To be fair, having all the illegals in one central location makes it much easier for ICE to round them up and send them home… Oh, and guys — make sure you vote for the Republicans in the next couple of elections, or this will keep happening to you.
[FoxNews] Bronx residents vented during a heated community board meeting, during which the mayor’s office said the taxpayer-funded mega shelter is set to open next month
Furious New York City residents expressed their anger Monday after learning they were powerless to stop a massive 2,200 male-only migrant shelter from opening in their neighborhood, raising concerns that the new facility will make their community less safe, especially for women.
Animated residents vented their fury during a heated Bronx community board meeting, during which the mayor’s office told them the taxpayer-funded mega shelter will open next month at a 275,000-square-foot former warehouse, according to Fox 5.
The building will be retrofitted for between $250,000 and $340,000 in order to cater to the migrants, many of whom will be transferred from the sprawling migrant tent shelter on Randalls Island, according to the New York Post, citing city records.
However, residents say they are frightened about the prospect of such a large influx of migrant men being housed in the community.
"I have young women who come to me to study. I have never been afraid in the South Bronx, I am now terrified," Judy Kudlow, an artist who said she operates an art school directly across from the building said. "I'm terrified for me, for my students. I will have to move… You have made a terrible mistake."
Another woman slammed the situation, saying that New Yorkers are living on the streets while migrants are being catered to in these types of facilities as well as hotels.
Community board member Audrey Dejesus said she empathized with the migrants but feels residents' concerns are not being heard.
"I understand people need a place to be, and it's getting cold and everything in the future, but we feel like it's a dumping ground," Dejesus told Fox 5. "We getting the jail right across the street, and now we're going to get a 2,200 bed for homeless men. No. Think about women and families first."
Oh dear. This is going to be amusing, for some of us, anyway.
[DAILYCALLER] A male inmate who claims to be transgender filed a lawsuit Sunday against President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , alleging that his constitutional rights have been violated after he was removed from a women's prison in the wake of an executive order.
The inmate, Maria Moe, who was housed at a female prison, alleges the order violates the Constitution and federal law because it ''directly targets transgender Americans by attempting to deny them legal recognition under federal law and to strip them of long-established legal protections'' and will deny transgender inmates ''medically necessary healthcare,'' according to the lawsuit. Trump signed the order, titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, within hours of taking the oath of office. (RELATED: Biden's Education Secretary Who Tried To Push Men Into Women's Sports Says He Avoided 'Culture Wars' While In Office)
The lawsuit coincides with growing concerns surrounding female safety in America's prisons, as several instances of transgender inmates attacking women in prisons have already been reported, oftentimes being perpetrated by men with a known history assault before they're incarcerated.
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Waiter, I demand to speak to the manager. This algorithm is not fit for human consumption.
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Political officers and anyone bucking for promotion. Don't need either one in a serious military. As for the rest, don't need people with serious mental conditions in the military either.
As for Beans Bullets & Boots, which gets bumped for the hormones drugs and additional health care required for the physical transmuters?
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For the sake of argument, let's use 9-14K as the number of transes in the military. Losing them would certainly be a loss, especially at a time when recruiting is down. But the world is a dynamic place - one thing changes and others respond to that.
Perhaps one reason recruitment is down is because people who would normally join the military are repelled by all the DEI/woke/trans nonsense. Just for grins, let's be serious again and see if enlistment rates change.
I'm guessing most of these "persons" are not the toothy part of the armed forces. You need the tail for support, but losing randomly selected supply clerks, typists, paper-shufflers and zampolits is not like losing a SEAL team. I'd further wager that more than a few of the about to be departed are involved in DEI/woke/trans nonsense and will not be missed.
[FoxNews] Milley has had a security detail since Iran vowed revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is "immediately pulling" retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News. Perhaps the CCP will cover his ass
The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to "undermine the chain of command" during President Donald Trump's first term, officials say.
The Pentagon will also be removing a second portrait of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon. This one is from the Army's Marshall Corridor on the third floor honoring his service as chief-of-staff of the Army. Fox is told the removal of this second portrait will take place as soon as tonight. This means there will be no more portraits of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon.
The first portrait of Gen. Milley, from his time as the U.S. military's top officer, was removed from the Pentagon last week on Inauguration Day less than two hours after President Trump was sworn into office.
The now retired Gen. Milley and other former senior Trump aides had been assigned personal security details ever since Iran vowed revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in 2020 ordered by Trump in his first term.
Gen. Milley served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023 under both Presidents Trump and Biden.
And he behaved improperly under both presidents, so there’s that.
Before leaving office, President Joe Biden pardoned Gen. Milley.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] President Trump is on a roll and cleaning house.
Trump fired Biden-appointed Democrat chair of the National Labor Relations BoardGwynne Wilcox and the general counsel of the board in the latest shakeup.
Trump’s decision to fire pro-union members Gwynne Wilcox and the labor board’s general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is getting pushback from the agency and is being described as an “unprecedented and illegal” move.
Gwynne Wilcox may challenge Trump’s decision to fire her. In a statement to Reuters, Wilcox said she will pursue “all legal avenues” to challenge Trump’s firing.
Axios reported:
President Trump fired acting chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Democrat Gwynne Wilcox late Monday night, she told Axios. He also fired the general counsel of the labor board, Jennifer Abruzzo, a strong advocate for unionization.
The big picture: Together the dismissals signal a broad purge at the nation’s labor regulator, which had been an exceptionally strong ally to workers and unions over the past four years.
Wilcox was the NLRB’s first Black woman board member.
Where it stands: Under the national labor law, board members can only be fired for neglect of duty or malfeasance. Wilcox had served as acting board chair just for a few days at the end of the Biden administration — and it had been expected she would be replaced and resume her duties as board member.
[NYPOST] Dozens of bigwigs in the U.S. agency that administers foreign aid were reportedly placed on leave Monday amid an investigation into alleged resistance to President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... 's orders.
At least 56 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officials were placed on administrative leave with full pay and benefits, Politico first reported.
Several hundred contractors based in Washington and elsewhere were also laid off, a current and a former official told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
These actions come after Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... , acting on Trump's executive order, paused all U.S. foreign assistance funded by or through the State Department and USAID.
The 90-day pause has halted thousands of U.S.-funded humanitarian, development and security programs worldwide and forced aid organizations to lay off hundreds of employees because they can't make payroll.
According to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, an internal USAID notice sent late Monday said new acting administrator Jason Gray had identified ''several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people.''
Politics is how large groups of people agree on what must be done, and then do it to keep society running more or less smoothly.
[FoxNews] The window to take advantage of the program runs Jan. 28 through Feb. 6
The Trump administration is offering buyouts for nearly all federal employees, including those who work remotely, as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to get employees back into the office, but they only have until Feb. 6 to opt-in.
During Trump’s first week in office, he issued several directives to the federal workforce, including a requirement that remote employees must return to in-person work.
The senior administration official said, "We expect 5 to 10 percent of federal employees to quit, and it could lead to $100 billion annually in savings for federal taxpayers."
"After four years of incompetence and failure, President Donald Trump is committed to making our government efficient and productive again," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement on Tuesday. "American taxpayers pay for the salaries of federal government employees and therefore deserve employees working on their behalf who actually show up to work in our wonderful federal buildings, also paid for by taxpayers.
"If they don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, then they are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of eight months," she added.
That is indeed generous.
On Tuesday, a government-wide email was sent out to ensure all federal workers were on board with the Trump administration’s plan.
The email pointed to four pillars that Trump set forth, to bring accountability back to the federal government, including a return to in-person work, restored accountability for employees who have policy-making authority, restored accountability for senior executives, and a reformed federal hiring process based on merit.
"The government-wide email being sent today is to make sure that all federal workers are on board with the new administration’s plan to have federal employees in office and adhering to higher standards," a senior administration official said. "We’re five years past COVID and just 6 percent of federal employees work full-time in office. That is unacceptable."
The email noted that the majority of federal employees who have worked remotely since COVID will be required to return to their physical offices five days a week.
"Going forward, we also expect our physical offices to undergo meaningful consolidation and divestitures, potentially resulting in physical office relocations for a number of federal workers," the email read.
For those who returned to office, the Trump administration thanked them for their "renewed focus" on serving the American people. But the future of their position could not be guaranteed, according to the email.
For those who do not want to continue in their role with the federal workforce, the Trump administration thanked them for their services, informing them they will be provided with a "dignified, fair departure from the federal government utilizing a deferred resignation program."
The program begins on Jan. 28 and will be available until Feb. 6, and should a federal employee choose to resign under the program, they will retain all pay and benefits, regardless of workload, and will be exempt from their in-person work requirements until Sep. 30, 2025.
The buyouts do not apply to military personnel of the armed forces, the U.S. Postal Services, positions related to immigration enforcement and national security, and any other positions specifically excluded by the agency the federal workers are employed by.
"To be clear, as it was with President Trump’s executive order on Day One, implementation of return-to-work policies will be done by each individual agency in accordance with applicable law," the senior administration official said. "We expect 5 to 10 percent of federal employees to quit, and it could lead to $100 billion annually in savings for federal taxpayers."
#2
Switch payroll to daily and physical check to be picked up at office. No show, no pay. Stop hiring anyone until department head count for surviving departments is below 50%
[PJMEDIA] Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. As our own Catherine Salgado wrote, the date marks 80 years since "Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like... and his Nazis massacred an estimated 17 million-plus people during their relatively brief but extremely deadly reign of terror."
And if you watched MSNBC yesterday, you'd think it was happening all over again. (I truly hope the network's six viewers are smarter than to fall for this garbage.)
Everyone's favorite racist host, Joy Reid, did what started out like a regular, normal-person segment to commemorate the day and remind us of the horrors people faced under Hitler and the Nazi regime. But Joy Reid is no normal person.
"But how did Hitler do it?" she asks the television camera after declaring that it all happened in "broad daylight." "Well, with the support of ordinary Germans who just wanted Germany to be great again. And business leaders who initially thought they could control him. Plus a cadre of devout political allies willing to do whatever he said for the sake of power."
Oh, come on, Joy. Seriously? We're going there? You didn't learn your lesson in November?
But she didn't stop there. Reid went on to explain how a piece in The Atlantic "lays out how Hitler ended a German democracy and installed a dictatorship with blinding speed and entirely constitutional measures... His rage and xenophobia gained followers after the financial ruin of World War I and the Great Depression and helped get him selected as chancellor. Once empowered, he moved with shock and awe, imprisoning his liberal opposition, abolishing states' rights, and imposing bans on left-wing newspapers. He fueled German public outrage by blaming European Jews for Germany's problems."
She goes on for a bit, but in case you were dumb enough to not quite get the hint, Reid finally lays it all out:
If that sounds vaguely familiar, that's because it is. Similarities to what happened in Germany and what's happening now in America are just undeniable. History may not repeat verbatim, but it certainly rhymes.
She goes on to explain other similarities between Hitler and Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... and ends it all by doubling down on the false story that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute on Inauguration Day.
Over in England they commemorated the day, too:
“Six million people were killed in concentration camps during the Second World War, as well as millions of others because they were Polish, disabled, gay, or belonged to another ethnic group.”
Jews. The word you’re looking for is ‘Jews’, not ‘people’. This truly beggars belief.… pic.twitter.com/Sm0vLvMT01
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... 's use of U.S. taxpayer money to fund transgender operas in Colombia and transgender comic books in Peru will be totally undone by Trump, a top Republican told DailyMail.com.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-Fla.) has a laundry list of Biden-era State Department programs that are on the chopping block now that Trump is in the White House.
After a bombshell report came out this week unveiling how Biden's State Department doled out $15 million worth of taxpayer funds to buy contraceptives like condoms for the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , DailyMail.com asked Mast what other eye-popping programs exist.
'So, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. That was a real one,' he revealed.
'Let's see, there was a transgender comic book, we're trying to get our hands on the actual comic book, in Peru,' he continued. 'And I heard it's reasonably risqu .'
The Peruvian trans comic book program received $32,000 under former Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... , according to federal documents.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also announced on Tuesday that Biden's administration almost sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , which she called 'a preposterous waste of taxpayer money!'
'There was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza!' Leavitt shockingly claimed.
Andrew Miller, who served as deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs under former US president Joe Biden, calls the claim “outlandish.”
“It’s possible that $50 million is put aside for sexual health or something of that nature, which would include gynecology and many other services, but definitely not condoms alone,” he tells The Times of Israel.
The US Agency for International Development’s spending on injectable contraceptives, contraceptive implants, IUDs, male condoms, oral contraceptives, Standard Days Method and female condoms amounted to $60 million in the fiscal year of 2023, and that was across the globe — not just Gaza.
Condoms generally cost less than one dollar each in the United States and much less in bulk. Just over two million people live in Gaza, nearly all of which has been heavily damaged in the 15-month war with Israel.
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They’d just use them to keep dirt and water out of their gun barrels
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] President Trump could not resist getting a few last brutal parting shots in on failing fake news nemesis Ace Newshound Jim Acosta ...CNN's showboating White House correspondent... following news of his journalistic demise while Acosta got his own last word in on Trump during his last show.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Acosta had reportedly decided to leave CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... after it was revealed that the struggling network was moving him to the waste-land of midnight or 2 AM. Acosta allegedly threatened to quit right away following the news.
The program would have aired at a time when cable news viewership is at its lowest level. Of course, it's not like Acosta had many viewers to begin with.
On Tuesday morning, President Trump responded to Acosta's ouster in a predictably savage and hilarious fashion.
''Wow, really good news! Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest news hounds in journalistic history, a major sleazebag, has been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight hour, ''Death Valley,'' because of extraordinarily BAD RATINGS (and no talent!),'' Trump wrote.
''Word is that he wants to QUIT, and that would be even better,'' Trump added. ''Jim is a major loser who will fail no matter where he ends up. Good luck Jim!''
[NYPOST] ''Two years ago Gavin Newsom was widely seen as a rising Democratic star and likely future presidential candidate,'' but ''how quickly things change,'' snarks Joel Kotkin at UnHerd.
In his weekend trip to Cali, President Trump ''wasted no time in attacking the state's progressive policies,'' calling ''on Newsom to change the state's water policies.''
''Trump's demands have drawn attention to the state's self-inflicted wounds, and its pattern of astounding incompetence,'' while his energy plans make ''things all the more difficult for Newsom's climate policies,'' since ''Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Ohio are ready to get richer,'' while ''Newsom is taking California in the opposite direction.''
''As the fires are extinguished, so too are the California governor's presidential hopes.''
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Considering all the right people getting paid off, the PR campaign, the overseas meet and greets, and Obama himself certifying her 3am election results, I think Bass was being groomed to be the next Newsom.
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Once the water gets turned on, turning it back off would likely be unpopular with people considering the recall of politicians.
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#4 I've met her. (She's a friend of a friend.) Add "while she was having substance abuse problems and worked for the Democratic Party" to "his best friend and campaign manager's wife" to understand the level of Gavin's sleeze. To this day she can't tell the real story without ruining her and her husband's careers.
Gavin doesn't walk. He glides from place to place.
[NYPOST] A DC federal judge ordered the Trump administration Tuesday to keep distributing trillions in federal assistance, just as a days-long freeze was due to take effect at close of business.
US District Judge Loren AliKhan
… Loren Linn AliKhan was appointed to the bench by President Biden at the end of 2023. This is the first notable thing she has done since then…
issued the temporary restraining order in response to an appeal by a coalition of nonprofit groups almost exactly 24 hours after acting Office of Management and Budget Director Matthew Vaeth ordered agencies to ''temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.''
The Vaeth memo further admonished agency heads to ''identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements.''
Lawyers for Democracy Forward represented the National Council of Nonprofits, the American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance and the LGBTQ nonprofit SAGE in filing the suit to block the funding freeze.
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Need to start the list of judges who play these games of 'entertaining' suits to undermine the separation of powers. One branch that sits for life and is unaccountable to the people does not make this country a republic.
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There is always some judge available with an injunction. Grants to search for tropical frog life in the Sudan will stay in force for the time being.
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[NYPOST] The daughter of former President John F. Kennedy is speaking out against Health and Human Services Secretary designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lambasting her cousin as a "predator" with "dangerous" views on vaccination who is "unqualified to fill" the role.
Former US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy strongly urged senators in a video message posted on X to reject President Trump’s nominee, the day before the first of two high-stakes Senate hearings.
"He lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed," Kennedy said, reading her missive to members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, who will quiz RFK Jr. on Thursday. "These facts alone should be disqualifying, but he has personal qualities related to this job, which for me pose even greater concern."
"It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets, because Bobby himself is a predator," added the former first daughter. "He’s always been charismatic, able to attract others through the strength of his personality, his willingness to take risks and break the rules."
That included, Caroline Kennedy claimed, other siblings and cousins following RFK Jr., a recovered heroin user, down the dark path of addiction to "illness and death."
Completely ignoring the Kennedys who preceded your generation down that well-trodden path, dear girl, reaping the benefits of entirely too much money and not nearly enough character.
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.
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like...
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
