[PJMedia] In a surprise move, Disney announced Wednesday that it's shutting down FiveThirtyEight as part of sweeping layoffs affecting approximately 200 positions — about 6% of its workforce — across ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks.
Stats guru Nate Silver founded FiveThirtyEight, once the darling of the left-wing polling establishment, in 2008 before licensing it to The New York Times. ESPN later acquired it and finally transferred it to ABC News.
Silver, who departed the site amid previous Disney/ABC layoffs in 2023, feigned shock at the news. "Oh geez, I just saw the news about 538," he said in a post on X. "My heart goes out to the people there. They were tremendously hard-working and produced a lot of extremely valuable data and insight for everyone who wants to understand politics better. They deserved much better."
Did they, though?
What Silver conveniently fails to mention is that FiveThirtyEight's credibility took a massive hit when it made the politically motivated decision to drop Rasmussen Reports polling from its analysis a year ago, citing bogus claims of conservative bias. Rasmussen went on to be one of the most accurate pollsters of the 2024 election, while FiveThirtyEight continued its tradition of getting major election calls wrong.
“It’s a good thing they are no longer relevant, because no matter how they started, or what the purpose is, they turned into a propaganda outlet that fails at its ONE job, by inserting additional bias, not removing it,” Mark Mitchell, the chief pollster of Rasmussen Reports, told PJ Media. “It’s clear their only current purpose is as a regime information gatekeeper.”
The closure will eliminate approximately 15 jobs across the news site. G. Elliott Morris, editorial director of data analytics who currently leads FiveThirtyEight, confirmed the layoffs.
[TOWNHALL] President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... is expected to announce a new and major investment in American manufacturing from the White House Monday afternoon, marking yet another economic victory less than two months into his second term.
"Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. intends to invest $100 billion in chip-manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years under a plan expected to be announced later Monday by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal reports. "The investment would be used to build out cutting-edge chip-making facilities. Such an expansion would advance a long-pursued U.S. goal to regrow the domestic semiconductor industry after manufacturing fled largely to Asian countries in recent decades."
The news has been confirmed by the White House and Trump will host an event at 1:30 pm et to detail the investment and take questions from the media.
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[NYPOST] As Canada and Mexico braced for 25% tariffs on Tuesday, and China for another 10%, Honda became one of the first companies to cave — scrapping plans to produce its new Civic in Mexico in favor of Indiana, according to a report.
The Japanese auto giant had initially planned to manufacture the next-generation Civic in Guanajuato, Mexico, starting in November 2027, sources familiar with the matter told Rooters.
Now, Honda plans to manufacture the new Civic in Indiana, starting in May 2028 — churning out around 210,000 vehicles each year, a source told the outlet.
2025 Honda Civic hybrid model. 4
Honda's capitulation reflects the immediate impact of Trump's pledge to return manufacturing to the US by imposing tariffs on rival nations, experts told The Post.
''I think Trump has been effective at using tariffs, and the threat of tariffs, to get more made-in-America jobs here,'' Stephen Moore, economist and senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told The Post. ''This was a victory for Trump.''
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Imagine a fairly standardized part failing or a broken implement and having to wait for it to be shipped from Mexico because you bought the McDonald's Ice Cream Machine of tractor and implements.
#5
Add McDonald latte machine to that list. Apparently McDonalds Latte machines has a small problem with steam bursting unexpectedly and so all (most of) the latte machines been shut down until the manufacturer can come up with a fix or something.
On my part it means I'm not ordering breakfast from McDonald until I can get latte again.
One link on the subject.
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Not sure about McD's latte machine, but IIUC both the McD's Ice Cream Machines and Juan Deere is that if you want it serviced, even flat tires or oil change, it has to be done by the manufacturer or else the warranty go poof, and can only use certified parts.
Top down, I get it, people do dumb things and warranty costs can escalate. In the real bottom up world there can be only a couple days good weather for work and the farmer is waiting, waiting, and waiting for what is a quick fix.
Frigidaire has the same problem. Say, your new dryer just needs the belt tightened or has a faulty heating element. Can't do that unless you have a certified (which of course has a membership fee) service center do it.
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Frigidaire products have long been dreadful in terms of rate of repairs, swksvolFF, as tested by the Consumer Reports people and as reported in surveys of their subscribers. Startlingly, Maytag is almost as bad.
[FreePress] The Department of Justice is investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program that was part of Joe Biden’s $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act. Created in the spring of 2023, and managed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the fund was supposed to be a "first-of-its-kind" program to address the climate crisis while revitalizing communities that it considered "historically left behind."
But it appears little of the $27 billion revitalized anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials.
"The Biden administration used so-called ’climate equity’ to justify handouts of billions of dollars to their far-left friends," Lee Zeldin, the Trump administration’s new EPA administrator, told The Free Press. "It is my utmost priority to get a handle on every dollar that went out the door in this scheme and once again restore oversight and accountability over these funds. This rush job operation is riddled with conflicts of interest and corruption."
A Free Press investigation reveals that of the $27 billion, $20 billion was rushed out the door to eight nonprofit groups after Kamala Harris lost the election—but before President Donald Trump took office. As one former EPA official put it on a secretly recorded video, it was akin to "tossing gold bars off the Titanic."
The eight groups were allocated sums ranging from $400 million to $6.9 billion. Several of them were formed in August of 2023, just one month after the grant applications went live in July of 2023, when it became clear that large nine- and 10-figure grants would be up for grabs. The boards and staff of these eight groups include Democratic donors, people with connections to the Obama and Biden administrations, and prominent Democrats like Stacey Abrams. (She was senior counsel for Rewiring America, which was set to receive $489 million from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.)
"These are some of the biggest grants to individual organizations in American history," said Judge Glock, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who wrote a book about federal bailouts.
Moreover, the eight groups, the biggest of which are the Climate United fund and Coalition for Green Capital, which received grants of $6.9 billion and $5 billion, respectively, have been empowered by the EPA to choose the hundreds of smaller nonprofit organizations across the country that will do the climate change work. They will get loans, not grants, which they are supposed to repay. There is nothing in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that calls for oversight of those loans.
"This clearly was intended from its beginning to be a slush fund," Glock told The Free Press. "The goal was to give them money with minimal strings and allow them to lend it to people they favored. It is an absolutely wild program. I haven’t seen the likes of in previous government-lending history."
In addition to asking the Justice Department to investigate the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, Zeldin is also attempting to claw back the $20 billion, most of which resides in about 129 accounts at Citibank—accounts the Trump administration froze in February to try and prevent the groups from drawing on it. An EPA source told The Free Press that $3.1 billion was drawn down before the freeze took place, leaving $16.9 billion still residing at Citibank. The recipient accounts were set up between November and December 2024, after Election Day. (A Citibank spokesman declined to comment.)
This could prove difficult, however. According to a source familiar with the situation, the contracts with the eight groups contain a trigger clause that will cause the money to be immediately released if the Trump administration attempts to recoup it.
In the mainstream media, the events surrounding the investigation into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund have been characterized as another example of the Trump administration halting worthy climate change efforts—while running roughshod over the rule of law. When Denise Cheung, a veteran prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., was told to freeze the Citibank account and begin an investigation, she refused, saying there was not "sufficient evidence" to undertake such actions. In her resignation letter, she said that prosecutors were looking into the possibility of "conspiracy to defraud the United States," and "wire fraud."
[JustTheNews] Congressman Rudy Yakym from Indiana discusses with John Solomon on this podcast episode how the pandemic exposed significant fraud in the unemployment system, costing taxpayers a staggering $135 billion. Congressman Yakym discusses efforts to extend the statute of limitations for prosecuting fraudsters and highlights the need for accountability within the IRS, especially after a major leak of taxpayer information.
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The pandemic unemployment assistance program was a part of the CARES Act. It was passed by Congress and signed by Trump in 2020. It had minimal federal requirements for financial control but relied on States and locals to do that. Unfortunately, some States and local govt were lax or even clueless.
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[REDSTATE] As RedState reported, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu stooped to a new low during a press briefing in the aftermath of a Saturday incident at a Chick-fil-A restaurant where an off-duty police officer took down a knife-wielding man who allegedly tried to stab two people.
According to local news outlets, "the armed suspect, later identified as 32-year-old Lmark Jaramillo of Roslindale, allegedly chased two people into the busy fast food restaurant and was trying to stab them" when the off-duty policeman shot and killed him after first trying to reason with him.
"My condolences and all of our thoughts are with the family of the individual whose life has been lost, and I'm also thinking of all the people who were impacted here today in one of the busier parts of the city with this tragedy," a clearly distraught Wu told reporters on the scene without praising the heroic actions of the off-duty officer.
Other so-called Boston leaders including their police commissioner took a similar approach:
''This is a pretty tragic incident,'' Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox added. ''We don't look for loss of life so our condolences go to the individual who was killed tonight.''
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden also offered his ''thoughts and prayers'' to the family of the attacker.
When DOJ Attorney General Pam Bondi caught wind of their remarks, she took to the Twitter/X machine on Monday and wrote this:
This DOJ will NEVER apologize for taking down dangerous criminals and getting them off our streets.
Thank you to the brave law enforcement officer in Boston who stepped up to protect those in need.
Politicians who want to apologize to criminals should not be in office!
However, things got worse for Wu when she responded to all the criticism of what she said by doubling down while belatedly offering praise for law enforcement.
"It's unfortunate to politicize being at the scene of a tragic incident," Wu declared according to NBC Boston. "I expressed condolences because every loss of life is a horrible tragedy. I am also grateful every hour of every day for the work of our Boston police officers."
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I'd ask her.
If a Knife welding Looney Tune got into your Mayor office, and started stabbing your staff, what would you expect your armed security to do?
If she says's anything other than shoot and kill the idiot.
Want bet she'll need new staff inside a week?
BTW: was "Lemark Jaramillo" a US Citizen or Biden/Democrat invited guest?
What could they be hiding?
[FoxNews] Conservatives tell GOP leaders, 'We will not support a government funding package that would be weaponized against President Trump'
A group of conservative lawmakers in the House and Senate is warning Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., against agreeing to restrict the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in a spending bill as the government shutdown deadline of March 14 inches closer.
The sometimes-resistant batch of Republicans is also committing to backing a clean stopgap bill for the rest of the fiscal year to avoid a shutdown, which they've opposed in the past.
"[W]e are deeply concerned about recent reports of Democrats’ demands for a government funding agreement that would perpetuate the unsustainable status quo of wasteful spending," Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., joined by several others, wrote to the congressional leaders.
The group of signers included several fiscal hawks in the House and Senate, many of whom have opposed stopgap spending bills on principle, preferring full-year appropriations bills.
"Any attempt to use government funding legislation to dilute the President’s constitutional authority to save taxpayer dollars must be rejected outright," the lawmakers wrote.
In this circumstance, the group of Congressional conservatives said they're willing to back a "clean" continuing resolution, or short-term spending bill, that lasts the rest of the year, for the sake of avoiding a government shutdown.
But they also made it very clear to Johnson and Thune: Don't let Democrats restrict DOGE in the spending bill.
The correspondence was co-signed by 19 other Republicans: Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., Ted Budd, R-N.C., and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, and Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., Ralph Norman, R-S.C., Barry Moore, R-Ala., Clay Higgins, R-La., Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Brandon Gill, R-Texas, Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., Sheri Biggs, R-S.C., and Mark Harris, R-N.C.
Scott is the new chairman of the Republican Senate Steering Committee, a group of conservatives in the upper chamber that works to influence policy and priorities in their conference.
According to the sometimes rebellious group of Republicans, they "stand ready" to work with both House and Senate leadership to keep the government open. But, they said, "we will not support a government funding package that would be weaponized against President Trump at the very moment he is seeking to make good on the promises he made to the American people."
Johnson's office referred Fox News Digital to a recent appearance by the speaker on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," where he said, "Heading up to the March 14 deadline, we'll have to probably pass a clean CR instead of separate [appropriations] bills. Why? Because the Democrats in Congress were trying to demand that as a condition of appropriations, that we would somehow tie the hands of the president, limit his authority, you know, put Elon Musk in a corner and take him off of his mission."
"We're not doing that. That's a nonstarter, and Democrats know that, so I hope they'll be reasonable," he said.
Thune's office declined to comment to Fox News Digital.
Last month, President Donald Trump sounded off on the shutdown deadline on Truth Social. "As usual, Sleepy Joe Biden left us a total MESS. The Budget from last YEAR is still not done. We are working very hard with the House and Senate to pass a clean, temporary government funding Bill ('CR') to the end of September. Let’s get it done!" he wrote.
The House Freedom Caucus has at times weaponized the House’s razor-thin majority to push for more conservative positions in negotiations and legislative matters. In the Senate, members of the more covert Steering Committee have also banded together in the past against actions by GOP leadership that they didn't agree with.
The deadline for a partial government shutdown is March 14, and Republicans and Democrats have yet to come to an agreement on a spending measure to avoid such a fate.
As Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE has aggressively tackled perceived waste and bloat in the federal government, Democrats have expressed outrage at widespread spending cuts and federal worker layoffs.
And now, with some leverage in the shutdown discussions, Democrats in Congress are demanding assurance that Trump spends the money as Congress has appropriated it, shielding it from DOGE.
Sources familiar with previously told Fox News this could take form in a specific bill provision hamstringing DOGE.
In order to pass a spending bill to avoid a partial shutdown, Republicans will need some level of Democratic support. Sixty votes are needed in the Senate, meaning at least seven Democrats will need to cross the aisle, provided that all Republicans also support it. Only a majority is needed in the House, but full Republican support of any bill is not guaranteed.
Do we object to the government shutting down for a bit? Historically, critical jobs continue to be done, just not the rest of them…
[FoxNews] The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act failed to clear a procedural hurdle.
No Senate Democrat on Monday voted in favor of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would keep biological males from competing in women’s and girls’ sports.
A procedural vote took place on the Senate floor and Republicans needed at least 60 votes to break the filibuster. They received 51. Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voted with Democrats.
Four senators were absent – Democrats Elissa Slotkin, of Michigan, and Peter Welch, of Vermont, and Republicans Shelley Capito, of West Virginia, and Cynthia Lummis, of Wyoming.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., gave a statement to Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
"Simply put: it’s not the federal government’s place to tell state and local sports leagues across the country how to do their jobs," she said. "I for one trust our state and local leagues to craft thoughtful policy where parents and players can be involved in the discussion about what is best for our children without interference from the President or Congress."
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., gave a statement to Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
"Simply put: it’s not the federal government’s place to tell state and local sports leagues across the country how to do their jobs," she said. "I for one trust our state and local leagues to craft thoughtful policy where parents and players can be involved in the discussion about what is best for our children without interference from the President or Congress."
Then riddle me this, how can the SCOTUS say a same-sex union is a marriage?
[BREITBART] Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin detailed on The Alex Marlow Show how the Biden administration protected $20 billion in ''gold bars'' meant for leftist NGOs, many of them with connections to the Biden administration.
Zeldin sent shockwaves in mid-February after he had pledged to recover $20 billion in taxpayer funds that had been sent by the Biden administration to climate change projects and other pet projects of Democrat staffers.
The EPA Administrator at the time likened it to ''throwing gold bars off the Titanic,'' saying that it was a ''rush job with reduced oversight.''
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Zeldin explained to Alex Marlow, the Editor-in-Chief of Breitbart News and host of The Alex Marlow Show, that the Biden administration tied up the money to make it harder for him and the Trump administration to conduct oversight of the $20 billion in ''gold bars'' to leftist NGOs.
Zeldin said that ''the director of the greenhouse reduction fund left an NGO to come to the Biden administration, becomes the director of the greenhouse reduction fund, and gave their former employer $5 billion.''
He noted that one CEO who applied for a $20 million grant sat on the Biden White House environmental justice council, which had only received $3 million over the prior three years.
The EPA had uncovered that $2 billion was set aside for a climate change group, Power Forward Communities, which is associated with Democrat Stacey Abrams ...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Then she wanted to be Joe Biden's vice president, so now she can sour grape about that too... , even though the organization had only reported $100 in revenue.
He said that these eight entities which received these grants need to have proper oversight.
When asked by Marlow how he would help unwind this leftist scheme, Zeldin said he had formally referred this financial mismanagement to the EPA Acting Inspector General (EPA IG) for further investigation.
Fortunately, Zeldin said that both the Justice Department and the FBI have been ''as motivated as I have.''
''We want to reestablish more oversight controls. We want to have accountability over every penny. I want to have the ability to sit before Congress and you can ask me 20 of your top questions, and I want to have answers for every single one of them on top of my head,'' he explained, sharing his desire to have maximum transparency over agency spending.
[THEHILL] The Social Security Administration (SSA) said in a release that it has identified more than $800 million in savings or ''cost avoidance'' for fiscal 2025 among information technology, grants, property and payroll.
The SSA stated that it froze hiring and ''drastically'' cut back on overtime, saving about $550 million.
The government agency that administers the Social Security program said it cut back $150 million from the information technology systems (ITS) budget by canceling ''non-essential contracts and identifying reductions in other ITS contracts.''
Acting SSA Commissioner Lee Dudek said Monday evening the agency has ''operated on autopilot'' for far too long.
''We have spent billions annually doing the same things the same way, leading to bureaucratic stagnation, inefficiency, and a lack of meaningful service improvements,'' Dudek said in a statement. ''It is time to change just that.''
The SSA said it made a 70 percent reduction in travel, saving to the tune of $10 million. The agency said it also terminated $15 million in contracts and another $15 million in grants.
Other aspects that have seen reductions within the SSA are postage, printing, protective security officers and property.
The SSA began notifying workers last week that ''significant workforce reductions'' are about to take place as part of an ''agency-wide organizational restructuring.'' Up to 7,000 employees are expected to be let go, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
#6
How about giving it back to those from whom it was taken?
Consider a "thank you note" law that tracks every (taxpayer, tax dollar) pair when it is collected, matches it up with appropriated funds as they are spent, aggregates said information so that a periodic "thank you note" could be delivered to each taxpayer so he would know where his taxes were spent. If we had a surplus, a taxpayer might get a note stating, "your taxes went into the treasury and stayed there." Imagine that!
One could do the reverse, that is, let tax-takers know those who paid for the benefit received, but not everyone would get such a note, as we spend more than we take in, but perhaps the note could say "future taxpayers are on the hook for this, so spend it well!"
[THEHILL] A group of 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... is skipping President Trump's congressional speech Tuesday night and planning an alternate event, according to a blurb.
The blurb from Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) states that the Vermont House member, Sens. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Vt.), Chris Murphy (D., Conn) ...Junior senator for life from Connecticutt, foreign policy mastermind, a fast friend and a sympathetic ear to mullahs, ayatollahs, and similar riff-raff. The indigestable boilerplate on his website sez he has has dedicated his career to public service as an advocate for Connecticut families, which means approximately nothing except that he's never held an honest job. He's been a strong voice in the Senate fighting for job creation, affordable health care, education, sensible gun laws, and a forward-looking foreign policy. You can guess what that mess actually means, though the voters of Connecticutt seemingly can't... (D-Conn.), Ed Markey ...U.S. Representative-for-Life from Massachusetts, serving since 1976. He is a member of the Democratic Party, naturally.... (D-Mass.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and others are going to be a part of ''programming that will provide real time fact-checking, a Democratic pre-buttal and live reactions'' on YouTube with an 8:15 p.m. start time.
''I watched as the President swore an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution. I won't sit and watch him lie to the American people again,'' Balint said in the blurb.
''I attended the inauguration because I believe in the peaceful transfer of power, but Trump spewed lies, stoked division and fear and made no effort to unify our country,'' she added. ''There is no doubt tonight's presidential address will be more of the same. My conversation tonight will be the best way I can use my voice for Vermonters. They are sick of the lies and Trump's complete and utter disregard for our Constitution.''
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and the collective IQ went up several points
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They should change name to American Globalist Party?
#7
The Dems showed their true colors last night. All they have is hate.
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It seems the shrinking number of Liberals, Socialists and Democrats have issues with MAGA.
Now, if we could vote out those in Congress that follow a pattern and process, that always seeks to place blame for its own acts and failures on others.
The problem boils down to, too many will always get elected/reelected based on the cared for Voter Plantations and Metros populations on the Take and Hand-Out.
So I found out how much taxes I will pay to the fed on Monday, so when last night the dems had much eye rolling and mockery over $250,000 I was able to tabulate how many hard working barely making it self-employment tax (yes I pay an additional tax to work for myself) paying people like me it takes to pay just that amount, never mind the administrative costs, and it is over 100 chop busters like myself, and that is a relatively nothing amount except I can calculate how many trips to the grocery store I can take if I could keep that amount. It comes out to roughly every third day I could buy 7 days worth of food.
It is incredible.
And these people are like, "$8million to a Peruvian Trans Gender Comic Artist Support Program is not only Great! but such a trivial amount as to not even yawn at."
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who pays in; wouldn't you rather have that money instead of you and 99 others like you getting trimmed to pay some tart in Afghanistan $1.5million a year to teach Modern Western Art - which is both shit and insulting to those students - a plum job she got because her husband has connections to be paid for?
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I thought at first the Spaceballs were doing the thing that happens at home games for KU Basketball where the students pretend to read newspapers during the visiting team's introduction, but with their PEDs.
Towards the end they were missing cues to hold up their ping pong paddles, so with the whole world watching with baited breath, they were just being screentards. Embarrassing.
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I have a hot take on that cringe video bloc that 20 some people made.
You know that insufferable hollywood trope where they get like 6 different actors, one would say a line, then another would say the next line, yadda yadda yadd, and ends with like 5 saying the same line, "I hope - I hope -I hope" then the headline finishes "we can change the world."
I think maybe this was the raw footage to make that trope and for whatever reason - probably because they are talentless hacks who would hire a talentless hack because they didn't know better - it didn't get done but felt they needed to at least do that.
Of course, and more likely, they did the same script and choreography to show they were of a bloc. Bloc Heads, if you will.
1) The WH uses plastic eggs for the Easter egg roll. No one is putting thousands of real hard boiled eggs outside in the sun for hours. 2) No grocery stores are rationing eggs.
[NYPOST] Voice of America placed one of its highest-profile journalists on an ''excused absence'' pending a human resources probe over alleged critical comments about President Trump, according to a report.
Steve Herman, VOA's chief national correspondent, was informed of the investigation in a letter last week from the news agency's governing body, the US Agency for Global Media, the New York Times reported.
The government-funded news outlet, which broadcasts to hundreds of millions of people worldwide, told Herman he was being scrutinized due to ''social media activity [that] has undermined VOA's audiences' perceptions of the objectivity and/or credibility of VOA and its news operations,'' according to the letter reviewed by the Times.
Herman drew the ire of the Trump administration when he posted a link to a news story on his X account that included a quote from an analyst who was critical of the decision to defund the United States Agency for International Development.
Richard Grenell, the former US ambassador to Germany who currently serves as a special envoy, angrily wrote in response: ''Aren't you a taxpayer funded 'reporter' for @voa? Why are you working against President Trump's reform plans for the US budget?''
[NYPOST] The Palm Beach Post fired its editorial page editor after the Florida paper ran a cartoon on the war in Gaza that local Jewish groups slammed as antisemitic.
Tony Doris, 67, who worked at the Gannett-owned broadsheet for more than 20 years, was let go last month following the backlash.
The syndicated cartoon ran in January and showed two Israeli soldiers rescuing a hostage held captive by Hamas with the caption: ''Some Israeli Hostages Are Home After Over a Year of Merciless War.''
The soldiers tell the hostage ''watch your step'' as the three figures walk over a pile of bodies with the label ''over 40 thousand Palestinians killed.''
Doris, who is Jewish, claimed the illustration was simply anti-war.
''I fully support Israel's right to exist,'' Doris told Stet News, a nonprofit news group in Palm Beach that earlier reported his firing.
''I think you can feel that way and still be open to discussion of the issue of violence that has taken place there.''
Gannett declined to comment on Doris' ouster.
''The cartoon did not meet our standards,'' Lark-Marie Anton, a Palm Beach Post spokesperson, told The Post in a statement. ''We sincerely regret the error and have taken appropriate action to prevent this from happening again.''
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Doris, who is Jewish, claimed the illustration was simply anti-war.
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.
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Then she wanted to be Joe Biden's vice president, so now she can sour grape about that too...
...every time you hear the phrase 
