[PM] Somebody got wise
The Trump administration has said that the country will not be granting an additional 600,000 visas to Chinese students to come to the United States, but that the figure is just a reflection of continued policy. Trump had spoken about 600,000 student visas for Chinese students during a meeting on Monday with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.
"President Trump isn't proposing an increase in student visas for Chinese students. The 600k references two years worth of visas. It's simply a continuation of existing policy," a White House spokesperson said.
[DailyWire] Minnesota Catholic School Leader Warned Tim Walz Of ’Critical’ School Safety Threats. He Did Nothing.
"The latest school shooting at a nonpublic Christian school in Tennessee sadly confirms what we already know — our schools are under attack."
Two years before a shooter opened fire on students attending daily mass in Minneapolis, the leaders of independent and Catholic schools in Minnesota begged Democrat Governor Tim Walz for help securing their schools, according to a 2023 letter reviewed by The Daily Wire. The funding was never authorized.
In a letter dated April 14, 2023 that specifically addressed "school safety in nonpublic schools," Tim Benz, the president of MINNDEPENDENT and Jason Adkins, the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, stressed an "urgent and critical need in Minnesota to make sure our schools are secure and safe" in light of "recent, and continuing attacks, on our schools in this country and in our state."
The letter says there are about 72,000 students in Independent, Catholic, Jewish, Christian and Muslim nonpublic schools within the state of Minnesota. It came just weeks after the shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee, which was also carried out by a transgender-identifying individual in their twenties.
"The latest school shooting at a nonpublic Christian school in Tennessee sadly confirms what we already know — our schools are under attack," Benz and Adkins wrote. "In Minnesota, nonpublic schools, particularly our Jewish and Muslim schools, have experienced increased levels of threats, all of which we must take very seriously."
"The tragedy from last week at Covenant School must never happen in Minnesota or in our country again," they wrote. "We need to ensure that all [our] schools have the resources to respond to and prevent these attacks from happening to our schools."
The leaders specifically called on Waltz for assistance in making sure not only that the Minnesota Legislature enacts his budget recommendation of $50 million to establish the "Building and Cyber Security Grand Program, but also that this program include all schools as eligible for funding, regardless of whether these schools are public, charters, or nonpublic.
Adkins told The Daily Wire on Wednesday after the shooting in Minneapolis that no additional security was ever funded, even though the money existed.
Walz in 2023 was instead working to protect transvestites. In April 2023, the same month the letter was sent, Walz signed legislation establishing Minnesota as a "trans refuge," promising to "protect those seeking gender-affirming care," according to OutFront Minnesota (and in the backdoor)...
Pure F ing evil. And the worthless MNGOP and RINO Tom Emmer refuses to do anything about him. And of course, never confront the Twin City Pravda fraud news.
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Walz must have assumed that the legislation would also address grooming teachers.
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Boy this is going to be a clown show! This is getting to be a fun year. You go 47!
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When (if?) this gets reported in the DNC/BHO/Hamas media, they will not mention that she was legally fired for cause , mortgage fraud, until paragraph 55 or 60, if at all.
Maybe photos of and interviews with her weeping friends and relatives ... pillar of her community etc.
So predictable.
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DEI hire. Surely, there were more sophisticated financial criminals available for this position.
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[Breitbart] Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy celebrated Amtrak’s launch of next-generation high-speed Acela train sets by taking the inaugural ride from Washington, DC, to New York City.
Breitbart News was among the news outlets to join the secretary for the historic trip on the new train set, which can run at speeds of up to 160 miles per hour, while handling curves at up to 150 miles per hour. Speaking at a press conference at Union Station ahead of the departure, Duffy said, "It is a great day for an Acela-bration."
"I don’t know who ordered it up, but the sun is shining, the sky is blue, the band is here — it’s a wonderful day for this launch," he added.
In addition to the launch of the new train sets, the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced on Wednesday that the federal government will reclaim control of Union Station.
"I think the president has been pretty clear on what he wants for Union Station, for American travel, for train travel," Duffy said at the departure press conference. "He wants Union Station to be beautiful again, he wants transit to be safe again, and he wants our nation’s capital to be great again, and today’s part of that."
Deputy Secretary Steven Bradbury emphasized the DOT’s goals to return the station to "a stable financial footing" and "to address the rehabilitation needs of the station, and really do what Congress demanded we do, and take care of this beautiful historic building."
After that, Bradbury said the administration also seeks to "set the foundation to open the doors to a beautiful expansion of the station in the future, probably through a P3 — a public-private partnership — with a beautiful new passenger concourse."
After the press conference, reporters rushed onto the "Next-Gen" Acela for its maiden voyage to the Big Apple. Duffy joined the press as the train approached Philadelphia for about 30 minutes and took questions alongside Bradbury. Breitbart News asked Duffy how the next-gen Acela will benefit working-class Americans in particular.
Duffy emphasized that the fleet of Acela trains will eventually reach 28, up from the 15 currently in operation. The new sets notably allow for 27 percent greater seating capacity.
"So there’s 15 Acela trains now. We’re going to have 5 that are going to come online starting tomorrow, but we’re going to have 28 in total," Duffy said. "So we’re going to have more sets with more frequent trips on the northeast corridor."
"Expanding capacity, I think, is going to, again, allow for two things. One, I think with dynamic pricing, we’re going to be able to bring some of the prices down, make it more cost-effective for the traveling public... Because there’s more capacity, we think we can bring in more revenue for Amtrak," he added. "So those two things — and again, it’s going to take us some time to figure out that dynamic pricing, but we think that’s going to be a great takeaway, by the way, a better riding experience for people."
After the roughly 25-minute gaggle, reporters returned to their seats, and the train was soon in New York City right around 1:00 p.m. as scheduled.
The train pulled into Penn Station, where Duffy had notably pulled a development project from New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) over his lack of faith in the MTA’s ability to deliver. Duffy held a press conference alongside Bradbury and train expert Andy Byford, whom Duffy called "the train daddy," in the entryway to the station, announcing a $43 million grant to improve it.
"Oftentimes, presidents wouldn’t engage in a project like this. You all are blessed to have a president who cares about the project and cares about the deliverable for New Yorkers," Duffy said.
"We are proud to be announcing a $43 million grant to begin the process in regard to the solicitation for a master developer... We are going to move at the speed of Trump," he added. "This is not going to be a 20-30 year project. This is not about a backroom, thinking about how we can spend money and develop plans, but never deliver. This is actually about: ’How do we move this more quickly and more beautifully through the process so it’s not your grandkids that are going to enjoy the work we are doing now, you all are going to get to enjoy this great project?'"
Byford will lead the project for Amtrak.
"I’m so happy to be back in New York. This is where I want to be, and this is the project that I want to do," Byford said.
"From today, firms interested in working on this project can officially start the process of becoming our master developer partner," Byford went on to say. "Ladies and gentlemen, the steps to completely transform Penn Station start today, that process starts today — complete top-to-bottom modernization and transformation of Penn Station."
Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom, please take notice.
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This surprises me in that part of the initiative would have had to occur under Buttigieg. I thought the only trains he was concerned with require a lot of lubrication.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Transportation Secretary 
