'Can't Make This Up': Ernst Explains Absurd Response of Some Fed Workers Ordered to Return to Office By Nick Arama

Federal employees showed up to the office — not to work — but to protest returning to work.
Here are some of the shocking things that she outlined to the Homeland Security Committee.

A Veterans Affairs manager responsible for scheduling veterans appointments posted on social media that he was “phoning it in from a bubble bath” while calls to the VA have gone unanswered. An Army veteran gave up on getting mental healthcare from the VA because after years of trying to get an appointment, he met with a therapist who “spent the appointment singing the praises of remote work with a cat draped around her neck.” He said that it was such a disaster that “now I’m just on my meds doing my best.” A HUD employee was arrested for drunk driving at 3:30 in the afternoon on a Friday and may have been paid for time spent sitting in jail, HUD had no idea until I told them. For more than three years, a Social Security employee was running a home inspection business. Meanwhile, his mother was responding to his emails.

Firearm shootings and psychotropic drugs in minors

Firearm shootings and psychotropic drugs in minors - Tom Jefferson 

To keep the issue focused, let’s look at the situation in the US. The FBI defines an active shooter as “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area.”...
For example, here is the FBI - Sourced map for active shooting incidents between 2000 and 2013:

• In 2020–21, there were a total of 41 school-associated violent deaths in the United States, which included 20 homicides and 17 suicides. 
• Of these 41 school-associated violent deaths, 11 homicides and six suicides were of school-age youth (ages 5–18)...

Dow surges 2,600 as stocks soar after Trump pauses some tariffs * WorldNetDaily * by Stan Choe, Associated Press

Dow surges 2,600 as stocks soar after Trump pauses some tariffs * WorldNetDaily * by Stan Choe, Associated Press:

U.S. stocks are soaring on a euphoric Wall Street Wednesday after President Donald Trump said he would temporarily back off on most of his global tariffs, as investors had so desperately hoped he would.

Tree Crushes Home After City Won’t Allow It to Be Removed

Instapundit - JUST LIKE THE SOVIETS HELPED FUND THE PEACE MOVEMENT, BUT MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE

Instapundit - https://twitter.co - Stephen Green

Lunch video-----The Government Gambling Hypocrisy: Bad Odds and No Competition

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Trump pauses higher tariffs for nations willing to deal, hikes to 125% for combative China * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Trump pauses higher tariffs for nations willing to deal, hikes to 125% for combative China * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

President Donald Trump has paused a new surge in higher tariffs for at least 75 nations who did not "retaliate" against his campaign to level the trading playing field for American companies and consumers, announcing a 90-day reprieve from those costs.

Big deal!

 

England is no longer a serious Country

A 50-year-old history teacher arrested, held in a cell for nearly eight hours, fingerprinted, photographed, and banned from seeing her own children on Mother’s Day, all for confiscating their iPads?  - Concerned Citizen@BGatesIsaPyscho

Torsten Prochnow@TorstenProchnow
This is a perfect example of why unchecked police power is a threat to democracy itself. 

A 50-year-old history teacher arrested, held in a cell for nearly eight hours, fingerprinted, photographed, and banned from seeing her own children on Mother’s Day, all for confiscating their iPads? 

This is not a mistake. 

This is systemic rot. 

• What this shows is that in today’s UK, and increasingly across much of Europe, police forces are no longer prioritizing public safety. 
• They are acting as ideological enforcers for a political class and bureaucratic elite that are completely detached from the concerns of ordinary citizens. 
• Violent crimes go uninvestigated for days, theft reports pile up unanswered, but a parent taking away a screen to encourage schoolwork gets the full weight of the state thrown at her within the hour...

Chinese??!!

 

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Democratic Delusions Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon - Here’s why.

“We’ve got the right message,” Ken Martin, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said while campaigning for the job. “What we need to do is connect it back with the voters. - Ruy Teixeira
The concept that Democrats have delusions about their current situation—that they are in denial about the implications of the 2024 election and other trends—is having a moment...
Here's why.
1. The fool’s gold of Democrats’ low turnout advantage. The dirty little secret of Democrats’ current coalition is that it’s extremely well-engineered for low turnout elections. Democrats used to argue that they wanted really high turnout—ideally everyone voting—in elections because high voter participation is a civic good in democratic societies and because they believed that higher turnout would bring in masses of less engaged, pro-Democratic voters (younger, less educated, less affluent, nonwhite) that would benefit them politically.
No more...

SHIFTING FOCUS BACK TO SPACE! WHAT A CONCEPT!

 

City threatens to sue residents over comments that cause 'harm' amid contentious mayoral race in Michigan | Blaze Media

City threatens to sue residents over comments that cause 'harm' amid contentious mayoral race in Michigan | Blaze Media: 

The small Michigan city of Bangor has authorized its city attorney to file charges against any resident who makes comments that cause the city "harm," prompting cries from local residents and freedom-loving Americans across the country. On January 6, the Bangor City Council voted 7-0 to approve a motion that will allow the city attorney, Scott Graham, "to file charges with the court against all parties involved in statements that have caused harm to the city." Bangor is a city of barely 2,000 residents located about 15 miles from the shores of Lake Michigan in the southwestern corner of the state.

New Report Sounds Alarm on 'Staggering' Amount of Foreign Money Pouring into US Universities

$60 billion in foreign gifts and contracts were funneled into American colleges and universities, including $20 billion alone to elite schools like Harvard, Yale, and others.

• A new report from a nonprofit and nonpartisan government watchdog is shedding light on the tens of billions of dollars that have poured into U.S. universities in recent years, including $20 billion to some of the most prestigious universities in the country.
• The report, produced by Americans for Public Trust and released this week, found that $60 billion in foreign gifts and contracts were funneled into American colleges and universities, including $20 billion alone to elite schools like Harvard, Yale, and others. Read More

AM Fruitcake

 

History for April 11

History for April 11 - On-This-Day.com - 

Dean G. Acheson 1893

• 1898 - U.S. President William McKinley asked Congress for a declaration of war with Spain.
• 1921 - Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.
• 1901 - Construction on the Empire State Building was completed. The building was dedicated and opened on May 1, 1931.
• 1945 - During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany.
• 1970 - Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return safely.
• 1984 - China invaded Vietnam.
• 2001 - China agreed to release 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane. The EP-3E Navy crew had been held since April 1 on Hainon, where the plane had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead.

'No way to run a government': Supreme Court halts order forcing Trump to reinstate fired federal workers * WorldNetDaily * by Katelynn Richardson, Daily Caller News Foundation

'No way to run a government': Supreme Court halts order forcing Trump to reinstate fired federal workers * WorldNetDaily * by Katelynn Richardson, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

The Supreme Court halted a lower court order on Tuesday that would have forced the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired federal workers. The Trump administration asked the justices in March to block an order issued by Clinton-appointed U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup directing the reinstatement of over 16,000 probationary employees.

The way we were-----Oliver Stone: This Bombshell Question Surrounds Lee Harvey Oswald's Rifl...

You’ve Been Lied To - COVID Origins, Vaccines, Masks & Climate

What Teachers Unions Don’t Want You to Know about School Choice - Janine Yass

“The first time I saw a shootout with my own eyes, I was nine years old,” he recalls. “When I was ten, I saw my first drug transaction. When I was eleven, it was the first time I saw someone get killed. And it wasn’t the last.”

Growing up in North Philadelphia’s notorious Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, Anthony Samuels saw his share of violence...
Strawberry Mansion High School ranks as one of the most dangerous schools in the country. 

And despite the Philadelphia School District’s spending nearly $30,000 per student per year in district-operated public schools, the latest data from the Nation’s Report Card shows student performance in the city is lower than students in most other large cities. 

• Last year, 81 percent of Philadelphia fourth-grade students were not proficient in math, 
• while 83 percent were not proficient in reading. 
• Among Black, Hispanic, and economically disadvantaged students, the numbers were even higher...

The Media is Calling the Shots in the Tariff War

The media is sensationalizing the escalation in hostilities between China and the U.S. while ignoring the 70 countries that have already lined up to negotiate with us. - Elizabeth Stauffer 

Politico‘s Playbook is a widely-read, twice-daily briefing that provides concise summaries of the day’s top stories. 

Anyone who read the Wednesday morning edition could be forgiven for calling their stockbroker and telling them to sell everything in their portfolio. 

It began:

HE REALLY DID IT: President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs came into force at midnight, and this morning we awaken to a different world. The free trade system that America has embraced and nurtured since the mid-1930s has been officially torpedoed by direct order of the president...It’s unclear exactly how quickly these and many others tariffs will filter through to product pricing and consumer demand … but filter through they surely will.

Politico mistakenly characterizes the current state of global trade as a “free trade system that America has embraced and nurtured since the mid-1930s.” 

In reality, the widespread use of tariffs and non-tariff barriers by most countries makes today’s system anything but free—particularly for the United States...

Climate extremist convicted after attack on priceless Degas art | Blaze Media

Climate extremist convicted after attack on priceless Degas art | Blaze Media: 

A climate radical from North Carolina is facing hard time now that he has been convicted of federal crimes related to an attack on a priceless work of art two years ago. On April 27, 2023, Timothy Martin and Joanna Smith walked into the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with the expressed intent of attacking the protective coverings over "Little Dancer, Age Fourteen" by French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas.

New Law Would Make Staged Truck Accidents a Federal Offense

Diogenes' Middle Finger: Traversing Narrow Channels

...the rest of the civilized world are beginning to understand that there is now a new order, America has retaken the Mantle and will once again be dictating terms.

It’s very telling that the White House has been inundated with so many requests for Official Diplomatic Meetings in the last week that they are being forced to prioritize the nations based on the importance of their economic impact...

While the unhinged left in this country still likes to underestimate DJT's ability to follow through on his intentions, the rest of the civilized world are beginning to understand that there is now a new order, America has retaken the Mantle and will once again be dictating terms.
But:

"Many countries level tariffs under insidiously Machiavellian conditions such as falsely constructed health and safety barriers, excise and VAT taxes, and currency manipulation...
Getting to zero or identical tariffs with a host of current mercantile trading nations would be an astounding accomplishment..." - Victor Davis Hanson

Lunch video-----VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What Would it Take to Destroy the United States?

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Female fencer disqualified for REFUSING to compete against a man | Blaze Media

Female fencer disqualified for REFUSING to compete against a man | Blaze Media: 

“Maryland’s fencing competition, the Cherry Blossom Open, did turn into a national story after fencer Stephanie Turner refused to compete against a transgender athlete, Redmond Sullivan,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” says.

“I’m sorry, I cannot do this. I am a woman, and this is a man, and this is a women’s tournament. And I will not fence this individual,” the female fencer, Stephanie Turner, gave as reason for refusing to compete.