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One of my favorite actors celebrates his birthday today—Bruce Willis!  Born in 1955, Willis has created many memorable characters and iconic comedic lines. (“Welcome to the party, pal!”) Mental Floss had an article detailing some fascinating facts about him.

From: Mental Floss:

 On March 30, 2022, Bruce Willis’s family members, including ex-wife Demi Moore and their three daughters, posted a joint statement to their social media accounts announcing that Willis would be retiring from acting due to a recent health diagnosis.

“Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities,” the statement read. “As a result of this and with much consideration, Bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him.”

From his turns as unlikely action hero John McClane in the Die Hard series to smaller supporting roles in 1994’s Pulp Fiction and 1995’s Nobody’s Fool, Willis has consistently surprised audiences with his eclectic career choices. For more on Willis, including his recording career and how he made movie history with 1988’s original Die Hard, keep reading.

1. Bruce Willis was born in West Germany.

Walter Bruce Willis, the son of a military man, was born on March 19, 1955, while his father was stationed in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany. Just two years later, parents David and Marlene Willis moved to Carneys Point, New Jersey, where he spent part of his time in both high school and at Montclair State University trying his hand at acting. After his sophomore year, Willis decided to leave college and head to New York City to pursue a performing career.

2. Bruce Willis may have been one of the best bartenders in New York City.

While auditioning for acting roles and scoring the occasional break—he appeared in an off-Broadway play, Heaven and Earth, in 1977—Willis tended bar at Chelsea Central on New York City’s Upper West Side. According to actor John Goodman, who knew Willis before either of them became famous, Willis was notable even then. “Bruce was the best bartender in New York,” Goodman told The New York Post in 2017. “He kept an entire joint entertained all night. He just kept the show going. He was amazing.”

3. Bruce Willis was cast in Moonlighting even though ABC thought the role was “uncastable.”

Willis had done only some stage work and bit parts in movies like 1980’s The First Deadly Sin with Frank Sinatra and 1982’s The Verdict with Paul Newman before he went in to audition for ABC’s Moonlighting, a send-up of detective dramas. At the time, the role of David Addison was proving so difficult to cast that the network was looking to pay creator Glenn Gordon Caron, director Bob Butler, and co-star Cybill Shepherd to abandon the project. Then Willis auditioned, beating out 3000 other hopefuls and securing the part. The series ran from 1985 to 1989.

4. Thanks to Die Hard, Bruce Willis changed Hollywood salaries forever.

While doing Moonlighting, Willis spent his hiatus shooting feature films like 1987’s Blind Date with Kim Basinger. But it was 1988’s Die Hard that cemented him as a big-screen attraction. The action film about a New York City cop trapped in a Los Angeles skyscraper with his estranged wife and a group of terrorists was a hot commodity, and 20th Century Fox agreed to pay Willis the then-astronomical sum of $5 million for the role. (Richard Gere and Clint Eastwood were also considered.) At the time, major stars like Tom Cruise and Michael J. Fox were getting roughly $3 million a picture. The payday for Willis had other performers taking notice, and salaries reportedly went up as a result.

“It was an enormous amount of money at the time,” Willis told Entertainment Weekly in 2007. “And I was a TV actor! The day after I signed the deal, every actor in Hollywood’s salary went up to $5 million.”

5. The Bruce Willis movie Hudson Hawk was based on a song.

Following Die Hard, Willis was a proven box office commodity that could help projects get made. In 1991, he starred in Hudson Hawk, a critical and commercial disappointment about a jewel thief with a love of music who is hired to steal from the Vatican. The film was based in part on a song written by musician Robert Kraft in 1981. Kraft knew Willis, then a bartender and actor, and shared it with him. Over the years, the two continued to shape the song, adding characters and stories. Eventually, it wound up in the hands of screenwriters Stephen De Souza and Daniel Waters.

6. Bruce Willis all but disappeared in Nobody’s Fool.

In contrast to conventional wisdom of the era, Willis parlayed his success as an action hero into opportunities to work with actors and directors he found interesting—even if it meant taking a small supporting role. (Willis spent just 22 minutes onscreen in 1994’s Pulp Fiction as boxer Butch Coolidge.) For 1995’s Nobody’s Fool, he passed on his normal $15 million fee to take $1400 a week since it meant working with Paul Newman. (Newman had forgotten the then-unknown Willis was a bit player in Newman’s 1982 film, The Verdict.) Because Willis felt so strongly Nobody’s Fool was Newman’s film, he opted out of having his photo included in the press kit and his name wasn’t in the production notes.

7. Bruce Willis had his own cartoon series.
In 1996, Willis lent his voice to Bruno the Kid, a syndicated animated series about an 11-year-old spy named Bruno who convinces his handlers he’s really an adult. “Bruno” was Willis’s nickname growing up as well as the name of his musical alter ego. In 1987, Willis released an album, The Return of Bruno, along with a cable special. The cartoon lasted one season.

8. Bruce Willis never finished shooting one of his movies.

In 1997, Willis started shooting Broadway Brawler, a romantic comedy about a washed-up hockey player falling in love. Just 20 days into shooting, Willis used his powers as producer to fire director Lee Grant, Grant’s husband and producer Joe Feury, cinematographer William Fraker, and wardrobe designer Carol Oditz—all reportedly over creative differences. The problems continued even after replacement director Dennis Dugan was brought on board. Rather than continue to waste money on the $28 million movie, studio Cinergi opted to shut it down. Cinergi’s parent company, Disney, absorbed the production costs in exchange for Willis agreeing to star in three Disney movies: Armageddon (1998); The Sixth Sense (1999), Willis’s biggest hit to date; and The Kid (2000).

Happy Birthday Pal!

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    1. Good Morning, Pat and Filly!

      43º now in N FL – high of 82º today – 40% chance of rain tomorrow!

      Today is the hospice nurse weekly visit – no big changes. Sally is comfortable as long as we give the pain meds ever 5-6 hours.

      Hope you all have a good day and power stays on!

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            1. Hudson Hawk is cute–he plays a convict getting out of jail trying to go straight and a group wants him to steal DeVinci’s works. it’s funny!
              Look Who’s talking stars Kyrstie Allen & John Travolta. she has a baby she’s trying to raise on her own. travolta is a cab driver she meets and ultimately falls in love with and Bruce? he’s the baby’s voice. there a part 2 where Roseanne is his sister’s voice–they’re both funny movies.

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      2. Morning GA!

        i was surprised the power came on so quickly–we were expecting to be out for days. I have a record of al the outages and duration. it’s gotten WORSE over the years not better.

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      3. Good morning, GA! No blizzards here, thankfully – just a LOT of wind. I’m glad you are at least able to keep her comfortable w/less pain.

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    2. Good morning! So much for those blizzard warnings! Really windy, if course, but barely a dusting of snow, thankfully. Temp is at 31 and Wheezer was waiting again at the door.

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  7. Gudthots

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    March 19, 2025 02:25

    Sean Davis
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    To be clear: a trial judge who issued a press release against one of the parties in a case he oversees would be immediately removed from the case—and potentially from the bench altogether—for engaging in improper and prejudicial conduct unbecoming of a federal judge.

    Yet this is exactly what John Roberts did today. Can anyone take the Supreme Court seriously when the Chief Justice is personally trashing a party whose interests are currently before the judiciary?

    If Alito or Thomas had trashed Biden in this manner while a major case on the topic was pending—and not even in off-the-cuff remarks, but via a deliberate and prepared written statement—Democrats would have filed impeachment charges before the ink on the press release was even dry.

    Given John Roberts’ extremely inappropriate and prejudicial behavior here, on a matter (judicial impeachment) over which he has no authority whatsoever, perhaps impeachment against him is something that should be investigated. This type of behavior from any judge, let alone the Chief Justice, is simply unacceptable and cannot be tolerated by anyone who understands a fair and impartial judiciary is vital to preserving the rule of law in this country.

    Mar 18, 2025 · 5:12 PM UTC

    https://nitter.poast.org/seanmdav/status/1902045360094126283

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  8. judges…again. this time it’s about the sex parade in the military,
    FTA
    In a scathing ruling, US District Judge Ana Reyes said the administration cannot enforce the ban — which was set to take effect later this month.

    Reyes, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, wrote that the ban “is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext. Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact.”

    “Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender servicemembers have sacrificed – some risking their lives – to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the Military Ban seeks to deny them,” she wrote.

    The judge said she was pausing her preliminary injunction until Friday morning to give the administration time to appeal it to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/politics/transgender-military-court-ruling/index.html

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  10. Troublemaker10
    Troublemaker10
    March 19, 2025 12:47 am

    Benghazi files to be unclassified…

    Interesting. The department of defense officially told Congress there were no files. I know because I was the subcommittee chair asking for them. https://t.co/LowIXZzehU

    — Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) March 18, 2025

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    1. And then they replaced Chaffetz (don’t forget the rushed way Chaffetz resigned his Congressional seat allegedly because he “couldn’t afford” to keep his house at home going while also paying to live in DC area) with Trey Gowdy, who put an Islamist member on the committee!!! RoosterHead is a traitor and, IMO, Chaffetz was blackmailed! I especially remember the Chaffetz deal because around the same time that he quit, he had fallen from a ladder and injured his foot – the EXACT same injury that my friend, Michael, had a short time before.

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    2. Pardon me – I was incorrect – it was Issa who was removed and replaced with Gowdy – he talks about Benghazi @ the 4:35 mark:

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  11. dogsmaw

    March 19, 2025 12:58 am

    A convicted felon sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl multiple times. Liberal Judge Susan Crawford could have put him away for 60 years.

    She let him walk after 2.

    She’s running for Supreme Court in Wisconsin.

    Wisconsin voters: YOU MUST VOTE AGAINST HER

    A convicted felon sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl multiple times. Liberal Judge Susan Crawford could have put him away for 60 years.

    She let him walk after 2.

    She’s running for Supreme Court in Wisconsin.

    Wisconsin voters: YOU MUST VOTE AGAINST HER

    — Victor Bigham 🇺🇸 (@Ravious101) March 7, 2025

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  12. California Joe
    March 19, 2025 1:18 am

    What Sean revealed in his X post…

    Sean Davis:

    James Boasberg, the judge who is now lawlessly running interference for literal terrorists, was a member of the corrupt FISA court that rubber-stamped the illegal spy warrants against Trump during the Russiagate hoax.

    But that doesn’t begin to show how dirty and corrupt Boasberg is.

    Remember Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI attorney who fabricated evidence in those very FISA warrants Boasberg’s court rubber-stamped? Clinesmith was convicted for that crime, but he never served a day in prison.

    Do you know why?

    Because Boasberg personally sentenced Clinesmith and made sure he never saw the inside of a jail cell, despite Clinesmith’s attempts to overthrow the elected U.S. government via fake evidence and fabricated warrants that Boasberg’s FISA court okayed.

    So this conspiracy to provide aid and comfort to criminals and enemies of the United States isn’t Boasberg’s first rodeo. He has a long, sordid history of violating his oath and ignoring the law in his service to America’s enemies. And it’s long past time for him to answer for what he’s done to this country.

    Boasberg sentenced over 70 non-violent J6 prisoners to federal prison after convicting them of Sarbanes-Oxely felonies which the Supreme Court ruled only applies to CEOS of publicly traded companies caught altering corporate records in an SEC investigation! Apparently, Boasberg didn’t know that he was applying the wrong federal law…70 times?

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  14. Belle
    Belle
    March 19, 2025 8:48 am

    Someone yesterday reported that right after the Putin-Trump phone call, Russia attacked energy facilities. Not true.

    Today, it is reported that at the time that President Putin ordered the end of attacks on infrastructure, there were 7 drones in the air headed to Nikolaev.

    He ordered Russian air defense to “neutralize” those drones before they hit. Six were taken down by Palantir air defense and one was taken down by a fighter jet.

    But last night Ukraine conducted a strike on the energy facilities in Kuban….well after he had agreed to halt energy infrastructure strikes. This facility plays a key role in transferring oil to the pipeline system of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.

    As a result of a drone crash, a fire broke out, covering an area of 1,700 square meters. The Russian Foreign ministry emphasized that this act by the Kiev regime is a deliberate provocation aimed at undermining Trump’s peace initiatives.

    I think we will see a lot of Zelensky breaking the ceasefire and then playing the victim.

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  15. sync

    March 19, 2025 8:53 am

    As I predicted, Judge Chutkan unbelievably halts for now EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin cancellation of Biden era climate grants totally $20 billion sheltered at Citibank a few days before the 2024 election.

    She also halts transfer of remaining funds back to EPA as Zeldin ordered.… pic.twitter.com/dqDpsyFPQO

    — Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 19, 2025

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  16. Winston
    March 19, 2025 9:48 am

    AG Bondi Declares “Swarm Of Violent Attacks” On Tesla As Domestic Terrorism
    Mar 19, 2025

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tesla-terrorism-hits-las-vegas-service-center-leftist-lone-wolves-target-american-company

    That’s totally appropriate. Another example:

    “Eco-terrorism is considered a form of domestic terrorism when individuals or groups commit violent acts in support of environmental causes, targeting people or property to achieve political or ideological goals. The FBI has identified eco-terrorists as a significant domestic terrorism threat, linking them to numerous crimes and substantial property damage over the years.”

    Also:

    Terrorism /tĕr′ə-rĭz″əm/ noun

    1. The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.
    2. The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
    3. The practice of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.

    Thus, the violent riots ostensibly over the overdose death of a career criminal prior to the 2020 election should have been deemed to be domestic terrorism.

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  17. “The new JFK files release: intriguing details or ho-hum? It depends on who’s writing the story”

    Sharyl Attkisson, Mar 18, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: Early reports on the March 18, release of 1,123 JFK assassination documents reveal a split in coverage: while traditional news outlets like The New York Times and Forbes downplay the findings as lacking a “smoking gun,” alternative sources like StupidDOPE, a pop culture and urban news site, and LiveMint, an Indian business news outlet, spotlight more intriguing details.

    They include:

    • Unredacted CIA memos showing the agency tracked Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald more closely than earlier admitted.
    • Ballistic hints and witness accounts suggesting a possible grassy knoll shot contradicting the lone-gunman narrative.
    • Wiretaps tying Oswald assassin Jack Ruby to the mob.

    In the early hours after the document release, The Washington Post notes some depth but aligns with the cautious take, suggesting no major rewrite of historical views, yet.

    Read on for details.

    On March 18, 2025, the National Archives released 1,123 previously classified documents, spurred by President Donald Trump’s executive order on March 17, to unseal all remaining JFK files without redactions. More documents are still apparently to come.

    Reported by ABC News and The Washington Post, this release goes a long way toward Trump fulfilling a campaign promise. It supposedly covers what the Archives calls “all records previously withheld for classification” in the JFK Assassination Records Collection, though some stay sealed under court or tax rules. The release is part of an estimated 80,000 pages, offering fresh glimpses into a case that’s gripped the public since 1963.

    I utilized GROK Artificial Intelligence (AI) to scan the media landscape and reporting so far, in order to summarize any significant findings and analyses.

    Please note that AI is a helpful but imperfect tool. The following information is an AI-gathered summary that may be subject to change and revisions. I’ve included specific cites for the material quoted.

    By way of background, the long awaited release of the files stems from the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act. That was driven, in part, by the 1991 film JFK by director and producer Oliver Stone.

    JFK follows New Orleans DA Jim Garrison as he investigates a conspiracy behind President Kennedy’s 1963 assassination, challenging the Warren Commission’s “lone-gunman” conclusion.

    The Act mandated full disclosure of records by 2017 — unless the President were to make certain determinations to withhold them. President Donald Trump told me in an interview Sunday that “certain people” in the administration whom he respected asked him not to release all of the documents back then and he agreed not to. He did release some. However, he told me he now wishes he had released them all back then. He added that several thousand new documents had been found in the interim period. President Joe Biden released more but continued to withhold some documents from release.

    The New York Times notes that 99% of the roughly 320,000 known Kennedy papers—over 5 million pages—were public before yesteray, but over 2,100 remained withheld for security reasons, and 2,500 more under seals (The New York Times, March 18, 2025, 19:42 EDT).

    Trump’s 2017 and Biden’s 2022–2023 releases (e.g., 13,173 docs in 2022) came with redactions, but this week’s release, boosted by a new FBI find of 2,400 records, aims for completeness (Forbes, March 18, 2025, 19:24 EDT).

    Here’s some of what’s being reported so far.

    CIA Tracking of Oswald: LiveMint reports that unredacted CIA memos show the agency tracked Lee Harvey Oswald more closely than admitted, detailing his Mexico City embassy visits weeks before the assassination (LiveMint, March 18, 2025, 22:22 EDT). The Washington Post adds that these files suggest missed opportunities rather than agency involvement, offering no conspiracy proof but more operational insight (The Washington Post, March 18, 2025, 21:41 EDT). NBC News frames it as “details on intelligence operations,” reinforcing Oswald’s lone role (NBC News, March 18, 2025, 19:49 EDT).

    Grassy Knoll Evidence: LiveMint highlights ballistic hints and witness accounts suggesting a possible grassy knoll shot, contradicting the lone-gunman narrative of three shots from the Texas School Book Depository (LiveMint, March 18, 2025, 22:22 EDT). StupidDOPE labels these “electrifying,” challenging the Warren Commission’s 8.6-second timeline, though AP News cautions it’s not definitive yet (StupidDOPE, March 18, 2025, 17:00 EDT; AP News, March 18, 2025, 19:23 EDT).

    Ruby’s Mob Ties: StupidDOPE reports wiretaps that tie Jack Ruby to the mob, suggesting he acted to silence Oswald under organized crime pressure, not impulse (StupidDOPE, March 18, 2025, 17:00 EDT). The Economic Times notes researchers are still assessing these links, but they could deepen conspiracy theories about external players (The Economic Times, March 18, 2025, 21:33 EDT).

    Why Withheld Until Now: The New York Times explains that agencies like the CIA withheld these details—e.g., a 1966 memo on fluoroscopic tech—for security, protecting sources and methods (The New York Times, March 18, 2025, 19:42 EDT). ABC News says redactions are now gone, with Jefferson Morley calling it “encouraging” for a third of 3,500 files (ABC News, March 18, 2025, 23:15 EDT).

    No Big Reveal—Yet: The New York Times cites scholars like Jonathan Eig doubting a “smoking gun,” given prior releases (The New York Times, March 18, 2025, 19:42 EDT). Forbes agrees, noting the 1,123 PDFs—mostly short—uphold Oswald’s solo act (Forbes, March 18, 2025, 19:24 EDT). The Independent confirms Trump’s “no redactions” promise holds (The Independent, March 18, 2025, 22:25 EDT).

    Document Challenges: The New York Times reports some files are “illegible” or photocopy-damaged, slowing review (The New York Times, March 18, 2025, 19:42 EDT). PBS News adds that while CIA memos on Oswald are clearer, the 80,000-page volume delays breakthroughs (PBS News, March 18, 2025, 13:59 EDT).

    Context and Next Steps: Fox News ties this to Trump’s transparency push, though USA Today notes legal seals remain (Fox News, March 18, 2025, 11:50 EDT; USA Today, March 18, 2025, 19:04 EDT). AP News says more files and 2,400 FBI docs may follow, per Morley (AP News, March 18, 2025, 19:23 EDT). Reuters sees it as a promise kept, with more to explore (Reuters, March 18, 2025, 21:59 EDT).

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  18. Sean Davis
    @seanmdav
    John Roberts didn’t just go out of his way yesterday to trash Trump on a purely political matter—impeachment of corrupt judges—over which Roberts has no authority.

    He did it by selectively leaking his statement to left-wing corporate media outlets, lying about its nature (claiming it was only in response to press inquiries rather than a general statement), and then refusing to provide the full statement to conservative media outlets when requested, including @FDRLST
    .

    To date, no one knows the full extent of what Roberts and his taxpayer-funded PR agents have said, because no record of any statement from the court can be found anywhere on the Supreme Court website, a shocking breach of protocol and transparency.

    Did the left-wing corporate media outlets hand-picked by Roberts to receive his political rant print it in full, or did they selectively quote it? It is impossible to know, because the Chief Justice is refusing to be transparent about what he said and who he said it to.

    I have now asked the Supreme Court public information office five separate times to be provided a copy of Roberts’ full statement. I was hung up on twice, rudely told to send an email by someone who thought that was easier than just answering why the statement wasn’t on the Supreme Court’s website, and have sent multiple e-mail inquiries that have been ignored by government employees whose sole job is to respond to media inquiries.

    Do these sound like the actions of an impartial jurist doing his best to defend the Constitution and the rule of law? Or does that sound like something a nakedly political partisan activist would do?

    You would think an institution that nearly got two of its own members killed after a leak of its deliberations would go to great leaks to make sure all statements and records of the Court would be transparently provided to everyone at the same time, as opposed to leaking statements—and comments about them from Supreme Court PIO staff—to select news outlets for the purpose of politically shaping coverage.

    You would think that, but you’d be wrong. We have known for more than a decade that John Roberts is a political schemer, not an impartial jurist. His latest anti-Trump rant—and his refusal to be honest and transparent about it—only makes his gamesmanship more obvious, and more dangerous to the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

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  21. House GOP Moves Swiftly to Impeach Judge Targeted By Trump

    Just hours after President Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans over the weekend, House Republicans introduced a measure to do just that.

    Why it matters: GOP lawmakers have unleashed an unprecedented flood of long-shot impeachment articles aimed at federal judges who are standing in the way of the president’s agenda.

    James Boasberg, chief judge of the D.C. District Court, is at least the fifth federal judge who is facing a House GOP impeachment attempt after issuing a ruling unfavorable to the administration. Trump’s comments on Tuesday targeting Boasburg spurred a rare public rebuke from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

    Driving the news: Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) said Tuesday he is introducing articles of impeachment against Boasberg, arguing he “overstepped his authority, compromised the impartiality of the judiciary, and created a constitutional crisis.” – Axios

    Our Take: This is the judge that presided over Kevin Clinesmith’s case in #RussiaGate and Ray Epps’ case in January 6. This judge is a political animal, and his bias is on the record, but it’s the law that matters in this impeachment play:

    The Alien Enemies Act commits to the President’s sole and unreviewable discretion the authority to invoke the provisions of the Act, including the power to determine whether an invasion has taken place. As the Supreme Court has explained, for a court to second-guess a President’s determination under the Alien Enemies Act “would be assuming the functions of the political agencies of the Government” and “[i]t is not for [courts] to question” the President’s determinations under the Alien Enemies Act because “[t]hese are matters of political judgement for which judges have neither technical competence nor official responsibility.” Ludecke V.6 Watkins, 335 US. 160 (1948). – Boasberg Impeachment Resolution, Rep Brandon Gill (R-TX)

    President Trump is executing his Constitutional authorities – these actions are not subject to judicial review. This court doesn’t have jurisdiction.

    I guess we have to make it really official. Until then, Judge Jeb and his unconstitutional actions should be ignored. Honestly, he should enjoy his freedom while he has it.

    As Paul Fleuret and I discussed on Sunday’s Culture of Change, this case feels like the death rattle of the DC District Court’s tyrannical reign. Later in the brief, you’ll see it’s one of many final stands by probably illegitimate judges.
    – Ashe in America

    ***

    Another Take:

    Judges have no power whatsoever in this situation. President Donald Trump is operating within the bounds of the original Constitution with the obvious and overwhelming mandate of the people backing him up. – Chris Paul

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  22. Republican Who Introduced Trump Derangement Syndrome Bill Arrested for Soliciting a Minor

    A Republican state lawmaker in Minnesota who recently introduced a bill to create a mental illness category for liberals obsessed over Donald Trump was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution.

    Minnesota senator Justin Eichorn was arrested and booked on Tuesday. He believed he was talking to a 17-year-old female, but was communicating instead with detectives from the Bloomington, Minnesota, police department, police allege.

    Eichorn, a 40-year-old whose biography on the Minnesota Senate website says he is married with four kids, faces felony charges for soliciting a minor to practice prostitution.

    “As a 40-year-old man, if you come to the Orange Jumpsuit District looking to have sex with someone’s child, you can expect that we are going to lock you up,” Booker Hodges of the Bloomington police department said in a statement. – The Guardian

    Our Take: Amplify this story everywhere. Predators and pedophiles are not limited to one political party. In fact, such monsters are master manipulators and will infiltrate every movement to shield their true nature.

    I don’t care who is implicated by complete and total transparency about the crimes against children. Every cover up must be exposed. Every lie must be revealed. And every monster that preys on children must be held to account and removed from society.

    If you harm children, you forfeit your right to breathe air. I really don’t care about your politics. – Ashe in America

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  23. Strange Sounds:

    “What’s up with that? Just a CCP Virus in the Mojave Desert…

    Near Yermo, California…

    Kind of crazy, isn’t it?

    The Yellow Peril…

    Infiltrated in the US?

    That statue was actually destroyed by a Chinese communist group operating inside the US and tasked with attacking people promoting democracy in China. They got mad enough at this statue in the middle of nowhere to attack it which was their downfall.

    State department got them…2 of them were federal law enforcement officers… Well, if this surprises you, you are not paying attention. Meaning: Chinese nationalists have been infiltrating your LEO community for decades…

    So this is what those Chinese border crossers are up to?”

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  25. You rock, Gutfeld!!! ROFL

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Chief Justice John Roberts angered a large number of people with his attack on President Donald Trump’s comments, but few were as vocal as Greg Gutfeld. The Fox News host was beyond livid, laying into Roberts for defending U.S. District Judge James Boasberg while slamming Trump’s call for impeachment.

    “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,” the chief judge said.

    (Video – it’s from Fox so ads are included)

    “Look, John Roberts says it’s not appropriate. It’s not an appropriate response when you disagree with the judge. It is really a surprise to me that Trump doesn’t follow the appropriate protocol when there are rapists and murderers invading our country,” Gutfeld said dryly.

    “Maybe a guy in a robe in DC can follow all the protocols, but Trump is the effing President of the United States who protects 300 million plus people. He is a leader who does not have the luxury of opening up his little books to read, ‘Oh, my God, maybe he didn’t do it the right way.’”

    Then the host offered the chief justice some advice of his own.

    “Roberts, shut the F-up. This is something that a president has to do.”

    Video: https://americanwirenews.com/gutfeld-tells-justice-roberts-to-shut-the-fk-up/

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  27. EXCERPT: “The Trump administration removed a Biden-era surgeon general’s advisory on the public health effects of gun violence and a similar webpage from the Health and Human Services (HHS) website.

    Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a public health advisory on “firearm violence,” declaring it to be a “public health crisis” in 2024, though a link to the report was recently scrubbed from the HHS site. The advisory was part of the Biden administration’s broader efforts to usher in additional gun control measures at the federal level.

    An HHS spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the agency and the Surgeon General are “complying with President Trump’s executive order on Protecting Second Amendment Rights” by removing the webpage.

    A related webpage on gun violence also now shows a “Page Not Found” notice. The 40-page advisory, still accessible via internet archives, outlined the physical and mental health impacts of gun violence and recommended a “public health approach” to combating gun violence…..”

    https://thedailybs.com/2025/03/18/trump-admin-scrubs-biden-era-firearm-violence-advisory-from-internet/

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  28. EXCERPT: “(The Center Square) – A coalition of state attorneys general is filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, urging the court to lift a nationwide restraining order that is “preventing” the “immediate deportation” of “Tren de Aragua gang members.”

    Leading the effort are Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who joined 24 other states after a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order Saturday evening temporarily halting the deportations of members of the Venezuelan gang. The order came as the aircraft carrying the gang members was airborne.

    The deportations followed President Donald Trump’s announcement that he was invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. This prompted Chief Judge James Boasberg to immediately issue a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of “all noncitizens in U.S. custody who are subject” to the president’s order.

    Boasberg ordered the planes en route to Central America to be turned around. The Trump administration immediately appealed Boasberg’s order to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

    The planes carrying the migrants arrived in El Salvador, with the Trump administration claiming they complied with the court order but that the aircraft was out of U.S. airspace by the time Boasberg issued his order.

    In January, the president designated Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization, along with seven other cartels from Latin America.

    In the latest brief, the coalition of attorneys general argues that allowing the TRO to stand “undermines public safety and national security, placing American lives at risk.”….

    “…..In addition to the attorneys general from Virginia and South Carolina, the following states joined the coalition: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.”

    https://thedailybs.com/2025/03/18/26-attorneys-general-file-brief-in-support-of-trumps-deportation-of-gang-members/

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  33. “The JFK Files Reveal the Deep State Playbook”

    Clandestine, Mar 19, 2025

    “AI is an amazing tool, but it’s not the arbiter of truth. It’s not the be-all end-all, and it’s not 100% accurate.

    If you want to actually understand what’s in the JFK files, you are going to have to read them, and you are going to have to draw some conclusions for yourself. There’s not going to be an official CIA doc that says “we killed JFK”, there is just a mountainous accumulation of evidence that the CIA were engaged in unfathomable criminality, to include:

    -Regime change

    -Biological warfare

    -Political warfare

    -Psychological warfare

    -Global control of media

    -Assassinations

    -Black market activities

    -Gun/drug trafficking

    -Etc.

    The reason Trump wanted to drop these JFK files, is because of the parallels to what is happening now. Trump is trying to educate the masses on how the game is played, so they can better understand what is happening in today’s world. The JFK files are a detailed outline of the Deep State playbook. It shows how the Deep State operate, and this playbook is utilized to this day.

    This will be necessary knowledge for the public to have when it comes time to reveal:

    -Who tried to assassinate Trump

    -Who created Covid

    -Who opened the southern border

    -Who weaponized the media

    -Who conducted regime change in Ukraine

    It’s the same exact playbook.

    This rollout is coordinated. They started with JFK for a reason. There is method to the madness!”

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  35. Clarion

    Clarion

    March 19, 2025 3:00 pm

    Welcome Home NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbuno!!

    Splashdown Confirmed!!

    Welcome Home NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbuno!!

    Thank you Space X & Thank God for Elon Musk!! pic.twitter.com/4zogFnH7Yl

    — Southern FFA Family (@FFAFamily) March 18, 2025

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  41. “And now, a statement from the former president……”

    “San Francisco “Pride” celebration sponsors pull funding”

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  42. NF: This is great news! They caused incredible damage!!!

    Just The News: “A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over its role in months-long protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017.

    After two days of deliberation, the New York Times reported, the jury returned the verdict. Energy Transfer, the owner and operator of the pipeline, filed the lawsuit in North Dakota state court against Greenpeace and Red Warrior Camp, which Energy Transfer claimed was a front for Greenpeace, and three individuals. 

    The lawsuit alleges that Greenpeace had engaged in a misinformation campaign with mass emails falsely claiming that the Dakota Access Pipeline would cross the sovereign land of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. In court filings, Energy Transfer claimed protesters engaged in a campaign of “militant direct action,” including trespassing on the company’s property, vandalizing construction equipment, and assaulting employees and contractors. 

    In testimony at the trial, Greenpeace maintained that it played only a minor role in what were protests led by indigenous groups. The organization argues, CNN reported, that the lawsuit is an effort on the part of the company to violate Greenpeace’s free speech rights. 

    “This is a test on our First Amendment rights during a very, very dangerous time in this country’s history,” Deepa Padmanabha, senior legal advisor for Greenpeace USA, told CNN. Padmanabha told the Associated Press, when asked if Greenpeace plans to appeal, that “this fight is not over.” 

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  46. “HMS Britannia entering Portsmouth (detail), by George Chambers 1835 The Britannia, 120 guns, is shown here entering Portsmouth on 4 February 1835, under the command of Captain Peter Rainier, after spending five-and-a-half years in the Mediterranean.”

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