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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!?)

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The liberals and the mainstream media are using scare tactics to upend efforts to bring much-needed transparency, accountability, and fairness to the Medicaid program. In reality, it is the blind defense of the status quo that will ultimately undermine the Medicaid program for those who need it.

A key proposal being considered by the House is whether federal funding for Medicaid expansion should remain as is or whether it is time for Congress to bring federal funding for this added category of enrollees in line with other Medicaid populations.

This debate ties back to Obamacare where the authors not only attempted to bribe the states to expand their Medicaid programs with an enormous bump in federal support but also attempted to punish those states that did not expand by threatening to remove all their Medicaid funding. The Supreme Court stepped in and struck the provision that would have states lose all their Medicaid funding but left in place the new federal enhanced funding.

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Dealerships have been torched, vehicles vandalized, and owners accosted in parking lots by sanctimonious citizens, sneering moral condemnation.

It is not necessary to be a shareholder, Tesla owner, or admirer of Elon Musk to find this troubling. The issue transcends personalities or partisanship.

It is a symptom of a civic pathology, one where ideological grievance takes precedence over shared achievement, and where economic success is no longer a cause for celebration but a litmus test of political allegiance.

If Mr. Musk espouses views one finds disagreeable, there are democratic mechanisms to contest them.

But to vilify an entire enterprise—its workers, consumers, products—based on its founder’s political eccentricities is intellectual laziness masquerading as moral conviction.

It also prompts a deeper question, leading us to the heart of the matter: which corporations, if any, are so morally unblemished that we can consume their products without public disapproval? In an age increasingly saturated with virtue signalling and performative ethics, should we now consider our consumer choices as moral declarations?

If so, the standard quickly becomes untenable.

 Transcript: Trump Erupts as Top DOJ Pick Implodes in Huge Blow to MAGA (New Republic)  Huge blow!

DOGE Employee Who Screamed for CFPB Job Cuts Leaves Agency (Evan Weinberger/Bloomberg Law)  Screamed!

Trump asks US Supreme Court to allow revocation of migrants’ legal status (Andrew Chung/Reuters)

Trump says that ports running empty is a “good thing” (Jason Lalljee/Axios)

Trump Withdraws U.S. Attorney Nominee, Whose Extremism Tested Limits for G.O.P. Senators (New York Times)

The Brain Rot Cabinet (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)

Need More Proof That Polls Showing Trump Underwater Are Bogus?

Trump demands wartime sacrifices. Good luck with that. (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)  Rupar!

Leader of FEMA Is Dismissed as Trump Administration Takes Aim at the Agency (Christopher Flavelle/New York Times)

New Pope Leo XIV Bashed Trump and JD Vance on Twitter Just Weeks Ago (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)

MAGA Melts Down Over New Pope’s Anti-Trump, Pro-Immigrant Social Media (Rolling Stone)

US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants (Dhruv Mehrotra/Wired)

Economists warn Trump’s research cuts could have dire consequences for GDP (Geoff Brumfiel/NPR)

Suit Challenges New Rules on Children in Federal Custody Who Crossed into US  Advocacy Group = bunch of busybodies sticking their noses where they have no business. Karen, Inc.

Trump to end spending on Biden-era digital equity law, calling it ‘racist and illegal’ (Mallory Wilson/Washington Times)  Cue lawsuits by ‘advocacy groups’.

A Day in the Live-Streamed Life of Donald Trump (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

Biden Blames Sexism for Trump’s Win Over Harris

Federal purge guts infant death prevention campaign, alarming doctors (Justine McDaniel/Washington Post)  Because infant death prevention is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

DHS Secretary Flouts SCOTUS Order, Says ‘No Scenario’ Where Abrego Garcia Comes Back (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  What are they gonna do? Protest?

MAGA melts down over ‘WOKE MARXIST POPE’ who is a ‘Never Trumper liberal’ (Justin Baragona/The Independent)

President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden (Associated Press)

Harvard Leaders See Only Bad Outcomes Ahead as They Battle Trump (New York Times)  You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

Jewish feud over Trump escalates with open letter in The New York Times (Arno Rosenfeld/The Forward)

Trump’s Justice Department launches criminal probe into Letitia James, multiple sources say (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)  Sauce for the goose….

Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress (Tim Balk/New York Times) “Dr. Carla D. Hayden was the first African American and the first woman to serve as the head of the Library of Congress.” In other words, a DEI hire.

President Trump Fires Woke Librarian Of Congress

The MAHA Takeover Is Complete (Nicholas Florko/The Atlantic)

First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S. (Kate Bartlett/NPR)

Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Swiftly Deporting Illegal Immigrants To Libya

Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week (New York Times)

Republicans Just Made It Legal to Take Homes from Legal Immigrants in Texas (Michelle H. Davis/Lone Star Left)

Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump’s politicization of public services (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

Watch: Anti-Musk Activists Crush Tesla With Tank In Politically-Motivated Stunt  Elon says, “I still have the money.”

Lib Journalists Delight in New Pope As Possible Anti-Trump Activist

New FEMA head says he will “run right over” staff who resist his changes (Reuters)

Victor Davis Hanson Shatters The Media’s Favorite Lie About Trump

PolitiFact Shows Trump is Right about Due Process For Illegals, Rates Him False Anyway

Trump’s Immigration Horror Stories Are Breaking Through. Here’s How. (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

Judge orders Tufts student detained by ICE to be released on bail (Jacob Rosen/CBS News)

Manufacturers Say Trump Has Made Opening U.S. Factories Impossible (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)  Which manufacturers? “Just manufacturers!”

Trump fires Democrats on Consumer Product Safety Commission (Washington Post)

DHS Sued Over Ending Some Migrant Protections

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In a stark warning about the effects of migration on Western Europe, it has been revealed that Mohammed was the most popular name given to newborn baby boys in three German states last year.

The name, typically given to Muslim boys, was the most popular choice for parents in the states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg. In Hesse, it reached second place, and in North Rhine-Westphalia, it came third.

With regards to the whole of Germany, Mohammed—and its differently spelled variants—moved up from 15th place in 2023 to 11th in 2024.

As we recently reported, Muhammad was the most popular name for baby boys in England and Wales in 2023, and it has consistently ranked among the top 10 since 2016.

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Young American women supporting Hamas may be the strangest social phenomenon in history. There was some logic, however sad, in the story of John Walker Lindh (the “American Taliban”) whose conversion to Islam may have been a reaction to the disruption to his family life by his father’s homosexuality. Black men who joined the Confederate Army could justify that odd choice because of an offer of personal freedom. But what would persuade a free, privileged young woman to support a political, ideological and religious movement that would extinguish “choice” and the availability of living an alternative gender while advocating horrific violence?

One would think that the extraordinary degree of misogyny inherent in Islam (and the Hamas edition in particular) would be off-putting. Wife-beatings, denial of education, genital mutilation, child brides, honor killings and sartorial oppression are features, not bugs. Genghis Khan was probably more pro-woman than the average shariah-enforcing imam (he banned kidnapping and several other offenses against Mongol women, probably because his mom had been taken against her will by his father).

What mental gymnastics are required to believe that there is a natural alliance between LGBTQ+ and Hamas? Or that there was ever an Islamic Arab nation called Palestine? Or that men with an identity disorder are really women? Or that humanity is doomed because the climate may be two degrees warmer on average in another 50-100 years? Or that history started at the moment capitalism began to oppress everyone?

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The Chinese Communist Party is “orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign at Stanford,” according to The Stanford Review.

“In short, ‘there are Chinese spies at Stanford,’” the university’s independent student-run newspaper writes in an investigation published this week.

After learning of multiple incidents of unusual behavior from a handful of Chinese students, or those who claimed to be students, members of The Stanford Review launched an investigation to determine whether the CCP was attempting to gather information on the campus.

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While it is not allowed to have statues of Thomas Jefferson or Teddy Roosevelt, among others, in New York City, a 12 ft bronze statue of a random fat black woman just standing there is certainly permitted.

I hope they’re including the four-inch fingernails, the tattoos, and the three kids by different baby daddies….

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As they do.

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Just over 30 years ago, billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith offered a sobering prediction over the deleterious effects of gobalization – which Goldsmith argued would hollow out the industrial base of Western nations and devastate the middle and working class.

“I don’t know if you ever saw it, but one of the best explanations of globalization; Sir James Goldsmith came to the United States in 1994 and did an interview with Charlie Rose. He described why we should never approve the Uruguay round of GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade], and institute the WTO,” Catherine Austin Fitts told Tucker Carlson in an interview last week.

“To this day, he nailed it perfectly…He said we are going to hollow-out the middle-class in the West, and we are going to devastate the quality of our food supply,” Fitts said.

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Uh-huh. Sure, Bernie. John Kerry uses the same excuse.

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.

Mother Jones, a Voice of Ancient Hippies.

Since she was first elected in 1990 as Washington, DC’s nonvoting delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) has fiercely defended the civil service in Congress. Nearly a quarter of her constituents work for the federal government. So after the second inauguration of President Donald Trump, as Elon Musk’s US DOGE Service targeted agency after agency with layoffs, smears, and all manner of corner-cutting, Norton was a logical person to host a March town hall on this unprecedented attack.

The event, promotional materials said, would “give Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton the chance to speak directly with the District of Columbia federal workforce and provide resources.” The promise of a real dialogue with the congresswoman, however, proved to be a bit of hype.

Conducted over the phone, the event had plenty of town, but no hall. As the host, Norton was spectral at best. She read some opening remarks, but when participants directed questions at her, union reps or a democracy activist provided most of the answers. “Congresswoman, I’d be happy to jump in” was a typical intervention during her many unexplained silences.

This illustrates the basic problem that Democrats are facing now. Joe Biden isn’t the only mind-blank politician in the Democrat ranks. The Democrat ‘coalition of the fringes’ is fragmented into handfuls of mutually hostile groups, each of which has a slightly different definition of what constitutes The One True Faith, and as a result, whenever some candidate manages to cobble together a win, they are set forever–not because they represent the views of their various constituents, but because the various proglodyte fragments can’t agree on a replacement. A find illustration of the fact that Leftism is really a religion, in which the trivial differences between The Judean People’s Front and the People’s Front of Judea are all-absorbing.

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A man who self-identified as a “Jew hater” and attacked Jewish pro-Israel protesters at three separate pro-Palestinian rallies has been charged with three counts of committing hate crimes.

Tarek Bazrouk, 20, of New York City, had been arrested at three different protests over a period of nine months where he kicked and punched Jewish pro-Israel demonstrators, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. On Wednesday, he was arrested again and charged with hate crimes in connection with the incidents.

“Despite being arrested after each incident, Bazrouk allegedly remained undeterred and quickly returned to using violence to target Jews in New York City,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York in a statement.

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The murder of Daniel Pearl seems like ancient history now; it happened early in 2002.

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Now we learn, however, that as a result of India’s retaliation against Pakistani terrorists who murdered civilian tourists in Kashmir, the killer of Daniel Pearl has been, as they say, neutralized. Here’s the story:

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s governing party, said that the Indian army killed Pakistani terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar in “Operation Sindhoor.”

A group of Islamist terrorists, including Azhar, kidnapped and murdered Pearl in 2002. The terrorist was affiliated with al-Qaeda and Jaish-e-Mohammed, an Islamist terror group that aims to separate Kashmir from India and fully incorporate it into Pakistan. …

In the BJP announcement, the party said that Azhar was involved in a number of terror activities, including the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight, the 2016 Pathankot Air Force base attack, and a 2001 terror attack on the Indian parliament.

Azhar’s involvement in the 1999 hijacking freed Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-born al-Qaeda member who formerly served in Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

Azhar wasn’t targeted because he killed Pearl. He was targeted because of his terrorism against India. But as you can see, it’s all connected. And I wonder whether India got some help from Israeli intelligence.

The Indians have centuries of dealing with Muslim expansionism, and know deep in their bones the kind of existential threat Islam poses to any non-Muslim civilization.

Why DOGE Should Scare Even Advocates of Small Government: A Conversation with Julian Sanchez and Noah Kunin (Aaron Ross Powell/The UnPopulist)

Trump digs in on high China tariffs ahead of trade talks (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

America Needs More Judges Like Judge Myers (Richard L. Hasen/The Atlantic)

Hegseth’s Use of Passwords Raises New Security Concerns (New York Times)

A Most Sensitive Subject in the White House: Where Is Melania? (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)

Lawyers scramble to prevent Trump from deporting migrants to Libya (Washington Post)

US Judge to Consider Ordering Trump to Return Venezuelans From El Salvador

Trump administration invokes state-secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)

US Judge Says Deporting Migrants to Libya Would Violate Court Order

Judge blocks deportation flight of Asian migrants to Libya (NBC News)

How Pollsters Rig the Numbers Against Trump

A Trump admin effort to deport immigrants to Libya would ‘clearly violate’ court order, judge says (Politico)

NBC: Gov. DeWine Asks Ohio GOP Not to Back Ramaswamy

Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show (Annie Waldman/ProPublica)

Trump picks conspiracy theorist with no medical license to replace Fox News contributor as Surgeon General (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

A ‘Trump Card Visa’ Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms (Wired)

Federal Reserve Rings Every Alarm Bell About Trump’s Economy (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

A Russian fake news ring was struggling. Then it targeted USAID. (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Trump’s latest deportation scheme is almost certainly illegal (Nicole Narea/Vox)

Democrats Cave, Prepare to Rubber-Stamp Trump Crypto Corruption (David Dayen/American Prospect)

Trump’s Worst Idea Since Tariffs (Wall Street Journal)

‘Disturbing’: Trump admin tapping right-wing MAGA outlet OAN for taxpayer-funded news network (MSNBC)

Will Trump Pretend to Fix What He Broke? (Paul Krugman)  Wil Krugman ever quit pretending to be an economist?

Popular Resistance to Trump Is Working (Jonathan Blanks/The Bulwark)

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts (David Pilling/Financial Times)

Trump’s Border Czar Secretly Deported Two U.S. Citizen Children (Michael Daly/The Daily Beast)

No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines (New York Times)  Indeed. That’s why we voted for Trump.

How the House became this spineless (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  Philip Bump loses his shit.

The Supreme Court Is Really “Just Vibes” (Pema Levy/Mother Jones) More gaslighting by the Narrative Media.

West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate (Graham Parsons/New York Times)  The Left always accuses their enemies of doing what the Left would like to do.

Trump Has Been Stopped By Courts More Than 200 Times (Bloomberg)  Or at least they’ve tried to. Let’s see how many survive the appeals process.

The Libertarian Tech Bros’ Weird, Dystopian Plan for Guantánamo Bay (Laurie Clarke/New Republic)

“Gates Is A Huge Liar”: Musk Hits Back After Bill Gates Claims DOGE ‘Killing World’s Poorest Children’

Trump’s scattered brain creates havoc (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism (Derek Thompson/The Atlantic)  Handwaving and gaslighting are all they’ve got.

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If this had happened back during the late sixties, we wouldn’t be in the trouble we are today.

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Time to leave.

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Artnet reports that on his daily walks around Paris, Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier of Paris Sorbonne University and Institut Catholique de Paris began to notice unusual hieroglyphics on the giant obelisk standing in the city’s Place de la Concorde. The monument was erected during the reign of Ramesses II (reigned ca. 1279–1213 B.C.) and originally stood outside Egypt’s Luxor Temple, but was moved to France in the 1830s. Olette-Pelletier believed that the carved stone block could feature crypto-hieroglyphics, secret messages involving puzzles or wordplay that only Egypt’s educated and intellectual elite would have been able to read. He was given the opportunity to examine the 70-foot obelisk up close as it underwent cleaning prior to the 2024 Paris Olympics, and confirmed that the symbols did indeed contain at least seven examples of crypto-hieroglyphics. These essentially sought to remind those who could read them that Ramesses II had been chosen by the gods and claimed his ancestry from Amun-Re and Maat. Their location on the stone would have only made them visible to nobles who arrived at the Luxor Temple by boat during the Opet festival, which was held annually during the Nile’s flood season and reinforced the pharaoh’s right to rule. “Given the angle of approach, the nobility would have seen the hidden message and reflected: ‘the king confirms himself as god incarnate, who cannot be dethroned,’” Olette-Pelletier said. “It was propaganda aimed at the very high intellectual elite.” To read about obelisks from the Egyptian city of Heliopolis that were later moved to European cities, go to “Egypt’s Eternal City.”

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A few decades ago, no one would have believed that a Western European country would have to resort to legislation to ban virginity tests in order to protect the lives of women and girls, yet here we are.

The Swedish government is now preparing to criminalize the practice, which currently only carries the risk of professional disciplinary action if discovered.

According to the proposal, medical professionals who partake in “virginity control” and issue “virginity certificates”—based on the observation of the hymen—or carry out surgical procedures aimed at restoring the hymen will be subjected to criminal charges.

“These proposals aim to make these acts punishable and to allow their perpetrators to be convicted, which is not the case at the moment,” Socialstyrelsen, the Swedish government agency in charge of social services, explained. The new legislation is expected to come into force by December 2025 at the latest.

The World Health Organization (WHO) regards the concept of virginity tests as unscientific and a violation of women’s sexual integrity, and called for it to be banned globally back in 2018. According to UN Women, the practice violates human rights and jeopardizes the sexual and reproductive health of young women.

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Shortly after writing, “I abhor hate in all its forms,” the student who posted a video of a sign reading “F– the Jews” sat for an interview with an antisemitic influencer and endorsed the idea of “Jewish supremacy.”

Mo Khan, who took the video on Saturday night in a bar owned by Barstool Sports, has shifted over the past few days from expressing contrition to seemingly embracing antisemitic rhetoric.

Barstool owner Dave Portnoy, who is Jewish, said in a series of videos that he offered to pay for Khan to travel to Auschwitz, only to withdraw the offer when Khan claimed he had done nothing wrong.

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Once again, the familiar scene: a badly damaged vehicle sits on the sidewalk next to a shattered pedestrian shelter in the midst of various items of urban detritus.

In this case, the tableau is in Munich, and the vehicle is large black SUV that somehow lost control today and hit a tram stop shelter at speed. Fortunately, no one was killed, although there were some serious injuries.

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California gas prices could skyrocket by as much as 75 percent by the end of 2026 with the expected shutdown of oil refineries in the state, according to an analysis released May 5 by a researcher at the University of Southern California (USC).

Regular gasoline prices could rise from an average of $4.82 in April 2025 to as high as $8.44 a gallon by the end of next year, said the report, authored by Professor Michael Mische at the Marshall School of Business.

Two Phillips 66 refineries in Los Angeles—about 8 percent of the state’s oil refining capacity—are slated to close by the end of this year. Valero Energy Corp. also announced last month it will shut down or restructure its Benicia refinery in the San Francisco Bay area—which accounts for about 9 percent of refining capacity—by April 2026, increasing concerns over gas prices and supply.

The USC analysis states that based on current demand, consumption, state regulations, and other factors, the refinery closures could result in a potential 21 percent drop in refining capacity from 2023 to April 2026.

Time to leave.

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Around 100 pro-Palestinian protesters with the Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a protest movement on campus, took over Columbia University’s main library Wednesday.

UPDATE: Columbia Radicals Take Over Campus Library, Forcing Out Students Studying for Finals

UPDATE: Legacy Newscasts Barely Cover Violent, Pro-Hamas Protests at Columbia

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Leftist propaganda assumes a particular style: kitschy, smug, and above all, ugly. And in this case, a strange resemblance to Democratic New York Attorney General Leticia James.

The most recent idol to mediocrity is a 12-foot-tall bronze sculpture of a hefty woman with short, braided hair, erected in Times Square. Blame for the creature goes to Thomas J. Price, who is “reimagin[ing] both the monument and monumentality,” according to the Times Square Official Website. No one would dispute the monumental girth of Price’s everywoman.

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The Venezuelan government was facilitating the illegal immigration of dangerous gang members into the United States, according to multiple intelligence reports, and the legacy media is trying to portray this as bad news for the Trump administration.

On Monday The New York Times ran a story with a headline “Declassified Spy Memo Contradicts Trump on Venezuela Gang Ties.” Other legacy media outlets ran with similar headlines.

The stories are referring to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan prison gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist organization.

If you just read the headlines, you might think that the declassified intelligence report says the Venezuelan government had nothing to do with the exportation of Tren de Aragua gang members to the U.S., as President Donald Trump has said.

However, not every outlet ran with these headlines. The New York Post had a very different angle.

“Corrupt Venezuelan officials ‘facilitated’ Tren de Aragua gang’s reign of terror in U.S.” read its headline on Monday.

So why the enormous discrepancy? What’s the intelligence report actually say?

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Congressional Republicans agree that the federal government has a spending problem. Now top GOP leaders want to make it someone else’s problem — by shifting some safety-net programs onto state budgets.

The plans under discussion could generate hundreds of billions of dollars in savings to finance the GOP’s domestic policy megabill. But they’re vexing Republican lawmakers — many of them former governors and state legislators — who are not interested in addressing Washington’s fiscal woes by creating them in state capitals, including those run by their own party.

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The Democrat-controlled cities of Boise, Idaho, and Salt Lake City adopted new city flags this week showing support for LGBTQ people in defiance of their states’ Republican-controlled legislatures.

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China’s communist government is suspected of using four bases in Cuba as electronic intelligence gathering sites targeting the U.S., according to House testimony.

Ryan C. Berg, a Latin affairs security expert, told a House Homeland Security subcommittee that three of the suspected spy bases are near Havana on the north coast and a fourth is on the opposite side of the island near Santiago de Cuba.

As many as 12 signals intelligence sites have been identified in Cuba.

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Union officials promoted an “anti-Semitic toxic environment” at a New York legal aid organization where employees adorned the office with posters defending Hamas terrorism and calling for “intifada,” according to a federal anti-discrimination complaint filed on Wednesday.

Jewish union members of A Better NYLAG (ABN)—the employee union of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG)—said the guild has forced them to work next to cubicles plastered with signs supporting the destruction of Israel and terrorist violence.

Slogans mentioned in the complaint include “ABOLISH THE SETTLER STATE,” “LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE!,” and “INTIFADA NOW.”

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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)

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Marijuana has intrigued people for decades, especially as more places allow it for medical or recreational use. Many see it as a natural product with relaxing properties, yet scientists have been eager to uncover how it might alter the body in subtle ways.

Researchers tracked the cannabis habits of more than 1,000 U.S. adults over roughly two decades. The team included epidemiologist Lifang Hou from Northwestern University, who analyzed blood samples at two points to search for signs that cannabis use may shift genetic markers.

Trump Finds Solution to Aviation Woes–Fire a Democrat (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)  That’s actually not a bad plan. It works more often than not.

Former DOJ Lawyers Fear Department ‘Doesn’t Plan to Enforce Voting Rights Laws at All’ (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)

Judge Asks If Reinstating Fired Govt Workers Is Proper

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to enforce trans military ban (The Hill)

‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’ (Katherine J. Wu/The Atlantic)  Just like Democrats!

N.Y. judge finds Alien Enemies Act use illegal, blocks removals to ‘evil’ jail (Washington Post)

At Trump’s urging, USPS board to name FedEx official as postmaster general (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)

What Happened When Trump Altered the Deal With Law Firms and Universities (Amanda Taub/New York Times)

Trump Demands Release Of Election Denier ‘Hostage’ Convicted By Colorado Jury (Matt Shuham/HuffPost)

Department of Education Eliminates Grant for PBS Children’s Shows (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, funding “childrens’ shows” is the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, energy efficiency certification is the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

58 crypto wallets have made millions on Trump’s meme coin. 764,000 have lost money, data shows (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)  Which is all Trump’s fault, of course.

Trump trade tariffs slump widens to ‘nearly all U.S. exports,’ supply chain data shows (Lori Ann LaRocco/CNBC)

Columbia Lays Off Nearly 180 People Because of Trump Research Cuts (Sharon Otterman/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, funding research at Columbia is the responsibility of the Federal govvernment–and the Federal taxpayer.

Kari Lake says OAN’s far-right coverage will fuel Voice of America (David Folkenflik/NPR)

The anti-abortion movement readies its gameplan for Trump 2.0 (Alice Miranda Ollstein/Politico)

White House Chief Of Staff Clarifies “Due Process” For Deporting Illegals In 4 Words…  “Are you here illegally?” A simple question.

‘He can, in fact, be stopped’: Buttigieg exhorts Democrats to show voters more in fight with Trump (MSNBC)  But not, I suspect, by Mayor Buttplug.

Employers worry over immigration crackdown as labor shortage fears loom (Emily Peck/Axios)

Republicans to Pay for Trump Tax Cuts With Sales of Public Land (Ari Natter/Bloomberg)  More accurately, it isn’t ‘public’ land, it’s government land, that the public gets no use from except in treehugger NGO brochures.

Inside DeSantis’ “made-for-TV” fall in Florida (Marc Caputo/Axios)

Donald Trump can’t figure out how to lie about Medicaid cuts (James Downie/MSNBC)

Judge Blocks Department Of Education From Canceling COVID-Related School Aid

A federal court is about to decide whether to strike down Trump’s tariffs (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies (Holly Hartigan/Cornell Chronicle)  If it’s so important, let Cornell pay for it themselves.

Trump’s Rants About Young Girls’ Dolls Just Got Weirder and Darker (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent projects his own pedo fantasies onto Trump.

‘What’s the Benefit For Me’: A Kennedy Ally Suggests She Can Help Make Connections, For a Return (Margaret Manto/NOTUS)  Apparently she thinks that Kennedy is still a Democrat,  where that sort of thing is important.

US Intel Agencies Ordered To Target Greenland As Takeover Plotting Intensifies Plot!

Colbert and Maddow Claim GOP Wants To Get Rid of Elections  Because that’s what they’d do if they had the power.

RFK Jr. May Have Inspired Acting US Attorney’s Harassment of Medical Journals (Dan Friedman/Mother Jones)  May have! That proves it!

Joe Biden on Trump: ‘What president ever talks like that? That’s not who we are’ (Nick Robinson/BBC)  The ‘we’ in question being Democrats, obviously. And he’s right about that.

Donald Trump’s Information Warfare Against America (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)

Trump’s tariffs hit baby industry hard, threatening parents with price hikes, shortages (Washington Post)  I’ll bet you didn’t know that there waa a ‘baby industry’, and that the Washington Poop gives a shit about parents.

Watch: MSNBC Admits Trump Is Right…

MSNBC’s New Show Asks If Trump Defunded PBS Because He Thinks Elmo Is Black

Federal judge orders Trump admin to immediately resettle 12K migrants (Stephen Sorace/Fox News)

“Two dolls” for Christmas: Trump resorts to sexism to sell tariffs (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

The Register.

The prompt used, as noted in a statement issued Tuesday, was the following:

Using the list of names provided, please evaluate each person for scandals. Scandals include but are not limited to homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism, fraud.Each person is typically an author, editor, performer, artist or similar in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and or related fandoms.

The objective is to determine if an individual is unsuitable as a panelist for an event.

Please evaluate each person based on their digital footprint, including social, articles, and blogs referencing them. Also include file770.com as a source.

Provide sources for any relevant data.

In other words, vet the potential panelists for CrimeThink, so we can hurl them into the void.

Note that ‘homophobia’ and ‘transphobia’ lead all the rest,

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A damning new report by StandWithUs UK has revealed a surge in antisemitic harassment and hostility towards Jewish and pro-Israel students across British universities in the wake of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks.

Drawing from over 1,000 testimonies and a nationwide survey, the “Voice of Students 2025” report paints a troubling picture of intimidation, institutional inaction, and a climate of fear permeating campus life.

Key findings include that 64% of surveyed students could not unequivocally call the Hamas attacks terrorism, while 38% believed students who publicly support Israel should “expect” abuse. Students reported being subjected to verbal abuse, threats, and exclusion, with some forced to hide religious symbols or refrain from speaking Hebrew on campus out of fear.

The report accuses universities of failing to uphold their duty of care, citing dismissive responses to complaints and a normalization of anti-Zionist rhetoric as a cover for antisemitism. It calls for urgent reforms, including recognizing anti-Zionism as antisemitism under the IHRA definition and establishing accountability measures.

“This isn’t just about Jewish students,” the report warns, “but about the erosion of safety and free expression for all.”

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A quiet energy revolution is underway in the heart of West Texas. Abilene, a small town on the edge of the Permian Basin—America’s largest oil-producing region—is now home to the first Small Modular Reactor (SMR) under construction in the United States. In a moment laced with irony and historical significance, the energy stronghold known for oil and gas is pivoting, not away from its roots, but toward a bold expansion into nuclear power. And not just any nuclear, but advanced molten salt technology, designed to redefine safety, scalability, and reliability in power generation.

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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is facing backlash after images on social media appeared to show the left-wing firebrand cutting the line in front of passengers in wheelchairs while boarding a flight in Atlanta over the weekend.

Republican House Conference chair Lisa McClain posted the images on her personal campaign account Sunday, arguing Crockett was “abusing her power” by boarding in front of the passengers with disabilities. McClain’s post comes after Crockett called Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbot, who is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair, “Governor Hot Wheels” while speaking at an LGBT advocacy event in Los Angeles in March.

Crockett, who is viewed by some in the media as a rising star within the Democratic Party, has frequently courted controversy during her time in Congress through attacks on President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans that have at times contained profanity.

“SPOTTED Jasmine Crockett with a taxpayer-funded police escort, cutting everyone in line—even making DISABLED people wait,” McClain wrote on X. “Nothing to see here, just the next leader of the Democrats, abusing her power!”

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A Palestinian activist at Columbia University spooked neighbors in his small Vermont town by bragging about his hatred of Jews and his background of building weapons for terrorist groups, according to interviews and 2015 police records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Mohsen Mahdawi, who had recently moved to Windsor, Vt., from the West Bank, told multiple people in town that he had previously worked in a Palestinian refugee camp building guns for terrorists.

“He said his job in the refugee camp was to make weapons,” a source familiar with Mahdawi said. “He bragged about friends and family wanting to kill Israelis.”

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Police arrested 31 protesters for taking over and vandalizing the Boeing-funded Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office told KOMO News on Tuesday. The protesters, who also set several nearby dumpsters on fire, demanded that the university sever ties with Boeing for supplying weapons used in Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists.

The protest comes as the Trump administration cracks down on anti-Semitic activity that has swept college campuses following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.

The organization behind the Monday protest, Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return, is a “suspended student group,” university spokesman Victor Balta told CNN. The group has published a manifesto overtly praising Hamas’s October 7 attack and also helped organize an anti-Semitic protest on campus in February.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised>? I’m sure surprised.

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Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., postponed a town hall planned for Wednesday after a “credible threat made against his wife, children and grandchildren.”

The Left always reaches for violence first.

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The Message is: Your fake currency isn’t worth shit, and is getting worse.

WARTHUNDER (2013). Available for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Oculus, and Vive.

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Frontex is supposed to protect Europe’s borders, but it has been “captured” by the Left, so does nothing of the sort.

That is the verdict of Sweden Democrats MEP Charlie Weimers, who stands at the forefront of efforts to reverse what he describes as the “coup at Frontex”—no small task, by his own admission, given the role of senior European Union officials in this takeover.

Weimers stressed that “this is not a procedural matter. It is an institutional crisis.”

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Hatred surrounding the conflict in the Middle East continues to spill over into the West, most recently forcing Jonny Greenwood from the British band Radiohead to cancel two UK shows with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa because of threats received by the venues.

The musical duo said in a statement on social media that “enough credible threats” had been sent to the venues and their staff “to conclude that it’s not safe to proceed.” They criticised activists for “censorship” and “silencing” and—as with attempts to ban Israel from participating in the Eurovision Song Contest—stressed the futility of the action.

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Oh, ya think?

British counter-terror police arrested five men, including four Iranian nationals, on Saturday, fearing that an attack on a “specific premises” was imminent. Speculation has since mounted—including within the establishment press—that the target may have been a synagogue or another specifically Jewish establishment.

Three other Iranian nationals were later arrested as part of a separate operation, with counter-terror police reportedly fearing that these men would attempt to either leave the UK or destroy evidence following the earlier arrests.

One of the suspected terrorists accused of plotting an attack is also claimed to be “very well-connected” to the Hamas-backing regime in Tehran.

Responding to reports, Britain’s Campaign Against Antisemitism charity criticised the Labour government for doing “nothing to proscribe Iran’s [Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps] IRGC, which sponsors terrorism around the world and is known to be active in the UK.”

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The question comes to me from more and more Europeans these days: “Do you still support Donald Trump after all of this?”

By “all of this,” they usually mean the bizarre and destructive tariffs regime the White House rolled out in April, on what Trump called “Liberation Day.” But there is more, of course: Trump’s harsh deportation regime against illegal migrants, his substantive assault on universities, his wrecking of the NATO alliance, his weird trolling of Canada (“America’s 51st State”) and Denmark, over Greenland, et cetera.

My answer is: Yes, I agree that most of this has been troubling, some more than others. So why do I, as an American conservative, still back Trump? The answer is simple: what was, and what is, the alternative? Not the ideal alternative, but the real-world alternative.

Consider where America was before Trump’s re-election.

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Last week, Syrian Sunni jihadists attacked Druse communities in Jaramana and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya, suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus. The Israel Air Force (IAF) intervened by striking Syrian jihadi personnel and positions, including a site adjacent to the Syrian presidential palace. Meanwhile, the Houthi rebels who control northern Yemen delivered a resounding blow against Israel on Sunday, when one of their ballistic missiles penetrated Israeli defences and landed next to Israel’s main international airport, briefly halting almost all international flights to and from the Jewish state, except those operated by Israeli airlines. Israel retaliated with a twenty-plane strike against Houthi economic installations. Further strikes are likely—and, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted, these may also target Iran, the Houthis’ political and military patron. Meanwhile, Israel’s cabinet has authorised the immediate call-up of tens of thousands of IDF reservists in preparation for an “expansion” of the country’s war-making against Hamas, which has been more or less stalemated for months.