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Keep it up Earl. People are sending me all kinds of things exposing who you really are. This is a volunteer group doing wonderful things for the community while you hide behind a clearly fake façade but eventually the truth about who you real.ly are comes out. It’s no wonder you were pushed out as a police officer and why you can’t get a real job. Besides Earl, get off your obvious lazy fat azz and volunteer your own time cleaning up communities. You clearly need exercise.

A viewer sent me the above image because they too read right into Earl Campbell’s bullsh!t. The guy is losing so many viewers, (just like last time) where he is trying to recoup his looses. You see folks, he claims to have 135,000 followers and tries to sell that number all the time in the hope certain people will believe it like advertisers. However, tech people know his numbers are bullsh!t and refuse to advertise with him.
Of course he will claim I’m obsessed with him, like I care. However, I’ve been at this 21 years and I know the inns and outs of numbers and how they can be manipulated. SBYNews is a lot like McDonald’s. Once we his 110,000,000 hits we simply stopped talking about it much like McDonald’s saying billions served. What’s the point. You either come to my site or you don’t, it’s that simple. One thing you can’t call us is a soap opera. There’s no drama here with the exception of Earl Campbell. I’m the only one willing to call that psychopath self loathing jackass out.
He lost a ton of people over his stupid cat issue and lie about his smelling cat urine from his back deck and anyone who owns cats knows what he stated to be a lie. He simply hates cats and bragged about his big dog KILLING a cat.

Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), leading the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said that the latest declassified documents concerning President John F. Kennedy’s assassination suggest he sought assistance from the Soviet Union to address rogue elements within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prior to his untimely death.
The declassification of approximately 80,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination has reignited debates over the circumstances surrounding Kennedy’s death.
The first batch of the declassified files includes a 1967 memo detailing claims by former U.S. Army intelligence officer Gary Underhill, who alleged that a “small clique within the CIA” was involved in Kennedy’s assassination.
Underhill reportedly fled Washington, D.C., in a state of agitation the day after the assassination, expressing fears for his life and suggesting that the CIA clique was engaged in illicit activities, including gun-running and narcotics trafficking.

Since returning to the White House on January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump has been met with an unprecedented onslaught of legal challenges from far-left activist judges and groups determined to sabotage his second term in power.
Appearing on The War Room with Steve Bannon, Josh Hammer, Senior Counsel for the Article III Project, recently warned that what America is witnessing is not just judicial activism—it’s an outright judicial insurrection.
This is similar to how the communist left attacked President Trump using a cadre of radical activist judges his first time in office. Except today, they have super-charged the process.
Not even two months in office, these radical extremist judges continue to coordinate their efforts and wreak havoc on the Trump administration and the United States.
Elon Musk is putting his money where his mouth is.
Musk is donating to Congress members who are backing the impeachment of the radical Trump-hating judges who are running a coup on President Trump.
In less than two months back in office, President Trump has faced 129 legal challenges by activist judges.
Eric Teetsel from the American Renewal Center reported that Trump received 64 injunctions his first term in office from 2017 to 2021.
That is 67% of all injunctions were against President Trump before 2023 — AND THAT WAS HIS FIRST TERM!
So far this term, we have seen 129 legal challenges against President Trump in less than two months in office!
Elon Musk and Trump supporters want this to stop.
Hillary Clinton spoke at the World Forum on the Future of Democracy, Tech, and Humankind on Tuesday, immediately slamming America under Trump’s leadership as marching towards autocracy.
She said that at a forum in … Germany.
“There’s no way to sugarcoat it. There’s no way to explain it away,” she said less than 60 seconds into her speech. “Autocracy is on the March, and we now have a government in the United States that has thrown in its lot with the autocrats.”
That government, she continued, “has made a choice to support those who wage war, not peace, who has given enormous power to the men who control the information flow in our world, who have all pledged allegiance to the continuation of algorithms that not only addict us, but poison us with hatred and fear.”
The bitterness and hatred of this America – the America First movement – is palpable.
The former First Lady and two-time presidential loser then discussed the theme of her speech—the aforementioned control of information.
“Information determines how we think, and how we think determines what we say, and what we say determines what we do,” said Clinton, pointing to technology and Artificial Intelligence as “the core issue facing our world today.”
“Where there are no facts that are agreed upon, that happen right before your eyes, and you have leaders telling you to ignore it, that Putin did not invade Ukraine, that Ukraine somehow brought it upon itself,” she added, a clear reference to President Trump.
Failed vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota’s dimwitted Governor Tim Walz (D) took the stage in Wisconsin this week and proudly gloated about Tesla stock dropping, taking a petty swipe at CEO Elon Musk.
But in his smug attempt to score political points, Walz conveniently forgot one major detail—Minnesota’s state pension funds hold nearly 2 million shares of Tesla stock, totaling a whopping $361.5 million in assets.
At an event Tuesday, Walz gleefully told the crowd how he enjoys watching Tesla stock drop on his iPhone.
“I was saying, on my phone, I know some of you know this on the iPhone, they’ve got that little stock app.
Who should have more power: the president of the United States, or a federal district judge — one of nearly 700 — in a courthouse anywhere in the nation?
The answer is obvious, and pure common sense.
The president is elected by millions, empowered by the US Constitution to ensure “the laws be faithfully executed,” conduct foreign policy and command the nation’s armed forces.
Most district court judges get there because they know somebody who knows somebody in the president’s party.
Their role on the bench is generally limited to deciding the case before them based on existing law.
Energy Transfer just won a $660 million jury verdict against Greenpeace, which is enough to put those anti-science fascists permanently out of business in America.
Tee hee.
Energy Transfer is the Texas-based pipeline company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, which suffered through Greenpeace’s months long protests against the pipeline about ten years ago.
The suit accused Greenpeace of defamation, trespassing, physical damages to the pipeline and equipment, and overall (and unceasing) harassment that caused expensive delays.
Energy Transfer’s lawyer, Trey Cox, “laced into Greenpeace during closing arguments on Monday,” reports the far-left New York Times. “The company accused Greenpeace of funding and supporting attacks and protests that delayed the pipeline’s construction, raised costs, and harmed Energy Transfer’s reputation.”

Investigative journalist Bad Kitty Unleashed reported on Thursday that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is involved in a secretive, invite-only club for elite judges in Washington, DC.
The secretive club America Inns of Court also includes the radical America-hating judges James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Amit Mehta—all hard-left judges and Trump-haters.
John Roberts has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court since September 2005. What in the world is he doing fraternizing in a secret group with far-left colleagues?
This is a shocking development.
LOS ANGELES, California — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has received 270,000 applications from purported homeowners in the recent L.A. fires — though only abut 13,000 homes were destroyed.
A FEMA official gave the staggering figure — more than twenty times the number of eligible applicants — as concerns about fraudulent applications continue to plague the agency, more than two months after the fire.
As Breitbart News has reported, many displaced residents had tried applying for FEMA relief, only to find that someone else had already applied in their name and with their address, locking them out of the system.

The Trump Administration has delivered brutal news to the scumbags torching Tesla cars and dealerships across the country.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this afternoon that her office has charged three individuals with serious offenses. Each one of the lowlifes used Molotov cocktails to set Tesla dealerships and cars ablaze.
“The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended,” Bondi said in a statement. “Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars.
The first accused ‘domestic terrorist’ was arrested after throwing eight Molotov cocktails at a Salem, Oregon, Tesla dealership. She was also armed with an AR-15.
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order effectively dismantling the Department of Education by ordering EdSec Linda McMahon to take “all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the states.”
Democrats, teachers unions, and progressives are of course freaking out over the decision and will likely start filing lawsuits within minutes of the signing event, which was held in the East Room of the White House
“Linda, you’re going to be presiding over something that’s so important,” the president told McMahon just moments before he signed the order.
Pres. Trump stressed that “useful fuctions” of the ED, like Pell grants and other resources that help faciliate education, will remain active:
And here’s him (and the children present) signing the EO:
The White House also posted on its official website and the Rapid Response X account some of the reasons why it believes the department is a failure:
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Peter Navarro, the senior counselor for trade and manufacturing for President Donald Trump, tells Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow that virtually all new jobs created during the Biden administration went to newly arrived migrants who poured across the United States-Mexico border.
During an exclusive sit-down interview with Marlow at the White House for The Alex Marlow Show podcast, Navarro explained mass immigration’s close relationship to free trade, where the cost of labor plummets, dragging down Americans’ wages.
“Both capital and labor are mobile, okay. Now think about that. So, depending on conditions, you’re in Britain, right, labor is mobile, and the next thing you know, you got the world coming in to your factories willing to undercut your wages by a significant amount,” Navarro said. “And then soon, everybody in these blue-collar English towns are speaking Polish or Czechoslovakian and whatever.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted an image showing that the Biden-Harris regime ramped up mass cullings of egg-laying hens nationwide due to “bird flu” ahead of President Trump taking office. Questions are swirling over whether the misguided cullings resulted from sheer incompetence or deliberate sabotage.
“The Biden Administration killed nearly 8 MILLION chickens ahead of President Trump’s Inauguration, leading to supply shortages and higher prices,” Leavitt wrote on X, adding, “The Egg Crisis is Biden’s Crisis — but President Trump and @SecRollins are fixing it!”
Earlier this month, Elon Musk wrote on X, “It’s true. There was an insane slaughter of 150 million egg-laying chickens ordered by the Biden administration.”
Democrats and the leftist corporate media cult tried to pin the egg crisis on Trump.
However…
- February 27: Trump’s Bold Plan: Boost Egg Imports To Reverse Biden’s Bird Flu Blunder That Tanked Nation’s Hen Population
And more countermeasures by Trump to resolve Biden’s crisis:
- March 7: US Scours World For Egg Supplies After Biden’s “Insane Slaughter Of 150 Million Chickens”
Last month, Dr. Robert Malone questioned Biden’s mass culling approach to limiting bird flu outbreaks.
For years, the left has advanced utter untruths for cheap partisan purposes that it knew at the time were all false. And now when caught, they just shrug and say they were lying all along.
Once it was known that the first COVID-19 case originated in or near a Chinese communist virology lab engineering gain-in-function deadly viruses—with help from Western agencies—the left went into full persecution mode.
They damned as incompetent, racist, and conspiratorial any who dared follow logic and evidence to point out that the Chinese government and its military were both culpable for the virus and lying.
A million Americans died of COVID. Millions more suffered long-term injuries. Still, the left-wing media and Biden administration demonized any who dared speak the truth about a lab origin of the deadly virus.
The lies were designed to protect the guilty who had helped fund the virus’s origins, such as Doctors Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins.
The Biden government also tried to use the lab theory to ridicule a supposedly pro-Trump “conspiracy.”
Western corporate interests deeply invested in China did not want their partner held responsible for veritably killing and maiming hundreds of millions worldwide.
Almost as soon as Joe Biden was inaugurated, the left knew that he was physically and mentally unable to serve as president.
Indeed, that was the point.
Biden’s role was designed as a waxen figurine for hard-left agendas that, without the “old Joe Biden from Scranton” pseudo-moderate veneer, could never have been advanced.
His handlers operated a nightmare administration: the destruction of deterrence abroad, two theater wars, 12 million illegal aliens, a weaponized justice system, hyperinflation, and $7 trillion more in debt.
By 2017, the public knew three truths about the so-called Christopher Steele dossier.
- One, it was completely fallacious—fabricated by a has-been, ex-British spy Christopher Steele. He childishly had cobbled together lurid sex stories, James Bond spy fictions, and Russian-fed disinformation to destroy the Trump candidacy and later presidency.
- Two, it was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign. She hid her checks behind the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm, and Fusion GSP paywalls.
- Three, the FBI under James Comey hired Steele as an informant. It helped disseminate his concocted files and was also instrumental in trying to subvert the Trump campaign and later administration.
No sane person ever believed that Hunter Biden’s laptop was the work of “Russian disinformation.” Its contents a year before the 2020 election were verified by the FBI, but it kept mum about its confirmation.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that a federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to remove illegal immigrants has “no right” to ask questions on flights carrying deported individuals.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg had given the Trump administration until Tuesday to respond to his questions about deportation flights carrying alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which was designated by the administration as a foreign terrorist organization last month, over the past weekend following an order that he issued to suspend deportations after the administration invoked the 1798 law. He extended the deadline for another day, giving the government until Thursday to respond.
But Bondi told Fox News on Wednesday that such questions are inappropriate and that the judge has “no right” to ask those questions and “no power” to order the government to return those flights back to the United States, adding that she believes “liberal” judges are issuing orders on matters they have no jurisdiction over.
“They’re meddling in foreign affairs. They’re meddling in our government,” she told the outlet. “And the question should be, why is a judge trying to protect terrorists who have invaded our country over American citizens?”
Ocean City’s mayor said he is disappointed with a local group’s message regarding new short-term rental regulations, but the group’s organizer said there has been no effort to mislead the public in their efforts to bring the legislation to referendum.
At the end of Monday’s regular meeting, Mayor Rick Meehan addressed what he believed to be a misrepresentation of an ordinance the Ocean City Council recently passed to ban short-term rentals in the R-1 residential and MH mobile home districts by 2027.
He said a group of residents starting a petition to bring the ordinance to referendum had signs implying the ban applied to all zoning districts in town.
“I am concerned that the message that’s being portrayed is very misleading,” he said. “If you read the signs, they say ‘Sign the petition. Say no to short-term rental ban.’ They nowhere indicate this only applies to R-1 and MH districts, appealing to everybody and, really, I think, scaring people to think this is relevant to all areas in Ocean City. And it just is not.”
While acknowledging that he supported the group’s right to petition, Meehan said he wanted the group to share “accurate information” regarding the newly adopted ordinance.
“We are not banning short-term rentals throughout Ocean City,” he said. “In fact, we’re not even banning them in the next few years in Ocean City in the R-1 and MH districts. This is very misleading, and I’m very disappointed in those that are leading this petition. I really hope they get out the relevant message, let people know exactly what it is they are signing.”

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A Berlin man will serve 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to one felony count in the death of Gavin Knupp, a 14-year-old pedestrian who was struck and killed the night of July 11, 2022.
In Worcester County Circuit Court Wednesday, Judge Brett Wilson sentenced Tyler Mailloux, 24, to 10 years, with all but 18 months suspended, for leaving the scene of the hit-and-run accident that resulted in Knupp’s death.
Upon his release, he will serve three years of supervised probation.
“Unfortunately, here, we could not avoid and cannot fix what has happened,” Wilson said from the bench. “And if I could, I would, and I know you all would.”
On July 11, 2022, at around 10:45 p.m., a driver in a black Mercedes traveling east on Grays Corner Road struck and killed Knupp, who was reportedly returning to a vehicle driven by his older sister.
Sen. Carozza “cautiously encouraged” that new B2B tax won’t come to pass
Maryland’s governor says a proposal for a new business-to-business tax that could have raised billions in revenue is off the table, but leadership in the legislature says that’s not possible in the face of a massive revenue shortfall.
When asked if a new service tax would be added to this year’s budget, Senate President Bill Ferguson on Tuesday told reporters “it has to be.”
“The revenue has to be accounted for. And so, in the budget together, the framework will be outlined,” he said. “I think everything is fluid until it’s not. I would say, until there’s a final deal, it’s important to note that we are in good conversation,” with lawmakers and the governor’s office.
The legislation would have implemented a 2.5% tax on business-to-business industries from accounting to photography to car repair. State lawmakers in both the House (HB 1554) and Senate (SB 1045) had introduced the proposal in companion bills in late February, as the deadline to file bills approached. But last week, a public outcry against the service tax proposal arose, with testimony decrying the plan lasting hours in committee hearings.
More than 100 opponents to the legislation voiced their concerns in person, plus nearly 400 more protested in writing. Among those were the Ocean City Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association, the Worcester County Commissioners, and the Maryland Tourism Coalition.
“It is certainly a bad bill for businesses,” said Ruth Toomey, executive director of the Maryland Tourism Coalition. “While it is dead for this year, I am sure it will be back, or another version will be back next year. Unfortunately, Maryland is facing a major deficit and this also means that there will be cuts in other places.”
We haven’t heard a whole lot from former Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) since she left office at the end of the 118th Congress (having been defeated in the Democratic primary last August by former St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell). But that doesn’t mean all’s been quiet in her world.
In fact, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday that her husband, Cortney Merritts, has been indicted for allegedly committing COVID fraud.
In a press release regarding the indictment, the DOJ stated:
WASHINGTON – Cortney Merritts, 46, of St. Louis, Missouri, was charged today by federal indictment with two counts of wire fraud for allegedly filing fraudulent applications with the Small Business Administration in 2020 and 2021 that allowed him to collect more than $20,000 in government funds under the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
The indictment was announced by U.S. Attorney Edward Martin Jr., Special Agent in Charge Amaleka McCall Brathwaite of the Eastern Region for the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of the Inspector General, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Sean Ryan of the Washington Field Office Criminal and Cyber Division.
Previously classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday evening following an order by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office.
The 1,123 files were posted on the website of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The vast majority of the National Archives’ collection of over 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts related to the assassination have previously been released.
Researchers were still poring over the new records as of the publication of this article.
One particular record—where Kennedy’s son, John F. Kennedy Jr., apparently called former President Joe Biden a traitor—went viral. That particular record, a Sept. 16, 1994, FBI report, references a handwritten letter from JFK Jr. to then-Sen. Biden.
“Dear Sen. Biden: You are a traitor …,” the letter stated, according to the FBI. […]
Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, and the notorious Dr. Ralph Baric, professor of epidemiology, microbiology, and immunology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, are raising alarm bells over inadequate safety measures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Baric‘s intervention is particularly notable, as he has previously contributed to Chinese gain-of-function research funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci, with Wuhan coronavirus researcher Shi Zhengli describing him as a “longtime collaborator.”
In an article penned by the virus experts, they caution that poor biosafety protocols at the lab—already a focal point in debates over the origins of COVID-19—could endanger global public health. The warning stems from a recent study published in the scientific journal Cell, where researchers identified a bat-derived coronavirus, dubbed HKU5-CoV-2, capable of infecting human and animal cells. This virus, related to the MERS-causing pathogen with fatality rates far exceeding COVID-19’s, was examined by scientists tied to the Wuhan Institute. While Lipkin and Baric stop short of linking this virus to an imminent pandemic, they express deep concern over the lab’s handling of such a threat.
For Harvard, at least, looks like there won’t be any more need for the U.S. taxpayer to subsidize student loans…
That’s because Harvard University will eliminate tuition for students from families earning $200,000 or less, aiming to expand access amid political scrutiny. Families making $100,000 or less will also receive free housing and meals, according to Bloomberg.
Similar initiatives were recently launched at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT as elite college costs surpass $90,000 annually. Harvard President Alan Garber said the move will “widen the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives” students encounter.
Starting in 2025-26, the program will extend aid to about 86% of U.S. families, up from the current tuition-free threshold of $85,000.
Bloomberg writes that lawmakers are pushing to tax endowments, with Vice President JD Vance calling them “cancers on American society.” Harvard, which relies on its $53 billion endowment for financial aid, has responded with a hiring freeze as it assesses federal policy changes.
Tuition is about $57,000 annually, but over half of students receive aid. As college costs rise and student debt burdens grow, families are questioning the value of elite degrees. Schools like Penn and MIT are expanding aid—Penn no longer factors home equity into aid decisions and raised its full-tuition threshold to $200,000, while MIT will cover full costs for families earning under $100,000.
Harvard previously required families making up to $150,000 to contribute 10% of income but will now boost aid for those above $200,000 “depending on individual circumstances.”
William Fitzsimmons, Harvard’s dean of admissions and financial aid, concluded: “We know the most talented students come from different socioeconomic backgrounds and experiences, from every state and around the globe.”
Plummeting reading and math scores are often blamed on COVID-19, but negative trends in U.S. public school performance compared with that of other developed countries predate the pandemic.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported at least six years of steady decline in reading and math scores on domestic standardized tests leading up to the 2024 results.
Sixty-nine percent of fourth graders scored below grade level in reading last year, and the rate was 70 percent for eighth-grade students.
NAEP’s 2024 math results were equally disappointing: 60 percent of fourth-grade students and 72 percent of eighth graders scored below their respective grade levels.
Martin West, vice chair of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees NAEP, said student skills have eroded for more than a decade.
He attributed the downward spiral to two significant events: a softening of public school accountability and a new era of “screen-based childhood,” in which students spend far more time on smartphones and social media than on schoolwork.
“‘Sobering’ would be a good word for it,” West said during a February panel discussion with the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Education policy experts identify three significant barriers to catching up to higher-performing nations in classroom performance: lack of accountability, relaxed standards, and lack of engagement.
On the global stage, the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study assessment ranked the United States 22nd out of 44 nations.
On average, American eighth graders scored more than 120 points below their peers in Singapore and Taiwan.
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Thursday that fulfills a key campaign promise of shutting down the Department of Education.
According to a White House summary seen by Reuters, the move ensures the department – called “a big con job” by Trump – is no more.
Trump’s new education secretary, Linda McMahon, has defended the president’s plan to abolish the department, in what would be Trump’s first shutdown of a cabinet-level agency.
The Trump administration has already been gutting the agency, as Breitbart News reported.
Its workforce is being slashed in half and there have been deep cuts to the Office for Civil Rights and the Institute of Education Sciences, which gathers data on the nation’s academic progress, much to the anger of Democrat opponents.
“I’m Done Ready to Go to Jail, Y’all!” Democrats Yank on Locked Doors at of Department of Education
The United States was the world’s largest arms exporter between 2020 and 2024, delivering weapons to 107 states.
As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, it accounted for 43 percent of global exports in that time period, up from 35 percent of all international arms sales between 2015 and 2019.
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France was in second place, accounting for 9.6 percent of arms exports in 2020-2024, up from 8.6 percent in the five year period before.
This is according to the latest release of weapons transfer data by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Russia, the third biggest major arms exporter between 2020-2024, has seen a decline in arms exports over recent years. The trend started before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and as this chart shows, continued to fall from a global share of 21 percent in 2015-19 to 7.8 percent in 2020-24. According to the report, this ongoing decline is partly due to a decrease in demand from China and India as the two nations boost their own production domestically, and more recently, is likely also a result of the country doubling down on arms production for its own forces.
Other factors cited include the impacts of trade sanctions on Russia and pressure from the U.S. and its allies to stop buying Russian arms. The three main destinations for Russian weapons were India (38 percent), China (17 percent) and Kazakhstan (11 percent).
Where the U.S., France and Italy were among the countries to grow their arms exports in 2020-24, Russia, China, Germany the United Kingdom and Israel were among those to record decreases in the time period.
The five largest importers in 2020-24 were Ukraine, India, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic.
This is what it means to weaponize the government.
When the government turns its power against its own people—through surveillance, retaliation, censorship, and intimidation—it ceases to serve the public and instead becomes a weapon of oppression.
According to the Political Dictionary:
“The term ‘weaponize’ refers to the strategic manipulation or transformation of information, institutions, or social issues into tools for gaining political advantage. This could involve exploiting existing laws, harnessing social media algorithms for disinformation campaigns, or turning otherwise neutral or benign elements of governance into divisive issues for the purpose of delegitimizing opponents or rallying a base.”
Time and again, leaders have stretched—or outright shattered—the limits of power, weaponizing government power through unjust laws, surveillance, or outright suppression.
Each power grab is a step toward the erosion of liberty.
John Adams used the Alien and Sedition Acts to prosecute journalists and political opponents.
Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, allowing the military to detain individuals without trail and suppressing Confederate sympathizers and political dissenters.
Under Woodrow Wilson, the Espionage and Sedition Acts were used to crack down on anti-war activists, socialists, and labor organizers, including Eugene V. Debs, who spoke out against World War I.
Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order that led to the internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, based on suspicions of disloyalty, despite little to no evidence.
Richard Nixon harnessed the power of the FBI, CIA, and IRS, to harass, spy on and sabotage his political opponents and perceived enemies.
The Trump administration on Wednesday warned Maine that it will face consequences if it continues to flout President Donald Trump’s executive order barring males from playing on female sports teams.
“What HHS is asking of the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association, and Greely High School is simple – protect female athletes’ rights. Girls deserve girls-only sports without male competitors,” Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) acting director Anthony Archeval said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“And if Maine won’t come to the table to voluntarily comply with Title IX, HHS will enforce Title IX to the fullest extent permitted by the law,” he added.
His comment comes after the OCR on Monday announced the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association, and Greely High School have each violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities receiving federal funding.
Biden judge Tanya Chutkan orders EPA not to obey a presidential order to terminate waste, fraud, and abuse. Chutkan was admonished by the US Supreme Court last June for ignoring presidential immunity and rushing a politically motivated case against Trump just prior to election season.
Biden judge Ana Reyes ordered the Defense Department not to enforce a presidential directive to ban transgender people from serving in the military. No Democrat judge blocked the Biden Defense Department’s order to put promotions of white heterosexuals on hold while transgendered, homosexual, and blacks were promoted in their place.
Obama judge James Boasberg ordered planes in flight deporting dangerous immigrant-invader gang members to return the illegal aliens to the US. President Trump called for the lunatic judge’s impeachment, and Republican Supreme Court justice Roberts (no relation) upbraided Trump.
Boasberg’s order is especially egregious as is Justice Roberts upbraiding of Trump. It seems neither Boasberg nor Roberts are sufficiently competent to know that the US Supreme Court has previously ruled that deportations under the Alien Enemy Act are not subject to judicial review.
“We will not stand idly by while this regime pulls the wool over the eyes of the American people,” proclaimed Sheria Smith, the president of American Federation of Government Employees unit representing more than a thousand federal Education Department employees fired by the Trump administration. The New York Times frets that the layoffs could devastate the agency that “tracks student achievement and enforces civil rights laws in schools.”
But ever since it was created by President Jimmy Carter, the Education Department has done far worse than “pull the wool” over Americans’ eyes. Federal mandates and bureaucratic meddling have helped mentally blight millions of children.
More than 150 years ago, abolitionist Frederick Douglass declared, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” But federal education policymakers have prevented legions of kids from reaching that road to freedom.
No modern American president did more than Barack Obama to canonize bigoted standards in federal education policy. President Obama championed subsidies for public schools so that “the federal government can play a leading role in encouraging the… high standards we need.” But, as part of its convoluted plans to reduce the achievement gap, the Obama administration cajoled most states into setting lower academic goals for blacks and Hispanics. From 2009 onwards, the feds rubber-stamped official plans under which white and Asian students were expected to perform far better than black and Hispanic students. (I bashed the discriminatory policy in USA Today in 2014).
The feds bankrolled the District of Columbia’s plan to boost the percentage of white students who passed reading tests from 88 percent to 94 percent while the percentage of black students who passed rose from 41 percent to 71 percent. At DC’s Wilson High School, the goal was for 67 percent of black students and 95 percent of white students to pass math tests by 2017. Cynical Washingtonians joked that Wilson High had a two-track system, and its graduates went either to Yale or to jail.
A proposed law in California intended to limit the conditions under which lethal force could be used in self-defense has been withdrawn by its sponsor. Assemblymember Rich Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood) announced on Wednesday that Assembly Bill 1333 was pulled due what he claims was “misleading information” causing widespread confusion and fear among the public.
AB 1333 aimed to clarify scenarios where the use of lethal force in self-defense would be considered unjustified, particularly emphasizing situations where excessive force was employed beyond what was reasonably necessary.
The bill quickly became controversial, attracting fierce opposition from conservative critics who portrayed it as another lenient, crime-friendly initiative by California Democrats. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is also running for governor, publicly opposed the bill, asserting that it would effectively criminalize self-defense actions against offenders.
“Sacramento Democrats have spent the last 15 years tying the hands of law enforcement and coddling criminals, using and abusing ordinary Californians in their attempt to make criminals the real victims,” Bianco declared. “Now, they’re actively trying to tie the hands of our residents, who have had to defend themselves against re-released career criminals far too often.”
As the NRA wrote in response to the withdrawal:
AB 1333, if passed, would have restricted the self-defense rights of crime victims by eliminating California’s “no duty to retreat” protection for individuals that are forced to defend themselves. This would make it easier to prosecute victims of crime who use self-defense if they did not first attempt to retreat before protecting themselves. AB 1333 would force victims to accede to the demands of violent criminals or potentially face legal charges themselves. This only revictimizes the victim of a crime while doing nothing to deter criminals.
Republican Assembly Leader James Gallagher credited public and institutional pressure for the bill’s withdrawal, citing vocal opposition from the public and district attorneys.

The Liberal-Globalist establishment has been doing all it can to keep Romania from electing a right-winger that rejects the EU’s Globalist policies, as well as the pro-war stance by the current government.
In order to do that, Romanian officials and Judges have gone the extra-mile, cancelling the first round of elections won by Calin Georgescu and eventually blocking his candidacy even though he was the clear favorite.
After Georgescu left the race, two right-wing candidates, George Simion and Anamaria Gavrila, have confirmed their candidacies, and – to no-one’s surprise, they are both showing up at the lead of opinion polls in the run-up to the May election.
Reuters reported:
“NATO and EU member Romania is due to repeat its two-round presidential election on May 4 and 18 after the top court voided the original vote in December amid accusations of Russian meddling in favor of far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, who had been leading in the polls.
Amazingly, the Chief Justice of the ever-solemn, nearly sanctimonious Supreme Court of the United States issued a press release – not an opinion – addressing Trump’s call for judicial impeachments through its Public Information Office:
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
Next, Trump doubled down Tuesday afternoon with reposting a shot he took at John Roberts in 2012:
As much as conservatives may not like to hear it, some of those judges may have a point, or at a minimum, they have an arguable point. These judges are not issuing opinions that say, “Do what we say because we don’t like what you’re doing.” They cite real cases, make real arguments, and ask real questions of Trump’s attorneys defending these issues in federal court.
That is what liberals are going to tell themselves.
What that so ideologically ignores is that this is not a legal question. This is a battle of political legitimacy. And Trump has the upper hand.
During a St Patrick’s Day visit to The White House, UFC legend Conor McGregor performed a verbal takedown on the Irish government for running an “illegal immigration racket.”
“Our government has long since abandoned the voices of the people of Ireland,” McGregor urged.
“Our money is being spent on overseas issues that have nothing to do with the Irish people, he continued, adding “The illegal immigration racket is ravaging our country.”
“There are rural towns in Ireland that have been overrun in one swoop, that have become a minority in one swoop,” McGregor asserted, calling it a “travesty.”
“The 40 million Irish Americans need to hear this. Because if not, there will be no place to come home and visit,” the former lightweight and featherweight champion emphasised.
McGregor was invited to visit the White House by President Trump, and spent time with him in the Oval office.
This week already saw President Trump announce that as President Biden used an autopen on controversial blanket pardons, these are now void. That starts a political firestorm, could prompt an investigation into the process around those pardons and, again, may end up with the Supreme Court. But from the autopen to the sword – which remains pointed at markets.
President Trump has warned Iran further attacks by the Houthis could mean attacks on it too. There are now unconfirmed rumours three US carrier strike groups and up to 35 ships in total will head to the Middle East – though actual deployment has yet to happen.
For over two decades, Letitia James repeatedly claimed her Brooklyn apartment building was a four-unit property on mortgage applications—despite official records proving it had five.
This may seem a minor discrepancy, but misrepresenting the unit count enabled her to secure more favorable loans, including a 2011 Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) loan that saved her tens of thousands of dollars annually.
Now, the same legal principles she used to prosecute others may be turning against her.
It all began in 2001 when Letitia James purchased a four-story multi-family apartment building with five apartments in Brooklyn for $550,000.
In 2005, James refinanced the building with an adjustable loan from Aegis that started at an interest rate of 7.2% with a ceiling of 10.2%.
For the next two decades, James took out refinancing mortgages and always listed the number of units as four.
The Trump administration is mulling giving recognition of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea region as part of any future agreement to end the Ukraine war, according to a report in Semafor.
“Administration officials have also discussed the possibility of having the US urge the United Nations to do the same, according to both people,” the report says. “Such a request would align the Trump administration with the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long seen Crimea as his nation’s territory.”

Semafor emphasizes, however, that no official decision has been made, with National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes telling the outlet that the White House has “made no such commitments and we will not negotiate this deal through the media.”
“Just two weeks ago, both Ukraine and Russia were miles apart on a ceasefire agreement, and we are now closer to a deal thanks to the leadership of President Trump. The goal remains the same: stop the killing and find a peaceful resolution to this conflict,” Hughes described.
Recognition of Crimea should in reality be the easiest concession, as historically Russia’s Black Sea naval fleet has always been positioned there, and the population is overwhelmingly Russian-speaking, as the 2014 popular referendum to join the Russian Federation demonstrated.
Ukraine’s President Zelensky has at various times throughout the conflict said Ukraine will never give it up, and there have been somewhat regular waves of drone and missile on Sevastopol – but Kiev is likely to let it go permanently before it gives up the Donbass.
In November of 2024 Fox journalist Trey Yingst had pressed Zelensky on the Crimea question in an interview.
Yingst had asked: “President Vladimir Putin has been very clear Crimea will never return to Ukrainian hands. Are you willing to give up Crimea in pursuit of a peace deal to end this war and stop the bloodshed in Europe?”
“I was already mentioning that we are ready to bring Crimea back diplomatically,” Zelensky responded. “We cannot spend dozens of thousands of our people so that they perish for the sake of Crimea coming back … We understand that Crimea can be brought back diplomatically.”
So Kiev may yet cling to the hope that Crimea won’t be permanently lost; however, Russia is clearly never going to entertain anything short of full recognition of the key peninsula as Russian.
CNN in 2014: “There’s overwhelming support for the territory to rejoin the Russian Federation, as thousands of people turned out to vote in the referendum. This city has extremely close historical and cultural ties with what people call the motherland.”
Democrats have hit all time low approval ratings in a pair of polls on Sunday, coming after three months of incessant obstructions against the Trump Administration and attempts to incite civil unrest among leftist activists.
An NBC News poll found 27% of registered voters say they view the party favorably − the lowest favorability rating for Democrats in NBC polls going back to 1990. Only 7% of survey respondents said they said they have a “very positive” view of the party.
Another poll released by CNN similarly found 29% of voters view Democrats in a positive light, the lowest in CNN’s polling since 1992. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, 63% said they have a favorable view of the party.
In the wake of their embarrassing election beat down in 2024 when they lost the House, the Senate and the Oval Office, Democrats have been scrambling to find new leadership. They have not, however, tried to find a new identity, and this is likely a big reason why they continue to plummet in popularity with average Americans.
Playing the role of woke vigilantes fighting for DEI and transgender propaganda in public schools caused a large number of independents and moderates to run from the Democrats like the plague in 2024, but as usual they have chosen to double down instead of engaging in self reflection. The party’s image as “champion of the marginalized” has spiraled out of control, with many Dem officials trying to justify every abhorrent behavior from widespread destruction of private property to stopping the deportation of terrorists.
Democrats claim that the reason for their precipitous drop in approval is that they “just aren’t fighting Donald Trump hard enough…”
What role should the government play in education? Should the Department of Education be disbanded? Former DOE press secretary Angela Morabito and education reform advocate Sam Sorbo join PragerU CEO Marissa Streit to discuss the DOE’s failures and the future of education. Is school choice the solution, or should parents have complete control with no government involvement? While both agree the DOE must go, they have very different opinions on what should happen next. |
On Tuesday morning, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts defended the rogue District Judge James Boasberg and slammed Trump’s call for impeaching judges in a rare rebuke.
Earlier in the day President Trump called for Judge James Boasberg to be impeached after he ordered planes deporting criminal Venezuelan aliens to turn around and bring the murderers and rapists back into the United States.
Judge Boasberg forgot to mention that he has a daughter who works with criminal illegal aliens.
John Roberts lectured President Trump and not Boasberg and the dozens of leftist district court judges who attempting an insurrection of the 47th US President.
A suspect has finally been identified and arrested in the mysterious 1979 cold case rape and murder of a Maryland woman.
Kathryn Donohue, 31, was found beaten, raped and killed in a parking lot on March 3, 1979.
The case went unsolved for decades and no suspects were identified until police got a DNA hit in late 2024.
Genetic genealogy DNA analysis led the FBI and the Prince George’s County Police Department to identify a relative of their suspect.
Using the new DNA evidence, police matched 82-year-old Rodger Zodas Brown of Pinehurst, North Carolina to the DNA left at the crime.
He was arrested at his North Carolina home last week, with the help of the Moore County Sheriff’s Office and FBI Charlotte Field Office, police said.
They took a plastic fork from the trash can outside his home and tested the DNA, then arrested him after it matched a sample taken from Donahue’s slip, according to The Washington Post.
‘This case serves as a reminder that we will never give up seeking the truth no matter how much time has passed,’ Prince George’s County Police Chief Malik Aziz said.

Another Donald Trump presidential term, another spate of violence going largely ignored — or even smirked at — by Democrats and their media friends.
Tesla dealerships are being firebombed and shot at, while Tesla vehicles are vandalized and their owners assaulted.
Trump-supporting influencers are getting “swatted,” set up for dangerous police encounters by opponents who phone in hoax distress calls.
Relatives of Trump-aligned public figures — including the sister of US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Elon Musk’s brother — are receiving bomb threats.
This cannot go on.
The multiple attacks on Teslas aren’t mere vandalism. This is terrorism exactly as the dictionary describes it: “The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.”
ANNAPOLIS, MD — Governor Wes Moore, Senate President Bill Ferguson, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, and the Maryland General Assembly’s budget leadership today announced an agreement on the framework for the final FY 2026 budget. The framework eliminates the $3.3 billion structural deficit and creates a positive cash balance—marking an important first step forward in securing Maryland’s long-term fiscal health.
“As dysfunction and chaos unfold in Washington, here in Maryland, we’ve been moving in partnership. Together, we have arrived at a common-sense agreement that meets each of the three goals I established at the start of session—reform the tax code and not on the backs of working families, grow and diversify the economy, and invest in our people,” said Gov. Moore. “I want to thank our legislative leaders for their collaboration throughout these negotiations. Together, we will continue to protect Marylanders, as we confront crisis with courage.”
The governor was joined by Lieutenant Governor Aruna Miller, Senate President Bill Ferguson, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Vanessa Atterbeary, House Appropriations Committee Chair Ben Barnes, and Senate Budget and Taxation Committee Chair Guy Guzzone for the announcement.
“Today, we announced a State Budget framework that strikes what I believe is the right balance of fiscal responsibility and protects our core social safety net here in the State of Maryland,” said Senate President Bill Ferguson. “We must acknowledge the tough choices that come with responsible budgeting, and under this proposal, we are cutting at least $2.3 billion to navigate economic uncertainties. While these cuts are difficult, they are necessary to maintain fiscal stability for Maryland.”
“Today, I proudly joined Governor Moore and Senate President Ferguson to address the most challenging budget I have ever faced in the legislature,” said House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones. “This budget strikes the right balance between cuts and revenue to resolve our budget deficit, gets us through the term with a healthy cash surplus, and protects our priorities. As Donald Trump and his administration continue to decimate our workforce and wreck our economy, Maryland Democrats will fight back and use every budget tool available to protect our most vulnerable citizens.”
“This budget represents hard choices, choices that are necessary to maintain stability, fairness and to do the right thing. Democrats were able to come together and make the difficult choices required to maintain our healthcare, transportation and schools; choices necessary to align our tax code with our current reality; and choices required as leaders,” said House Ways and Means Committee Chair Vanessa Atterbeary. “While it was difficult to grapple with making cuts and increasing revenues, I’m glad Democratic leadership could work together to continue to uplift Marylanders while many are losing their jobs, funding for critical services are being slashed, and there is so much uncertainty due to the federal government.”
“At its core, the budget framework announced today is about stability, fairness, and partnership. It ensures that Maryland can continue investing in the future without relying on reckless cuts or short-term gimmicks,” said House Appropriations Committee Chair Ben Barnes. “At a time of deep uncertainty in Washington, we are taking a responsible, measured approach. This framework is about keeping our economy strong, fair, and responsive to the needs of working families—because unlike the dysfunction in Washington, here in Maryland, we know that responsible governing matters.”
“In Maryland, we protect our most vulnerable—and that’s what this agreement does,” said Senate Budget and Taxation Committee Chair Guy Guzzone. “This budget framework secures critical supports for our children, our seniors, our students, Marylanders with disabilities, and families living in poverty. At a moment of challenge, as officials in Washington take aim at families that are struggling, my colleagues and I are coming together to move in partnership and stand up for our people.”
If anyone thinks that an October 7th-style attack couldn’t be attempted here, they’re wrong. It most certainly could happen here, and it’s not just ragged third-world barbarians that would like to see it done. On X, a video posted Monday shows three college professors, from institutions in the state of Virginia, advocating for the violent overthrow of Israel and the United States.
Some key excerpts:
Just to say that in a class makes my students’ heads explode. To tell them about violence, you know, as a revolutionary tool. As sometimes a revolutionary essential.
This is from a pencil-necked guy wearing a keffiyeh. Now, in this first clip, it’s not clear what he’s talking about as far as where this violence should be taking place; but listen to his colleague:
We actually need to crash the US settler state, which has incredible reverberations and literally strangles the tentacles of, uhm, that are reaching into the Israeli state.
Good luck with that. This woman – and she’s supposedly an academic? She apparently has no idea what people are like outside of academia, or how badly what she’s proposing would go – for her and her side.
Then there’s this guy:
So we must stand with the armed resistance and work right not to end this impunity by disrupting the flow of weapons the Zionists and trust the armed resistance will defeat Zionism if it was an open battlefield.
IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, who squashed Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal on his tax crimes — and then were kicked off the case and ostracized — have been promoted to leadership positions at the Treasury Department.
It is sweet vindication for the veteran investigators who have endured two years of retaliation since they blew the whistle on political interference in their criminal investigation of the former first son.
Shapley and Ziegler will start work this week as senior advisers to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, guiding reform of the tax agency for 12 months, after which they will transition to senior IRS leadership roles to execute the plans.
‘Promote the truth’
“This is a win for every whistleblower out there,” said Ziegler, lead investigator on the troubled five-year Hunter Biden case in Delaware. “Gary and I will continue to do everything in our power to promote the truth, promote whistleblowers and to weed out the bad actors who have affected democracy.”
For weeks now Democrat Party proxy groups have been violently protesting at Tesla dealerships around the country.
Democrats are outraged that President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and his DOGE team have found over $100 billion in waste and fraud in the US government and they are shutting down the Democrat Party’s money machine at USAID.
On Monday, War Room White House reporter Natalie Winters revealed the Soros group behind the violent protests at US Tesla dealerships.
Natalie Winters actually brought the receipts.
Indivisible is reimbursing the violent mobs for the costs of advertising.
The groups are specifically targeting Elon Musk, a US citizen, and his car dealerships.
How is this legal?
In the aftermath of what some in his party have called his “betrayal” on the CR, Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been on an image rehabilitation tour of sorts, sitting down with media friendlies in hopes of convincing angry Democrat voters (and colleagues) that he made the right decision.
At the same time, he’s also canceled book tour stops where he would potentially have to face hostile leftist protesters who have already made themselves fixtures at Schumer’s New York home.
“A spokesperson for Schumer’s book tour said that it would be rescheduled due to ‘security concerns,'” The Hill noted Monday.
On Tuesday, Schumer – who isn’t up for reelection until 2028 – made a predictable pit stop at “The View,” where the liberal co-hosts were, to paraphrase, all like “We love ya, Chuck, but how could you do this to us?”
Schumer gave an explanation that was essentially a short version of the Senate floor speech he delivered where he informed his distraught colleagues and constituents that he’d caved and why.
Except he went a little further on “The View,” engaging in crass class warfare and in the process giving the GOP the perfect “gotcha” clip to run on rotation during the 2026 midterms.
In referring to tax cuts/breaks for the so-called rich, unnamed business owners who he referred to as a “small group of greedy, wealthy people” who control the Republican Party, here’s what Schumer said in a mocking tone:
David Shor, a Democrat data scientist and political consultant renowned for analyzing political polls, has disproven any notion that Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election due to low voter turnout.
Shor, who currently heads data science analysis at Blue Rose Research in New York City, recently discussed the election data he and his team amassed with Vox senior correspondent Eric Levitz.
Democrats have contended, among many other theories, that Harris was the victim of low voter turnout. How, they wondered, could she have won when the number of votes for the Democrat candidate dropped from roughly 81,000,000 (allegedly) to just over 75,000,000?
She couldn’t. Turnout was the key. Such a claim, after all, allows the resistance party to continually cry foul about imaginary efforts by the GOP to suppress votes.
Take this lead by New York Times political correspondent Michael Bendor, for example:
Voters in liberal strongholds across the country, from city centers to suburban stretches, failed to show up to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris at the levels they had for Joseph R. Biden Jr. four years earlier, contributing significantly to her defeat by Donald J. Trump, according to a New York Times analysis of preliminary election data.
That is not the case, says Shor, after diving deeper into the data, with the benefit of added hindsight.
Shor, described by Levitz as “the most influential data scientist in the Democratic Party,” refutes the theory that voter turnout would have helped give Harris the edge.
“The reality is if all registered voters had turned out, then Donald Trump would’ve won the popular vote by 5 points [instead of the roughly 1.6+ points],” he explained.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts defended the rogue judiciary and slammed Trump’s call for impeaching judges in a rare rebuke on Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning, President Trump called for Judge James Boasberg to be impeached after he ordered planes deporting criminal Venezuelan aliens to turn around.
Judge Boasberg demanded the DOJ disclose sensitive national security information during a contentious hearing on Monday.
The Justice Department hit back and said the activist judge was trying to force the government to disclose sensitive national security and operation security concerns.
US District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of more than two dozen unnamed current and former USAID employees and contractors who challenged the Trump administration’s efforts to shutter the organization.
In a 68-page decision, Chuang granted in part their request for a preliminary injunction, ruling that DOGE and Musk likely violated the Constitution’s Appointments Clause and separation of powers.
Musk has been ordered to reinstate access to email, payment and other electronic systems for all current USAID employees and personal services contractors, while the Trump administration is now prevented from taking any further actions related to the shutdown of USAID – including placing employees on administrative leave, firing USAID workers, closing buildings, bureaus or offices, and deleting the contents of its websites or collections.
Of note – the order does not currently require the reinstatement of fired employees, after roughly 83% of USAID programs have been officially canceled according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“After a six-week review, 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, and even harmed the core national interests of the United States,” he said.
President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was authorizing his administration to use coal-fired power plants for energy production to counter China’s economic advantage.
In a Truth Social post, Trump stated that the nation’s coal industry had been “held captive by environmental extremists,” which he said had allowed countries such as China to gain an economic advantage over the United States by opening hundreds of coal-fired power plants.
Trump stated that he would move to authorize his administration “to immediately begin producing energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL,” but did not provide further details.
The move would mark a major reversal in U.S. environmental policy, as the country has shifted away from coal, which was its primary fuel for electricity generation in the 2000s, toward lower-cost alternatives such as natural gas and renewable energy.
As of 2023, coal made up about 15 percent of the power generated in the United States, a significant decline from 51 percent in 2000, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
After taking office on Jan. 20, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to review existing regulations that restricted the use of domestic energy resources—particularly coal, hydropower, and nuclear energy resources—and declared a national energy emergency to expedite the development of the nation’s energy infrastructure.
Trump stated in his order that “burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations have impeded the development of these resources, limited the generation of reliable and affordable electricity, reduced job creation, and inflicted high energy costs upon our citizens.”

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) filed articles of impeachment against radical Obama Judge James Boasberg after he ordered the President of the United States to fly violent criminal illegal aliens and gang members into the United States.
Boasberg did this knowing his daughter was in the business of defending violent criminal illegal aliens at work.
Boasberg is a committed anti-American communist who wants to bring down America.
Earlier today, Judge Boasberg was Loomered.
Donald Trump won a golf tournament over the weekend at his own club, Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, and he must be feeling pretty good, because on Tuesday he teed off on U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the jurist who decided to try and stop the president’s deportation of Tren de Aragua gangmembers to a mega-prison in El Salvador.
As we’ve been reporting, there’s been a lot of legal back and forth after the judge ordered a flight carrying the illegal aliens to the Central American country to turn around, which the Trump administration declined to do. Boasberg has ordered that the administration submit a written explanation for their decision on Tuesday.
Trump, to put it mildly, is not pleased with the judge’s interference. He took to Truth Social to blast Boasberg and call for his impeachment:
Here is the post in full:
This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President – He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn’t WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

It appears that there is much more about Mahmoud Khalil than we realized.
Khalil is not your average Hamas supporter from the Gaza.
Khalil was arrested around 8 PM on Saturday, March 8 in the lobby of his apartment building in New York.
Khalil worked at the British Embassy in Beirut, where he supported diplomats with his language skills and local knowledge.
Khalil had a security clearance from the British government! The program he worked on is affiliated with a “flagship UK soft power policy.”
Khalil then immigrated to New York City in 2022 on a student visa to attend the Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
SIPA is known is well-known for preparing students for careers in fields related to international affairs, public policy, and security, which often include intelligence-related positions. The CIA is linked to SIPA and finds future agents at this school.

The radical judge trying to stop President Trump from deporting dangerous illegal aliens has been Loomered.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, a federal judge appointed by Barack Obama issued an ’emergency’ injunction Saturday night ordering planes already in the air to turn back mid-flight to prevent the deportation of Tren De Agua members to El Salvador.
The case was brought by the Marxist, America-hating ACLU and Democracy Forward.
But the order came too late. Two flights from the U.S. carrying nearly 300 Venezuelan and other gang members landed in El Salvador despite Judge James Boasberg’s emergency order. This prompted a mocking reply from the country’s president, Nayib Bukele.
Now, independent journalist Laura Loomer discovered a massive conflict of interest between Boasberg and his own daughter. It turns out Katherine Boasberg, the daughter, works for a far-left organization called Partners for Justice that opposes “mass incarceration” of violent criminals and strongly opposes deporting illegals, including violent felons.
Unsurprisingly, Katherine Boasberg is so woke she has pronouns in her bio.
From Loomer:
I have exclusively uncovered a massive CONFLICT OF INTEREST involving Judge James Boasberg, the Chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Boasberg recently made the decision to prevent the deportation of criminal illegal alien gang members on planes out of the country.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said he is committed to solving “judicial overreach” after federal judges moved to stop Trump’s deportation of criminal migrants.
Grassley, in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, voiced his support for President Donald Trump’s memo directing federal agencies to enforce the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, which states that federal courts must require parties seeking a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order to provide a financial guarantee. This aims to deter “frivolous lawsuits” and ensures “coverage for lost taxpayer dollars when injunctions are later deemed wrongly issued,” according to a press release by Grassley’s office.
“Over the last few months, I have watched with concern as individual district judges have issued sweeping injunctions that reach far beyond the case or controversy before them. These orders are often issued as preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders on an expedited basis with limited hearings,” Grassley wrote.
The Iowa senator revealed:
According to a 2023 Harvard Law Review study, there have been 96 nationwide injunctions spanning the four presidencies from 2001 to 2023, but 64 of them—2/3 of all nationwide injunctions over that time—targeted President Trump during his first four years in office. Nearly all of those orders were imposed by judges appointed by Democratic presidents, and 54 of the 64 orders were issued as preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders.
Many of these injunctions have sought to stymy Trump’s efforts to deport criminal migrants and illegal alien gang members from the United States.
The Pentagon is expected to cut between 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs from the Defense Department, the AP reported.
This is the latest move by the Trump Administration to reduce the number of workers.
The reduction in civilian jobs will not impact military readiness.
The Associated Press reported:
Roughly 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs will be cut in the Defense Department, but fewer than 21,000 workers who took a voluntary resignation plan are leaving in the coming months, a senior defense official told reporters Tuesday.
To reach the goal of a 5% to 8% cut in a civilian workforce of more than 900,000, the official said the department aims to slash about 6,000 positions a month by simply not replacing workers who routinely leave.
A key concern is that service members may then be tapped to fill those civilian jobs. But the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide personnel details, said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to ensure the cuts don’t hurt military readiness.
‘We don’t want vicious, violent, and demented criminals, many of them deranged murderers, in our country’
Multiple district court judges across the country, many with reputations as left-leaning activists, have been busy since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, issuing nationwide injunctions to try to prevent him from implementing his policies for the executive branch.
More than 100 cases remain to be decided, with expectations many will reach the Supreme Court in one form or another.
But the courts’ lawfare against the president has created what many analysts have suggested is a constitutional crisis, with the judges’ deliberate interference in the constitutional responsibilities of the president.
Now Trump is responding, in one specific case, with a call for the judge to be removed.
On Truth Social, Trump cited the activism of James Boasberg, a federal judge in Washington who was appointed by Barack Obama, who had demanded that terrorists being deported by the Trump administration be returned to the U.S.
That order was unsuccessful in that situation, because over the weekend the planes loaded with deportees he wanted back in the U.S. already were in international airspace, so his ruling had no effect.
A DeSantis spokesperson says his office ‘immediately’ took action on the matter
FIRST ON FOX: A university doctor has resigned from his position after Fox News Digital reported on unearthed audio where he touted how he has been avoiding anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) laws in Florida while attacking state and federal officials, including top White House official Stephen Miller.
“Shortly after learning of Dr. Brown’s comments, the university decided to place him on administrative leave to allow for a thorough review of the matter,” a University of South Florida spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “In response, he has chosen to resign effective immediately.”
Dr. Haywood Brown, associate vice president of Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida, explained how he continues to implement DEI policies and how he has avoided state and federal discrimination laws, as well as a recent Supreme Court ruling that colleges cannot consider race in admissions decisions, during a recent presentation last month at Virginia Commonwealth University.
“I really want to discuss the threat of the anti-woke movement to medical education and training and health equity,” he said in a video obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Jessie Hoffman, 46, was convicted in 1996 for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 28-year-old Mary ‘Molly’ Elliott
A Louisiana death row inmate on Tuesday was executed with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used before in the state.
“Louisiana has successfully used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out the execution of Jessie Hoffman,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill shared with Fox News Digital in a statement.
Hoffman, 46, was convicted in 1996 of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of 28-year-old advertising executive, Mary “Molly” Elliott.
Elliott was abducted by Hoffman, who was 18 at the time, from her home the day before Thanksgiving and shot execution-style in rural St. Tammany Parish.
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