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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's Health and Human Services secretary, has announced COVID booster shots are being removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.
"I couldn't be more pleased to announce that as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule," he explained. "Last year the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children."
He was joined in the announcement by Jay Battacharya, the chief of the National Institutes of Health, who said the move is "common sense and it's good science."
A report from the Daily Mail suggested the change will affect millions of Americans.
The report explained, "The recommendation for the COVID vaccine for young and healthy individuals has long been criticized, given that the groups face a low risk of hospitalization and death from the virus."
Further, the report said, there are the COVID shot side-effects, "including myocarditis — or heart inflammation — which is rare, but slightly more common among young adults."
The Food and Drug Administration just days ago confirmed that annual COVID updates no longer will get automatic approval, and drug companies standing to profit from them must do clinical trials to document whether they are safe or not.
Only 23% of those eligible for the 2024 booster, ages six months and over, took it.
According to an analysis in Ars Technica, eventually only people ages 65 and older and people with underlying conditions that put them at risk are expected to take the "seasonal boosters."
The Food and Drug Administration just days ago confirmed that annual COVID updates no longer will get automatic approval, and drug companies standing to profit from them must do clinical trials to document whether they are safe or not.
Only 23% of those eligible for the 2024 booster, ages six months and over, took it.
According to an analysis in Ars Technica, eventually only people ages 65 and older and people with underlying conditions that put them at risk are expected to take the "seasonal boosters."
"The move was laid out in a commentary article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, written by Trump administration FDA Commissioner Martin Makary and the agency's new top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad," the report explained.
The two explained in the commentary that a "one-size-fits-all" ideology presumes that Americans are unable to understand age- and risk-related recommendations.
The report said, "Under Makary and Prasad's new framework, seasonally updated COVID-19 vaccines can continue to be approved annually using only immunology studies—but the approvals will only be for people age 65 and over and people who are at high risk. These immunology studies look at antibody responses to boosters, which offer a shorthand for efficacy in updated vaccines that have already been through rigorous safety and efficacy trials."
It continued "Moving forward, if a vaccine maker wants to have their COVID-19 vaccine also approved for use in healthy children and healthy adults under age 65, they will have to conduct large, randomized, placebo-controlled studies. These may need to include tens of thousands of participants, especially with high levels of immunity in the population now."
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A church in Toms River, New Jersey, with plenty of space as it owns 10 acres of land, proposed building a 17-bed overnight shelter as a way to reach out to the needy and help the community.
So officials in the town retaliated with their own plan to confiscate the land and turn it into pickleball courts.
"It is clear that this is being done in retaliation for the church making an application for a homeless shelter," Harvey York, the church's lawyer, told Fox News.
Citing the constitutional standards regarding protections for freedom religion as well as the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, he said, "I don't know that you'll find a lawyer who will say, 'Oh, yeah, they have every right to do this; they're going to win.'"
It is the Christ Episcopal Church that has found itself in the middle of the city's bull's-eye.
And York said while some residents are happy with the idea, "the majority" is shocked and dismayed.
The church had suggested an outreach to the area's homeless with an overnight shelter.
"It didn't take long for neighbors to become concerned," York explained and the result was an ordinance pending before the town council to condemn and take the land, which now already holds the parish house, auditorium, school, sanctuary and deacon's residence.
"Any governmental agency has the right to condemn property for governmental purposes. That's clear. However, the township has never thought of this as a recreational site," York said. "For them to say they need recreational land flies in the face of the facts and their master plan."
He said city officials need to "mind their own business and stay out of the religious affairs of the community."
The report said the church originally proposed its plan in 2023, an agenda that met all state and local regulations.
Litigation is expected, and Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, professor of law at George Washington University, said the case could put before the U.S. Supreme Court the "infamous" Kelo v. City of New London case in which the justices decided the government could confiscate land from one party, under its eminent domain, and give it to another party.
In the Kelo case, city officials in New London confiscated property from a private resident to give it to Pfizer for a major development.
Turley noted the ultimate failure of that scheme.
"After all the pain that the city caused its own residents and the $80 million it spent to buy and bulldoze the property, it came to nothing. Pfizer later announced that it was closing the facility — leaving the city worse off than when it began," he explained.
He said the new case does include the possibility of "public purpose" for the land, but still is clouded with the questions over "a pretextual rationale" for the city's decisions.
"There are ample reasons to be concerned about the actions in this case if they are a form of retaliation for the church's shelter plan," he said.
President Donald Trump accepts that there will be changes to his "big, beautiful bill" that passed by one vote in the House last week, the Washington Examiner reported. However, House Speaker Mike Johnson believes this might endanger the bill's final fate in the Senate.
During remarks to the press in Morristown, New Jersey, on Sunday, Trump explained that he anticipates and even welcomes some changes to the final bill. "I want the Senate and the senators to make the changes they want," Trump said.
"It will go back to the House, and we’ll see if we can get them. In some cases, the changes may be something I’d agree with, to be honest," Trump continued.
"I think they are going to have changes. Some will be minor, some will be fairly significant," Trump advised. Some of the proposed changes include examining radio licensing changes, Medicaid cuts, and the potential abolition of green energy tax credits created under the administration of then-President Joe Biden.
While Trump is optimistic about the future of the bill, Johnson has said getting the bill passed was like "crossing over the Grand Canyon on a piece of dental floss." According to NBC News, the Louisiana Republican cautioned his colleagues in the upper chamber of Congress against tinkering with the bill.
“I had lunch with my Senate Republican colleagues on Tuesday, their weekly luncheon, and I encouraged them to remember that we are one team. It’s the Senate and the House Republicans together that will deliver this ball over the goal line, so to speak," Johnson said.
"And I encouraged them to make as few modifications as possible, remembering that I have a very delicate balance," he added. With a majority in the House already very slim, Johnson was able to eke out a 215-214 vote with two Republicans voting no.
Another Republican simply voted "present," while two more skipped out completely, while Democrats unilaterally voted against it. This doesn't bode well for the Senate, especially considering the opposition over the bill's proposed Medicaid cuts from Democrats.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries slammed Trump after he "promised to love and cherish Medicaid" and went forward with the cuts. "Instead, his One Big Ugly Bill represents the largest healthcare cut in our country’s history. Millions of people will lose their Medicaid coverage and hardworking American taxpayers will be forced to pay higher premiums, copays, and deductibles," he claimed.
While Trump and Johnson disagree about modifications to the bill, other Republicans are worried about the entire bill being a "debt bomb ticking," as Rep. Thomas Massie called it, according to The Hill. The Kentucky Republican was one of two GOP lawmakers who voted against the budget reconciliation bill in the House.
Some believe it will be an uphill battle in the Senate as it is currently crafted, let alone with objectionable changes and economic conditions. "I think we’re having trouble selling our long bonds already," Sen. Rick Scott said, noting that interest rates are creeping up.
The Florida Republican and at least three other GOP senators are concerned about the financial impact. The budget bill, which exceeds 1,000 pages, includes some reforms but falls short of significantly reducing the federal deficit, which could balloon to $2.5 trillion by 2035 if projections are accurate.
"I want to get a deal done; I support the president’s agenda. I support the border, I support the military, I support extending the Trump tax cuts — but we have to live in reality. But we got to live in reality here: We got a fiscal crisis," Scott explained.
This bill is complicated and isn't the panacea some would like to believe it is. However, Trump and the Republicans are serious about getting America back on track, and this is a very good start even if it ultimately fails full passage.
With the use of DOGE leader Elon Musk's algorithms and data collection techniques, the Social Security Administration has been able to remove 12.3 million people whose birth dates say they are over 120 years old from the rolls, preventing fraud and abuse at the agency.
DOGE posted about the accomplishment on X on Friday.
After 11 weeks, @SocialSecurity has finished this major cleanup initiative: ~12.3M individuals aged 120+ have now been marked as deceased.
Some complex cases remain, such as individuals with 2+ different birth dates on file. These will be investigated in a follow-up effort. https://t.co/u942yTxlsG pic.twitter.com/DaXyqx5e4k
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) May 23, 2025
"After 11 weeks, @SocialSecurity has finished this major cleanup initiative: ~12.3M individuals aged 120+ have now been marked as deceased," the agency wrote.
The initiative began in March. It was not clear whether any money was going to the 120+ year individuals on the list, but just them being included could lead to fraud if hackers got ahold of their information.
There were some names that still had to be verified, as they had two or more differing birth dates in the system.
Musk also said in March that 2.1 million non-citizens were issued Social Security numbers in 2024, which should never have happened.
Longtime friend of Musk, Antonio Gracias, CEO of Valor Equity Partners, suggested at the time that the numbers were issued during a Biden-era program that allowed migrants into the U.S. and provided them access to Social Security numbers.
“When you come in the country, if you’re illegal, there’s a couple of ways to come in. You can come in through a port of entry and you can tell them you’re afraid and they’ll give you an asylum case, you’ll get an interview, then you get in. That’s one way to do it. Another way to do it is to just go to the border … walk up to a border patrol officer and you tell them you want to come in,” Gracias said.
“Once you’re in the country and you got an asylum through one of these pathways, you can apply for a work document. You file a 765, you get this form called a 766, and then the social security administration automatically sends you in the mail a social security number. No interview. No ID,” he concluded.
Obviously, this should not be happening in any way, shape or form.
Once an illegal immigrant has a social security number, they will be able to apply for things like section 8 housing and SNAP benefits.
They will also be able to get jobs legally.
It's possible that the previous administration justified this because the government could make tax revenue from it, but the tradeoff is not even close to fair in the long run.
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A recent CNN report exposed a lawsuit filed against software company Workday, accusing it of embedding illegal bias into its AI-powered hiring platform.
The plaintiff, Derek Mobley, said he was automatically rejected from over 100 positions, often within minutes despite meeting the qualifications.
"Algorithmic decision making and data analytics are not and should not be assumed to be race neutral, disability neutral or age neutral," said Mobley.
The case brings into focus a much deeper issue: how artificial intelligence, job platforms, and corporate partnerships have quietly reengineered America's hiring infrastructure. Through algorithmic filters and foreign-aligned job pipelines, U.S. workers are being screened out, systematically replaced by a workforce handpicked and trained to bypass them entirely. And it's happening beneath the radar, through the very technology Americans are told is designed to be "fair."
The orchestrated funnel: how India used job platforms and corporate alliances to displace American workers
India's rise as a global labor exporter didn't happen by accident; it was the result of a deliberate strategy. That strategy began with embedding itself into U.S. job placement pipelines and ended with complete corporate integration through industry-academia MoUs.
The All India Council for Technical Education, or AICTE, and Confederation of Indian Industry, or CII, engineered this system in partnership with global job platforms like Monster, LinkedIn, and apna.co, followed by deeper alignment with multinational employers like Amazon, Salesforce, Oracle, and VMware. The goal: redirect global hiring pipelines away from American talent and into Indian human capital databases rebranded as "upskilled" labor.
AICTE & CII: How India inflated employability through strategic accreditation, skill manipulation, and labor export
AICTE and CII have jointly spearheaded a vast, government-backed campaign to increase the "employability" of Indian nationals. This campaign was not just about raising skills, it was about manufacturing global labor market access by inflating qualifications, using AI-driven resume and skill optimization, and redirecting global employer pipelines toward India's labor databases.
AICTE encouraged thousands of technical institutions to seek National Board of Accreditation certification, granting global credibility to Indian degrees. This also enabled mass certification of under-qualified students while making their credentials appear equivalent to U.S. degrees.
AICTE Skill Development Cell
India's Skill & Experience Inflation Programs:
● NEEM (National Employability Enhancement Mission): Paired students with companies for informal internships, allowing experience to be claimed even when unrelated to the degree field.
● EETP (Employability Enhancement Training Program): Collaborated with platforms like LinkedIn and Monster India to train students on resume building and keyword optimization creating AI-friendly resumes tailored to foreign job systems.
● PMKVY-TI (Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana – Technical Institutes): A mass upskilling program linked to employment metrics, but often used to bulk-certify students on paper regardless of actual proficiency.
CII, AICTE & India's quiet takeover of global job platforms
India's economic apparatus, led by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), has systematically built Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with job giants like Monster.com and LinkedIn. These partnerships have created an AI-enabled "labor export funnel" that channels U.S. jobs directly into India's human capital databases.
These aren't isolated partnerships; they're part of a decades-long strategy to reposition India as the global labor supplier by reverse-engineering job qualifications, skill metrics and hiring algorithms used by U.S. employers.
MoUs that redirected U.S. jobs to India
AICTE–Monster India MoU (2017)
Monster was granted full access to AICTE's college network over 10,000 institutions and 3.6 million students. Monster didn't just advertise jobs. It collected employer preference data, built employability indices, and fed the results back to Indian training programs.
Monster was then tasked with tracking student skills, managing campus recruitment, and placing Indian students in global jobs.
"Monster India will provide insights into skill gaps and facilitate job placements."
LinkedIn launched its "Placements" platform in India through AICTE. This placement platform would allow students regardless of academic prestige to access standardized job assessments and global job postings. LinkedIn gathered skills and resume data at scale, enabling Indian colleges to reverse-engineer what global employers wanted.
These weren't just job listings, they were data pipelines used to reshape Indian workforce training to mimic U.S. job qualifications, bypassing geographic barriers and deprioritizing American workers.
AICTE–apna.co MoU (2024):
A newer platform, Apna.co was integrated into India's national employment framework via AICTE's "SWAYAM Plus" career portal. Apna uses AI to generate resume templates and match Indian workers with jobs abroad including in the U.S. by scraping real-time U.S. job data.
"apna.co will power SWAYAM Plus with AI to match Indian students with jobs around the world."
Systematic resume engineering to defraud U.S. employers
These partnerships didn't just help Indian job seekers, they reprogrammed the labor funnel. With real-time insights into what skills U.S. employers seek, Indian candidates were able to falsely claim those skills often without possessing them. Worse, job platforms' AI was trained to match those keyword-rich resumes to U.S. jobs, giving the illusion that American talent didn't apply.
That's why companies claim, "we didn't get qualified American applicants." They did it's just that their AI platforms deprioritized Americans by design. This isn't just a tech issue. It's a foreign interference operation targeting the U.S. workforce.
India's deep access into these hiring engines has allowed it to:
● Redirect hiring pipelines into Indian databases
● Reframe qualifications through manipulated training metrics
● Exploit visa loopholes like OPT and H-1B to onboard foreign labor
● Create a false labor shortage narrative in the U.S.
The Workday lawsuit is just the tip of the iceberg. The AI hiring ecosystem dominated by multinational platforms integrated with India's education and workforce ministries has become a gateway to displacement. The U.S. never lacked talent. It lacked gatekeeping. India didn't fill a gap, it created one.
Industry-Academia: From redirected job placement to industry India advantages
What began as job-portal partnerships soon evolved into something far more powerful. With real-time data on U.S. employer demands in hand, India launched a wave of corporate-backed "employability" programs, strategically embedded inside its own education system.
Under the banner of workforce development, India partnered directly with U.S. multinational corporations, Salesforce, Oracle, AWS, LinkedIn, VMware, and others, to mass-certify Indian students in precisely the skills needed for American jobs. These weren't general training efforts. They were tailored, fast-tracked programs designed to feed Indian workers directly into the global tech labor funnel.
While these programs expanded across India, Americans, especially veterans, recent graduates and mid-career professionals, were told they weren't qualified. But this wasn't a gap. It was a manipulated redirect.
● Onshore discrimination: Indian résumés, stuffed with AI-friendly keywords and U.S.-backed certifications, passed automated filters. American résumés were deprioritized or ignored.
● Offshore outsourcing: Companies hired "certified" Indian workers remotely or imported them on H-1B, OPT and STEM OPT visas.
● Bilateral betrayal: American corporations provided technical training to Indian students overseas while excluding American workers from the same programs at home.
This wasn't about filling shortages. It was about designing a surplus, abroad.
U.S. companies claimed they couldn't find qualified talent domestically, but behind the scenes, they were helping the Indian government build an entire foreign labor ecosystem engineered to displace American workers. These efforts were coordinated through India's Ministry of Education–backed bodies like AICTE and ICT Academy.
And the numbers prove the fraud.
India used its partnerships to simulate "global job readiness" for its youth, even though as of 2023 only 5% of Indian youth ages 20–24 had formal employability skills, according to AICTE's own metrics.
Despite this, Indian institutions flooded the market with inflated credentials: LinkedIn learning badges, AWS modules, Oracle certifications, AI resume optimizers. With U.S. support, India simulated job-readiness at scale, regardless of actual competency. These weren't just skills initiatives. These programs weren't about closing a domestic skills gap. They were a labor export strategy creating a foreign skills surplus, specifically tailored and deliberately designed to match American job descriptions while displacing the very workers they claimed to support.
The corporate accomplices: U.S. tech giants helped India displace American workers
The program was straightforward: Build industry-academia pipelines in India, align skill development with U.S. job qualifications, use corporate e-learning platforms for mass training and flood American job portals with foreign-trained "certified" candidates.
These were not charitable education initiatives, they were targeted labor funnel programs.
Here's a partial list of U.S.-based multinationals that actively partnered with Indian government-backed ICT Academy and AICTE to make Indian nationals more "employable" in the global workforce:
Amazon AWS
Through AWS Academy, Amazon helped deliver cloud computing and DevOps certifications to tens of thousands of Indian students and faculty, ensuring their skills aligned with roles in U.S.-based enterprises.
Oracle
Oracle Academy was formally introduced to Indian education institutions through ICT Academy to mass-certify students in enterprise applications, data management, and Java.
"Oracle and ICT Academy… to teach students industry-relevant skills."
Palo Alto Networks
Cybersecurity, once a national security domain, is now being outsourced at scale. With help from Palo Alto, India's ICT Academy enrolled entire institutions into its cybersecurity academy.
Salesforce
Salesforce partnered with ICT Academy to run the New India Championship, the largest "learnathon" in the country. Its Trailhead platform was used to mass-train Indian students in CRM and SaaS tools widely used in the U.S., directly preparing foreign candidates for roles in American firms.
VMware
ICT Academy became VMware's Regional Academy for India, overseeing deployment of the VMware IT curriculum across colleges. This gave Indian students resume-ready certifications directly aligned with U.S. enterprise infrastructure.
Autodesk
By embedding design and engineering software training into Indian institutions, Autodesk helped India mass-train designers to compete directly with U.S. engineering grads at a fraction of the wage.
The result? Americans replaced by design.
Betrayed by our own American companies: Displacement, discrimination, and deception
With AI-driven resume tools, skill-tagged certifications, and direct visibility into U.S. job portals, India didn't compete for American jobs; it engineered dominance. In truth, the system wasn't broken. It was redirected, away from American workers and toward India's industrialized, subsidized, and government-backed workforce machine.
America didn't just lose jobs. It lost the hiring system itself. The gatekeepers, job boards, training platforms and resume builders were quietly handed over to India. In return, U.S. corporations gained access to a cheaper, manipulated labor force pre-packaged to match whatever job description they posted.
India didn't just fill jobs. It hijacked the system that decides who gets hired. Until these corporate-foreign MoUs are ended and U.S. workforce protections are restored, Americans will continue to be filtered out of their own economy one redirected job at a time.
Corporate enablers behind India's ICT Academy workforce funnel
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A court is being asked to act against state officials who bypass the requirements of their own state constitution.
The situation is that while the Alabama Constitution "makes it clear that if the government wants to come searching on your property, they need a warrant based on probable cause," agents from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources simply cite a statute to ignore that requirement.
The Institute for Justice is now working with three Alabama residents to sue over the practice that has agents invading and searching private property not only without a warrant, but without consent.
The plaintiffs are Killen residents Dalton Boley and Regina Williams, and Muscle Shoals resident Dale Liles, who all took action after facing "multiple" privacy intrusions by game wardens.
None ever has been charged with hunting violations, "yet game wardens have snooped around on their properties without warrants on multiple occasions. That's because of an Alabama statute that allows game wardens to 'enter upon any land … in the performance of their duty.' Whether it's a posted field or residential yard, the statute gives wardens broad power to roam around private property without any warrant," the IJ said.
But, IJ lawyer Suranjan Sen explained, "The Alabama Constitution makes it clear that if the government wants to come searching on your property, they need a warrant based on probable cause, and game wardens are not exempt from the Constitution."
Williams owns 10 acres in Killen and had used it for decades, but as she aged she gave her neighbor, Boley, and his family permission to use it.
Then the game wardens arrived.
"This used to be a place where I could come to relax and get away from it all, but now that I know someone could be snooping around, I find it hard to just go there and relax," said Boley, who has faced unsubstantiated accusations from the agents.
"In Muscle Shoals, Dale owns and leases a combined 86 acres with sprawling fields, marshes, and swamps. Unlike Dalton and Regina, Dale does use his land for hunting with his kids and grandkids. There are two entrances to the land: a private gravel road and a gated entrance. Dale first saw a game warden's truck parked on his land in August 2018. He tried to talk to the warden, but he sped away," the IJ said.
The game wardens appeared again.
A trail camera then caught yet another game warden on the land.
"I'm all about preserving our wildlife and great outdoors—that's why I'm the president of my local Ducks Unlimited chapter. But game wardens still have to respect people's rights," said Liles. "Aside from my own privacy concerns, I don't like that the wardens don't wear orange when they're roaming around. It makes it very dangerous when you're hunting with rifles and people aren't wearing colors that make them easy to see."
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On Memorial Day 2025, President Donald Trump unleashed a holiday greeting in all capital letters to Americans, including what he calls "THE SCUM."
Trump said in a lengthy post on Truth Social: "HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE, THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDER, AND RAPE AGAIN — ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY."
"HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL.
"BUT FEAR NOT, WE HAVE MADE GREAT PROGRESS OVER THE LAST 4 MONTHS, AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN! AGAIN, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!"
Jack Posobiec of Human Events noted: "Trump is now using Memorial Day to rip into the scum who were destroying our country from within. Is this what you voted for?"
Mike Sington, a retired senior executive at NBCUniversal, said: "Trump's Memorial Day message to America is disgraceful, unhinged, and the rant of a mentally deranged madman. Just more proof he's completely unfit to hold the office of President."
There are plenty of other mixed reactions online, including:
"Ya gotta LOVE President Trump's Memorial Day Truth! And the fact that it's in ALL CAPS too… "
"On Memorial Day and every day, Donald Trump is an insult to those who died serving this nation."
"President Trump unleashed an angry tirade against the Marxist movement, destroying our country on Memorial Day. Media will attack him for 'not honoring the troops' on this solemn day, but they don't realize that's exactly what he did. Almost all of the men and women who fought and died for America sacrificed everything to protect a country they loved. A country based on the rule of law with strong borders, ethical judges, legitimate elections, free speech, and the American Dream. They didn't die for Marxists who hate our country and want to destroy it from within. President Trump and his voters know this, and that's his message on Memorial Day is so well said. God bless the troops that gave up everything to keep America Free. May we ensure our country truly is free so that their sacrifices were not made in vain."
"F*** Trump's entire message. Tone deaf, self-indulgent, and a slap in the face to veterans. 'Happy' Memorial Day. F***ing clown."
"Trump could've just stopped at Happy Memorial Day."
Senate Democrats are attempting to block a cryptocurrency bill at the 11th hour, citing concerns that it could allow President Donald Trump and other conservatives to profit corruptly from the initiative.
According to Axios, a group of Democrat senators on Friday convinced Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to back an amendment to the bill that would prevent the president and other officials from profiting from stablecoins, which are regulated by the bill.
The Democrats are bothered by Trump and other Republicans' crypto ventures, and are worried they could have too much influence over the crypto markets without the amendment.
Schumer, along with Sens. Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Jeff Merkley (OR), will file the amendment.
It was also co-sponsored by Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI), Jack Reed (D-RI), Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Michael Bennet (D-CO).
"Passing the GENIUS Act without our anti-corruption amendment stamps a Congressional seal of approval on Trump selling access and influence to the highest bidder," Merkley told Axios.
As usual, Democrats are greatly exaggerating the potential of what could happen.
Also, are congressional politicians allowed to profit from stablecoins? The bill did not appear to exempt them from it the same way as the president is exempted.
As always, the less government control and involvement in Americans' business ventures, the better.
Not all Democrats are involved in this push, however.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) believes the bill should be passed as-is, even if Trump uses the technology corruptly.
“The stablecoin market has reached nearly $250 billion and the U.S. can’t afford to keep standing on the sidelines," Warner said in a statement Monday. "We need clear rules of the road to protect consumers, defend national security, and support responsible innovation. The GENIUS Act is a meaningful step forward. It sets high standards for issuers, limits big tech overreach, and creates a safer, more transparent framework for digital assets. It’s not perfect, but it’s far better than the status quo.
He added: "We cannot allow that corruption to blind us to the broader reality: blockchain technology is here to stay. If American lawmakers don’t shape it, others will – and not in ways that serve our interests or democratic values. Innovation in this space is happening, with or without us. We have a responsibility to ensure it happens safely, transparently, and in a way that advances U.S. economic and national security interests. The GENIUS Act will help get us started.”
At least four Democrats would have to vote against the bill if the amendment fails in order to derail it, so we'll see what happens in the coming days.
Recent tell-all books about the Biden White House, including one from CNN's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axios, have endeavored to reveal the depths to which staffers, family members, and members of the media sunk to deprive the public of the truth about the then-president's true mental and physical condition.
Now, another well-known political insider, namely former Barack Obama adviser Jon Lovett, has stepped forward to reveal why he played a role in the emerging cover-up, blaming what was his consuming desire for a Democratic Party victory over Donald Trump, as Fox News reports.
Having served as an aide in the Obama White House, Lovett went on to assume the role of a co-host on the liberal Pod Save America podcast.
During a recent appearance on Jon Stewart's The Weekly Show podcast, Lovett took pains to offer an explanation as to why he stayed mum about concerns he says he had about Biden's decline while president and amid the 2024 presidential campaign.
According to Lovett, his concerns about Biden were very real, but he believed that the Democratic Party's electoral prospects against Trump were more important than speaking truth to the American people.
“I remember feeling I want to talk about this as a huge liability. To talk about this is something Joe Biden can overcome, but I'm not going to go so far as to say, 'I think Joe Biden must drop out. He is too old to be president,'” Lovett stated.
The reasons for that stance, Lovett added were, “A, because I didn't know exactly what was going on behind the scenes, but B, if Joe Biden is the candidate, I want him to f***ing win.”
In his attempted defense of his lack of candor on the situation, Lovett expressed his fear that coming clean with his audience about what he observed would result in the weaponization of that information by the president's opponent.
Saying quiet, he contended, helped prevent “having the words we're saying taken out of context and all of sudden be part of the case against Joe Biden from the right – that would use any person criticizing Joe Biden from the left as a weapon against him.”
Arguably struggling to reconcile his current admissions and past conduct, Lovett added, “So it was about being honest about Joe Biden's age as a liability while knowing that if he is the nominee, I want to be clear that I thought it was important to make sure we did everything we could to reelect him.”
While the belated -- and often disingenuous -- explanations of the roles played by liberal elites in hiding Biden's true condition from the country have continued to make headlines and fill airtime on cable news networks, a potentially more serious exploration of what went on now appears poised to commence.
House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) announced last week that he sent letters to a series of individuals who served in the Biden White House, requesting that they appear from transcribed interviews on the subject of the former president's decline.
“The cover-up of President Biden's obvious mental decline is a historic scandal. The American people deserve to know when this decline began, how far it progressed, and who was making critical decisions on his behalf,” Comer wrote. “Key executive actions signed by autopen, such as sweeping pardons for the Biden Crime Family, must be examined considering President Biden's diminished capacity," he added.
As such, Comer is seeking testimony from Biden physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor and former White House officials Neera Tanden, Anthony Bernal, Annie Tomasini, and Ashley Williams, and should those individuals decline cooperation with the probe, it remains to be seen whether subpoenas for their appearance will be the next phase in what many Americans believe is a necessary and long overdue probe.
One of the more fascinating political stories in recent years is that of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who has gone from liberal darling to a frequent target of the DC rumor mill, as some inside his party suggest he is incapable of managing the duties of his job.
In the wake of a recent New York Magazine exposé questioning Fetterman's mental health, the senator has reportedly expressed frustration about the pressure he feels to appear on Capitol Hill for votes and hearings he believes are unimportant, lamenting what he says has been the weaponization of his health battles, as Huff Post reports.
The lawmaker's most recent public battle was sparked by the aforementioned magazine piece, released earlier this month.
That article included quotes from former as well as current staffers who expressed concerns about the senator's mental health, which has allegedly faltered since he suffered a stroke in 2022, as the New York Post explained.
Former Fetterman chief of staff Adam Jentleson provided much of the fodder for the magazine piece, having resigned from his role in the legislator's office and subsequently sending an email to Fetterman's physician voicing his alarm.
Jentleson was said to have written at the time, “I think John is on a bad trajectory and I'm really worried about him,” noting his fear that if the situation was not addressed, the lawmaker “won't be with us for much longer.”
Other allegations in the piece included suggestions that Fetterman had been seen “wandering” around the Capitol, was nearly hit by a vehicle, and was perhaps neglecting to take his prescribed medications.
In the wake of the New York Magazine piece, Fetterman blasted its content, labeling it “A one-source hit piece, some anonymous sources,” adding, “there's nothing new,”
Fetterman scoffed at the notion that those who offered comment in the article had his best interests at heart, stating, “They are not actually concerned, it's a hit piece.”
Despite that defiant tone, it appears to many that the attacks may be taking a serious toll on Fetterman's enthusiasm for the role he was elected to fulfill, with Huff Post claiming that he is struggling to find purpose in his work in Washington.
“My doctor warned years ago: After it's public that you are getting help for depression, people will weaponize that,” Fetterman recently told the New York Times. “Simple things are turned. That's exactly what happened.”
The toll on Fetterman's legislative diligence has been evident, with the lawmaker missing 18.1% of all floor votes since he took office, and he explained to the Times that he feels increasingly disinclined to make time for “performative” procedural votes at the expense of time with his family.
Though once touted as a fierce liberal stalwart, Fetterman has made waves within his own party due to his demonstrated willingness to meet with Donald Trump and stand against other Democrats on issues spanning immigration to Israel.
However, now that he is reportedly steering clear of votes, hearings, and even town halls back home due to fears he willl be the target of protests, Fetterman's political future seems an increasingly open question.