspace that were carrying gang members turn around and bring them back to the United States.

Boasberg fumed that the planes were not turned around on his mere word and threatened the Justice Department with repercussions for not recognizing his power over not only the entire country, but also the entire planet.

But why was a judge from the D.C. Circuit Court on a case involving inmates in Texas?

The answer is that leftist organizations and the judges of the D.C. Circuit Court were using one weird trick to seize power over the entire country (if not always the planet) and transform themselves into a shadow government able to block any Trump administration move.

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“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

This defiant and bipartisan defense of the purity of education, delivered by Harvard President Alan Garber, sounds fantastic, right? After all, what society that pretends to value objectivity would dare to allow a government to control the educational decisions of private institutions?

Barack Obama—blessed is he—agreed, celebrating Harvard as a shining beacon of academic freedom!

The reality is that the government, regardless of which party is in power, has been dictating what private universities can teach, admit, and hire since the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s, and which ares of study and inquiry they can pursue through the granting or withholding of ‘funding’. Harvard was perfectly comfortable with that while the government’s prescriptions aligned with the proglodytes that increasingly dominated the governance of the university; they’re only whining now because the shoe is on the other foot.