[FoxNews] Crockett clarified that her calls to action are 'not about violence'
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, to "tread very carefully," days after the Democrat got attention from Trump allies for suggesting Elon Musk should be "taken down."
"She is an elected public official, so she needs to tread very carefully because nothing will happen to Elon Musk, and we are going to fight to protect all the Tesla owners throughout this country," Bondi vowed on this week's "Sunday Morning Futures."
She reiterated her previous pledge that widespread violence against Tesla owners and dealerships — which have seen electric vehicles engulfed in flames and defaced with hostile imagery — will "come to a stop."
Crockett's under-fire remarks came during a nationwide call with the Tesla Takedown movement, a self-described "peaceful protest platform"
…that’s one of those dog whistle thingies by which they mean a “mostly peaceful” Black Bloc Aktion whose rules go back to Stalinist Red Shirts vs Nazi Brown Shirts brawling in the streets of Weimar Germany …
calling for Tesla owners to sell their vehicles and for all to dump their stock in the EV provider.
"On March 29, it’s my birthday," Crockett told the group in reference to an upcoming "Global Day of Action" intended to hit back at the company.
"All I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down," she added. "I have learned, as I serve on the DOGE Oversight committee, that there is only one language that the people that are in charge understand right now, and that language is money."
So y’all are going to throw lots of money at them? How odd.
[Gateway] Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online, recently joined Joe Rogan on his very popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience with over 19 million subscribers.
** The entire podcast is here.
The podcast was filmed several weeks ago but a clip from this discussion is making the rounds this week on social media.
During their conversation, Mike Benz shared how Barack Obama was using money to USAID to pretend to send "aid" overseas. In actuality, Obama was laundering the taxpayer dollars and using it to train "rent-a-mobs" instead!
Just a few toys for his boys — remember that he started out as a trainer of the Alinsky method for activists.
This is a huge development but maybe not so surprising considering how Democrats believe they can do anything they please. With other people’s money.
[DC] The Department of Justice is exploring potential criminal charges against former U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) officials who attempted to block the Trump administration’s leadership changes at the federally funded think tank Monday, a senior DOJ official told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The official, who requested anonymity, told the DCNF the DOJ is examining whether certain USIP actions — such as the removal and destruction of internal and external door locks — created illegal fire hazards. The official also flagged the widespread distribution of internal flyers instructing USIP staff not to cooperate with incoming Trump administration officials as potentially obstructive conduct. The DCNF was the first to report on USIP’s internal flyer campaign and destruction of door locks.
"Eleven board members were lawfully removed, and remaining board members appointed Kenneth Jackson acting president," Anna Kelly, White House deputy press secretary, previously told the DCNF. "Rogue bureaucrats will not be allowed to hold agencies hostage. The Trump administration will enforce the President’s executive authority and ensure his agencies remain accountable to the American people."
The inquiry — which remains in its early stages, the official emphasized — follows a contentious standoff Monday after former USIP leadership tried to block the installation of Kenneth Jackson, who President Donald Trump appointed as the institute’s new president on March 14. The Trump administration determined the institute had failed to comply with a Feb. 19 executive order requiring federally funded organizations like USIP to scale operations down to their bare statutory minimums, triggering a leadership shakeup the institute attempted to resist.
USIP leadership began preparing for a confrontation weeks before the executive order was issued. A Feb. 6 internal document exclusively obtained by the DCNF outlined plans to deny building access to outside officials and reasserted the institute’s discretion over security systems and facilities. Flyers with the names and photos of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials were posted throughout the building, instructing staff to report their presence and avoid conversation.
[NYPOST] Hunter Biden's beleaguered former business partner, Devon Archer, will receive a full and unconditional pardon, President Trump revealed exclusively to the New York Post.
The president promised Archer the pardon when they met at the NCAA wrestling championships in Philadelphia Saturday night, an encounter arranged by another former Hunter Biden associate-turned-whistleblower, Tony Bobulinski.
''He's getting a full pardon,'' Trump told me Sunday. ''He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people.
''A full pardon,'' Trump repeated, describing Archer as an ''anti-Biden person'' because of his pivotal role in exposing Biden corruption.
The presidential clemency will end a decade-long ordeal for Archer, who was facing jail time for securities fraud over a bad deal he was involved in with Hunter Biden in 2015.
The comments pretty much sum it up. Video is a pathetic love fest.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Sunday Talks – Kash Patel Discusses His FBI Mission Priority with Good Friend and Mentor Trey Gowdy
March 24, 2025
FBI Director Kash Patel makes his first television appearance on Fox News to discuss his mission priority within the FBI. Defending the honorable rank and file FBI agents, Kash Patel notes his intention is to focus on the massive increase in violent crime that has come as an outcome of open borders and illegal alien inflows.
Kash Patel has a long relationship with both Trey Gowdy and current CIA Director John Ratcliffe going back to the days when Patel was the lead staffer for Devin Nunes on the House Intelligence Committee, and Gowdy with Ratcliffe were selected to review the FISA application at the center of ‘Russiagate.’
Mr. Gowdy puts the number of honorable FBI officials at 95% and Director Patel agrees, saying he wants to return to the time when he and his family would invite FBI agents for a cup of coffee. Patel then emphasizes he has already addressed the bad actors within the FBI and will continue to hold the internal investigative officers accountable with a zero-tolerance approach.
During the interview Trey Gowdy wants to emphasize how qualified Kash Patel is for this role in the FBI, delivering effusive praise for his mentee and friend, Director Patel. Gowdy calls Kash Patel the ’employee of the month’ for his excellence and brilliance in his first 30-days. WATCH:
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The head of the Social Security Administration has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn after he threatened to shut down the agency.
Interim SSA Commissioner Lee Dudek had threatened to shutter the agency over a judge's ruling that barred Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing their data.
He had said that the order may require him to cut off access to all the agency's employees to the information on Thursday.
On Friday, he reversed course after the White House directly intervened and the judge in the class gave him further clarification on the ruling.
Dudek said: 'Today, the Court issued clarifying guidance about the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) related to DOGE employees and DOGE activities at the Social Security Administration (SSA).
'Therefore, I am not shutting down the agency. President Trump supports keeping Social Security offices open and getting the right check to the right person at the right time. SSA employees and their work will continue under the TRO.'
He told The Washington Post that the White House had called him to 'remind me that I was out of line' on Friday.
Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander with the District of Maryland, who issued the order, also said that Dudek's assertions 'were inaccurate'.
She said in the order on Friday: 'Employees of SSA who are not involved with the DOGE Team or in the work of the DOGE Team are not subject to the Order.'
Hollander had issued a two-week temporary restraining order that blocked 'DOGE team members and DOGE affiliates' from accessing any 'personally identifiable information'.
She added that DOGE had 'essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion.'
The judge added that DOGE 'never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE team needs unlimited access to SSA's entire record systems'.
If Dudek had moved ahead with effectively closing the agency, millions of Americans would have had their benefit payments halted.
Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said in a statement: 'For almost 90 years, Social Security has never missed a paycheck — but 60 days into this administration, Social Security is now on the brink.
'Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek has proven again that he is in way over his head, compromising the privacy of millions of Americans, shutting down services that senior citizens rely on and planning debilitating layoffs, all in service to Elon Musk’s lies.'
Musk has said that Social Security databases had millions of impossibly aged Americans still on file.
His DOGE team say they discovered millions of people above the age of 120, and even some over 200.
Musk jokingly called the efforts to delete these records a clearing of the 'dead people database.'
The DOGE X account posted this week that the team has over the last two weeks marked as deceased 3.2 million people who were listed over the age of 120.
There are still millions, however, listed as living in that age bracket that the team is working to delete.
The 150-159 age range within the database on March 8 had 1,357,967 people marked as living.
By March 17, the count in that category decreased by 186,415 to a total of 1,171,552.
In that two week time span in March, DOGE was able to mark 3,261,057 people as dead who were previously in the Social Security system records as part of the 'living count' between the ages of 120 and 159.
'More work still to be done,' the cost-cutting group noted.
While the millions of clearly dead people are still in the system as eligible for benefits, that doesn't necessarily mean that money is being distributed to those individuals.
Since President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, his newly created DOGE has cut billions in government contracts to private industry, thousands of federal jobs and even obliterated whole agencies – like USAID.
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How About?
Give the 120-year-olds & Dead (but eating and breathing) people 45 days to respond in person, or their SSA Checks will cease. Meanwhile, have the FBI visit those addresses and also audit the Auto Deposit bank accounts to meet the actual users.
Which also raises the next question.
How many of those strangely 120 + old, and/or death (but still eating and breathing) people happen to strangely live in other countries?
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Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said in a statement: 'For almost 90 years, Social Security has never missed a paycheck — but 60 days into this administration, Social Security is now on the brink.
So, let me see if I have this straight: in just 60 days, SSI is on the brink of total collapse?
[FoxNews] The Pentagon said its intelligence and law enforcement arms are probing 'recent unauthorized disclosures' of national security information
The Pentagon said it would investigate what it claims are leaks of national security information, saying that the probes could include polygraph tests for employees in the Defense Department.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, sent a memo Friday saying that the Pentagon's intelligence and law enforcement arms are probing "recent unauthorized disclosures" of national security information, without offering details about alleged leaks.
"Recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information involving sensitive communications with principals within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) demand immediate and thorough investigation," Kasper wrote.
"If this effort results in information identifying a party responsible for an unauthorized disclosure," then the information "will be referred to the appropriate criminal entity for criminal prosecution," he added.
Kasper's memo said the polygraphs would be used "in accordance with applicable law and policy."
President Donald Trump rejected a report from The New York Times that his senior adviser, Elon Musk, would be briefed on how the U.S. would handle a potential war with China. Musk responded by suggesting that people leaking "maliciously false information" to the media will be identified and prosecuted.
"The New York Times is pure propaganda," Musk said Friday on X. "Also, I look forward to the prosecutions of those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information to NYT. They will be found."
Investigations into the alleged leaks at the Pentagon come after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed a move to step up lie-detector tests on employees in an attempt to identify people who may be leaking information to the media about immigration enforcement operations.
The Justice Department also announced an investigation on Friday into what it purported to be "the selective leak of inaccurate, but nevertheless classified, information" from intelligence agencies about a Venezuelan gang called Tren de Aragua, alleged members of which are being targeted by the Trump administration for removal from the U.S.
Leaks from within the federal government happen in every administration across various agencies.
While polygraph exams are typically not admissible in court proceedings because of concerns about their unreliability, they are often used by federal law enforcement agencies and for national security clearances.
The Supreme Court also ruled in 1998 that polygraph tests were inadmissible in military justice proceedings.
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No, exactly because of that nobody should take a poly. Especially if you DON'T believe in it.
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Then don't work in a job that requires it. Simple
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If you are in the intelligence community and you think that polygraphs work, then maybe you shouldn't be in the intelligence community.
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“Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy." - Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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The Control Question Test has no scientific validity. It's not a scientific procedure. You might as well believe in astrology or tarot cards. Flipping a coin will also do.
Do the math: Let's say you need to test 1,000 employees to find one culprit. Let's assume that the polygraph is 95 percent valid (it isn't), then the one guilty person would be identified as deceptive but so would 50 innocent persons. This means the predictive validity would be about 2 percent.
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They most restrictive clearance is a TS/SCI with a lifestyle polygraph. It is a really fucked up set of questions they asked and I had to go through it. Doing polygraphs for regular employees... may not work as well.
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You cannot possibly be a sociopath, Skidmark, which speaks to the test and the testers. Only God Himself and some of His angels have never broken trust.
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#10 If the poly is totally ineffective, why have intelligence services invested so much time and effort into training people to defeat them ?
The polygraph is one of many tools available. Is it foolproof? Certainly not. Can it be an indicator of possible deception? I believe it can.
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The primary purpose of a poly is to elicit a confession. All else is junk science as they say.
In regards to detection of deception - a skilled interviewer/interrogator is much better than a polygraph.
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
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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
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[Gateway] Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online, recently joined Joe Rogan on his very popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience with over 19 million subscribers.
