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The librarian for the library of Congress, appointed years back by Barack Obama, has been fired.
President Donald Trump took the action because of "concerning things that she had done … in pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children."
Librarians for years already in local public facilities, in schools from grade school to high school, and elsewhere, frequently have been caught pushing the LGBT agenda, especially the transgender ideology that blossomed under Joe Biden's tenure, and the "diversity, equity and inclusion" ideology that discriminates based on sex and race, through the books they buy and hand out to children.
Communities often have resisted the leftist ideologies, and sometimes have won local battles, while sometimes librarians have won local battles by citing constitutional rights.
A report at USA Today said Carla Hayden, the librarian, was dismissed via email, drawing backlash from leftists.
Said Rep. Joe Morelle, a New York Democrat, "President Trump's ignorant decision will impact America's libraries, our copyrighted economic interests, and service to the American people by threatening support for Congress. His decision is a complete disgrace."
Another politician of the same belief system, Democrat Ed Markey of Massachusetts, said, "Donald Trump just fired my dear friend Dr. Carla Hayden — the Librarian of Congress — via email. This is disgraceful. The Library of Congress represents some of the best America has to offer. Equal access to learning for all."
Librarians often cite the First Amendment and Equal Access in their arguments for pushing their own leftist agendas. However, the First Amendment and Equal Access both have recognized limits when it comes to obscene material, pornography, threats to children and the like.
Hayden was placed in office in 2016 by a leftist president, Obama.
The facility houses more than 178 million items and artifacts, including books, musical instruments, photographs and more.
The personnel move was confirmed by an official with the library, and publications documented her notification said, "Carla, On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately. Thank you for your service."
It was from Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel Trent Morse.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the decision was based on the fact, "We felt she did not fit the needs of the American people."
Specifically, she cited "inappropriate books" that Hayden had been pushing, as well as her advocacy for the leftist DEI agenda of discrimination, which requires employees to be hired not for their job skills but because they are a certain sex, gender or race.
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Joe Biden's White House administration by now is famed for its weaponization of the federal government.
President Donald Trump has documents from his presidency? Send a SWAT team.
A father objects to an abortion business and the violence associated with it? Send a SWAT team.
Use the grand jury and court systems to assembled long lists of charges and criminal counts against Biden critics, sometimes without evidence at all.
Claim fraud when the "victims" say there wasn't any.
And more.
Now a report at Just the News reveals that Biden even wanted Americans spied on, monitoring, and investigated for "non-criminal behavior."
Of course, the requirement was that such "non-criminal behavior" actually was "concerning" to someone in the government.
Specifically a now-declassified document states Biden's goal was to, "Enhance public understanding of the role of Federal law enforcement in responding to incidents of concerning non-criminal behavior, as well the role of mental health professionals and resources in crisis response, including through public messaging and engagement."
The Department of Justice and FBI were to be the "lead" on the project to look out for that "non-criminal behavior."
The report explained the goal was to be "fighting domestic terrorism."
To that end, the feds were watching anyone in the military, anyone with a firearm, anyone with "xenophobic' information.
Biden's demand for eyes on vast numbers of Americans was revealed when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released the Biden "Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism."
From 2021, it outlined the agenda that the FBI would use later to monitor and probe conservative Catholics, parents who objected to leftist ideologies in their local schools, and to justify censorship and debanking of a long list of conservatives and organizations.
All under the guise of their being "potential enemies," the report said.
The standards came from the National Security Council and were dispatched to the DOJ and FBI, which later weaponized a long list of government responsibilities to attack conservatives.
The report explained that FBI agents had been required before to have met the required "predicate" goals for opening criminal and national security investigations.
Those factors would include "an articulable factual basis" that "reasonably indicates" a crime or national security threat has or is about to occur, the report explained.
Biden's let that standard plunge, to a level of "concern."
The verbiage created by Biden's administration, in fact, was "merely a broad brush to start spying on Americans," explained Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., of the House Judiciary Committee.
He told Just the News, "It doesn't have to be criminal, for sure. But it doesn't have to be heterodox. It just has to be something that some agent, or some local agent, says, 'Oh, we got a beef about this. We're going to check it out.'"
He described Biden's move as a clear violation of the 4th Amendment.
"It's spying on Americans," he said.
Previously reporting confirmed that the FBI was alerted at the time for symbols from the American Revolution, such as the Gadsden Flag and such. The report noted the goals outlined in the document overlapped existing Democrat party ideologies, including gun control, promoting "hate crimes" beliefs and such.
It also focused on so-called "disinformation," which during the Biden administration was whatever disagreed with his party's leftism.
Just the News reported, "Several FBI whistleblowers said that the strategies originally designed to target genuine extremists were instead turned against pro-life protestors, parents vocalizing concerns about their children's school curriculum at school board meetings, and those expressing traditional Catholic viewpoints."
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A top Republican in Congress is making the bombshell claim that FBI files on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein may have been destroyed, possibly by the federal government.
U.S. Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told journalist Benny Johnson on Tuesday: "I don't think the Department of Justice has [the Epstein files] – or at least the attorney general does not have them – or she would have turned them over.
"The president ordered them released. The attorney general ordered them released. We all know they have not been released," Comer continued.
"One of my biggest fears, which I expressed with [FBI Director] Kash Patel and a lot of people, including [White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy] Stephen Miller, going into the new administration, was this: I hope they're not shredding documents right now. This was a few weeks before the transition.
"I said, 'I hope they're not shredding documents.' But you all need to go on that first day and try to get all this stuff released, because my fear – based on what I've dealt with in investigations and in communication with this deep state apparatus – is that they're probably in there shredding documents as we speak. So, hopefully someone has a copy of that."
In response to Comer's conjecture the FBI may be "shredding documents" relating to the Epstein case, Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters Wednesday that's not the case.
So are there documents missing?
"No," said Bondi. "The FBI, they're reviewing tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn."
"The FBI is diligently going through that," she continued, noting the large volume of files. She added: "There are hundreds of victims."
"And no one victim will ever get released," she said. "It's just the volume, and that's what they're going through right now. The FBI is diligently going through that."
Bondi said she would get in touch with Comer about his theory.
"I haven't seen that statement, but I'll call him later and find out," she indicated.
While Bondi released a "first phase" of documents Feb. 27, fulfilling the Trump campaign promise to release them all has not yet happened.
The failure to release more information has elicited criticism from several lawmakers and conservative commentators alike.
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'President shouldn't have to ask permission from more than 600 different district judges to manage the executive branch'
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the most senior member of the upper chamber, is warning district court judges that their reign of issuing nationwide injunctions to block the agenda of President Donald Trump will be ending.
"Universal injunctions are an unconstitutional abuse of judicial power," said the senator who is chief of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
District judges, those handling the entry level of the federal court system, have issued dozens of injunctions preventing Trump from exercising he role as the manager of the nation's Executive branch since he took office.
They did the same thing during his first term, but during his second term have ramped up their attacks.
That issue is pending right now before the Supreme Court, whose members already have expressed concern about the wanton issuance of such orders, by a district judge, that purports to control Executive branch policy nationwide, and even worldwide.
A report at Fox News said Grassley cited a decision just last week.
"A D.C. district judge issued a universal injunction blocking the president's executive order requiring voter ID or proof-of-citizenship prior to voting in national elections," Grassley said. But that ignores the idea that "judges are not policymakers."
He continued, "Allowing them to assume this role is very dangerous."
He added, "The president of the United States shouldn't have to ask permission from more than 600 different district judges to manage the executive branch he was elected to lead. I happen to agree with some Democrats that in previous years have said some judges have gone way beyond what a judge should do on national injunctions."
The Supreme Court has awaiting its decision a charge that nationwide injunctions on Trump's order regarding birthright citizenship were wrong.
He said while the Supreme Court should issue a ruling on those injunctions, he and others in Congress already are working on legislation that would "end" universal injunctions that have been used by so many leftist judges against the president.
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Get ready for the Left to caterwaul "Dictator!"
The Army on Friday confirmed there will be a military parade on President Donald Trump's birthday in June, as part of the celebrations around the military branch's 250th birthday, according to a report in Western Journal.
Plans for the parade, as first detailed by The Associated Press on Thursday, call for about 6,600 soldiers, 150 vehicles and 50 helicopters to follow a route from Arlington, Virginia, to the National Mall. Officials say the parade, which originally was not in the plans for the Army's anniversary celebration, will cost tens of millions of dollars.
Trump has long talk of a military parade in the nation's capital, and discussions with the Pentagon about having one in conjunction with the anniversary festival began less than two months ago, according to the report.
The Army's 250th birthday happens to coincide with Trump's 79th birthday on June 14. In a statement Friday, Army spokesman Steve Warren said the Army's birthday celebration will include "a spectacular fireworks display, a parade, and a daylong festival on the National Mall."
In comments to Fox News Digital, White House officials confirmed a commemorative parade would take place and said it would be one of the first events to kick off a yearlong celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary.
Warren said that given the significance of the Army birthday, they are looking at options "to make the celebration even bigger, with more capability demonstrations, additional displays of equipment, and more engagement with the community."
Trump detractors wasted no time decrying the event, with one on X calling it a "birthday parade" for the 47th president.
VoteVets posted: "Not to honor service, not for national defense – just to feed the ego of a wannabe dictator. Pure authoritarian cosplay."
Republicans Against Trump posted on X: "Cutting cancer research while wasting money on this? Shameful."
Army planning documents, obtained this week by the Associated Press and dated April 29 and 30, said the parade will include soldiers from at least 11 corps and divisions nationwide. They said it would involve a Stryker battalion with two companies of Stryker vehicles, a tank battalion and two companies of tanks, an infantry battalion with Bradley vehicles, Paladin artillery vehicles, Howitzers and infantry vehicles.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was not happy about so many tanks rolling through the city's streets. "If military tanks are used, they should be accompanied with many millions of dollars to repair the roads," she told AP.
The Army birthday festival has been planned for more than a year and is slated to include displays of Army equipment, military demonstrations, musical performances and a fitness competition on the National Mall.
During his first term, Trump proposed having a parade after seeing one in France on Bastille Day in 2017. Trump said that after watching the two-hour procession along the famed Champs-Elysees he wanted an even grander one on Pennsylvania Avenue.
That plan was ultimately dumped due to the huge costs – with one estimate of a $92 million price tag – and other logistical issues.
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A new report posted at Fox News, based on comments from DOGE employees during an interview with Jesse Watters, reveals the "most outrageous" ways those on the taxpayers' payroll wasted tax money.
President Donald Trump launched the Department of Government Efficiency when he took office, and officials there have reported cutting at least $160 billion in waste, fraud and abuse.
DOGE chief Elon Musk and his team joined Watters, and revealed that the U.S. Institute for Peace had tried to pay Mohammad Qasem Halimi $132,000 by contract.
The trouble is he is a former member of the Taliban, and was detained by the U.S. and held at Bagram Air Base for a year beginning Jan. 2, 2002. The report noted he held several positions in Afghanistan's government.
A staff member told Watters, "A small agency called the United States Institute of Peace is definitely the agency we've had the most fight at. We actually went into the agency and found they had loaded guns inside their headquarters — Institute for Peace. So by far, the least peaceful agency that we've worked with, ironically. Additionally, we found that they were spending money on things like private jets, and they even had a $130,000 contract with a former member of the Taliban. This is real. We don't encounter that in most agencies."
Also there was some $200 billion spent by the nation's schools, from COVID-19 relief funds, on things like trips to a Las Vegas hotel and the purchase of an ice cream truck.
The report said, "Granite School District in Utah spent their COVID-relief funds on $86,000 in hotel rooms for an educational conference at Caesars Palace, a ritzy Las Vegas casino, while Santa Ana Unified in California spent $393,000 to rent out a Major League Baseball stadium, according to a report by Parents Defending Education and shared by DOGE."
It was a California district that bought the ice cream truck.
Then, too, there was the $20 million "Sesame Street" in Iraq funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, a bureaucracy shut down by DOGE.
"Improper payments" by multiple agencies cost taxpayers $162 billion, the report said, with three quarters of that concentrated in three Department of Health and Human Services Medicare programs; Medicaid, the Department of the Treasury's earned income tax credit; the Department of Agriculture's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; and the Small Business Administration's Restaurant Revitalization Fund.
Hundreds of millions in spending planned for DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion, social agenda points also have been cut.
Some 400 "wasteful" DEI grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation alone, now canceled, saved $223 million.
The Department of Education already had canceled more than $100 million in grants to DEI training.
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For years the creators of content at National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service have taken in tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding each year.
And they have "spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'"
That's according to President Donald Trump, who now has issued an executive order ending taxpayer subsidization of the leftist story lines the organizations have created.
For example, the order revealed, "In 2021, NPR declared the Declaration of Independence to be a document with 'flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies.'
"In 2022, NPR scrapped its decades-long Independence Day tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on air to instead discuss 'equality.'
"NPR subsequently issued an 'editor's note' warning the Declaration of Independence is 'a document that contains offensive language.'"
Further, the content creators at NPR "NPR apologized for calling illegal immigrants 'illegal.'"
And it "sounded the alarm about young men who abstain from masturbating to pornography." And it "routinely" promotes "the chemical and surgical mutilation of children as so-called 'gender-affirming' care."
It also promoted the concept of "queer animals" while PBS devoted a panel to discussing "woke" and "white privilege."
Other factors identified by the White House:
The order also explained how "NPR and PBS have zero tolerance for non-leftist viewpoints."
For instance:
NPR also repeatedly denied the evidence that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab working to make viruses more dangerous, "a conclusion now deemed likely by the FBI, CIA and Department of Energy."
Trump's order states: "At the very least, Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage. No media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies, and the Government is entitled to determine which categories of activities to subsidize. The CPB's governing statute reflects principles of impartiality: the CPB may not 'contribute to or otherwise support any political party.' 47 U.S.C. 396(f)(3); see also id. 396(e)(2).
"The CPB fails to abide by these principles to the extent it subsidizes NPR and PBS. Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter. What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens. I therefore instruct the CPB Board of Directors (CPB Board) and all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS."
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Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House for his second term, he's been trying to clean up the federal government, secure the border, cut expenses and spending, get rid of fraud, waste and even criminal activities.
For this, beneficiaries of that spending have sued, over and over. And over and over federal judges have declared they have the authority to determine the nation's international policy, its border security, its funding and such.
Not surprisingly, such reach has resulted in criticism from Trump and his administration, including calls for impeachment for judges such as the one who demanded that deportation flights be turned around in the air so that illegal aliens could be returned to the U.S..
Now one member of the Supreme Court is complaining about the increasingly hostile rhetoric by using her own hostile rhetoric.
Justice Ketanji Jackson said at a conference in Puerto Rico, on criticisms of the judiciary, "The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity. The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."
A report from Politico pointed out she didn't mention Trump by name, but instead addressed the "elephant in the room," which the report said was "a clear reference to the belligerent language — and calls for impeachment — that Trump and some of his advisers have lobbed at federal judges who rule against his agenda."
She said, to judges, "I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service."
The comments could reappear for her later, too, as the Supreme Court is expected to rule, eventually, on a number of the controversies that right now are at the lower levels of the federal court system.
Some already have been presented to the Supreme Court for review, but decisions have not been announced.
If Jackson has described the arguments on one side of any question as "intimidating," her impartiality could be questioned.
The Trump administration, including the president and his appointees, repeatedly have criticized lower court judges for overreach when they presume to make decisions normally under the power of the Executive branch, on topics including firing workers, deportation actions, saving federal money and eliminating wasteful contracts.
Trump has, in fact, called U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, a radical lunatic and called for his impeachment after interfered in the president's campaign to deport illegal aliens. Another judge ordered the government hand out an unnecessary $2 billion.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said impeachment isn't the "appropriate response" to disagreements.
Jackson, at her speech, insisted on calling out what she claimed are "the relentless attacks and disregard and disparagement that judges around the country and perhaps many of you are facing on a daily basis. It seems as though every time I read the news or turn on the television these days, I see the affronts."
Jackson, appointed by Joe Biden, was the nominee who infamously said during her confirmation hearing that she could not define "woman."
And she likened the judges opposing Trump as like those judges who made decisions during the Civil Rights Movement and during Watergate.
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'A reminder of how easily bureaucratic power can spiral out of control and jeopardize the livelihoods of honest agricultural producers'
The administration of President Donald Trump has killed a Joe Biden plan that involved persecuting a multi-generation South Dakota ranching family with huge legal fees and even threats of jail.
"No family farmer or rancher should have to go through what the Maude family did," explained Buck Wehrbein, a Nebraska cattleman and president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. "The targeted prosecution of the Maude family was way out of line for the U.S. Forest Service, and this was a clear example of government overreach that had direct, catastrophic impacts for a hardworking fifth-generation ranching family."
It was under Biden's administration that a dispute arose over a fenceline on land the family had ranched for more than a century.
Family members actively were involved in discussions to do an assessment of the problem, if there was one, and reach a resolution.
But then the U.S. Forest Service dispatched armed federal agents to serve each Maude family member with a federal summons for theft, even though the management of the boundary line and parcel in question hadn't been changed since the early 1900s.
The result was that Charles and Heather Maude each was facing claims of "theft of federal property" and threatened with 10 years in jail and fines up to $250,000, according to a NewsDakota report.
"Charles and Heather Maude are public lands ranchers who for decades held a federal grazing permit and were permittees in good standing," said Public Lands Council President and Colorado rancher Tim Canterbury, who also holds a federal grazing permit.
"As permittees, we are required to work collaboratively with the government, but when federal agencies view ranchers as the enemy, it threatens the trust that every single rancher has in their federal partners. The public outcry we saw on behalf of the Maudes goes to show that public lands ranchers everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief that the USDA under Secretary Rollins is no longer trying to slap handcuffs on hardworking farmers and ranchers."
It was Trump's U.S. secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, who now has confirmed that the charges are dropped and the case over.
That announcement said, "We have taken bold action to put farmers first by dropping criminal charges against the Maude Family of South Dakota. The political prosecution regime of the Biden administration is no more. We are ending government regulation through prosecution."
"This case was an unfortunate example of the imbalance of power between family ranchers and a formidable federal government. Put simply, the Maude family was expected to bear the burden of an inefficient and unfair Forest Service process, and their story had a chilling effect on ranchers' trust in federal land management agencies they interact with daily," said Kaitlynn Glover, executive director of the PLC.
"Both the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the Public Lands Council are pleased that our months-long campaign to find a good solution for Charles, Heather, and their kids has finally become a reality."
A report from HPJ said the family runs a small cattle and hog operation, and the dispute involved a few acres of federal land.
The Maudes were alerted by the United States Forest Service that fencing on their property blocked access to the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, the report said, and "in good faith agreed to a survey of the property lines. After the survey was completed, the Maudes lives were turned upside down by the Biden administration where a simple civil dispute turned into what Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rolllins said was an unnecessary criminal prosecution."
U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said the Department of Justice needs to spend its resources and efforts on prosecuting criminals and getting drugs off the streets, the report explained.
Sid Miller, the agriculture commissioner in Texas, said, "The U.S. Department of Justice's choice to dismiss the criminal charges against Charles and Heather Maude is a long-awaited action that highlights the damage caused by the Biden administration's harmful federal overreach. This marks a significant triumph for land rights, the diligent families that sustain this nation, and basic common sense. The Maudes, as fifth-generation ranchers, have responsibly managed their land for many years under the supervision of the very agency that sought to portray them as criminals.
"This was never a criminal matter; it was a land use disagreement that should have been resolved through dialogue and respect, rather than threats of prison and financial ruin. What occurred in South Dakota serves as a chilling reminder of how easily bureaucratic power can spiral out of control and jeopardize the livelihoods of honest agricultural producers.
"I am thankful that under the Trump administration, the rights of rural Americans are finally being honored, and sensibility has returned to our national government," he said.
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3 corporations facing punishments totaling some $8 million
Businesses across the United States have, at times, hired illegal aliens.
Such employment is more common in some job markets, such as vegetable and fruit gardening, construction, and the like.
But it's still not supposed to happen, and three businesses in the Denver area are learning that with a hard lesson.
A report from Denver Channel 7 explains the hiring of workers who do not have permission to take American jobs hurts "law-abiding employers."
The report explained officials with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed plans to impose $8 million in fines against CCS Denver, PBC Commercial Cleaning Systems and Green Management Denver.
The plans follow audits that found what ICE has categorized as "widespread employment eligibility violations."
ICE said a fine of $6.1 million is being proposed for CCS Denver for "a 100% substantive violation rate."
The company's record allegedly included hiring at least 87 illegal aliens.
The fine for PBS Commercial Cleaning is to be $1.6 million for a 74% violation rate and hiring "at least 12 unauthorized workers."
The fine planned for Green Management Denver is $270,000 for employing 44 undocumented immigrant workers.
In a statement, Steve Cagen, special agent in charge, explained, "The employment of unauthorized workers undermines the integrity of our immigration system and puts law-abiding employers at a disadvantage. These penalties reinforce our commitment to uphold the law and promote a culture of compliance."