The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire

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On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 146 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable–most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers.

The Triangle factory, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, was located in the top three floors of the Asch Building, on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, in Manhattan. It was a true sweatshop, employing young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at lines of sewing machines. Nearly all the workers were teenaged girls who did not speak English and worked 12 hours a day, every day. In 1911, there were four elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and the workers had to file down a long, narrow corridor in order to reach it. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent stealing and the other only opened inward. The fire escape was so narrow that it would have taken hours for all the workers to use it, even in the best of circumstances.

The danger of fire in factories like the Triangle Shirtwaist was well-known, but high levels of corruption in both the garment industry and city government generally ensured that no useful precautions were taken to prevent fires. Blanck and Harris already had a suspicious history of factory fires. The Triangle factory was twice scorched in 1902, while their Diamond Waist Company factory burned twice, in 1907 and in 1910. It seems that Blanck and Harris deliberately torched their workplaces before business hours in order to collect on the large fire-insurance policies they purchased, a not uncommon practice in the early 20th century. While this was not the cause of the 1911 fire, it contributed to the tragedy, as Blanck and Harris refused to install sprinkler systems and take other safety measures in case they needed to burn down their shops again.

Added to this delinquency were Blanck and Harris’ notorious anti-worker policies. Their employees were paid a mere $15 a week, despite working 12 hours a day, every day. When the International Ladies Garment Workers Union led a strike in 1909 demanding higher pay and shorter and more predictable hours, Blanck and Harris’ company was one of the few manufacturers who resisted, hiring police as thugs to imprison the striking women, and paying off politicians to look the other way.

What Started The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?

On March 25, a Saturday afternoon, there were 600 workers at the factory when a fire began in a rag bin. The manager attempted to use the fire hose to extinguish it, but was unsuccessful, as the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. As the fire grew, panic ensued. The young workers tried to exit the building by the elevator but it could hold only 12 people and the operator was able to make just four trips back and forth before it broke down amid the heat and flames. In a desperate attempt to escape the fire, the girls left behind waiting for the elevator plunged down the shaft to their deaths. The girls who fled via the stairwells also met awful demises–when they found a locked door at the bottom of the stairs, many were burned alive.

Those workers who were on floors above the fire, including the owners, escaped to the roof and then to adjoining buildings. As firefighters arrived, they witnessed a horrible scene. The girls who did not make it to the stairwells or the elevator were trapped by the fire inside the factory and began to jump from the windows to escape it. The bodies of the jumpers fell on the fire hoses, making it difficult to begin fighting the fire. Also, the firefighters’ ladders reached only seven floors high and the fire was on the eighth floor. In one case, a life net was unfurled to catch jumpers, but three girls jumped at the same time, ripping the net. The nets turned out to be mostly ineffectual.

Within 18 minutes, it was all over. A total of 146 people were killed by the fire due to severe burns, smoke inhalation, falls from great heights and injuries sustained during the incident.

The fire helped unite organized labor and reform-minded politicians like progressive New York Governor Alfred E. Smith and Senator Robert F. Wagner, one of the legislative architects of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda. Frances Perkins, who served on a committee that helped to set up the Factory Investigating Commission in New York in the wake of the fire, would later become Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor. The workers union set up a march on April 5 on New York’s Fifth Avenue to protest the conditions that had led to the fire. It was attended by 80,000 people.

Despite a good deal of evidence that the owners and management had been horribly negligent in the fire, a grand jury failed to indict them on manslaughter charges. To settle lawsuits against them, they eventually paid $75 in compensation to each victim’s family—a fraction of the $400 per death that they were paid by their insurer.

Still, the massacre for which they were responsible did finally compel the city to enact reform. In addition to the Sullivan-Hoey Fire Prevention Law passed that October, the New York Democratic set took up the cause of the worker and became known as a reform party. Both were crucial in preventing similar disasters in the future.

SOURCE: HISTORY.COM

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    1. Morning kea!
      right out of high school, i got a job at a factory. we made infant and children’s sleepwear. There were a lot of Portuguese women working there too–older ones mostly and they rarely spoke English. When a few younger Portuguese women started, they spoke English and told us that those ladies were “dirty old women”…lol.
      As they got to know me, they did speak some English and that younger was right…LOL
      Thankfully, our building was it’s own building on the ground with several fire exits.

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    1. Good morning! Oh, no! Not snow! Crossing my fingers that it’s just frost. Temp here is 39, with some light rain predicted the next couple of days but warmer temps – we may even hit the 70’s!

      I had never heard of this fire – despicable! I did a little search to find out what happened afterward and found this article:

      “What became of the Triangle factory owners? The names Isaac Harris and Max Blanck probably don’t resonate with New Yorkers today.

      Yet 114 years ago, everyone knew them: Harris and Blanck (below) owned the Triangle Waist Company on Greene Street, where a devastating fire killed 146 employees on March 25, 1911……”

      “…..On December 27, they were acquitted. “Isaac Harris and Max Blanck dropped limply into their chairs as their wives began quietly sobbing behind them,” wrote David Von Drehle in Triangle.

      To avoid an angry mob of family members outside the courthouse demanding justice, the two men were smuggled through a side exit away from their waiting limousines. They went into the subway instead.

      Immediately they relaunched the Triangle company on Fifth Avenue and 16th Street.

      But their names made headlines again. “All of their revenue went into paying off their celebrity lawyer, and they were sued in early 1912 over their inability to pay a $206 water bill,” states PBS.org.

      Blanckandharrisfactoryafterfire

      “Despite these struggles, the two men ultimately collected a large chunk of insurance money—$60,000 more than the fire had actually cost them in damages. Harris and Blanck had made a profit from the fire of $400 per victim.”

      In 1913, at a new factory on 23rd Street, Blanck paid a $25 fine for locking a door during working hours, and he was warned during an inspection that factory was rife with fire hazards.

      Blanckandharris9thfloorafterfire

      A year later, the two were caught sewing fraudulent labels into their shirtwaists that claimed the clothes had been made under sound conditions.

      By 1918, after agreeing to pay $75 per deceased employee to families that had brought civil suits against them, they threw in the towel and disbanded the company.”

      What became of the Triangle factory owners?

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  9. TheseTruths
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    March 25, 2025 00:55

    Yesterday I posted this article…

    Calif. AG issues stark warning to 15 million 23andMe users as bankruptcy looms: ‘Delete your data’

    …and made this comment:
    “Suspicious cat thinks the data is probably already in the hands of some agency. Still, it would be a good idea to delete it.”

    And James O’Keefe posted this:

    We have a U.S. Treasury Policy Advisor on tape telling us 23andMe has been sharing consumer data with “pharmaceutical companies,” including the “Ministry of Defense of Russia.”

    Seems like they’ve got bigger issues than financial instability.

    We have a U.S. Treasury Policy Advisor on tape telling us 23andMe has been sharing consumer data with “pharmaceutical companies,” including the “Ministry of Defense of Russia.”

    Seems like they’ve got bigger issues than financial instability. https://t.co/WEHfnilncw pic.twitter.com/ROGQWCqvgW

    — James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 24, 2025

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    1. I know for a fact that they’ve shared the DNA in their data bases. It’s written in the T’s & C’s (terms and conditions). I was considering doing it over 10 years ago to see if there was American Indian blood from my Dad…..until I, once again, read the fine print. It states in black and white that they can do whatever they want with the data, including selling it. Same for Ancestry! I watch the show “Long Lost Family” that uses Ancestry to track down family members of those who were adopted. I’ve never really understood peoples’ drive to find such info but my situation was totally different – I was old enough to know both families already. I’ve often asked myself if I would have felt that need had the circumstances been different and I really don’t think so. They also sell it to the police, who use it to track down familial matches in order to solve crimes.

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        1. We’ve always been kind of curious about my Dad since he was adopted as an infant. My Mom said she met his Mom once and she did have dark skin but whether it was American Indian or from India, she wasn’t sure. Since my brother and I were so decidedly different from the other kids, it raised questions. And we both have/had straight brown hair, small stature and somewhat darker skin. Soooo many adoptions, in both my birth and adopted families.

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            1. My birth family is primarily PA Dutch, some German, some English – my birth Dad was the one-off. Adopted family is German (Mom) and English (Dad). All immigrated legally.

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  11. TheseTruths

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    March 25, 2025 01:11

    JUST IN: President Trump Revokes Secret Service Protection for Disgraced Former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

    …The Post notes that Mayorkas was not automatically guaranteed Secret Service protection after leaving office in January, but Joe Biden ordered a six-month extension. 

    This means his security detail would have run through for almost four more months had Trump not removed it.

    Biden had extended his children’s details for the same time as Mayorkas…

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  15. Fox is going to the dark side more and more every day…..

    EXCERPT: “Fox News reporter Trey Yingst took to the airwaves to accuse Israel of killing “two Palestinian journalists, Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat.” Mansour worked for the terror organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s media network, Filastin Al-Youm, while Israeli intelligence released months ago showing that Shabat served as a sniper in a Hamas battalion, none of which Yingst disclosed.

    Yingst, Fox’s chief foreign correspondent, leveled the charge during a Monday morning appearance on America’s Newsroom. He referenced “new developments out of Gaza today, where two Palestinian journalists, Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat, were killed by the Israelis.”

    “Last year, 124 journalists were killed around the world, two-thirds of them in Gaza,” Yingst concluded. “More to come, unfortunately,” host Bill Hemmer responded.

    Shabat’s Hamas affiliations have long been known. In September, Egyptian-British researcher Khaled Hassan unearthed Shabat’s social media posts from Oct. 7, 2023. In them, Shabat shared celebratory captions and emojis alongside photos of Hamas terrorists infiltrating Israel and returning to Gaza. “All of Beit Hanon is at the garage, receiving the kidnapped soldiers,” he wrote in one message, referencing the Israeli hostages that included a 9-month-old baby. “The heroes are in Beit Hanon,” he wrote alongside a photo of the returning terrorists.

    One month later, Israel released declassified intelligence that originated from documents discovered in the Gaza Strip during military operations. The documents revealed that six Al Jazeera journalists, including Shabat, were actually terrorists affiliated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The intelligence included Arab-language documents that show terrorist training courses, salary records, and personnel tables. They listed Shabat as a sniper in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion.

    Fox’s LiveNow network covered the documents under the headline, “Israel-Hamas war: IDF exposes Al Jazeera journalists as Hamas terrorists.”

    “I wanted to share this breaking news with you as well, this is from the Israel Defense Forces: ‘Exposed: Six Al Jazeera journalists have been exposed as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists,'” said host Stephanie Coueignoux.

    Mansour, for his part, worked for a news station, Filastin Al-Youm (or Palestine Today), that is part of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Israeli forces raided the station’s West Bank headquarters in 2016 and arrested its director, Farouk Alian. The station continued to broadcast from Gaza, where it worked to “incite the population, calling for terrorist attacks against the State of Israel and its citizens,” the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, said in a statement at the time.

    Neither Fox nor Yingst responded to requests for comment…..”

    https://freebeacon.com/media/fox-news-accuses-israel-of-killing-two-palestinian-journalists-both-have-terror-affiliations/

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  16. “Mahmoud Khalil Omitted Work for Terror-Tied UNRWA From Green Card Application, Prosecutors Say — Detained Columbia protest leader served as a political affairs officer for the agency at the time of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack, court filing shows”

    Free Beacon, Jessica Costescu and Jessica Schwalb, March 24, 2025

    L:Mahmoud Khalil addresses reporters during Columbia University encampment R: UNRWA office in the Gaza Strip (Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images)

    EXCERPT: “Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University protest leader in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, hid his work for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) when he applied for a green card, according to federal prosecutors. Khalil worked for the terror-tied agency at the time of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and concealing the job while applying for permanent residency last March justifies his deportation, the prosecutors say.

    A Department of Homeland Security document filed in court on Thursday states Khalil—a Columbia graduate student and spokesman for the notorious anti-Semitic student group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest—”failed to disclose” his position as an UNRWA political affairs officer, which he held from June 2023 to November 2023. Khalil also omitted a second position with the Syria office at the British embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, according to the filing.

    The filing comes as Khalil, a Syrian native and Algerian national who is married to an American citizen, challenges his impending deportation, arguing that his detention is a violation of his First Amendment right to free speech. Green card applicants who “conceal group memberships” that would threaten their residency status are considered guilty of fraud. Federal prosecutors will need to prove that Khalil willfully omitted his work for UNRWA and the Syria office.

    “Khalil’s First Amendment arguments falter on their own terms,” Department of Justice prosecutors wrote in a Sunday court filing. “Khalil withheld membership in certain organizations and failed to disclose continuing employment by the Syria Office in the British Embassy in Beirut when he submitted his adjustment of status application.”….”

    https://freebeacon.com/campus/mahmoud-khalil-omitted-work-for-terror-tied-unrwa-from-green-card-application-prosecutors-say/

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  17. LA CROSSE, Wis. – Residents in Wisconsin observed an astonishing moment when dozens of bald eagles gathered on frozen waters. The national bird of the United States typically catches people’s eyes when spotted in the wilderness. Its bold and natural beauty stands out, and its representation of strength and freedom is part of why this bird represents our proud nation.

    Traffic cameras from the Department of Transportation in La Crosse captured a gathering of over 40 bald eagles on the frozen waters of the Black River.

    Residents joked on the DOT Facebook post that the lake will now be renamed the “Lake of America” due to the large numbers of American Bald Eagles overtaking the area. [I tried to watch the FB video but it’s blocked unless you’re on FB]

    Traffic cameras in La Crosse recently captured a gathering of more than 40 bald eagles on the frozen waters of the Black River near French Island. 

    (Wisconsin Department of Transportation / Facebook)

    According to History.com, the bald eagle’s role as a national symbol is connected to its 1782 landing on the Great Seal of the United States. The symbol can be seen on the U.S. dollar bill.

    Despite the high number of bald eagles gathering at this location in Wisconsin, Alaska has the largest population of bald eagles in the U.S., with about 30,000 birds, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.”

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    1. OH HOW COOL!!!!

      we saw 2 bald eagles late last summer coming home from NY. there’s a river along the route we travel and they have a nest there, so they return every year. one of the floods they had removed 2 trees that now gives a better view of the nest on the far side of the river. some times they hunt in the fields and you can see them like we did.

      my son and dil have stunning photos of them from their Alaskan cruise they took last summer. one is a pic of dil standing near the railing of a pier and there’s an eagle sitting on the railing near her–they are very used to people in the area. they are HUGE!

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      1. They can be seen here in NE near the big rivers. When my Sis and I went on a river dinner cruise (really cheap and disappointing but this is NE soooo…..LOL), we saw several of them in the trees along the river. I used to see them all the time in VA.

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  19. EXCERPT: “….President Donald Trump earlier this month ordered large-scale attacks on the Houthis, a radical Islamist group that is allied with Iran.

    “They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft, and drones,” Trump said, citing rebel attacks ongoing in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since October 7th, 2023. “Joe Biden’s response was pathetically weak, so the unrestrained Houthis just kept going.”

    “The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated,” Trump added. “We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective.”

    It’s not surprising to see Tlaib side with the Houthis. This past July, the Michigan Democrat, who is Palestinian American and one of just three Muslim members of Congress, taunted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to Congress with an auction-style paddle that alternately read “War Criminal” and “Guilty of Genocide.”

    Tlaib was censured for anti-Israel comments and for promoting war propaganda from Hamas in 2023. She has a rich and established history of obscene behavior, promoting terrorist sympathizers and denouncing American allies.

    Five months prior to the October 7th terror attack on Israel perpetrated by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups, Tlaib posed for pictures and spoke to attendees at an art show advocating for Israel’s destruction and promoting known terrorists.

    Less than two weeks after the heinous attacks, Tlaib tearfully incited a pro-Palestinian riot in D.C. by parroting Hamas propaganda about a hospital attack that turned out to be disinformation. Hundreds of insurrectionists were arrested…..”

    Representative Tlaib is one of the most anti-American members of Congress today. Her behavior has far exceeded censure levels. It’s time for expulsion.”

    https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/03/24/tlaib-faces-backlash-for-comment-on-airstrikes-against-houthis-theyre-bombing-terrorists-rashida-n2187055

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  20. “Huge: HUD, DHS Blocking Use of Tax Dollars for Housing Illegal Aliens”

    Red State, Ward Clark, March 24, 2025

    AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “This ought to save the taxpayers a few dollars. On Monday, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced the signing of a “memorandum of understanding” ending the use of federal monies to house illegal aliens, directing that any such funds should go to helping American citizens.

    What an amazing idea.

    U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem today signed the “American Housing Programs for American Citizens” Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), to end the wasteful misappropriation of taxpayer dollars to benefit illegal aliens instead of American citizens.

    As part of this new agreement, HUD will provide a full-time staff member to assist in operations at the Incident Command Center (ICC), establishing an interagency partnership to facilitate data sharing and ensure taxpayer-funded housing programs are not used to harbor or benefit illegal aliens.

    “American tax dollars should be used for the benefit of American citizens, especially when it comes to an issue as pressing as our nation’s housing crisis,” said Secretary Scott Turner. “This new agreement will leverage resources including technology and personnel to ensure American people are the only priority when it comes to public housing. We will continue to work closely with DHS to maximize our resources and put American citizens first.”

    “The Biden Administration prioritized illegally aliens over our own citizens, including by giving illegal aliens taxpayer-funding housing at the expense of Americans. Not anymore. The entire government will work together to identify abuse and exploitation of public benefits and make sure those in this country illegally are not receiving federal benefits or other financial incentives to stay illegally. If you are an illegal immigrant, you should leave now. The gravy train is over,” said Secretary Kristi Noem.

    This will doubtless be challenged — and likely before another of the many activist judges who seem to be springing up like dandelions on a summer day, but once again, the left finds itself in the interesting (and amusing) position of defending spending taxpayer funds to house and feed people who are in the country illegally. Once more, they are on the “20” side of an 80-20 issue.

    Seems like a win-win. This should, of course, go far beyond housing, although that would necessarily encompass departments beyond HUD and DHS. Any government benefit, from SNAP to housing to energy assistance to anything, even so much as a quarter for a phone call – assuming pay phones still exist – should only go to citizens and people in the country legally. Enter illegally, and you’re on your own; no food, no housing, no nothing, no kidding. Oh, and if you work, we’re taxing the ever-loving daylights out of any remittances you send home unless you can show a green card or a work visa. And when you turn around, an ICE officer will be there.

    It’s about time we restored the rule of law in the United States. This is another step in that direction, and once again, we see that all it took was a new president. You can read the entire memorandum here.”

    https://www.hud.gov/sites/default/files/PA/documents/DHS-HUD-MOU-032425.pdf

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  21. “Allentown City Employee Caught in Noose Hoax, Faces Charges”

    Red State, Ward Clark, March 24, 2025    

    Image by Tammy Cuff from Pixabay

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “It’s getting to the point that whenever we read or hear of another racist incident, such as a noose, racist graffiti, or threatening note, we sit back and wait for it to be revealed as a hoax. Case in point: In Allentown, Pennsylvania, a city employee, LaTarsha Brown, claimed to have found a noose on her desk.

    Now she’s in trouble because she allegedly put it there and made a false report.

    Allentown officials announced charges Monday against a city employee, alleging that she made a false police report and tampered with evidence after reporting she found a noose on her desk in January.

    LaTarsha Brown, who works for the city’s community and economic development department, faces charges of making false reports, a third-degree misdemeanor, and tampering with and fabricating physical evidence, a misdemeanor of the second degree.

    City police in January announced an investigation into an incident where a city employee, later identified as Brown, found an item resembling a noose on her desk when she reported for work in the morning. A group of activists several days later held a protest outside City Hall, calling for justice and accountability and labeling the incident a hate crime. City officials announced two days after the protest that the FBI was involved in the investigation.

    DNA, as it happens, is a harsh mistress.

    However, a few weeks into the investigation in late January, a Lehigh County judge approved a search warrant for Brown’s DNA. An affidavit alleged that Brown was not cooperating with the investigation, made “vague statements and gave deceptive answers” to investigators and refused to voluntarily provide a DNA sample.

    According to the affidavit supporting the charges against Brown, only her DNA was found on the outside of the noose and the inner knotted portion when it was untied. DNA also had been collected from nine other employees who were identified as being on the third floor between the time Brown left the night before and when she found the noose. None was a match. Police said the other employees voluntarily gave DNA samples.

    Why would someone initiate a pathetic hoax like this? There could be any number of reasons. LaTarsha Brown may simply be attention-seeking, looking for her personal fifteen minutes of, if not fame, then notoriety. In that, she has succeeded, although perhaps not in the way she would have liked. She may have been hoping to leverage the event into a promotion, or some kind of settlement from the city – but it’s hard to credit anyone thinking there wouldn’t have been any kind of investigation.

    LaTarsha Brown is, somewhat surprisingly, still employed by the city, although that may not last if she is found guilty – at least, we should hope not, as this seems rather obvious grounds for dismissal.

    Brown, who also is a member of the Allentown School Board, is still employed by the city; officials did not comment on the future of her employment when asked. Police Chief Charles Roca would not speculate on a motive.

    Brown is scheduled for a preliminary hearing April 22 before Magisterial District Judge Karen Devine.

    And she’s on the school board. Oh good.

    My Old Man used to say that dishonesty is its own punishment, and as usual, he was right, but in this case, there will be more consequences for LaTarsha Brown than just embarrassment. That’s as it should be.”

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  22. Wethal

    Wethal

    March 25, 2025 9:42 am

    This is going to be fun. Elon’s next DOGE target is federal contractors:

    DOGE is requiring consultants with federal contracts to identify waste | Fox Business

    Consulting firms are instructed to identify spending by agency, then identify related contracts and projects to “further break down spending by functional category in simple layman terms (i.e. a 15 year old should be able to understand what service you provide and why it is important – no consultative jargon or gobbledygook.”

    GSA is also asking consulting firms to “detail how pricing is structured for each contract, project or category, explain any pricing differences between agencies and how these pricing structures compare to market information in your possession.”
    
    Firms are further instructed to “make recommendations of changes to pricing or pricing structures that would lead to savings for the U.S. taxpayer and provide a total identified cost takeout in your submission.”

    And the GSA wants it by Monday.

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  24. IMO, they should NOT be using these apps for government business!!!

    Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning said he still supports National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, after military plans were disclosed on a messaging app with The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief.

    “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump said during a phone call with NBC News.

    Trump’s senior national security officials accidentally shared sensitive details about strike plans on the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen with editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg through the encrypted messaging app Signal. 

    The messages between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Waltz and Vice President JD Vance and 15 other senior officials involved discussions in the lead up to the strikes carried out against the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group in Yemen last week and raises questions about the use of the private messaging app for conducting government business.” 

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  26. OK, I’m not posting many excerpts from this one – it’s just too heartbreaking! LATE TERM ABORTION SHOULD NOT BE LEGAL!!!! Only AFTER the abortion does she ask these questions!!!!

    EXCERPT: “….“Someone who’s performing this has an option of dismembering this baby part by part, while it is alive, or administering to digoxin, which would stop the fetal heart and then the baby’s demise would occur before the dismemberment,” Craig told the DCNF. “There was no administration of pain relief or anything like that. And a child at age 22 [weeks of pregnancy], it’s just a scientific fact, those children feel pain.”….

    “……The lawsuit accuses Reisinger-Kindle and the Equity Clinic of medical negligence and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

    The patient also accused Reisinger-Kindle of intentional infliction of emotional distress due to a phone call the two shared on April 5 during which Doe asked if her baby was a boy or girl, and the doctor responded by saying he would “check again” despite knowing the fetal remains were already discarded, the suit alleges, saying Reisinger-Kindle’s response was “outrageous, exceeded all bounds of human decency, and is intolerable in a civilized society.”

    “She does regret it, and I think that that regret set in the moment she wanted to learn whether she would have had a boy or a girl,” Craig informed the DCNF.

    An expert testimony provided for the lawsuit by a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist with experience performing late-term abortions added that due to Reisinger-Kindle’s alleged errors, the patient may suffer complications with any future pregnancy and delivery…..”

    https://thedailybs.com/2025/03/24/woman-faces-potentially-life-threatening-complications-after-abortionist-leaves-behind-half-of-dead-baby-lawsuit-says/

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  27. I’ve printed out the Tweet and am going to mail it to my Mom, who thinks Canadian healthcare is the best ever, thanks to my rich Canadian cousin!!! But I’ll wait to get an opinion from my Sis before I affix the stamp! It might cause a heart attack! LOL

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  28. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

    Our Take: “I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans. I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior U.S. officials, up to and including the vice president.”

    Ya think, Jeff?

    The author of this article is Jeffrey Goldberg – the editor in chief of The Atlantic, but you may remember him best as the tool bag who spun up the “Suckers and Losers” story, referring to the time Trump visited the cemetery in France for US soldiers who were killed in WW2.

    Assuming that Jeffrey Goldberg isn’t completely lying about all of this – and that is a major assumption, given his personal history of publishing fan-fiction as fact – and giving the benefit of the doubt that Jeff wasn’t being catfished by a bunch of anons, I actually think this “leak” was a strategic win for the Trump admin. (Assuming it is “real,” it’s likely a script that was written for Goldberg to publish; so I will analyze it as such.)

    It debunked the notion that the Houthi strike was in service to Israel (the most popular theory among Trump detractors), made clear that Trump was “bailing out” Europe, and also demonstrated that there was earnest debate among the cabinet.

    JD Vance comes out looking like the guy with his finger on the pulse of the movement, acknowledging that the strike might be a mistake, and that supporters may not understand why it was necessary. Hegseth explicitly states that they wanted to act before Israel, but also asserts that messaging will be difficult no matter what.

    The biggest concerns and criticisms surrounding the attack was that the Trump admin was tone deaf, was serving Israel’s interests, and was falling into the NeoCon/Forever War trappings of the Military Industrial Complex. It remains to be seen how this strike on the Houthis will shake out, but at least we now have affirmation that the administration doesn’t expect us to understand the decision to do it.

    With all of that said, I would love to learn that Jeffrey Goldberg got catfished by a bunch of anons. – GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

    ***

    Another Take: “Suckers and losers” hoaxer Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic…

    Who wanted this to become a public narrative? That’s the question. (Assuming the texts are real and Goldberg was added accidentally, which should not be assumed.) – Chris Paul

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  29. Kiev Wants Trump Envoy Sacked

    US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, who has played a central role in opening negotiations on resolving the Ukraine conflict, is “spreading Russian propaganda” and should be sacked, according to a senior Ukrainian lawmaker.

    The head of the Kiev’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Aleksandr Merezhko, made the remark in response to Witkoff’s interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, during which the envoy spoke about the status of former Ukrainian territories that have joined Russia, describing the issue as “an elephant in the room” that “no one wants to talk about.”

    “They’re Russian-speaking. There have been referendums where the overwhelming majority of the people have indicated that they want to be under Russian rule,” Witkoff said.

    “The Russians are de facto in control of these territories. The question is: Will the world acknowledge that those are Russian territories? Can [Vladimir] Zelensky survive politically if he acknowledges this? This is the central issue in the conflict,” he added.

    Merezhko strongly condemned the “disgraceful, shocking statements,” accusing the Witkoff of acting as an envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin rather than of the Trump. – RT

    Our Take: This one is interesting.

    If you haven’t listened to the interview between Tucker Carlson and Steve Witkoff, I recommend you do. If nothing else, you will gain insight into President Trump and how his peers in the real estate development industry view him. But frankly, Steve Witkoff provides some interesting nuggets of signal at certain points in the discussion — such as the fact that the disputed Ukrainian territories want to become part of Russia. (The very thing the Ukrainians are calling “Russian propaganda.”)

    The other interesting dynamic introduced by this story is that it is a mirror of the recent demand by the Russians to remove General Keith Kellogg as Envoy to Russia. (It appears that General Kellogg has since been re-designated as envoy only to Ukraine, and perhaps the reason that Witkoff was brought in from the Middle East.)

    It will be hilarious when Kiev doesn’t get the same respect as Moscow. It will be even funnier when the “Russian propaganda” is proven to be fact, and those territories become part of Russia. – GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  30. “It’s something like the idiots leading the idiots down idiotville road all the way to Idiot Town…   

    It’s almost impossible to believe that the loonie lefties wanna go farther left than they already are, but having AOC and Bernie out there leading their march to Dystopianburg certainly leaves us scratching our heads. If their ‘new ideas’ are represented by these two certifiable loons, they may not get back in to power for a decade or more. Light a candle to that thought…”

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  32. “Kid Rock was here (on his show) a couple of weeks ago and he said ‘I want you to meet Trump. I’m going to take you to the White House.’ So now we’re going to do that,” he said.

    “There will be lots of people on the left who will be like ‘How dare you talk to this man?’ Like fuck you. I’m not playing this game that you mean girls play,” he continued. “Where you’re like ‘you can’t sit at my lunch table, because I’m not talking to you.’ Not talking to you? You lost the election. Who the fuck do you think you have to talk to? It’s one thing if you win it. It’s another thing if you lose it,” he added. Thank you Breitbart. I think we needed to hear this…”

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  35. H/T Rodney

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  37. H/T Rodney

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  38. OK – my yard guy, Jason, and his wife stopped by. They will come tomorrow and clean out my flower beds and all the bark in the back yard. Yeah! And I’ve got to get busy soon clearing out my patio with the stuff to go to the dump.

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  39. WeThePeople2016

    WeThePeople2016

    March 25, 2025 2:09 pm

    ⚠️BREAKING: President Trump will sign an order freezing federal funding for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

    They were set to get $120,000,000 in funding.
    🇺🇸Join👉 @SGTnewsNetwork

    https://t.me/SGTnewsNetwork/88094

    BREAKING: The Trump administration is set to freeze $120 million in grant funding for Planned Parenthood.

    @GeneralMCNews

    https://t.me/GeneralMCNews/12936

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  40. WeThePeople2016
    WeThePeople2016
    March 25, 2025 2:12 pm

    👏👏👏👏

    🔥HUGE WIN: The 9th Circuit has just OVERTURNED a District Judge’s ruling which required President Trump to continue bringing refugees into the country, per Politico

    Trump can now pause ALL “refugee” admissions, as that program has been abused for YEARS by gang members and foreign criminals pouring across our border.
    🇺🇸Join👉 @SGTnewsNetwork

    https://t.me/SGTnewsNetwork/88097

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  41. Hmmm….only “partially….”

    Just The News: “The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday partially lifted a lower court order blocking President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the United States Refugee Assistance Program, including its funding.

    Trump initially faced an injunction from a lower court, though the Appellate Court overruled it while making clear that it did not affect those granted refugee status prior to Jan. 20, 2025. In making the ruling, the judges noted that the president has “ample power to impose entry restrictions in addition to those elsewhere enumerated in the INA.”

    https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-03/GetMergedFile.pdf

    At issue is Trump’s executive order suspending USRAP and freezing funding for the program. Under USRAP, the executive branch must review the refugee situation, project the expected participation in the program, and address any threats or concerns related to the entry of refugees into the U.S.

    A group of refugees and advocacy groups sued the administration over the freezing of their support and initially managed to secure a lower court injunction. The case will proceed through the normal legal channels, though Trump’s policy will mostly take effect.”

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      1. They’re all lizards but the bigger tan ones are bearded dragons – the kind Steve has.

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  47. Sarah Fields
    @SarahisCensored
    Solomun Weldekeal Araya, an 18-wheeler driver who was arrested and is facing intoxication charges after a North Austin crash that claimed five lives, including a four-year-old and an infant, was a contract driver for Amazon on a work visa from Ethiopia.

    He was transporting items from an out-of-state warehouse. He is not a Texas resident, and his CDL was not issued by Texas.

    The mainstream media is focusing on possible bad “work zone conditions” instead of the driver himself.

    A few days ago, I promised I would drop a thread on all of our findings. We investigated the LLC he works for and found information that the MSM has either not investigated or is refusing to report on.

    Read on for my full report on my findings. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may want to look into this 👇

    Included is the HEAVILY redacted Austin Police Report.

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    1. T. Turtle
      T. Turtle
      March 25, 2025 4:07 pm
      Reply to Clarion

      Amen Clarion!

      After reading the rest of the thread.
      The trucking LLC address listed is an apartment complex with numerous other trucking LLCs attached to it. The whole thing sounds like one big racket. Are ALL of these LLCs using “legal” immigrants with “work” visas?

      When searching related companies associated with the exact same address, we found nearly a dozen more transportation LLCs operating from the exact same address! They each had different apartment numbers. Here are just 4 of the pages I printed out for my records. It is now clear that this entire apartment building is part of a larger operation.

      We then decided to research Araya’s address we were able to find by doing a background check. His background held very little information aside from his address.

      Shocking! His address belongs to an LLC in California. unfortunately, you cannot see who owns the address in California because it is registered under multiple LLCs.

      According to a source who has provided me information regarding immigrants who have claimed asylum under the Biden administration, they stated that a majority of them were given the same birthday of 1/1/?

      I searched Araya’s birthday and sure enough, his birthdate according to his record is 1/1/88.

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      1. Sounds like a major scam to me! I’m going to send that to my Sis, see if she’s heard anything.

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  48. Wethal

    Wethal

    March 25, 2025 3:47 pm

    Awesome!!!

    The Fourth Circuit just stayed another Obama judge. This time it stayed the order directing Trump to reinstate USAID funding.

    It’s only an administrative stay until Thursday, but it’s a stay.

    The Fourth Circuit….doing the jobs John Roberts won’t do.

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  50. Charles R Downs
    @TheCharlesDowns
    I just left Capitol Police headquarters in DC where I filed a police report against Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett for ASSAULT, BATTERY AND ATTEMPTED THEFT OF MY CELL phone simply because I respectfully asked her to condemn the violence she has been inciting at @Tesla
    Showrooms.

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