New Mexico State Flower: Yucca

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Fun Facts about Yucca:

1. A Desert Survivor

Yucca plants are renowned for their ability to thrive in some of the harshest conditions. With their sword-like leaves and formidable spikes, yuccas are uniquely adapted to the arid desert environment.

These plants have evolved to conserve water by reducing the surface area of their leaves, making them ideal inhabitants of New Mexico’s dry climate. Their resilience in the face of adversity has made them a symbol of survival and adaptability.

2. Distinctive Features

Recognizing a yucca is relatively easy due to its distinctive appearance. Yucca plants typically have long, pointed leaves that can range from green to bluish-gray in color. Some varieties produce spectacular flowering stalks that shoot up from the center of the plant, bearing clusters of creamy white or pale yellow blossoms. These blooms often emit a sweet fragrance, attracting pollinators like yucca moths.

3. Edible and Medicinal Uses

Yucca is not just a survivor in the wild; it’s also an essential resource for humans. The plant’s edible flowers, fruit, and stems have been consumed by Native Americans for centuries. Yucca flowers are a delicacy when cooked, and the fruit pods can be roasted or ground into a nutritious flour. The roots of some yucca species contain saponins, natural compounds with cleansing properties, which have been used in traditional medicine for various purposes.

4. Landscaping 

The yucca plant’s unique beauty makes it a sought-after addition to xeriscaped gardens and desert landscaping. Its architectural form and low-maintenance requirements have made it a staple in New Mexican gardens, where it thrives with minimal water. However, it’s crucial to be mindful of preserving wild yucca populations, as some species are slow-growing and susceptible to overharvesting.

5. Yucca and Native American Culture

For centuries, yucca has held a significant role in Native American cultures across the Southwest. Indigenous communities have utilized various parts of the yucca plant for practical and spiritual purposes. The leaves of the yucca were woven into baskets, sandals, and even clothing, showcasing the plant’s versatility. Additionally, yucca’s durable fibers were used to create cordage and rope. In some cultures, the yucca plant holds symbolic importance, representing strength, protection, and resilience.

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  6. TheseTruths
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    Wolf
    April 11, 2025 00:43

    Newly declassified FBI memos detail concerns, payments to Russia collusion informant

    A key FBI informant in the widely-debunked Russia collusion case was paid nearly $1.2 million over three decades, was motivated in part by “monetary compensation,” and continued snitching even after agents concluded he told them an inaccurate story about future Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, newly declassified documents show.

    The nearly 700 pages of once-secret documents, obtained by Just the News, were recently turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan after President Donald Trump ordered them declassified at the start of his second administration.

    They provide the most extensive portrait yet of former FBI informant Stefan Halper, a Pentagon consultant and academic who, along with retired British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, was used by bureau agents to build the Crossfire Hurricane case against Trump and his advisers during the end of the 2016 election and the beginning of Trump’s first term in office.

    The memos confirm Halper was the source of one of the most sensational bogus claims to land in the FBI’s probe in summer 2016: that Flynn had left a 2014 foreign meeting alone with Russia scholar Svetlana Lokhova when he was a three-star general leading the Defense Intelligence Agency.

    [😡] FBI agents ultimately deemed Halper’s account to be “not plausible” and “not accurate”, but the bureau proceeded to investigate Flynn, kept paying Halper and continued to vouch for his veracity as a confidential human source codenamed “Mitch,” the memos show…

    Paid more than $1 million

    The new FBI records also show Halper was paid $70,000 by the FBI between August 2016 and the start of February 2017 — a time period spanning his activation as an informant targeting the Trump campaign and then the 2016 election and Trump’s inauguration. The FBI records also showed that the bureau had paid Halper “$1,181,064.44” from 1991 into early 2017.

    You can read the FBI’s declassified records on Halper here:

    Stefan Halper – Crossfire Hurricane Declassified Binder

    Many more details are provided at the link to the article.

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  7. kalbokalbs(@kalbokalbs)

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    Wolf

    April 11, 2025 06:54

    Another dumb bunny wokester bites the dust.

    Missing. Indications she’ll enjoy a Court Martial. Discharged. Accountability matters.

    BREAKING: Greenland Space Force Commander Relieved of Command After Sending Email Undermining President Trump“I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base,” Meyers wrote in the email, which was communicated to Military.com.

    https://www.theqtree.com/2025/04/11/health-friday-4-11-2025-open-thread-the-new-paper-detailing-the-cardiovascular-dangers-of-the-covid-19-vaccines/

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  9. S_Squared
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    Kilmer Armando Abrego Garcia , the illegal Immigrant terrorist MS13 high ranking member. Who cried “foul” in 2025… has a history;

    In 2011 he was entered the U.S. illegally

    In 2019 he got nabbed with a bunch if MS13 guys, who identified him as being a high ranking MS13 member

    He was arrested and brought to immigration court. He wanted bond, and the Government said no, he is a threat. He denied it and the judge made a ruling.

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  11. CAIR should be banned in the US!

    EXCERPT: “The Council on American Islamic Relations is seeking to block Columbia University from turning over records to Congress this week related to the pro-Hamas group Students for Justice in Palestine’s activities on campus, court filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

    The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) asked Columbia to produce records related to SJP’s activities, finances, potential links to terrorist groups, and overall “threats to campus safety” by Wednesday. CAIR, which is suing Columbia’s board of trustees on behalf of detained protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and several other foreign anti-Israel students, objected to the request.

    Releasing the documents, attorneys with CAIR’s legal defense fund argued, could implicate Khalil and his classmates. They asked a federal judge in New York to implement a 30-day review period, during which CAIR could assess the documents and file objections. The judge, Arun Subramanian, responded by ordering Columbia to delay the release of the documents until Friday for CAIR’s review, according to court filings.

    The ordeal comes as Columbia attempts to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds frozen by the Trump administration. To do so, it must placate federal regulators and lawmakers with policy changes meant to quell anti-Semitism on its campus. Many Columbia faculty members and students, however, object to those changes—as do anti-Israel activists groups like CAIR, which is working to stop Columbia from cooperating with the federal government.

    CAIR sued Columbia on behalf of Khalil and seven other Columbia and Barnard College students on Mar. 14, saying the school’s “decision to cooperate with this political witch hunt puts hundreds of students in danger of government retaliation, doxxing, and harassment.”

    The original lawsuit cited a February records request from a different body, the House Committee on Education and the Work Force, which requested disciplinary records related to the “takeover and occupation” of Hamilton Hall, as well as other illegal demonstrations. CAIR argued that the records would “be weaponized against students who dare to speak out against Palestine.”….”

    https://freebeacon.com/courts/cair-seeks-to-block-columbia-university-from-submitting-sjp-related-protest-records-to-congress/

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  12. EXCERPT: “On April 1, the chair of the University of California, Berkeley’s academic senate, Amani Nuru-Jeter, issued a dire warning about academic freedom.

    “Recent actions by the federal government,” she told colleagues in an email, “are chilling open inquiry and undermining self-governance at American universities.” She was referring to the Trump administration’s decision to pause $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University until the school agreed, as a precondition for negotiations, to overhaul its Middle Eastern studies department, where professors have equated Israel with Nazi Germany, derided the “Zionist cabal,” and glorified the Oct. 7 attacks.

    Critics had framed the administration’s demand as an unprecedented assault on academic freedom. Now Nuru-Jeter, formerly the executive associate dean of Berkeley’s School of Public Health, was joining the pile-on, circulating a statement on behalf of the senate that warned that the “fate of higher education” was at risk.

    “Current efforts to curtail academic freedom will stifle the rights of faculty to teach and conduct research without external interference,” the statement read. “If allowed to prevail, these actions will undermine the rights of students to study and learn through free inquiry into controversial material.”

    But at UC Berkeley, these rights were under attack long before the Trump administration’s war with Columbia. And the person who initiated the assault was none other than Nuru-Jeter herself, who in 2021 instituted a series of “antiracism” requirements for all courses taught at the school of public health.

    Those requirements included that at least 10 percent of course readings “focus on/be authored by people from Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) communities,” and that a third of all guest speakers be “BIPOC.” Professors also needed to update their syllabi with an “antiracism” statement that Nuru-Jeter personally helped draft, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

    Written in the form of a contract, the statement included a pledge to “disrupt harmful power dynamics” and remove students from class if they used language that could “alienate” others. Professors who did not uphold those pledges could potentially be dinged on their course evaluations, which, Nuru-Jeter announced in a 2021 email, would be updated to include questions on anti-racism…..”

    https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-top-berkeley-official-said-trump-threatened-academic-freedom-she-forced-professors-to-set-racial-quotas-for-course-readings-and-guest-lecturers/

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  13. “NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Parts Ways With Top DEI Officer In Wake of Free Beacon Report: Neela Rajendra said deadlines are an obstacle to ‘inclusion.’

    Free Beacon, Aaron Sibarium, April 11, 2025

    L: NASA JPL diversity officer Neela Rajendra R: NASA logo at the Jet Propulsion Lab (nasa.gov)

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory has parted ways with its top diversity officer, Neela Rajendra, after the Washington Free Beacon reported that the lab had changed her title in an effort to keep her.

    “Neela Rajendra is no longer working at [the Jet Propulsion Laboratory],” lab director Laurie Leshin said in an all-staff email on Thursday. “We are incredibly grateful for the lasting impact she made to our organization. We wish her the very best.”

    Leshin added that the newly formed Office of Team Excellence and Employee Success—intended to replace the DEI team Rajendra had led—would be moved to the Office of Human Resources.

    The staffing shakeup comes a week after the Free Beacon reported that Rajendra, who has argued that deadlines undermine inclusion, had not been among the 900 workers laid off by the lab in 2024 due to budget cuts. Even after NASA axed its central diversity office in response to the Trump administration’s executive orders, the jet propulsion lab kept Rajendra on as the head of employee success, scrubbing “diversity” and “inclusion” from her title but keeping many of her duties the same. The new office, for example, would continue to oversee “affinity groups,” according to a March 10 email from the lab, including the Black Excellence Strategic Team, or “B.E.S.T.”

    News of Rajendra’s continued employment came after a pair of NASA astronauts were stranded for nine months on the International Space Station. The debacle, which involved a faulty propulsion system, raised questions about whether the agency’s multimillion-dollar DEI budget had translated into safer spaceflight or more competent employees.

    In a 2022 presentation, Rajendra criticized SpaceX’s “fast-paced” culture and “failure to promote DEI,” linking those traits to the company’s high attrition rate. Three years later, it was a SpaceX capsule that rescued the stranded astronauts.

    The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory did not respond to a request for comment.”

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  14. “Republicans Probe Secret Biden-Era Settlement With Green Groups To Shut Down Family Ranches: ‘These are long-time community members that are being evicted and displaced,’ California rancher tells the Free Beacon”

    Free Beacon, Thomas Catenacci, April 10, 2025

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    EXCERPT: “A top House panel that oversees public land policies is investigating five green groups that brokered a settlement with federal officials in the waning days of the Biden administration, forcing family-owned ranches to vacate their leases on federal property over environmental concerns, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

    Under the January 2025 settlement between the green groups, owners of 11 multi-generational ranches, and the National Park Service, 12 of the 14 existing organic dairies and cattle ranches located across Point Reyes National Seashore in northern California will be abandoned by early 2026. The agreement was made possible by the Nature Conservancy, a Virginia-based group which financed the agreement and will pay the ranchers an undisclosed sum of money.

    The settlement is the culmination of a lawsuit the green groups in question filed against the National Park Service in 2022. The lawsuit argued that the agency had illegally leased Point Reyes National Seashore property for commercial beef and dairy ranching “despite the significant harm that it causes to environmental, scenic, and recreational values.” Environmental activists have long attacked ranching, arguing it destroys surrounding habitats and produces carbon emissions.

    But critics of the settlement say it ends one of the most successful public-private partnerships in recent memory and threatens to devastate the local economy while having impacts on consumers nationwide. They also argue the ranchers ultimately relented and signed the settlement only after years of environmental lawsuits—activists repeatedly accused the ranchers of destroying the environment, wildlife, and native plants—and a covert pressure campaign spearheaded by federal government officials.

    The congressional investigation—launched Thursday by House Natural Resources Committee chairman Bruce Westerman (R., Ark.) and six fellow Republicans—seeks to gather more information about how the settlement came together. And it seeks to home in on the Nature Conservancy’s activities leading up to the settlement…..”

    https://freebeacon.com/politics/republicans-probe-secret-biden-era-settlement-with-green-groups-to-shut-down-family-ranches/

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  15. “‘Stop Dunking on Defenseless Girls’: Billboards Outside Masters, Braves Game Blast Jon Ossoff Over Trans Sports Vote — Republicans see Ossoff as one of the most vulnerable Democrats in 2026”

    Free Beacon, Meghan Blonder, April 10, 2025

    (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

    “Mobile billboards spotted outside the Masters Tournament and a Braves game this week called on onlookers to tell Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) to “STOP DUNKING on Defenseless Girls.”

    “Protect Girls’ Sports!” the billboards in Augusta and Atlanta read. They included the phone number for the Democrat’s congressional office.

    The billboards accompany television ads that aired during the men’s and women’s Final Four basketball games and will run this week during the Masters tournament and Atlanta Braves broadcasts. The commercials center on Ossoff’s opposition to legislation that aimed to ban biological men from competing in women’s sports in federally funded schools. The bill passed the House in January, but died in the Senate last month.

    “Protecting girls should be a layup for any politician, but Senator Ossoff voted to block the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” a voiceover says in the ad, which features a man wearing an “Ossoff” jersey dunking a basketball over a woman. “Man-to-man defense isn’t woke enough for Ossoff. He’s for they/them.”

    The billboards and the ads—both paid for by the issue advocacy wing of the Republican’s Senate Leadership Fund, One Nation—come as the GOP sees Ossoff’s seat as a top Senate target for 2026. Gov. Brian Kemp is weighing a bid, with a Club for Growth poll in January showing the Georgia Republican winning in a hypothetical match against the incumbent.

    The ads carry a similar tone to commercials the Trump campaign ran last year, saying, “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”

    After former vice president Kamala Harris’s decisive loss in November, including in Georgia, Democrats’ post-mortems frequently questioned whether their support for trans issues played a role. California governor Gavin Newsom (D.), an expected 2028 presidential candidate, recently said it was “deeply unfair” for biological boys to compete against girls—a reversal from his previous position.”

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  20. Apple Flew Out 600 Tons of iPhones from India to the US to ‘Beat’ Trump’s Tariff Deadline

    Apple reportedly hurried 600 tons of iPhones — up to 1.5 million individual phones — out of India before President Donald Trump slapped the rest of the world with tariffs. The tech behemoth chartered flights to India in order to snatch up as many phones as possible, likely to try to build up its U.S. phone inventory.

    Analysts have cautioned that the price of iPhone in the U.S. could spike as the tech company relies on Chinese-produced parts for its phones. Apple’s main manufacturing hub is in China, which is currently facing a 125 percent tariff rate from Trump. Indian imports face a 26 percent tariff rate, but Trump announced a 90-day moratorium on the import tax after he tanked global stock markets with his “Liberation Day” announcement.

    Trump faced severe backlash after imposing the tariffs, even from other conservatives. […] After doubling down on the tariffs a few times, Trump eventually relented and put a 90-day pause on tariffs. Instead he set a 10 percent tariff across the board, with the exception of China. Apple sought to exploit this temporary opening to “beat the tariff,” a source familiar with the company told Reuters. – The Independent

    Our Take: President Trump said that shifting US trade policy was going to change the behavior of global corporations. It’s still early in this journey, but we already see corporations changing their behavior. Take Apple.

    Their heavy reliance on China, where most iPhones are assembled, is a crisis with 125% Chinese tariffs. But 20% of Apple iPhones destined for the US are manufactured in India, rather than China, according to this report from The Independent.

    And they aren’t just stocking US inventory to beat a moment in tariffs; “The tech company has reportedly set a goal to increase production at its Indian iPhone plants by 20 percent.”

    That’s a long-term investment for Apple. That means they expect this change – a large-scale decoupling from China – to stick. Don’t forget that, in February, Apple announced “its largest-ever spend commitment, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years.”

    As Burning Bright says, globalism made China the source for the world’s “cheap” goods, and that dynamic led to suicide nets outside Chinese factories. The cost of cheap goods to the Chinese people is not “cheap.” In fact, the global status quo isn’t good for any of the peoples of the world.

    It’s time to try something new. – Ashe in America

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  21. Hmmmm…..Tulsi explains that RealID will be required everywhere in the nation effective May 7. The law went into effect in 2005 so anyone here legally should already have one. Another case of not enforcing current laws on the books!!! SMDH

    EXCERPT: “All states, the District of Columbia, and the five U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) are REAL ID-compliant and issuing REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses and IDs.

    Federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and Transformation Security Administration, may only accept state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards as identification for purposes of accessing federal facilities, including TSA airport security checkpoints.

    Travelers who utilize the TSA PreCheck program to expedite security screening at more than 200 U.S. airports also must have REAL ID or an alternate form of identification to board.

    REAL ID-compliant cards will have one of the following markings on the upper top portion of the card. The DHS warns that if a card does not have one of these markings, it is not REAL ID-compliant and won’t be accepted as proof of identity to board commercial aircraft.

    REAL ID
    These symbols will show authorities that a license has been upgraded through REAL ID. US GOVERNMENT

    …….”In addition to REAL ID-compliant cards marked with a star, TSA will continue to accept Enhanced Driver’s Licensees (EDLs),” the TSA spokesperson said. “EDLs are state-issued enhanced drivers licenses that provide proof of identity and U.S. citizenship when crossing the U.S. border.”

    https://www.newsweek.com/real-id-air-travel-drivers-license-deadline-2057489

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  22. Hmmmm…..interesting indeed!!!

    Americans Behind DR Congo Coup Attempt Returned to US

    Three Americans convicted of attempting to overthrow the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) have been returned to the US to serve out their prison sentences, the Central African country’s presidency announced on Tuesday.

    Marcel Malanga Malu, Tylor Thomson, and Zalman-Polun Benjamin were among around 50 people, including a Belgian, a British national, and a Canadian, who were charged with criminal conspiracy, murder, terrorism, and other offenses, following a failed coup last May.

    The three, along with 37 others, were sentenced to death by a military court in September. However, last week, Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi commuted Marcel, Thompson, and Benjamin’s sentences to life imprisonment.

    “The three men… boarded a flight to the United States of America, where they will serve the remainder of their sentences. This decision is part of a dynamic effort to strengthen judicial diplomacy and international cooperation in matters of justice and human rights between the two countries,” the DR Congo presidency stated. – RT

    Our Take: Last week, on my new geopolitical news show “Geopolitics with Ghost,” I speculated that President Trump may leverage the request he received for assistance from the DR Congo’s president to help resolve the ongoing crisis with Rwanda, in exchange for the acquisition for the American-born terrorists who tried to overthrow the DRC government last May.

    It would appear that this is exactly what President Trump has done. It’s important to note that these “soldiers” represent one of the most evil schemes in modern political history: regime change. None of them should be afforded clemency, nor do I think that’s what this is about. (They will be serving the remainder of their prison terms in a U.S. prison.)

    What this deal does achieve is bring the guilty terrorists into the hands of the Trump administration, where they will have the leverage to extract the truth of the failed DRC coup last May – and who was behind it.

    I wonder what we will learn from this? – GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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          1. If the bolts that connected the rotors to the body of the chopper were rusted and weren’t noticed….stress fractures happen a lot.

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  25. “Contractor Overseeing Sensitive Government Docs in ‘Cave’ Accused of Having Major Case of TDS”

    PJ Media, Victoria Taft  | 5:04 PM on April 10, 2025

    AP Photo/Evan Vucci

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “As if witnessing the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at the Butler rally last summer wasn’t horrifying enough, a Pennsylvania man lost his job over it. And his firing may have to do with a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

    Clarence Stamm was among the hundreds of rally-goers who stood in 90º heat last summer while waiting for Donald Trump’s speech in Butler, Pa. Thankfully, he brought along a sun visor that his employer, Iron Mountain, gave employees to wear around town and at events. 

    It was in Butler on that Saturday that Stamm was among the Trump supporters who witnessed the candidate and others get shot by an assassin. During the week, Stamm worked in the now infamous “cave” that Elon Musk and his DOGE team would later shake their heads over. The DOGE team was stunned to discover that the cave contained the paper retirement and other sensitive vital records for hundreds of thousands of Americans. The sensitive site also reportedly contains National Archives records.

    The operation opened in the 1970s, but you’ll recall that Musk said the technology was straight out of the 1950s. He and his team have been upgrading and updating the computer programs since he found “the cave.” The old limestone cave, called the Boyers Facility, is where the contractor, Iron Mountain, keeps the Office of Personnel Management records 230 feet underground.

    Musk knows caves. After all, his Boring Company drills holes in the ground and, recall, he made a special escape pod to save those boys stuck in a cave back in Thailand in 2018. 

    But back to our story at hand. Stamm told his supervisor he was going to the Trump rally. And after all hell broke loose, the boss texted him to find out if he was okay. When the danger was over at the Trump rally, Stamm sent his boss a selfie wearing his Iron Mountain sun visor. He texted the photo with the caption, “I’m fine, Keith. Did you see me on Fox News wearing my Iron Mountain sun visor!!!” 

    Five days after that horrific event, Stamm was fired. 

    He’s now suing for wrongful termination and for viewpoint discrimination by a government actor. The lawsuit against Iron Mountain claims that going to a political rally, even as a government contractor, isn’t new, nor is it prohibited by the company handbook or its code of ethics. Indeed, the company encourages it.

    Upon receipt of his termination letter, Plaintiff was shocked by Defendant’s termination of his employment based upon pretextual assertions that Plaintiff had allegedly directly violated Defendant’s “policies, especially the Code of Conduct and Core Values” of Iron Mountain. …Defendant never explained how Plaintiff’s participation in the Rally constituted “unprofessional” or “unacceptable” behavior.

    The former employee claims that the company encourages that promotional materials be used and worn at a variety of events, including volunteer events in the community, for women’s history month, and gay pride events, which are also political. 

    Hey, wait a minute, that looks like an Iron Mountain logo on the Pride t-shirt:

    The lawsuit contends that Stamm is the only one who’s ever been fired for wearing company gear at an event. 

    [Stamm] believes, and therefore avers, that he is the only employee who has been terminated from employment for wearing Promotional Merchandise in his community. Defendant’s decision to terminate Plaintiff’s employment is pretextual, retaliatory, and was taken by individuals within Iron Mountain who have animosity towards President Trump and his MAGA agenda.

    He says all he was doing was exercising his First Amendment rights “to freely speak in support of President Trump and his MAGA agenda.” And “At all times relevant to this Complaint, Plaintiff was engaged in activities, speech, and association with others that is protected by the First Amendment.” Indeed, the company ”permits and encourages its employees to wear Promotional Merchandise while engaging in activities, speech, and association with others in their respective communities.”

    He alleges that the company, as a state actor, violated his First Amendment rights, which is why the lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania. Stamm also contends that he was wrongly fired and retaliated against under Pennsylvania law. Stamm is asking for compensatory and punitive damages and wants court costs and attorneys fees paid by the defendants as well.

    The company hasn’t responded to the lawsuit yet, but undoubtedly it’ll dispute the claims.

    So what have we learned here? There is a government contractor with an alleged severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome overseeing some of the most delicate and sensitive information in a cave in Pennsylvania.”

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  26. “The Morning Briefing: It’s Hard to Believe, but People Still Underestimate Trump”

    PJ Media, Stephen Kruiser  | 12:58 AM on April 11, 2025

    AP Photo/Evan Vucci

    Top O’ the Briefing

    “Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Jeesenbreyn preferred a medium-strength musk scent when working on Lego interpretations of his favorite “Forensic Files” episodes. Thankfully, this isn’t all about tariffs today, although this week’s brouhaha did inspire it. 

    In everything I’ve written about Trump’s tariffs and the hysteria-laden response to them, I’ve made it clear that I don’t know anything about international trade or how any of this will play out. What I do know is that President Trump has more business expertise than most people, certainly more than 99.999999999% of the keyboard warriors who have minted themselves tariff experts in the past week. 

    I saw this on X on Thursday morning and thought it represented what I’ve been trying to convey to some of the naysayers all week:

    It’s stunning to me that President Trump’s detractors still like to portray him as some sort of hot-headed buffoon who doesn’t know what he’s doing. Well, stunning and tedious at this point. You would think that they would eventually get tired of being wrong 

    When one is dealing with any kind of adversary, it’s a fatal flaw to overlook said adversary’s strengths. A boxer who ignores his opponent’s dangerous left hook greatly increases the likelihood that he’ll be knocked out by that very punch. It’s especially stupid when the opponent has a history of winning by knockouts delivered with his left hook. 

    President Trump is a self-made billionaire who has defied overwhelming odds and overcome a state-sponsored witch hunt to be elected president of the United States twice, and in historic fashion. Only a reality-challenged liberal could look at those facts and say, “Yeah, the guy’s an idiot.” 

    It’s not just the lefties who refuse to get it about Trump. There are still wobbly Republicans out there who struggle with being on board the Trump Train. They’re the people who voted for him under what they feel was extreme duress. Unlike the Never Trump crybabies, they realized last year that the threat posed by another four years of a Democrat in the White House couldn’t be countenanced.

    Their tenuous relationship with the idea of President Trump makes them susceptible to some of the ravings of the Democrats’ propaganda noise machine. They’re even more wearisome than the Democrats because they should know better.

    Look, it’s an absolute blast to see Trump prove people wrong over and over. The looks on the faces of Democrats and Never Trumpers every time they get their “We got him this time!” hopes up and he dashes them never fails to delight. I have no problem with watching four years of this. 

    It would just be nice if the wailing anti-Trump hordes could dial down the crazy just a smidge.” 

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  27. “Turley: What in the World Is a ‘Writ of Facilitation’?”

    Hot Air, Ed Morrissey  10:00 AM | April 11, 2025

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    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Confused about the meaning of the unanimous Supreme Court order issued late yesterday? I certainly wonder what an order to “facilitate” an action without “effectuating” it means. John Sexton seemed similarly nonplussed about it last night. 

    So it comes with some sense of relief to discover that the demand to facilitate the return of a deported illegal immigrant has a constitutional law expert like Jonathan Turley scratching his head, too. What, he wonders, is a writ of “facilitation”?

    Turley centers on the key part of the unsigned per curiam order, emphasis his:

    The application is granted in part and denied in part, subject to the direction of this order. Due to the administrative stay issued by THE CHIEF JUSTICE, the deadline imposed by the District Court has now passed. To that extent, the Government’s emergency application is effectively granted in part and the deadline in the challenged order is no longer effective. The rest of the District Court’s order remains in effect but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term “effectuate” in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps. The order heretofore entered by THE CHIEF JUSTICE is vacated.

    This looks like less of an order — at least directed to the Trump administration — and more of an ask. Technically, this order applies to the district court, which is directed to show “due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” It technically only binds the White House to give it the ol’ college try and to share what they’ve tried, but that isn’t much of an order.

    Turley asks the obvious questions — and has no answers:

    What is left is a legal pushmi-pullyu that seems to be going in both directions at once. What if the Trump Administration says that inquiries were made, but the matter has proven intractable or unresolvable? Crickets.

    No one would seriously believe that, but what right does the district court have to manage the relations or communications with a foreign country?

    What indeed? One has to wonder why the Supreme Court even bothered to send this back to the district court at all. This order leaves the judge with no real authority to force the government to do anything other than make request for repatriation of the deportee. If El Salvador refuses to return the man, then what? And for that matter, why not just address that order at this level instead? If any court has the standing to contend with the executive branch on foreign policy to any extent, it is the Supreme Court and not one of its inferior courts.

    Small wonder that the dissenters on this order excoriated the court for punting. In a haste to make a point, they argue, the Trump administration rushed the deportee without any chance at even a habeas process to demonstrate a case against him. They also overrode an existing order, apparently, that was supposed to prevent his removal. One can understand why the full court made clear that even under the Alien Enemies Act, detainees have a right to habeas actions before removal from the country, just to make sure that “oversights” (the government’s term for what happened) do not occur. The government conceded that point in the appeals process, but only after the deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

    The problem, however, is that the colt has already escaped the barn, so to speak. If El Salvador doesn’t return Abrego Garcia on their own, the judiciary can’t do anything about it. It can’t order sanctions on El Salvador or a war to retrieve him. It can’t even intrude enough on foreign policy to penalize the administration for diplomatic failure to resolve Abrego Garcia. The court knows it, and that’s why it wants to send this back to the district court with all of the teeth removed from the issue.

    However, the court does have a potential point of leverage here, and it might be trying to send a message sotto voce about looking for some honest cooperation. William Otis lands on this point in his analysis of both cases:

    Now it’s true that the lower courts erred in directing the executive branch point-blank to “effectuate” Garcia’s return. The Supreme Court correctly smoothed that over, ruling that “the intended scope of the word ‘effectuate’ in the District Court’s order was unclear,” and should be construed to mean “facilitate.” That much seems obvious; it goes without saying to anyone with his head screwed on, liberal or conservative, that no court could order the President to, say, go to war if the receiving country balked at handing over the detainee it had in its jurisdiction simply as a result of the American government’s administrative error.

    But the basic point remains. What on earth was the administration thinking when it argued that it had no obligation to make at least some sort of serious attempt to correct its own mistake? And to push this bizarre point with an over-the-top argument that for the judicial branch to require this was to “license district courts to seize control over foreign relations [and] treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate diplomat”?

    Tip to DOJ: If you don’t want to lose 9-0, don’t go over the cliff in your language when it was your own mistake that caused the problem to begin with.* This is true in any event, but especially true where, as here, you’ll have lots more deportation cases before the same Court.

    Otis argues that the administration won the earlier case by reasonably conceding the obvious point on access to habeas, and ‘lost’ this case by obstinately refusing to do anything to repair their own errors with Abrego Garcia. This case isn’t really a loss since it doesn’t require much of the administration, but this isn’t the last case that the Supreme Court will hear on Donald Trump’s policies either. This order and its plea to do something to correct their error is likely a test to see how much this court can rely on the administration’s good faith, with repercussions in later cases to come if the Supreme Court decides that it cannot.

    It might be worth springing Abrego Garcia and going through a habeas action on his return to build that kind of credibility. And that may be exactly what the Supreme Court means with its “writ of facilitation.”

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  28. SMDH – please, can we just cut CA loose??? How about if northern CA joins Idaho and we just turn the rest into an island??!!??

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  34. H/T M

    -Major initiatives are underway to ensure your neighborhoods and communities are noticeably safer. While we remain focused on our all of our missions (counterterrorism, countering foreign intelligence efforts, federal crime), we are working overtime across the country to take violent criminals, gang members, drug pushers, and the scum abusing our children, off of our streets. They are doing incredible damage and the Director and I want them in prison or deported. Absolutely no excuses. 

    -The Director and I have instructed our leaders in the field offices to use their social media accounts, local television, podcasts, and radio to communicate to you the results of these significant operations. I encourage you to follow the local FBI field office social media accounts and you will see the results for yourself. We’re not doing this to create media celebrities, we’re doing this because we work for you. And you deserve to see and hear what your hard-earned money is being used for.

    -The Director and I are working on a number of initiatives to ensure that the mistakes of the past are never repeated. Everything from recruiting, to evaluation, to training, is being scrubbed and reviewed. We fully understand that some of the actions and initiatives we’ve taken may not immediately appear to fit into the puzzle. But accountability requires three things – people, information, and people WITH information. I’ll say again, I’m NOT asking you to “trust me,” I’m asking you to look at the results. And those results will continue to pour out of the FBI. 

    God bless America, and all those who defend Her.  -Dan”

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  36. EXCERPT: “The international trade landscape is quickly shifting as President Donald Trump makes one bold tariff move after another in his effort to forge more favorable trade agreements for the United States. Look no further than the global beef trade to understand why Trump wants to steer U.S. trade in a new direction. The imbalance within this industry illustrates the broader trade issues that leave the U.S. at a disadvantage.

    Most beef produced in the U.S. is sold in the U.S., but 10-15 percent is exported ($10.45 billion worth exported in 2024).

    At the same time, the U.S. is one of the world’s largest beef importers ($11.73 billion imported in 2024 according to the U.S. Census Bureau), mostly from Australia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and New Zealand.

    Why do we both import and export beef? “Imported beef is lean beef trimmings that are combined with fat trimmings from U.S. fed cattle to meet demand for ground beef,” according to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA).

    [NF: “lean beef trimmings?” How do we know what is IN those so-called “trimmings???”]

    The U.S. has a different trade agreement with each country. Multiply the number of agreements by the number of trade rules governing each product — vehicles, crude oil, textiles, toys — and you can see the complexity of the trade system. When we talk trade, it sounds like one country is buying from another. But it is mostly businesses, in this case, the 622,000 large and small U.S. cattle ranchers and farmers.

    Let’s look at how three countries relate to U.S. beef: Australia, Brazil, and China, each illustrating an aspect of the trade imbalances Trump is trying to resolve across many sectors…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/10/look-at-beef-to-understand-why-u-s-trade-needs-a-makeover/

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  37. Fox News: “A small plane crashed in southeast Florida on Friday morning, according to local reports. The plane, believed to be a Cessna 310 aircraft, went down near the Boca Raton airport at around 10:15 a.m. local time, according to Boca News Now.

    It crashed into a car by a military trail, according to CBS, citing Boca Raton Fire Rescue (BRFR). It is unclear how many people were injured and to what extent they were injured. The plane reported mechanical issues upon approach to the airport, the outlet reported.

    Images from the scene show the burned-out car pinned against two trees with the surrounding area doused in white foam. Debris from the plane can be seen strewn across the road.

    Small aircraft crash in Florida, burned out car

    Boca Baton police confirmed an aircraft had crashed but did not provide further details. 

    A map showing Boca Raton

    Police closed N. Military Trail between NW 19th St. and Butts Rd. The I-95 overpass at Glades Rd. is also closed eastbound and westbound. Police advised the public to avoid the area. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will conduct the investigation, police said. 

    The incident comes one day after six people died in a helicopter crash in New York City. 

    A map showing teh crash site in Boca Raton

    A map showing the crash site in Boca Raton, close to the airport.” 

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  38. Daily Caller News Foundation

    “Senate Republicans continued their campaign Thursday to roll back stringent energy regulations that were issued during the final months of President Joe Biden’s term. The Senate voted 52-42 to repeal a Biden Department of Energy regulation banning some natural gas water heaters by 2029. The resolution now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature.

    No Republican Senators voted against the repeal. House Republicans, led by Republican Alabama Rep. Gary Palmer, voted to repeal the gas water heater ban in February. The ban is the fourth Biden energy rule that Congressional Republicans have sent to Trump to repeal as part of their broader effort to dismantle the previous administration’s regulatory agenda.

    “The American people called for a new direction this past November, and the Trump administration and the Republican majorities in Congress have wasted no time getting to work to provide relief from burdensome regulations, especially when it comes to energy,” Thune said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “Whether it’s through higher utility bills or higher costs at the grocery store or for other goods, it’s the American people who ultimately bear the cost of these rules … It’s why we’re working hard to eliminate these and many other regulatory burdens.”

    If Senate Republicans had not successfully voted to rescind the regulation, Americans would have been forced to pay an additional $450 for alternative water heaters, according to the lead Senate sponsor, Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

    “Democrats are waging a war on household appliances under the guise of combating climate change,” Cruz upon introducing the joint resolution of disapproval in January. “This rule, rushed through by the Biden administration in its final days, does more harm than good. It forces American families to choose between costly, high-end models or less efficient alternatives — limiting their options and undermining their freedom of choice.”

    Rinnai America, a subsidiary of a Japanese appliance company, argued the Biden energy regulation “threatened to eliminate hundreds of jobs” at its $70 million plant in Georgia that manufactures tankless water heaters. Democratic Georgia Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock were the only Senate Democrats to join Republicans in voting to repeal the rule.

    The American Gas Association (AGA) also praised Senate Republicans’ vote to repeal the gas water heater ban Thursday. “This is a victory for working-class Americans and for the environment which benefits from the lower emissions of efficient, direct-use natural gas,” AGA President and CEO Karen Harbert said in a statement.

    Since Trump took office, Congress has successfully rescinded Biden-era regulations that impose strict efficiency standards on walk-in freezers, create additional obstacles on offshore oil and natural gas development, and tax the methane emissions of natural gas operators. Congressional Republicans are also mulling a repeal of California’s de facto electric vehicle (EV) mandate.”

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  40. Too little, too late, Sweden!!! You FA&FO!!!

    EXCERPT: “Sweden has seen massive demographic changes over the last 25 years, and this is not only reflected in the demographic composition, but also the religious composition of the country. While churches continue to close their doors, the country went from approximately seven mosques in 2000 to now 300 in 2025.

    The exact figures are difficult to ascertain, however, the 300 mosques refers to permanent prayer places built for Muslim worship, which often feature a minaret and a dome. If unofficial places of Muslim worship are factored in, such as converted shops or basements, the number would likely be far higher, according to Swedish newspaper Samnytt.

    “If by mosque you mean a Muslim place of worship, the number may be close to 300,” said Frederic Brusi, the knowledge officer of the Swedish Agency for Support to Religious Communities. As in other European countries, many of these mosques receive funding from abroad, and overall, the finances behind many of them remain murky.

    “In several cases, Swedish mosque construction has been partially or completely financed with money from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar or Turkey. In the case of Saudi Arabia alone, there is talk of billions. There is also information in the media that every fourth Swedish mosque is financed by the Sunni Muslim and Wahhabi kingdom,” writes Samnytt.

    Keeping track of the growth in mosques is very difficult due to a lack of public statistics, with the Swedish paper pointing to mosques like Masjid Aysha, which is run by the non-profit association Scandinavian Islamic Organization (SIO) based out of Stockholm. While the mosque has been operating for 20 years, it remains unclear if it is even registered as an official mosque in the country, as there is no public list of registered mosques.

    More and more mosques are in the pipeline as well, with construction taking place across the country. In one city, Helsingborg, a mosque being billed as “Scandinavia’s largest mosque” has so far raised 68 million kroner (€6.3 million) for its construction.

    The money has been collected through influencers and social media campaigns on TikTok and Instagram, but money is also flowing from international locations. Due to the huge sum the mosque has raised, questions are being asked about where the money is actually coming from. In one video clip posted by the mosque, recipients chant “Allahu Akbar” when their funding reached 10 million kronor…..”

    https://rmx.news/article/sweden-the-number-of-mosques-has-increased-nearly-4200-in-just-25-years/

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  41. “Decoupling from China is worth the price: The CCP is not an honest broker and never will be.”

    Jordan Schachtel, Apr 11, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Say what you want about trade deficits, national debt, sovereignty, financial markets, the U.S. dollar, executive authority, etc. There are a variety of good-faith opinions about how to structure the trade practices that would put the United States in the best position to succeed in the near and long term.

    However, the future of America’s relationship with China must be based on reality before ideology. China is, in fact, “ripping us off” six ways from Sunday. For decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), despite how one may feel about its core political ideology, has not operated in good faith in its relationship with the United States, choosing to commit blatant fraud, outright cheating, and routine deception.

    I’ve been one of those annoying people on social media this week insisting that, yes, the stock market is indeed a significant component of the U.S. economy, despite the claims of some over-reminiscent protectionist maximalists in government and the media. I’ve come to the defense of the free market advocates who rightly point out that shocking the markets too ferociously will result in negative consequences for Americans.

    However, when it comes to China, Wall Street cannot be allowed to dictate the terms of America’s relationship with the CCP. They are too fixated on quarterly reports and short-term interests to support a long-term pivot away from China and towards America’s allies abroad. Moreover, too many Wall Street firms and banks have been corrupted by Beijing’s influence, and they don’t have the independence to act in America’s best interests in a way that the White House can in this situation.

    Beyond its promotion and advancement of domestic and global tyranny, the CCP steals, lies, and cheats, and it refuses to reform.

    Here’s a short list of things I’ve compiled that the CCP has stolen from American companies and the U.S. government in recent years:

    1. F-35 Fighter Jet data – Stolen via cyberattacks; used for China’s J-20 stealth fighter.
    2. Lockheed Martin F-22 data – for China’s J-31 fighter.
    3. Missile guidance – Tech stolen to enhance Chinese missile systems.
    4. NASA space tech – Hacked data on propulsion and materials research.
    5. Chip designs worth billions were taken for China’s memory chip industry.
    6. Nuclear missile sensors – Infrared detection tech stolen for military applications.
    7. Boeing C-17 Data – Military transport plane specs hacked, linked to China’s Y-20.
    8. Apple’s Self-Driving Car Tech – An ex-employee took secrets to a Chinese startup.
    9. Chip technology – theft via partnerships to advance Chinese semiconductors.
    10. Nuclear reactor designs – AP1000 tech taken during a joint venture.
    11. American radio systems – Proprietary tech stolen by Hytera, a Chinese enterprise.
    12. American semiconductor processes – Targeted in cyberattacks to close China’s tech gap.
    13. Software code – theft via espionage for Chinese tech firms.

    And that’s just what a quick search confirmed.

    China has stolen the intellectual property of a massive chunk of cutting-edge American technology and military platforms. Yes, there were also instances of American firms voluntarily giving away tech secrets to Chinese companies, but that does not apply to the abovementioned list.

    This list alone accounts for hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars in stolen value. This is where the real “deficit” between our nations becomes most transparent. The CCP is not an honest trade partner, and it never will be.

    Outside of its dishonorable trade practices, the Chinese Communist Party is the world’s most malevolent force, and it threatens America’s founding principles and global sovereignty. Sure, the United States often finds itself trading with some unsavory partners, but China combines tyranny with bad faith, and it’s simply a bridge too far.

    Wall Street may not like it, but America’s complete decoupling from Chinese trade is both morally and economically sound in the long term. It will greatly benefit the United States to completely detach from China so that we can have reliable, good faith, and morally sound trade partners.”

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    1. yup. the chinese cannot innovate. that’s why they have to steal technology. and their factories are subsidized by the ccp…so it’s not like they’re marketing marvels either. they steal, so they spend little in innovation and then they get subsidized so the prices are a cheat too.

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  42. Daily Caller News Foundation

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Elon Musk announced Thursday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is now targeting $150 billion in federal savings for fiscal year 2026 — dramatically scaling back earlier claims of slashing as much as $2 trillion.

    Musk initially projected DOGE would deliver $2 trillion in savings by targeting government waste, fraud and abuse. That figure was halved to $1 trillion earlier this year, but Musk walked it back again at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting, saying the revised $150 billion projection will “result in better services for the American people” and ensure federal spending “in a way that is sensible and fair and good.”

    “I’m excited to announce we anticipate saving in FY ’26 from a reduction of waste and fraud a reduction of $150 billion dollars,” Musk said. “And some of it is just absurd, like, people getting unemployment insurance who haven’t been born yet. I mean, I think anyone can appreciate — I mean, come on, that’s just crazy.”

    The announcement marks the latest in a string of revised projections from Musk, who has become the face of President Donald Trump’s aggressive federal efficiency agenda.

    “Your people are fantastic,” the president responded. “In fact, hopefully they’ll stay around for the long haul. We’d like to keep as many as we can. They’re great — smart, sharp, finding things that nobody would have thought of.”

    Musk originally floated the $2 trillion figure during campaign appearances last fall. “I think we could do at least $2 trillion,” Musk said at the Madison Square Garden campaign rally in November. “At the end of the day, you’re being taxed — all government spending is taxation … Your money is being wasted, and the Department of Government Efficiency is going to fix that.”

    By January, he softened expectations to a “really quite achievable” $1 trillion target before downsizing that figure again this week. “Our goal is to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars,” Musk told Fox News’ Bret Baier “Looked at in total federal spending, to drop the federal spending from $7 trillion to $6 trillion by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse … Which seems really quite achievable.”

    DOGE’s website, which tracks cost-saving initiatives and contract cancellations, currently calculates total federal savings at $150 billion.

    DOGE spokeswoman Amy Gleason did not, nor has ever, responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.”

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      1. IDK why they would have to be fired first….but they do have to charge them with a crime first.

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  45. Just the News: “The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday revealed it has charged a Pennsylvania man with threatening to harm and kill President Donald Trump, other U.S. officials, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

    Shawn Monper of Butler, Pennsylvania, was charged with the threats earlier this week after he allegedly made threatening comments on social media, and purchased guns to allegedly carry out the threats. 

    Monper allegedly made the posts under his username of “Mr. Satan” where the user commented in February that people needed to kill Trump, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, and other Trump administration agency heads. In one message, he allegedly stated that he would “assassinate him myself.” 

    “I want to applaud the outstanding and courageous investigative work of the FBI and the Butler Township Police Department, who thankfully identified and apprehended this individual before he could carry out his threats against President Trump’s life and the lives of other innocent Americans,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said. 

    “Rest assured that whenever and wherever threats of assassination or mass violence occur, this Department of Justice will find, arrest, and prosecute the suspect to the fullest extent of the law and seek the maximum appropriate punishment,” she added.

    Federal agents also alleged that Monper made other threatening statements against Trump and his officials from January 2025 through April. It is not clear what Trump officials he allegedly planned to target.

    He also allegedly threatened ICE agents earlier this month by stating that he saw them as terrorists and would shoot them. “If I see an armed ice agent, I will consider it a domestic terrorist, and an active shooter and open fire on them,” he wrote on April 1.

    Monper is expected to appear in court on April 14.”

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      1. They have no real life and are exceedingly shallow and self-centered, searching for a reason to live, I guess.

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  46. interesting…

    Shipwreckedcrew

    @shipwreckedcrew

    No it did not. It said it must take steps to release him from custody. “The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador…” Nowhere in the Order does it even hint he must be brought back to the US. Quit lying your followers and readers.

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  47. Just The News: “An immigration judge in Louisiana on Friday ruled that Columbia graduate and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, after he helped lead an anti-Israel protest at the school last year.

    Federal agents last month arrested Khalil on a deportation order from the Trump administration, despite his status as a “legal permanent resident.”

    Secretary of State Marco Rubio has argued Khalil can be deported, regardless of his immigration status, because his “beliefs, statements or associations undermine U.S. policy to combat antisemitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.” 

    Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Jamee Comans ruled in a hearing on Friday that she does not have the authority to question Rubio’s determination, and gave Khalil until April 23 to request a stay of his deportation. If he does not request a stay by the deadline, he will be deported to either Syria or Algeria, according to National Public Radio.

    Khalil’s attorneys have also challenged the arrest of their client in federal court, arguing he is being targeted over his pro-Palestine activism in violation of his constitutionally protected right to free speech, the news outlet also reports.

    The attorneys are expected to appeal Friday’s ruling.”

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    THREAD: As I stressed yesterday, SCOTUS made a BIGGER mess out of case involving removing of Garcia to El Salvador. SCOTUS’s order was cautiously framed in suggestive terms designed to be equally respectful to co-equal branches of our government. It has ALREADY backfired. 1/

    2/ It was entirely predictable that it would backfire because there is no mutual respect between Article II and Article III. Even last night, district court Judge Xinis fired first shot by entering a blatantly inaccurate order that mirrored media’s talking points.

    3/ Here is what she wrote. SCOTUS point blank did NOT affirm her order. To the contrary, the Court wrote that it granted in part and denied in part the application “subject to the direction of this order.”

    4/ What SCOTUS did do was leave the order in place because it removed its own stay and directed the order to be revised on remand, with SCOTUS saying again, application was granted in part, “subject to direction of this order.” supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf…

    5/ What was direction of this “order”? Well, SCOTUS ONLY said clarify what “effectuate” means, and also stressed time had passed so that couldn’t be maintained, and that government should be prepared to share what it can about what it is doing to facilitate.

    6/ But SCOTUS gave more direction by expressly noting what components of the order it believed were proper and there were two: a) facilitate release from PRISON; and b) require government to handle Garcia’s case as if he hadn’t been improperly sent to El Salvador.

    7/ NOTE: SCOTUS never said order properly required Garcia’s return to U.S. It also didn’t say order “improperly” required Garcia’s return to U.S. BUT it DID say it was proper to require government to handle Garcia’s case as if he hadn’t been improperly sent to El Salvador.

    8/ District court judge misrepresented what SCOTUS said, claiming it “affirmed” her order when it did no such thing & rather than consider SCOTUS gentle guidance of determining what government would have done w/ Garcia, judge plodded headlong into saying facilitate return to U.S.

    9/ An aside to illustrate how it was not an affirmation of order: If it were an affirmance of order, Garcia would have had to have been returned days ago & Trump would have had to effectuate return. SCOTUS left order in place until lower court could reissue it but didn’t affirm.

    10/ DOJ’s proper response will be to file a Motion saying that Court’s order failed to follow “the direction of” SCOTUS’s order. And then present declaration that all gang members with removal orders are either removed to El Salvador or Gitmo.

    11/DOJ should further SCOTUS’s direction was facilitate release from PRISON & treat Garcia as if he hadn’t been improperly removed to El Salvador and that is sending him to GITMO. While I fully appreciate desire of Article II to stand ground on what it’s authority is,

    12/12 Trump would be wise to just end nonsense by saying El Salvador president reached out & volunteered to send Garcia to Gitmo and then send to Gitmo which is U.S. & is consistent with how other gang members with removal orders are treated. Full compliance but on Trump’s terms.

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