[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a well-known anti-Trump Republican who endorsed Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor for the 2024 election, has been accused of exaggerating a story where he helped save a woman's life.
According to a report from the Daily Mail, Kinzinger - who has been praised for saving a young woman's life in 2006 in Milwaukee when he wrestled a man to the ground who had a knife - has been accused by the woman he was on a date with that day of exaggerating his role. Kinzinger has fallen out of favor with many Republicans because of his vote to impeach Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... as well as serving on the January 6 subcommittee.
Megan Boschi, 41, was reportedly out with Kinzinger that evening on a date and told the outlet that it was not just Kinzinger who saved the young woman, but that she as well as others nearby ''played pivotal roles'' in stopping the murderous boyfriend.
According to the Mail, a 2006 police report shows that Thundercloud, who was schizophrenic and skipped a dose of medicine was out with his girlfriend Jerriann Lobermeir. Thundercloud got into an argument with Lobermeir and subsequently punched her and then cut her neck open with a pocketknife. She was on the sidewalk, begging for help from vehicles passing by when Kinzinger and Boschi stopped. Kinzinger fought the boyfriend to the ground and two other men stopped, helping to restrain him until police arrived.
Boschi took the knife away, threw it over a fence, and said that she was the one to flag down a car and get Lobermeir taken to the hospital where her neck required dozens of stitches. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... in a new documentary Kinzinger has put together about his career, Boschi said the politician did not mention her name at all. A "new documentary" on Animal Planet at 2AM on Sundays
In the documentary, Kinzinger recalled that he was able to overpower Thundercloud and pin him until law enforcement arrived. ''That moment on that street in Milwaukee utterly changed my life,'' he added in the film.
Boschi told the outlet, ''But I was there, the man who jumped off his cycle of violence was there, and the girl who let a complete stranger bleeding from her neck get into her car was there as well. We all played pivotal roles in what happened that night.''
Boschi recalled to the outlet, ''When Jerriann approached us, we knew immediately that she needed to get to a hospital but could see Thundercloud following her.''
"So while Adam approached him, she and I were trying to flag down a car to get her into a vehicle and get her medical attention as soon as possible,'' Boschi added and said she was able to get Lobermeir to safety. ''I came back and saw Adam on top of Thundercloud and another man on top of Adam, who had stopped his cycle of violence to help.''
''I ran up to them and grabbed the knife out of Thundercloud's hand and threw it as far away as I could. They kept him pinned down until the police showed up,'' Boschi added.
Boschi said that Kinzinger took the lead to confront the knife-wielding boyfriend, but that other heroes that were there have been forgotten. ''I think given Adam's role in the military, most people concentrated on his story,'' Boschi told the outlet. Kinzinger was a 28-year-old pilot in the Air Force at the time.
"I don't know that Adam oversold his role that night, because he did take the initiative and risk approaching Thundercloud,'' she added, ''But there were definitely a few others that were involved to help save her.''
Lobermeir has since had her name changed to Aminah Hamdan WTF??
, told the outlet that she is grateful for Kinzinger's actions as well as Boschi's and others, but also added that she is not sure who took down Thundercloud during the incident. She is now 40 years old and has four children.
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Most surprising to me is that I never heard the story to begin with. Adam strikes me as a Geraldo Rivera type of self-aggrandizer. Adam missed a chance to talk about himself.
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[FoxNews] CNN's most recent on-air flub goes viral on social media after viewers caught the surprising name mix-up
CNN mixed up the names of former President Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden in an embarrassing on-air gaffe on Friday night.
During a segment on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp on "CNN News Central," a graphic appeared behind anchor Boris Sanchez that read, "OBAMA BIN LADEN ASSOCIATE: ABU ZUBAYDAH."
Abu Zubaydah – the suspected Palestinian terrorist whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn – is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding his apprehension and detention.
[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez discussed the lawsuit between the Department of Justice and the city of Chicago, Cook County, and the state of Illinois over sanctuary policies and stated that it’s bizarre that officials weren’t upset at the Biden administration for allowing dangerous illegal immigrants to remain in Chicago and are only getting “upset now that judgment has come” under the Trump administration.
Lopez said, “[W]hat I think is important for your viewers to remember is that the target list that Tom Homan is going off of was compiled under the Biden administration.
Oh?
They knew we had 2,000, at least 2,000 dangerous individuals in our city that were threats to our neighborhoods and our country that they allowed to come here that they are only now going after.”
He continued, “But yet, no one is questioning why Biden allowed that to happen, they’re only upset now that judgment has come.”
Lopez also stated that frontline police officers are frustrated by the sanctuary policy.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The federal government spent over $8 million on subscriptions to PoliticoPro during the Biden administration, a fact which was not known to the American public on the lam until it was revealed on Wednesday amid the fiscal investigations of the Department of Government Efficiency. In response to the critique from taxpayers, politicians and officials alike, Politico released a statement saying that the media outlet "has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies."
Brian "Mr. Potato"
Stelter called the claim that Politico was receiving government subsidies "rampant right-wing misinformation." He shared the memo from the outlet's heads, Goli Sheikholeslami and John Harris, which claimed that the outlet had not received government funding. The BBC also put out a statement to justify the funding that their BBC Media Action group has received from USAID.
Addressed to the "Team," that memo reads: "As surely many of you saw today, there was a spirited discussion at the White House and among officials connected to the Department of Government Efficiency on the subject of government subscriptions for journalism products, at POLITICO and other news organizations.
"This is a fine conversation to have, and we welcome it. The value of POLITICO subscriptions is validated daily in the marketplace. Some parts of today's conversation, however, were confusing and left some people with false understandings. For this reason, we want you to hear from us on several points. POLITICO has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies—not one cent, ever, in 18 years.
"We have offered a professional subscription service, starting with POLITICO Pro, since 2012. It provides both private and public sector clients with granular, fact-based reporting, real-time intelligence, and tracking tools across key policy areas. We are proud of the value our POLITICO Pro platform and policy journalism gives to all subscribers. As a practical matter, the overwhelming majority of our professional subscriptions under POLITICO Pro are in the private sector.
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$1,000 a plate dinners are about money, not food.
$8 million on subscriptions are about money, not subscriptions.
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...Trouble is, if we've learned anything over the last few years it's that when the other side starts hollering 'conspiracy theory', there's a damned good chance that it is, in fact, a conspiracy.
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CNN continues to try to gaslight us as DOGE shovels all the evidence out into the sunlight for public inspection. A theory is accepted or rejected based on evidence. We don’t have all of it, but we can extrapolate from what we have. We know that there is a $8M subsidy that was probably paying from 16 to 80 people. I don’t have Politico’s balance sheet, but the $8M will represent 10 to 30 percent of their revenue. Even if it’s 3 percent, that might be enough to make the enterprise viable. We can know more about the viability based on what they do going forward.
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The CNN definition of "right-wing conspiracy theory" seems to once again exactly correlate with "truth"!
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"POLITICO has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies—not one cent, ever, in 18 years."
No government programs or subsidies - you got that, you conspiratorial right-wingers? We launder *all* our money through our subscription service. Come on, it's not like we're amateurs!
This is why everyone is freaking out about the DOGE boys. Once they get done mining the databases, all these connections will be apparent.
Side Note: A bit of half-hearted poking around on the Politico website did not turn up a price for the Politico Pro subscription, although there is a link to chat with their sales force and request a 'demo'.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Governor Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... has approved $50 million in state funding to fight legal battles over immigration policies as tensions with the Trump administration escalate. The newly signed laws allocate $25 million to the state's Department of Justice to challenge federal legal battles and another $25 million is going to legal groups providing defense for immigrants colonists facing deportation.
Newsom said action will "bolster funding for legal services programs that are vital to safeguarding the civil rights of California's most vulnerable residents, including people with disabilities, youth who are homeless, victims of human trafficking and wage theft, people facing unlawful evictions, immigrants colonists and more," according to Fox News.
Although the $25 million will go to fight deportations with the legal groups, Newsom added that the funds are not "intended to be used for immigration-related legal services for noncitizens convicted of serious or violent mostly peaceful felonies."
During Trump's first term, California fought the administration on a range of issues, including environmental regulations and immigration laws, filing over 100 lawsuits. With Trump back in office, state officials have been preparing for renewed legal battles, reportedly beginning preparations as early as November following his election victory.
Republicans have criticized the legal funding for cases relating to immigration policies, calling it a diversion from more pressing state issues such as the California wildfires. State and local officials have faced significant backlash from Angelenos who believe they did not take the necessary precautions prior to the wildfires breaking out, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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Noisome the asshole being noisome.
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Time for Trump to rename the San Andreas Fault to the Newsom Fault.
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California is not getting money from Trump until they make some changes. They have a huge deficit and many of their corrupt federal funding streams are locked down. This initiative is the equivalent of a domestic abuser downing another beer on the porch while he’s waiting for the cops to show up and drag him away.
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[NYPOST] Prince Harry can breathe freely in Montecito, because President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... has ruled out deporting the self-exiled British royal.
Harry's immigration status is the subject of litigation in Washington DC, with the Heritage Foundation alleging that he may have concealed past illegal drug use that should have disqualified him from obtaining a US visa.
But the president told The New York Post Friday that he isn't interested in throwing Harry out of the country.
''I don't want to do that,'' he said. ''I'll leave him alone. He's got enough problems with his wife. She's terrible.''
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Actually, I got no problem with Harry as such.
It's his wife I never want to hear from again.
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She's caught up in an identity conundrum. I doubt any additional explanation is required.
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They have become so marginalized that I don’t even think about them enough to be annoyed by Meghan. South Park did us all a favor and ended their celebrity.
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[X] Elon Musk has detonated the most explosive revelation in history, A staggering $100 BILLION—siphoned from the American people, funneled through a system designed not to provide healthcare, but to fuel covert operations, line elite pockets, and sustain an agenda that was never meant to be uncovered.
With Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) peeling back the layers of corruption, Musk’s team has gained limited yet damning access to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency responsible for over one billion Medicare claims annually. What they’ve uncovered isn’t just a broken system—it’s a well-oiled criminal empire.
Medicare serves 68 million Americans, Medicaid another 73 million—one in four citizens trapped inside a system designed for plunder. Between June and October 2024, CMS was forced to suspend 850 agents and brokers for fraud, from unauthorized enrollments to illegal plan switches. These were not isolated incidents. They were part of a larger, calculated financial attack embedded in the very core of government healthcare.
The Justice Department has been aware for years. In June 2024, the DOJ indicted 193 defendants—76 of them medical professionals—in a $2.75 billion Medicare fraud operation. Yet these were only the foot soldiers. The true architects remain untouched, operating above the law. Since 2007, over 5,400 defendants have been charged, with more than $27 billion stolen.
The missing $100 billion isn’t missing at all. It’s been redirected into black ops funding, financing CIA shadow programs, experimental weapon development, and covert global influence campaigns. Big Pharma’s role is undeniable, using fraudulent Medicare payouts to keep hospitals, doctors, and insurers locked into their control. Stolen funds also grease the wheels of political machinery—untraceable slush funds financing election interference and opposition suppression. The laundering mechanisms are intricate, cycling through shell companies, offshore accounts, and private equity firms, ensuring those at the top remain untouchable.
Now, the Deep State is preparing its counterattack. The media is mobilizing a disinformation blitz, branding Musk’s findings as “exaggerated” and dismissing his team as “unqualified.” The DOJ and intelligence agencies are poised to retaliate, likely fabricating an investigation into Musk’s access to CMS data under the guise of “national security concerns.” Expect sudden SEC probes into Tesla, antitrust pressure on SpaceX, and government threats against Starlink—all calculated moves to silence him.
The evidence itself is in danger. Cyber warfare and “system glitches” could conveniently erase key data before the public ever sees it. If that fails, personal attacks are inevitable. Expect leaks, “anonymous sources,” and strategically timed scandals designed to discredit Musk before the truth fully surfaces.
This is the moment that will determine who truly controls America. The $100 billion Medicare heist is more than just financial fraud—it’s a revelation that threatens to unravel the entire power structure. If the full extent of this operation is exposed, it won’t just shake Washington—it will collapse the entire corrupt establishment.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Does anyone actually care what that stupid man thinks? After ruining a perfectly good country by slavishly following all the fashionable leftwing shibboleths, he is on the way out, assuming Canadian voters get past the margin of cheating.
All joking and political antics aside.
Imagine the political power Canada would have in US elections.
IF it became part of the USA?
It adds 41.5 Million person and that would have it (overall) with, MORE US House seats than California or any other US State.
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Canada has 10 provinces in 3 territories.
So That's either 6 New Senate seats or 20 New Senate seats.
That a lot of NEW US Senate Canadian leaning seats and a tipping weight on many issues. All depending on whether each Province, or Territory, is treated as a New State.
Also remember their usual semi-Democrat Social-Capitalist form of rule and freebies the Canadian citizens are used to, and would likely support if annexed. eg. Insulin and many medications are about 1/3 the cost in Canada vs the USA. Big Pharm is going to love that.
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Trump has no intention of annexing Canada. He can get equivalent resources without the 40M leftoids and French separatist by buying Greenland. What Trump wants is for Canada to stop sponging off us like a 32 year old living with his parents complaining about the low quality Wi-Fi. The statehood joke was just to belittle Trudeau personally.
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I could see a trade - the middle provinces (Alberta, et al) for New England east of the Hudson.
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We really would NOT benefit from Canadians voting in our elections. Even the so called conservatives would be RINOs at best, with a few exceptions. Nope. Not interested.
Buy Greenland for the strategic defense positioning and the minerals instead.
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Trudeau resigned and then prorogued Parliament. They are neutered so they can’t remove him through a no confidence vote. He is grooming Carbon Tax Carney, a unelected official, to replace himself. Trump has followed his wedgie attack with a subsequent swirley. I expect Justin to be stuffed into a locker next.
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[ZeroHedge] In addition to propping up far-left corporate media outlets like Politico and the BBC with taxpayer funds, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funneled half a billion dollars to a secretive non-governmental organization operating a global news propaganda matrix.
WikiLeaks published the bombshell report in the overnight hours that shows the massive taxpayer-funded state propaganda network - operating as a shady NGO - called "Internews Network":
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has "worked with" 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training" over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.
The operation claims "offices" in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.
Bourgault's IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.
IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows).
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Hopefully, the money flow has been stopped. The shocking headlines are all very nice, but if the cash spigot is still in the open position, we need to shut it now.
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The Democrats have maneuvered themselves into a position where they loudly defend corruption.
Love it.
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..and with continuing lawfare will be dragging it out to the midterms. :)
[Breitbart] The Biden administration wasted $8 billion of taxpayer money teaching Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary gendered language,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) said, listing a variety of ways American taxpayers’ dollars have been wasted.
“Here are some of the ways the last administration have wasted your money,” Lummis, a member of the DOGE caucus, began. “More than $4.5 million to combat disinformation in Kazakhstan. And just whose disinformation is it? I think that’s probably in the eye of the beholder.”
“$20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq. $25 million for Deloitte to promote green transportation in the country of Georgia. Nearly $8 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid quote ‘binary gendered language.’ Binary gendered language in Sri Lanka — you’ve got to be kidding me,” she continued.
Another $5 million, she said, went to EcoHealth Alliance, “one of the key NGOs — non-government organizations — funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab,” she revealed.
“$20 million for a group related, by the way, to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax,” she said. “$1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem, [and] 1.5 million on DEI programs in Serbia — diversity, equity and inclusion programs in Serbia,” she emphasized.
The examples come to light as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, moves to slash government waste, saving American taxpayers millions of dollars. Already, DOGE noted that taxpayers have saved $1 billion with the termination of federal DEI contracts alone.
Millions more have been saved by terminating the leases of underutilized buildings, and much, much more. In an update on Thursday, DOGE noted that 78 contracts “were terminated for convenience across DEI, Non-Performing, Media, and Consulting categories, including one for ‘groundwater exploration and assessment in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.'”
“Approximately $110mm of total savings,” it added.
President Donald Trump made waves this week after freezing millions of dollars in United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funds for foreign media, as he put a “90-day hold on all USAID’s foreign aid this week,” Breitbart News reported.
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Based on the Ukrainian model. 50% of that money never left the US. Let’s see an audit of the books on that one. Sound bites are cheap. Indictments require work.
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[Breitbart] Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass awarded the “rebuilding” contract for the recent fires to Hagerty Consulting for an unknown amount of money after a process that was conducted behind closed doors and without any public bids.
The contract appears to breaks a promise by Chief Recovery Officer Steve Soboroff, who told Breitbart News last month that there would be a competitive bidding process. According to the Los Angeles Times, the city considered three companies, not one of which is based in California, in a “closed door” process, agreeing on an undisclosed sum.
The Times reported:
“We have selected Hagerty, a world-class disaster recovery firm, to provide expertise and operational support to facilitate our comprehensive recovery effort,” Bass said during a news conference at which she provided updates on fire recovery and the city’s progress in the month since the Palisades fire wreaked widespread devastation on the coastal enclave and surrounding areas, destroying more than 6,800 structures. At least 12 people were killed.
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In the days since Bass toured the Palisades with Soboroff, her search for a recovery contractor has been mostly shrouded in secrecy. The mayor, along with four council members and other city officials, heard presentations from three firms at a closed door meeting last week.
Hagerty, AECOM and the disaster recovery and response firm IEM gave brief Zoom presentations during the meeting.
As Breitbart News reported, Hagerty is a “woke” firm owned by former Evanston, Illinois, mayor Steve Hagerty, who “appointed his city’s first chief equity officer, and signed a resolution to recognize that his city’s land was stolen from Native Americans by ‘white colonizers’.”
Hagerty has given maximum contributions exclusively to Democratic candidates for federal office, amounting to tens of thousands of dollars over the past decade.
Bass has emergency powers to appoint consultants without a public competitive process, but that is not what Soboroff said the city would do. He also said that the mandate of the consultant firm would be to act as an “owner’s rep” to oversee rebuilding activities. But no terms for the contract awarded to Hagerty appeared to have been made public.
Soboroff has been criticized for his $500,000 salary over three months, funded by unnamed private philanthropists.
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someone please check her campaign filings,her Form 700s and Hagerty's lobbyist filings.
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Enjoin the contracts.
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"Hagerty is a “woke” firm owned by former Evanston, Illinois, mayor Steve Hagerty, who “appointed his city’s first chief equity officer, and signed a resolution to recognize that his city’s land was stolen from Native Americans by ‘white colonizers’.”
[NYPOST] President Trump has ordered security clearances stripped from a new hit list of antagonists.
Just days after revoking Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant.... 's access to classified information and secure federal buildings — ''because I don't trust him'' — Trump said his new top target is ex-Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who orchestrated the ''Dirty 51'' letter from former intelligence officials on the eve of the 2020 election.
The infamous missive falsely claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop, the contents of which The Post revealed, was Russian disinformation.
Blinken's security clearances will be revoked, following the same presidential directive aimed at Biden and the 51 ex-spooks last week, Trump told The Post in an exclusive interview.
''Bad guy. Take away his passes,'' he said of Blinken.
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For folks that leave government to work for contractors that provide parts and services to classified projects there is a reason for the clearance. For folks like Biden, Blinken and Milley who have proved themselves to be security risks in office, there ought to be jail time, but pulling their clearance is a minimum punishment. I expect that Trump will work his way back through Russiagate to the lovebirds but we will see. For most high level folks, they expect to leverage their government service to 7 figure boondoggles in retirement. There is a level of behavior that has been broken for a lot of these clowns including the 51 that has qualified them for clearance whack-a-mole for starters.
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A great many Democratic operatives most likely still have security clearances and have proven themselves to be security risks. Cancel all of them!
[THEHILL] A federal judge Friday evening refused to block the Labor Department from giving Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to confidential systems or firing employees for refusing to hand over the credentials.
U.S. District Judge John Bates found the plaintiffs hadn't show enough injury to have legal standing to bring the lawsuit.
''This data includes the medical and financial records of millions of Americans,'' wrote Bates. ''But on the current record, plaintiffs have failed to establish standing. So although the Court harbors concerns about defendants' alleged conduct, it must deny plaintiffs' motion at this time.''
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday by the AFL-CIO and several of its affiliate government employee unions, claims that giving Musk's team access to the Labor Department systems violates federal privacy law and is without any legal authority.
At a hearing earlier in the day, Bates voiced concerns about the DOGE team's access and its broader efforts to rapidly implant itself across the federal bureaucracy in the early weeks of President Trump's administration.
''A couple people who, according to public reports, are very young, who have never been in the federal government, never had any training with respect to the hands of confidential information — you're asking me to just put absolute confidence in the fact that nothing inappropriate will happen,'' said Bates, an appointee of the younger former President Bush.
''Doesn't seem to me to be a setup that would very easily give me confidence that there will be no misadventure,'' the judge continued, laughing under his breath.
Bates's ruling doesn't reach whether the access is unlawful, however, by finding the challengers had no legal standing.
Heading into the weekend, the plaintiffs have indicated they will expand their lawsuit to other areas where DOGE has implanted, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They also are considering adding the Education Department but may instead defer to Public Citizen's lawsuit on that front, which has already commenced.
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U.S. District Judge John Bates found the plaintiffs hadn't show enough injury to have legal standing to bring the lawsuit.
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The judges will have to be dealt with. I would pull some of their security clearances to take them out of the pool for significant cases.
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A different judge put a TRO on DOGE and, believe it not - The Secretary of Treasury, from accessing Treasury Dept Systems.
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I should have also pointed out that many of the changes DOGE wanted to make (completing data categories in line item authorizations) are being implemented by career Dept of Treasury employees.
These are the kinds of things that are labor intensive and would eat up a lot of DOGE time if DOGE had to do it (and probably it would be illegal for DOGE to do it)
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Republican Senator has won plaudits online for his no-holds-barred speech on Capitol Hill defending Elon Musk's work at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
John Kennedy, of Louisiana, lauded Musk as a national hero for his relentless audit of government spending under President Donald Trump's directive.
'They're very, very, very upset at President Trump,' Kennedy declared in his signature Southern drawl. 'And they're very, very, very upset at Elon Musk.'
'People have been screaming like they're part of a prison riot!' he proclaimed, shaking his head at the outrage directed at Musk's forensic financial deep dive.
'Love this Man!' wrote one X user, with another promptly agreeing, 'He's my hero!'
'Keep this man for the humor. I can imagine it will only get better as he gets older,' added one user.
'His is worth sharing with those on the left who are willing to listen and are not completely blinded by their ideologies. The information Mr. Kennedy presents is so clear and compelling. I am so thankful for what DOGE is doing,' tweeted a fourth.
During his 16-minute speech Kennedy wasted no time in painting a picture of Musk as a modern-day crusader, a genius businessman with a top-secret security clearance.
'Musk is doing what the American people have wanted for years,' Kennedy said. 'But in Washington, common sense is illegal.'
Musk was handpicked by President Trump to fulfill a campaign promise: a line-by-line, no-nonsense audit of every single dollar the federal government spends.
'President Trump issued an executive order and he turned to Mr. Musk and said, 'I want you to do for me what I said I was gonna do in the election,' Kennedy explained. 'I want you to go through all the spending line by line.'
According to Kennedy, the findings thus far have been nothing short of scandalous, exposing a breathtaking level of taxpayer-funded absurdity.
With each revelation, his voice took on a mix of disbelief and righteous indignation.
Musk's audit began with USAID, the agency responsible for handling America's foreign aid budget, a $40 billion behemoth with 10,000 employees.
Kennedy described it as a bloated, unchecked institution that had become a piggy bank for Washington insiders looking to throw money around the world, regardless of where it ended up.
Musk highlighted some of the more unusual causes to which fund were directed.
$20 million spent producing a new Sesame Street show in Iraq; $7.9 million funneled into a Sri Lankan journalism project to teach reporters to 'avoid binary gendered language'; $1.5 million dedicated to LGBT advocacy in Jamaica; $4.5 million spent combating 'disinformation' in Kazakhstan; $2 million earmarked for sex changes in Guatemala.
'We're literally sending American taxpayer dollars to change people's genders in foreign countries while our own veterans are sleeping on the streets,' Kennedy fumed. 'How does that make sense?'
Kennedy's voice dripped with sarcasm as he repeated each expenditure, punctuating the details with a rhetorical gut punch.
'I don't know what the hell binary gendered language is. I think I do. But do you think most taxpayers would support that?', he asked.
But the real bombshells came when Kennedy detailed Musk's discovery of U.S. taxpayer dollars allegedly finding their way into the pockets of terrorist-linked organizations.
$164 million in USAID funding was reportedly used to support radical organizations worldwide with $122 million of that sum allegedly going to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations.
Millions of dollars reportedly flowed to organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas, some of which, according to Kennedy, 'called for their lands to be cleansed from the impurity of Jews.'
Kennedy's frustration boiled over as he pointed out the glaring silence from the other side of the aisle.
'Why aren't my colleagues talking about that?' he thundered. 'How can you look the American people in the eye and support this kind of waste, support this kind of spending porn?'
The Senator drew a sharp contrast between the Trump administration's approach and what he said was the fiscal recklessness he attributed to the Biden and Obama years.
'For twelve years, all I heard from President Obama and President Biden was 'Who needs to pay more in taxes?' Kennedy said. 'Well, that's not the issue today. We have a new president, and the real question now is: What the hell happened to all the money?'
Kennedy's impassioned rebuke of past administrations didn't stop there.
He lambasted the $36 trillion national debt, calling it a betrayal of the American people and a direct result of unchecked spending.
'You don't get to rack up 36 trillion in debt and then act shocked when someone wants to take a look at the receipts,' Kennedy scoffed. 'That's like setting your house on fire and complaining about the smoke.'
'It takes my breath away,' he said. 'Our debt's growing faster than our economy.'
He then walked the chamber through a staggering timeline of Biden-era spending.
$1.9 trillion on the American Rescue Plan; $1.2 trillion on the so-called Infrastructure Bill; $1 trillion on the Inflation Reduction Act; $280 billion in corporate welfare for Big Tech through the CHIPS Act.
'And that's how we got $36 trillion in debt,' he said.
The Senator likened Musk's efforts to that of a wartime strategist exposing the rot within Washington's bureaucracy even suggesting he should expand his audit beyond USAID, proposing that 'he go through every agency and look at everybody's budget.'
'We ought to be giving Mr. Musk a medal,' Kennedy declared. 'We ought to be thanking him.
'But instead, what do we get? We get Democrats foaming at the mouth, calling him dangerous, saying he's stealing Social Security numbers. Give me a break!' Kennedy exclaimed.
'This is a guy who puts rockets into space for breakfast and builds cars that drive themselves. I think he can handle a calculator.'
Yet, in Kennedy's eyes, the resistance to Musk's findings from Democrats was not about process or legality, but about fear.
'They don't wanna talk about what he's found. They just wanna talk about how mean he is,' he scoffed. 'Well, he is doing his job. And the American people get it.'
Kennedy ended his fiery speech with a direct challenge to Congress to bring Musk in to testify, expose every last dime of wasteful spending and put an end to Washington's reckless spending spree.
'We need all the help we can get on reducing our spending because we can't continue at this pace,' he warned.
'You don't want Musk looking at your budget? Then what the hell are you hiding?'
As Kennedy left the podium, his words reverberated beyond the chamber, spreading across social media, where supporters hailed his speech.
'The tax payer loves what is being done! Keep going!' praised one user.
'I'm so disgusted and yet so happy . I'm so happy about the big reveal and yet so disgusted about the spending,' added another.
'That's our guy from here in Louisiana. Kennedy tells it like it is,' tweeted a third.
'They are simply doing what they said they were going to do...' summed up a fourth.
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Kennedy’s voting record is marginal. He often comes out of the bullpen to help McConnell-Schumer initiatives. He does have a folksy Will Rogers way of exposing things to the American people that is very helpful. When I read his quotes, my mind automatically hears it in his unique voice.
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I believe Trump anticipated the lawfare and is using it the drag out the revelation for the next 18 months leading up to the midterms. Each indefensible position the lying Left takes will be repeated day after day, week after week, month after month. The alternate media will be feeding it more and more to the public skipping the ever decreasing hysteria of the old media.
[BIZPACREVIEW] As part of a legal settlement, the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) has agreed to not publicly out the FBI agents who'd worked on Jan. 6th cases.
Last month, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered the FBI to start compiling the names of every FBI agent who'd worked on a Jan. 6th case.
It's suspected that a LOT of FBI agents were involved in the cases:
In response, attorneys for two separate groups of FBI employees filed suit Tuesday demanding the agency stop compiling the names of Jan. 6th agents.
''Attorneys for nine of the plaintiffs [part of one group], who filed their suit anonymously in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said the compilation of the list was retaliatory and a possible precursor for unlawful firings,'' according to The Washington Post. ''Using case assignment information as a basis to terminate FBI employees would violate civil service protections, they said.''
''The lawsuit also raises concerns that Trump administration officials might make public the names of the agents who were assigned to work on the cases, exposing them and their families to retribution from now-pardoned defendants charged in the Jan. 6 attack,'' the Post's reporting continues.
The other seven plaintiffs and the FBI Agents Association, a nonprofit advocacy group, filed a similar suit.
Two days after they filed suit, a DOJ lawyer told U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb that the department wasn't interested in making the list public.
''He said the list would be used for an internal study, citing an executive order Mr. Trump issued on his first day in office demanding a Justice Department review of what the administration described as the 'weaponization' of law enforcement under President Biden,'' according to The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... .
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Low level Special Agents filled out the Complaint and Statement of Facts against the J6'ers. In many cases the SOF and Complaint were exactly the same except for the pictures included. Many J6'ers with charged with crimes they did not commit and no proof of in the SOF.
The DOJ/FBI hired like minded individuals from bottom to top to fill their agenda.
Anyone who worked against J6'ers should be fired, some prosecuted. As time passes you will find it was the same Agents over and over committing the fraud.
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Fire them then interview them and see if they lie to federal officers. I don’t care if their names remain secret. I’m not trying to add them to a mailing list. Publishing a percentage of firing should be sufficient. If we already know their names. Fire them because they are part of the leadership group that betrayed our country. Whistleblowers with significant diet might be eligible for assignment to another department.
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Biden promised not the pardon Hunter. Just saying.
[BIZPACREVIEW] The Federal Election Commission's (FEC) disgruntled chair is refusing to step down after being fired by President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... FCC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, a Democrat, announced in a tweet on Thursday that, despite receiving a termination letter from Trump, she intends to remain in her post.
''Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of [the FEC],'' she wrote. ''There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners — this isn't it. I've been lucky to serve the American people & stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.''
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I guess the IQ transplant didn't work. In the history of appointed positions(which serve at the pleasure of an elected leader), has any dismissed official kept their position?
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She is channeling Milton from Office Space.
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman criticized his own party for being ''toxic,'' arguing that the Democratic Party alienates voters by "talking down" to them. Been goin' on forever. Remember "Vote Your Need, Not Your Greed?" That was either 1988, or maybe even 1984.
Speaking on the podcast Somebody's Gotta Win last week, Fetterman discussed with journalist Tara Palmeri the Democratic Party's losses in 2024 and its growing image problem.
"I think their primary currency was shaming and scolding and talking down to people and telling them 'Hey, I know better than you, or you're dopes, or you're a bro, or you're ignorant or, how can you be this dumb? I can't imagine it. And then, by the way, they're fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... s. How can you vote for that?'" Fetterman said.
Fetterman argued that Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... have lost touch with voters, particularly in working-class states like Pennsylvania.
"I know and I love people that voted for Trump, and they're not fascist. They don't support insurrection and those things. And if you go to an extreme, and you become a boutique kind of proposition, then you're going to lose the argument. And we have done that,'' he said.
He pointed out that the 2024 election should be a wake-up call for the left, calling it a ''gut-check kind of vote'' where Americans wanted a party that was "going to protect or project [their] personal view of the American way of life.'' Fetterman also highlighted the Democratic Party's recent struggles with male voters.
"I think that's been seriously eroding for a while. And in some cases, in the conversations I've had, a lot of people, they don't even want to say it publicly, but they just feel like the other side seems like—the men's the problem," Fetterman explained. "Men are to blame. Or their masculinity is toxic. Or unless you're able to conform to our very strict kinds of definition of what we think is appropriate, well then, hey, I'm going to find an alternative. And they've done that. That's absolutely true."
"And once [they've] kind of turned their back on that demographic, it's going to be difficult to rebuild and replace that with those voters, because I think that migration has been an ongoing phenomenon for several years and that has been in front and center in part of the election in '24," he added.
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I am thankful that his brain damage healed and he appears to not be under the thumb of his wife. I don’t agree with his votes, but his early term was painful on the human side.
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His kind and the RINOs should form the Liberal Party abandoning anything that remains of the Marxist hulk that the old Donk party was.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Immigrants colonists who were looking to enter the country illegally have turned back after President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... 's crackdown on illegal immigration, according to a report from Fox News. This comes amidst Trump's actions to secure the southern border as well as pressure Canada and Mexico to police their own borders.
According to the outlet, an internal Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) memo indicated that there were two groups of immigrants colonists looking to cross the border illegally that ended their trek to the southern border and turned around to go back to their home countries.
A group of 23 immigrants colonists that were previously heading to the United States ran into Honduran officers on Wednesday. The group came from the countries of Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, and Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... . The memo indicated that when the officers interviewed the immigrants colonists, they said they had to end their journey after "learning about the multi-agency force security on the Southwest Border in social media and through family members in the United States."
The CBP memos also noted another incident where on Feb. 3, Honduran coppers encountered a group of 26 immigrants colonists. They were also going to the US when they found out that Trump had tightened up security and was deporting illegal immigrants colonists.
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Migrants are turning back but the bad actors and drug mules are still going to come. The folks headed to brothels and slave labor are still going to be shipped in. The cartels will now try something else.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The International Criminal Court (ICC) has condemned the issuance by the United States of an Executive Order seeking to impose sanctions on the court's officials and harm its independent and impartial judicial work. "independent and impartial"? The Wh0re doth protest too much
The ICC said in a press statement that it ''stands firmly by its personnel and pledges to continue providing justice and hope to millions of innocent victims of atrocities across the world, in all Situations before it.''
''We call on our 125 States Parties, civil society and all nations of the world to stand united for justice and fundamental human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... ,'' the court concluded.
Last night, US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the ICC for alleged ''illegal actions'' against the United States and Israel.
The order, which was published by the White House, includes a ban on the entry of ICC officials, staff, and personnel into the United States, as well as their immediate family members. Additionally, the decree stipulates the freezing of their assets within the United States.
The ICC, based in The Hague, had previously issued arrest warrants on November 21, 2024, for Israeli officials Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for war crimes against the Paleostinian people.
[FoxNews] A major solar power plant project that was granted over a billion dollars in federal loans is on the road to closure, with energy experts blasting the project as a "boondoggle" that harmed the environment.
In 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under former President Barack Obama issued $1.6 billion in loan guarantees to finance the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, a green energy project that consists of three solar concentrating thermal power plants in California.
The facility was touted by then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz as an "example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy." But after 10 years, the federally funded plant is now on track to close.
"Ivanpah is yet another failed green energy boondoggle, much like Solyndra," Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, an American energy advocacy group, told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Despite receiving $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees, it never lived up to its promises, producing less electricity than expected while still relying on natural gas to stay operational."
"Now, with its power contracts canceled, Ivanpah stands as a testament to the waste and inefficiency of government-subsidized energy schemes," Isaac said.
Ivanpah consists of three individual units, two of which were contracted by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) in 2009 and scheduled to run until 2039.
In January, PG&E announced plans to cancel its agreement with Ivanpah 14 years early, determining that "ending the agreements at this time will save customers money compared to the cost of keeping them through 2039" – ultimately putting Ivanpah on notice for closure.
"The Ivanpah plant was a financial boondoggle and environmental disaster," Julia Dowell of the Sierra Club, an environmental activism group, said of the power plant.
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.
former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The federal government spent over $8 million on subscriptions to PoliticoPro during the Biden administration, a fact which was not known to the American public 
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
...every time you hear the phrase 
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
