>>22889399pb

Reposting an anons post from last bread, its great that David Sacks never caved even though Ackman caved in a split second. That’s why David Sacks is there, he's not a sunshine patriot,he is dedicated Patriot.

David Sacks

@DavidSacks

They did everything they could to create a panic. They predicted a Black Monday that never came. They became jubilant over an intraday correction on Tuesday.They were rooting for Trump to fail even if it meant the market and economy crashed. Fortunately their hopes have been dashed. Trump has been vindicated. China is isolated, and the rest of the world is lining up to negotiate new trade deals. Do you think this would have happened if Trump had asked nicely? Maybe if he had said pretty please? Never. This was the only way to rewrite the rules of global trade.

Once again, Trump was right about everything!

https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/1910035952283857213

@ComfortablySmug

A lot of people owe @DavidSachs, an apology.

And President Trump! The the stock market gurus are the ones that destroyed America and almost got away with it for all of our history, for filthy lucre.

(Reposting from an anon from last thread with video included)

Chief Nerd

@TheChiefNerd

TRUMP: “We're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals. When they hear that, they will leave China … and they're going to be opening up their plants all over the place in our country.”

9:21 PM · Apr 8, 2025

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https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1909778617816526901

(China destroyed our pharma distribution, right now to get a prescription filled can take days and weeks, it will get worse with China retaliation, but China will be defeated.)

Wall Street Apes

@WallStreetApes

You know the American People have had enough when an ai video of Senator Elizabeth Warren running from the FBI with bags of cash gets over 45,000(4.5 million likes since March 14th==) Likes.

We are sick of politicians getting filthy rich insider trading, laundering our money to NGOs and selling us out==

3:20 PM · Mar 14, 2025

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https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1900628087089623110

This makes me hopeful!

California Judge Upholds Huntington Beach Voter ID Law

Joel B. Pollak 8 Apr 2025162

A judge in Orange County, California, hasrejectedan effort by the Democrat-run stateto block the City of Huntington Beach from enforcing a voter ID law== that local voters passed by referendum last year, at least for municipal elections.

Huntington Beach, “Surf City USA,” often bucks the left-wing trend in California, fighting back against coronavirus restrictions, amnesty for illegal aliens, “affordable housing” requirements, and a Democrat-backed ban on voter ID.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a statewide ban on voter IDinto law last year in response to Measure A, passed by local voters last spring.But the city argues its independent powersunder state law give it control of its own elections.

A county judge agreed, according to the Orange County Register:

“There is no showing that a voter identification requirement compromises the integrity of a municipal election,” Orange County Superior Court Judge Nico Dourbetas wrote in his ruling.

…

“Yet again, we believe the Orange County Superior Court got it wrong,”Attorney General Rob Bontasaid in a statement. “Now that we have a final order from the Orange County Superior Court, we look forward to moving on and appealing the decision. We remain confident that Measure A will ultimately be struck down.”

…

A three-judge panel in theFourth District Court of Appeal, which took an early look at the arguments in the case in February, had described the city’s argument that “it had a constitutional right to regulate its own municipal elections free from state interference”as “problematic.” The panel had asked the Superior Court judge to reconsider his earlier ruling.

The case now proceeds through the state appellate system. The left-wing California Supreme Court is likely to side against the city, possibly setting up a U.S. Supreme Court appeal.

Meanwhile, Republicans in the state recently launched an effort to put a referendum on the ballot in 2026 to require voter ID. President DonaldTrump had also said he would like to see future aid to the state conditioned on voter ID.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/california-judge-upholds-huntington-beach-voter-id-law/

Every judge in that state needs to be investigated for corruption, lack of education or threats to their life.

Exclusive — School Watchdog Group Files Complaint Against University of Wisconsin–Madison over Alleged Race-Based Scholarship: ‘Racism Repackaged’ Katherine Hamilton 9 Apr 2025 1/2

A school watchdog group is filing a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education (DoE) against the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) over an alleged race-based scholarship.

Breitbart News exclusively learned ofDefending Education’s (formerly Parents Defending Education) complaint to the DoE’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) ahead of its filing on Wednesday. The national grassroots organization, who says its mission is to “reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas,” alleges that UWM is” discriminat[ing] on the basis ofrace in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance in violation of both Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Title VI) and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”

“Handing out scholarships based on skin color isn’t equity—it’s racism, repackaged,” Defending Education’s founder and president Nicole Neily told Breitbart News. “The University of Wisconsin-Madison is running a modern-day version of separate but equal, and the federal government is footing the bill. If Title VI means anything, this has to end. The Department of Education must shut it down now.”

OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT

Thecomplaint specifically point’s to UWM’s Lawton Grant, or “The Lawton Undergraduate Minority Retention Grant program,” which was established in 1986 “to provide financial assistance to statutorily designated minority Wisconsin undergraduate students (African-American, Latino, Native American (American Indian/Eskimo) and Southeast Asians of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, or Hmong descent who entered the United States after December 31, 1975),” according to the grant webpage.

==The scholarship is between $1,000 and $3,300 per academic year and can be received for a maximum of eight semesters or up to $16,000, the webpage

and complaint state==.

The Lawton Grants appears to be administers through UWM’s various schools and colleges including:

• College of Agricultural & Life Sciences

• College of Engineering

• College of Letters & Science

• School of Education

• School of Human Ecology

• School of Nursing

• School of Pharmacy

• Student Financial Aid

• Wisconsin School of Business

UWM lists eligibility criteria for the Lawson Grant as follows [emphasis added]:

• Be a Wisconsin resident.

• Identify as African-American, Latino, Native American (American Indian/Eskimo), Southeast Asian

of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, or Hmong decent.

• Have reached sophomore standing or higher, but not yet received their first bachelor’s degree.

• Submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) each year and it must show a Student

Aid Index (SAI) below 10,000 as well as financial need

• Maintain a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA.

• Maintain full-time enrollment and complete at least 24 credits in the preceding academic year.

• Meet any other criteria as established by your school or college.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/09/exclusive-school-watchdog-group-files-complaint-against-university-of-wisconsin-madison-over-alleged-race-based-scholarship-racism-repackaged/

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2/2

“According to the school, the program ‘was established back in 1986 to provide financial assistance to statutorily designated minority Wisconsin undergraduate students.’ Accordingly, it is a financial benefit granted expressly and unapologetically on the basis of race in violation of Title VI and the Constitution’s 14th Amendment,” the complaint alleges.

Defending Education alleges that the scholarship’s alleged “discrimination on the basis of race” raises concerns that the university has received federal funds in violation of Title VI, which states that “no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”

The organization further points to Section 1 the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court decisions holding both racial segregation and affirmative action unconstitutional.

“The Department’s own guidance on Title VI clarifies that covered educational programs and activities may include, but are not limited to: ‘admissions, recruitment, financial aid, academic programs, student treatment and services, counseling and guidance, discipline, classroom assignment, grading, vocational education, recreation, physical education, athletics, and housing,'” the complaint continues.

“Accordingly, we ask that the Department promptly investigate the allegations in this complaint, act swiftly to remedy unlawful policies and practices, and order appropriate relief,” the complaint requests.

UWM is notably one of 45 universities already under investigation by the DoE’s OCR due to allegations that it has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by partnering with “The Ph. D Project,” an organization that “purports to provide doctoral students with insights into obtaining a Ph.D. and networking opportunities, but limits eligibility based on the race of participants,” the department announced in March.

“The Department is working to reorient civil rights enforcement to ensure all students are protected from illegal discrimination,” U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement at the time.“The agency has already launched Title VI investigations into institutions where widespread antisemitic harassment has been reported and Title IX investigations into entities which allegedly continue to allow sex discrimination; today’s announcement expands our efforts to ensure universities are not discriminating against their students based on race and race stereotypes.”

“Students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin. We will not yield on this commitment,” she added.

The Department of Education said institutions that violate Title VI prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in education programs and activists could ultimately lose federal funds.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/09/exclusive-school-watchdog-group-files-complaint-against-university-of-wisconsin-madison-over-alleged-race-based-scholarship-racism-repackaged/

These school do this to recruit more left wing minorities, they basically bribe them, with scholarships, that is why that University in WI is a hotbed of violent radicalismAll Universities need to be investigated if they are also hiding their racist theft. How on earth can Universities teach the young to be participating in an honest society, when these universities cheat and steal money from the government and from students, that are denied? They are just training these youth to be criminals.

Marlow: Alien Enemies Act Decision Marks Beginning of the End of Judicial Tyranny from District Court JudgesBreitbart TV 8 Apr 2025156

On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed the Supreme Court’s deportation ruling.

Marlow stated that “the most important part of this decision…it was clear from the context…the court’s opinion is that Boasberg went out of his jurisdiction. His jurisdiction should have been confined to a district, he’s a district judge, this case should have been brought in Texas.

Instead, it was brought in D.C. … to judge-shop…this is the beginning of the court pushing back on the idea that these district judgescan overwhelm the executive branch and have, essentially, a veto over President Trump’s executive actions.”

“The Alex Marlow Show,” hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, is a weekday podcast produced by Breitbart News and Salem Podcast Network. You can subscribe to the podcast on YouTube, Rumble, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/marlow-alien-enemies-act-decision-marks-beginning-of-the-end-of-judicial-tyranny-from-district-court-judges/

SCOTUS Sets Trump Agenda on Overdrive with Alien Enemies Act Ruling(Removing the weapons of DS judges)

45:22

https://youtu.be/y2az8M5VC2c

Massive Victory Hidden Within SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act Decision

…Marlow:Beginning of the End of Judicial Tyranny from District Court Judges

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Alex Shieh

@alexkshieh

.@BrownUniversity's Russell Carey just threatened me with disciplinary action for saying DEI cost Brown $510M in federal funds, calling this claim "false." Then the @WhiteHouse confirmed it.

Here's their letter. You decide who looks ridiculous.

President Donald J. Trump and 4 others

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https://x.com/alexkshieh/status/1908986350470078765

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

Trump broke George Conway so hard he's literally crying like a baby.

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They cut out the slimy things he said. Finally the monster of TDS is broken

Rapid Response 47

@RapidResponse47

.@FBIDirectorKash gives remarks after announcing the seizure of 48,400 pounds of illicit narcotics worth over $509 million in Port Everglades: "This is what it looks like when a United States whole-of-government approach brings every resource to bare… They are going to get all the drugs off the streets, off the markets – and we are going to lock them up."

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Victor Davis Hanson

@VDHanson

Please—Tariff symmetry!

A key to reducing the nearly $1 trillion trade imbalance and encouraging foreign investment is the idea that trade reciprocity and parity — roughly zero tariffs or identical /reciprocal tariffs between the U.S. and its trading partners—are our primary goals. That is a concept that the American people support wholeheartedly and even in extremists will continue to do so.

But talk of either reparatory tariffs—additional fines on partners for their past asymmetrical tariffs—or higher tariffs on countries that either now run deficits with America or have little or no tariffs with the U.S.—will lose public support and only energize opposition to what otherwise is a rational and sympathetic American position on rectifying a half- century of chronic and mounting trade deficits.

True, many countries level tariffs under insidiously Machiavellian conditions such as falsely constructed health and safety barriers, excise and VAT taxes, and currency manipulation. But those complexities should be left for round two of negotiationssince for now the public is most concerned with “do onto to others as they would do onto to you” reciprocity.

Getting to zero or identical tariffs with a host of current mercantile trading nations would be an astounding accomplishment and one that the public needs to digest, appreciate, and savor — before in one fell swoop jeopardizing such historic corrections by trying to solve the entire half-century trade quagmire all at once — a task that will lose public support if countries are still tariffed after agreeing to zero or reciprocal tariffs with the U.S.

1:53 PM · Apr 7, 2025·

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https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1909303554529243290

I hope he is wrong.

9 Apr, 2025 15:49

Chinese companies could be removed from US stock markets – treasury secretary

Washington is also considering imposing even higher tariffs on goods from the country, Scott Bessent has said

Washington is considering delisting Chinese companies from US markets amid the escalating tariff war, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said.

Speaking to Fox Business on Wednesday, Bessent described China’s latest move to raise its tariffs on American goods to a total of 84% as “unfortunate.”The measure was announced after US President Donald Trump increased the tariffs on all Chinese imports to 104% earlier this week.

“I think it’s unfortunate that the Chinese actually don’t want to come and negotiate because they are the worst offenders in the international trading system,” Bessent claimed, suggesting that the US could end up imposing even higher tariffs.

“If China starts devaluing, then that is a tax on the rest of the world, and everyone will have to keep raising their tariffs to offset the devaluation. So I would urge them not to do that and to come to the table,” he said.

Asked whether Washington is considering delisting Chinese companies from US stock exchanges, Bessent stated thatall options are on the tableand that it’s up to the president to do so.Currently, 286 Chinese companies, including Alibaba, one of the world’s largest retailers and e-commerce operators, are listed on US stock exchanges. “That will be Trump’s decision,” he said.

The new threats come after China introduced an additional 50% tariff – due to take effect on Thursday – on all American goods. The measure comes on top of the previously imposed 34% tariff, China’s Finance Ministry announced earlier on Wednesday.

“The US’ practice of escalating tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake, which seriously infringes on China’s legitimate rights and interests and seriously damages the rules-based multilateral trading system,” the ministry said in a statement.

Earlier this week, Beijing vowed to fight the trade war with the US “to the end” and “firmly defend its interests.” Apart from cranking up tariffs, China has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against the US over its practices, as well as placing certain American businesses on its ‘unreliable entity’ list or subjecting them to export controls.

The escalating trade war comes amid Trump’s efforts to straighten out America’s import-export balance, which involves the introduction of massive retaliatory tariffs on most countries. In March, Trump imposed a 20% tariff on Chinese imports. Last week, he added an additional 34%, bringing the total to 54%. Beijing retaliated in kind, introducing a 34% tariff on US goods – after which Trump added another 50%, bringing the total to 104%.

https://www.rt.com/news/615466-chinese-companies-market-delisting/

9 Apr, 2025 16:39

Ukrainians who moved to the West not coming back – MP

The country is facing labor shortages due to the outflow of refugees

Most of the Ukrainians living in the West are unlikely to return, MP Nina Yuzhanina has warned. The lawmaker was commenting on how Kiev plans to address labor shortages caused by mass migration after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict. (There are close to a million that died in the war, why would they come back.

In an interview with online news channel Novini Live on Wednesday, Yuzhanina, a member of the parliamentary financial committee,claimed that at least half of the Ukrainians living in the West would not return due to “chaos within state institutions,” security concerns, and uncertainty surrounding Western military support.

“Those individuals have learned to be self-sufficient in European nations, without assistance from Ukraine,” she stated.“Most have made the decision to stay — perhaps not 70%, but around 50%.”

Ukrainian Unity Minister Aleksey Chernyshov claimed in February that only 30% of Ukrainians who left are seriously contemplating returning home,despite the country needing between 3.1 to 4.2 million more people over the next decade.

As of January, nearly 4.3 million Ukrainians had received temporary protection status in the EU, according to the European Commission. Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic reportedly host the largest numbers.

The highest influx of Ukrainians fleeing conflict was to Russia. The UN Refugee Agency estimated up to 2.85 million people had migrated as of 2023.

Moscow has provided various paths to legal status for refugees, including naturalization. President Vladimir Putin insisted last year that ethnic Ukrainians are welcome in Russia, stating the country may be be home to as many Ukrainians as Ukraine itself.

The arrival of Ukrainians has reportedly sparked some tensions in the West and strained social safety networks.Germany’s ‘Job Turbo’ program, intended to boost employment among people from Ukraine, was deemed a failure by the media, after auditors estimated last year that it accounted for less than 1% of foreign national job placements.

Meanwhile, in Poland, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz claimed last October thatmany citizens are dismayed by “the sight of young men from Ukraine, driving expensive cars, and spending weekends in five-star hotels.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/615468-ukrainians-not-returning-home/

The theft was obviously massive even with the citizens.

9 Apr, 2025 14:01

Kiev targeting Russian gas supplies to southern Europe – Moscow

Ukraine has continuously violated the moratorium on strikes on energy facilities, according to the Defense Ministry

TheUkrainian military has launched multiple drone attacks overnight, targeting a Russian gas pumping station which supplies fuel to southern Europevia the TurkStream pipeline, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.

The ministry has accused Kiev of continued violations of an energy ceasefire agreed by Russia, the US and Ukraine last month.

On Wednesday, the Russian military announced that it intercepted eight Ukrainian drones targeting the energy facility near the town of Korenovsk in the southern Krasnodar Region. The attack on Tuesday night was detected by defenses and caused no damage, as all aircraft were successfully intercepted, the report stated.

“This was a deliberate attack by the Kiev regime against an international energy site,”the ministry emphasized, adding that since Russia accepted a US-proposed moratorium on strikes targeting energy infrastructure, Ukrainian forces have not paused such attacks “for a single day.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an immediate suspension of strikes on Ukrainian energy sites following a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump in mid-March. Moscow maintains it is observing the partial ceasefire, despite Ukrainian violations, in a bid to foster goodwill with Washington.

The Korenovskaya compressor station targeted by Kiev is part of the Pochinki-Anapa pipeline, which entered service in July 2022 to enhance supplies for the TurkStream link under the Black Sea. The ground section of the pipeline has a maximum capacity of 63 billion cubic meters of gas per year, though the Defense Ministry noted it is currently functioning at about half that flow rate.

TurkStream is one of the primary export routes for Russian natural gas directly to Türkiye, facilitating further supplies to Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Greece.

In late February Hungary accused Kiev of threatening its sovereignty by jeopardizing its energy supplies, after a Ukrainian drone raid targeted the Russkaya gas compressor station, which feeds fuel into TurkStream.

https://www.rt.com/russia/615445-turkstream-compressor-station-drones/

Will Europe pull back their attack dog?

9 Apr, 2025 15:18

Moscow labels France’s conduct a ‘shameful spectacle’

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has condemned the detention of a Russian diplomat at a Paris airport

Russia has lodged a formal diplomatic protest against France and summonedits ambassador after a member of its official delegation to a UNESCO event was detained at a Paris airport, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. She denounced the move as a “shameful spectacle.”

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Zakharova expressed outrage about an incident that took place at Charles de Gaulle Airport on Sunday.A Russian female diplomat was detained by French border officials upon arrival, her phone and computer were confiscated, and no explanation was given for her detention, she said, adding that “the incident defies all explanation.”

According to the spokeswoman, the Russian Embassy in Paris promptly sent a consular officer to the airport to look into the situation, submitted a formal protest to the French Foreign Ministry, and summoned the French ambassador in Moscow.

”As a result of our demarches, our colleague was ultimately permitted entry into the country.However, she was forced to spend an entire day in the airport’s border zone,”Zakharova said, calling the brief detention a “shameful spectacle.”

Zakharova also warned Paris that it would face consequences over the incident, which she said would go well beyond formal protests.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also condemned the incident,calling it unacceptable and a violation of France’s obligations under the Vienna Convention, which defines the rules of diplomatic engagement between states. He added that the detention “further damages already strained relations” between the two countries.

Asked for comment, French government spokeswoman Sophie Primas said she had no knowledge of the incident, but acknowledged that Russia and France do not currently enjoy friendly relations.

https://www.rt.com/russia/615460-zakharova-diplomat-france-shameful/

Thank God we do not live on a Continent that can be so demented.

9 Apr, 2025 14:01

USAID paid Czech groups to ‘wage war’ against Russia – former police chief

The organization had a huge influence on the relationship between Prague and Moscow, Stanislav Novotny has told RT

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) financed a long-running anti-Russian campaign in the Czech Republic, former Czech police chief Stanislav Novotny has told RT. In an exclusive interview on Wednesday, Novotny said Washington’s primary channel for funding political projects abroad had played a major role in shaping Czech-Russian relations.

According to the former police chief, who is now a lawyer and journalist,US billionaire George Soros has also had a significant influence on the deterioration of ties between Prague and Moscow through his Open Society Foundations.

“A lot of money was poured into civil society organizations of political nature which were waging a war against Russia,”Novotny said. “Such organizations should simply be removed,” he added, accusing the Czech government of spending taxpayers’ money on stoking anti-Russian sentiment by contributing financially to the organizations.

US President Donald Trump launched the process of dismantling USAID shortly after returning to office in January, citing high costs and limited benefits associated with its programs. He also started negotiations with Russia aimed at improving ties and resolving the Ukraine conflict.

While commenting on the developments around USAID in early February, Novotny described the agency as “the monster that has taken over the world,” alleging it“orchestrated wars, organized mass migration, broke up national cohesion and destroyed indigenous cultures.”

The Czech Republic was formed in 1993 after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Prior to those events it was part of communist Czechoslovakia, a key member of the Soviet Union-led Eastern Bloc.

Prague has adopted a notably anti-Russian stance in recent years, particularly in response to the events in Ukraine, becoming one of Kiev’s staunchest supporters and labeling Russia a “terrorist state.”

Hundreds of Soviet-era monuments have been removed or modified in the EU state since the 1990s, with a renewed wave of demolitions after the 2014 armed coup in Kiev, Crimea’s decision to join Russia, and the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.

The campaign to demolish the monuments was“among the policies that were aimed at provoking fear and hatred towards the Russians,”Novotny argued.

Novotny, who founded the Independent Media Association in the Czech Republic, said he came to Moscow to give the RT interview because “talking to Russian journalists is practically prohibited.” RT and other Russian media have been banned in the EU since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict.

https://www.rt.com/news/615422-usaid-czech-novotny-interview/

(Why isn’t the US throwing Soros and all his orgs out of the US, there is be no good reason they are here?)

Fannie Mae Fires Over 100 Federal Agency Employees for Facilitating Housing Loan Fraud

April 9, 2025 | Sundance |

This is an excellent example of what Attorney General Pam Bondi should be focused on instead of her appearances on Fox News.

The Federal Housing and Finance Agency has released a public statement highlighting an internal review and investigation of conduct within Fannie Mae that has resulted in the termination of over 100 employees for “unethical conduct” including the “facilitation of fraud.”

If the FHMA is finding intentional fraud within the housing loan offices, those federal employees should be arrested and legally prosecuted for their conduct.It is not enough to just fire people, there has to be legal accountability. These are the government regulators for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (Agreed, if they are not arrested the others still there, will notice and carryon with their fraud)

Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (U.S. Federal Housing FHFA) and Fannie Mae issued the following statement:

“In President Trump’s housing market, there is no room for fraud, mortgage fraud, or any other deceitful act that can jeopardize the safety and soundness of the housing industry,” saidWilliam J. Pulte, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fannie Mae. “Since my swearing-in, we fired over 100 employees from Fannie Mae who we caught engaging in unethical conduct, including facilitating fraud, against our great company. Anyone who commits fraud against Fannie Mae does so against the American people.”

“I would like to thank Director Pulte for his empowering of Fannie Mae to root out unethical conduct, including anyone facilitating fraud. We hold our employees to the highest standards, and we will continue to do so,” said Priscilla Almodovar, President and Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae. [SOURCE]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/09/fannie-mae-fires-over-100-federal-agency-employees-for-facilitating-housing-loan-fraud/

(Is there any US agency that is not corrupt? I doubt it.)

China Vows to “Fight to the End” in Economic War with America

April 9, 2025 | Sundance |

Full dragon, no panda mask. Beijing begins using war terminology to discuss the trade conflict with the United States.

Through a series of cumulative trade tariffs, President Trump has now placed Chinese imports into the USA in a position of 104% tariffs.

104%!

In response Beijing has devalued their currency and dumped treasuries, but no amount of subsidy, devaluation or use of their sovereign wealth fund is going to compensate for 104% taxes on Chinese products. Very soon all purchase orders from the USA for Chinese manufactured products will stop.

The Beijing dragon is looking at the future through a zero-sum position. Now, they vow to fight to the death.

BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) —With firm will and abundant means, China will resolutely take countermeasures andfight till the endif the United States insists on further escalating economic and trade restrictive measures, China’s Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday.

“I want to emphasize that there is no winner in a trade war, and China does not want a trade war, but the Chinese government will by no means sit by when the legitimate rights and interests of its people are being hurt and deprived,”said an official with the ministry. (China’s people get no benefit from China money, they are poor and underpaid)

The official made the remarks when responding to media questions regarding a white paper released Wednesday by the State Council Information Office on China’s position on some issues concerning China-U.S. economic and trade relations.

Noting that the successes of China and the United States are opportunities rather than threats for each other, the official said that China hopes the United States will immediately remove its unilateral imposition of tariffs, and work with China to strengthen dialogue, manage differences, and promote cooperation.

China is willing to communicate with the U.S. side on key bilateral economic and trade issues, address their respective concerns through dialogue and consultations on an equal footing, and jointly advance the steady, healthy and sustainable development of China-U.S. economic and trade relations, the official noted. (more)

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President Trump Raises Chinese Tariff Rate to 125%, Triggers 90-Day Pause and Baseline 10% For all Other Nations

April 9, 2025 | Sundance |

The first part of this announcement is clear, Chinese tariffs are now raised to 125% effective immediately.The latter part of this announcement is less clear; however, it appears that all other trading nations have their reciprocal tariffs lowered to 10% for a period of 90-days.

“Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable.

Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the USTR, to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative toTrade, Trade Barriers, Tariffs, Currency Manipulation, and Non Monetary Tariffs, and that these Countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” [SOURCE]

♦ Steel and Aluminum tariffs of 25% remain for all.

♦ Auto tariffs of 25% remain for all.

♦Reciprocal tariffs 10% for all, 125% for China.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/09/president-trump-raises-chinese-tariff-rate-to-125-triggers-90-day-pause-and-baseline-10-for-all-other-nations/

Who’s going to blink first, it won’t be President Trump, Xi must know that

3 Harvard Students, 2 Recent Grads Had Visas Revoked

By Barbara A. Sheehan Samuel A. Church and Cam N. Srivastava, Crimson Staff Writers Updated Sunday, April 6, at 10:52 p.m.

Three Harvard students and two recent graduates have had their student visas revoked amid the Trump administration’s push to deport international students involved in pro-Palestine protests, according to an email from the Harvard International Office to international students.

Harvard discovered the revoked visas during a “routine records review,” according to the email.

The HIO did not identify the students or graduates in the email, citing privacy concerns. The Crimson was not immediately able to determine the students’ identities.

“We are not aware of the details of the revocations or the reasons for them, but we understand that comparable numbers of students and scholars in institutions across the country have experienced similar status changes in roughly the same timeframe,” the HIO wrote.

The Trump administration has moved to deport international students and faculty whohave been involved in pro-Palestine activism. On March 27, Secretary of State MarcoRubio said more than 300 visas had been revoked in recent weeks.

Rubio announced on Saturday that theUnited States would revoke all visas for South Sudanese passport holders.A University spokesperson declined to comment.

College administrators nationwide havediscovered revoked student visas through running database checks, without being notified by federal agencies. Some international students –have had their legal residency status — in addition to entry visas — taken away, an unusual step that could force them to immediately leave the country==.

Though many students have lost visas because of pro-Palestine statements, some have had visas revoked because ofother incidents — including traffic violations.

The HIO email was sent as members of the Harvard Corporation — Harvard’s highest governing body — met in Harvard Square.

When approached by a Crimson reporter as they left an administrative building on Sunday afternoon, two Corporation fellows — Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin and Shirley M. Tilghman — were unaware of the visa revocations. “We’ve been in meetings all day,” they said.

The HIO email comes less than two weeks afterTufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen who wrote a pro-Palestine op-ed, had her visa revokedafter being arrested by ICE officialsnear her home in Somerville. Ozturk was accused of engaging in “activities in support of Hamas” by a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.

And the University of MassachusettsAmherst announced on Friday that five international students had their visas revoked in the past week.

But Sunday’s email was the first public indication that Harvard students have been caught up in the Trump administration’s visa sweeps.

In February, a visa belonging to Harvard Medical School researcher and Russian citizen Kseniia Petrova was revoked after she failed to properly declare frog embryos she brought into the country. Petrova is detained in a Louisiana ICE facility.

The HIO wrote in Sunday’s email that “Harvard deeply values the international students and scholars who travel here to learn and grow.”

“The talent they bring to campus each day increases our ability to advance world-class discovery in fields that have meaningful impact on people’s lives, while creating positive relationships and discourse that expand the horizons of people across our community,” they wrote.

—Staff writer Dhruv T. Patel contributed reporting.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/7/visas-revoked/

The New York Times Is In Denial About 2024

By: Eddie Scarry April 08, 2025

It’s still amusing to watch the dying media act like they were innocent bystanders of the 2024 election season rather than, you know, actively running the Democrat nominee’s campaign (a reality they refuse to admit).

A New York Times editorial last month confidently declared that the Democrat Party is “in denial about 2024” because, the paper said, “In the aftermath of this comprehensive defeat, many party leaders have decided that they do not need to make significant changes to their policies or their message.”

The Times ultimately concluded that Democrats are in need of “honest reflection” if the party wants to “win future elections” and pointed to several specific areas that led to defeat last year. One was the failure to dump Joe Biden overboard sooner.

“[T]hey should admit that their party mishandled Mr. Biden’s age,” the editorial board said. “Leading Democrats insisted that he had mental acuity for a second term when most Americans believed otherwise.”That’s interesting. When confronted with video evidence of Biden publicly lost in a daze, the Times published an article calling those videos “misleading.”

And here’s another knee-slapper of a headline atop a piece by the paper’s “critic at large” A.O. Scott: “For Joe Biden, What Seems Like Age Might Instead Be Style.” That piece, in earnest, suggested that Biden wasn’t crippling in front of our very eyes, but had merely “enter[ed] a new and distinctive phase of creativity.”

The Times also suggested that Democrats “recognize that the party moved too far left on social issues,” specifically naming Kamala Harris’ positions on “decriminalizing the border and government-funded gender-transition surgery for prisoners.”

True, those were stupid policies championed by Democrats, but the Times wasn’t a dispassionate observer of them. At the end of President Trump’s first term, after his administration had put in place highly effective measures to limit the obscene flow of migrants illegally crossing into the country, theTimes editorial board lamented that they “won’t be easy to undo” and encouraged a potential Democrat successor to Trump to reverse the “cruelest and most pointless” measures initiated by the president(namely, all of them).

As for so-called “transition” surgeries for convicts, ahead of the election, Times correspondent Michael Bender attempted to run interference on that one by discarding concerns as “anti-trans prejudices” and excusing it as an issue because it “affects relatively few people.”

Five days later, the Times editorial board endorsed Harris as “the only patriotic choice for president.” I wonder where Democrats got the impression that everything they were doing was fine.

In its endorsement — which was brave, unlike the cowardly Washington Post, which declined to explicitly support either candidate — theTimes described Harris as “a dedicated public servant who has demonstrated care, competence and an unwavering commitment to the Constitution.” The paper said she “offered a shared future for all citizens” and “has begun to describe a set of thoughtful plans to help American families.”

Curious, then, thatthe paper’s editorial just two weeks agoblamed Democrats for failing to offer “new ideas”and singled out Harris for a lack of “intellectual leadership.”

All of this raises the question:Does The New York Times read The New York Times? The paper should give it a try.

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/08/the-new-york-times-is-in-denial-about-2024/

Another question: Do the readers of the NYTs know they always do this?

Trump’s Intel Agencies Are Trying To Sabotage Him Again. Will Ratcliffe And Patel Stop It?

By: Eddie Scarry March 21, 2025

A New York Times report on Thursday is either fake or people at the FBI or CIA ran to the paper to undermine their boss, though there’s no real reason both can’t be true.

Under the headline, “Intelligence Assessment Said to Contradict Trump on Venezuelan Gang,” the Times cited unnamed “officials” claiming that the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, members of which the White House says are illegally in the U.S., is not in cahoots with the origin nation’s government. It’s an assertion in direct contradiction to the administration, which has justified the expedited removal of many illegal aliens by claiming that the Venezuelan government works with the gang to destabilize America.

The report went on to sayintelligence agencies “concluded that the gang, Tren de Aragua, was not directed by Venezuela’s government or committing crimes in the United States on its orders,” though it acknowledged that theconclusion was made with only “moderate confidence,” rather than high confidence. It also said that the FBI dissented with the opinion, claiming that the gang does in fact have “a connection” to the Venezuelan government.

If it’s true, then once again, the intelligence community is using media leaks to thwart Trump’s agenda. The president is right now in a legal dispute with a D.C. district judge as to whether the administration is illegally applying the Alien Enemies Act, which gives Trump the authority to remove illegal aliens from a “hostile nation” without a formal court hearing.That any intelligence personnel are aligning themselves with “the resistance” again is something CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI head Kash Patel are going to need to address immediately.

This is from the same playbook used in Trump’s first term. To cripple his presidency, the intelligence community, the FBI in particular, steadily plied all-too-willing reporters at the Washington Post, CNN, and the Times with information that was either wrong, out of context, or, at minimum, in dispute. It worked to stunning effect, keeping the jittery public on edge every single day of those four years, weakening support for effectively everything Trump did. That shouldn’t happen again.

The president’s authority on all things immigration shouldn’t be something that requires a defense — even the far-left 9th Circuit Court of Appeals appreciates extreme “executive discretion” on the issue — especially from this president’s own intelligence agencies.

https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/21/trumps-intel-agencies-are-trying-to-sabotage-him-again-will-ratcliffe-and-patel-stop-it/

(I have serious doubt that Kash, John or Dan, are ever going to get the truth of who should get kicked out of the agencies, prior CIA said the same on FOX==, if Ratcliffe doesn’t get advice from prior and older CIA that left in retirement, the agency can outfox him on everything, even on intelligence. Assigning a non-agent or someone that has never been a supervisor, there is no reason to believe, Patel, Ratcliffe or Bongino will spot the traitors, that will cause more first term problems)

Supreme Court halts judge’s order to reinstate federal probationary workers

The case focuses on a judge's requirement that employees fired by the Trump administration be fully reinstated while litigation continues. April 8, 2025, Lawrence Hurley and Gary Grumbach

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday halted a federal judge's ruling requiring several federal agencies to reinstate around 16,000 workers the Trump administration had sought to fire.

The decision to grant the administration's requestmeans the federal government doesn't have to take steps to bring back some workers who were laid off while litigation moves forwardbefore a federal judge in California.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, two of the court's liberal justices, noted they dissented from the unsigned decision. (as usual0

The order indicated that the some nonprofit groups that sued may not have legal standing to press their claims."Despite this setback, our coalition remains unwavering in fighting for these workers who were wronged by the administration, and in protecting the freedoms of the American people," the plaintiffs said in a joint statement. (how can they be plaintiffs when they have no victims to represent)

Further complicating matters, a judge in Maryland issued a similar rulingthat applies to the same agencies at issue in the California case as well as others. That decision, which requires affected employees in 19 states and the District of Columbia to be kept on paid administrative leave while litigation continues, remains in place. The affected agencies in the California case are the departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Treasury.

The Trump administration, in an initiative spearheaded by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, has sought to dramatically decrease the number of federal employees, sparking a fierce legal fight.

California-based U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that fired probationary employees should be reinstated because the process used was legally flawed.The Trump administration argued Alsup did not have the authority to reinstate the workers and made the problem worse by micromanaging the process. Lawyers also argued that the various labor unions, including the American Federation of Government Employees, and other groups that sued, such as the Main Street Alliance and the Coalition to Protect America's National Parks, did not have a direct stake in the firings.

The Supreme Court decision only addressed the claims made by the nonprofit groups, as those were what Alsup's ruling was based on. The union claims could yet lead to further court action.No individual federal employees are involved in the lawsuit. (how do the lawsuits have standing when they are not representing anyone that has been harmed?)

Alsup's ruling "violates the separation of powers, arrogating to a single district court the Executive Branch’s powers of personnel management on the flimsiest of grounds and the hastiest of timelines," then-acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris said in court papers. "That is no way to run a government," she added.

Harris said theMaryland case is different because the judge, James Bredar, only required the workers to be put on administrative leave and did not order that they be fully onboarded. Bredar's case is also at an earlier stage of the legal process, meaning his ruling is only provisional.

Harris noted that the Department of Agriculture is also subject to a decision issued by the Merit System Protection Board, a federal agency set up to protect federal workers, that required thousands of workers to be reinstated. Lawyers for the challengers pointed out in court papers that the government had already said in a different filing that it has "substantially complied" with the reinstatement order,reducing the need for the Supreme Court to intervene.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-pauses-judges-order-reinstate-federal-probationary-worke-rcna197840

Inside the mine housing the federal government's retirement records, now in DOGE's spotlight

After Trump's inauguration, the mine quickly drew the attention of Elon Musk and DOGE, which is looking to modernize the process. DOGE

Updated April 7, 2025, 7:27 PM EDT By Garrett Haake and Tara Prindiville1/2

BOYERS, Pa. — As you ride in a golf cart into the mouth of the Iron Mountain limestone mine, the temperature change is immediately noticeable. The natural climate control provided by the rough-hewn stone walls of the decommissioned mine — a day’s drive from the nation's capital and about an hour outside Pittsburgh — helped make it an ideal site for the federal government to process and store retirement records beginning in 1960.

Sixty-five years later, when so much is now done online, this mine is largely still how the Office of Personnel Management manages the documents of the 100,000 or so retirements from federal service each year.

Processing a retirement can take months, with a single missing signature sometimes setting the task back days or weeks. “It is still done on paper,” said Alita Haniwalt, an OPM program manager in retirement claims. “I think it becomes overwhelming because there are no two retirements that are the same.”

Over the years, the warehouse-like OPM space inside the mine — which is 220 feet underground — hasaccumulated more than 400 million individual records, spread across 26,000 file cabinets, in some places stacked 10 high. Cardboard boxes and paper files in manila envelopes seem to sprout from shelves and pile up on tables as they’re shuttled from station to station.

In the days following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the mine quickly drew the attention of Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency.Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, a Tesla board member and Musk friend,said he was recruited to the projectafter he walked into a meeting where it was already being discussed.

“They were talking about how it’s a place where all the papers are stored for a manual retirement process. It’s been around for decades. It’s been tried to be digitized for decades, unsuccessfully, and it’s a painful, slow process,” Gebbia said. “And they turn and look at me and go:'Joe, you know how to build digital products with great user experience. Can you help us?'”

NBC News was granted rare and exclusive access to the mine Monday, when DOGE staffers arrived to tour it and plan the next steps in modernizing the OPM operation there.

In February, under the direction of DOGE,OPM staffers processed their first all-digital, no-paperwork federal retirement.The team wasgiven a one-week goal, and it completed the retirement in two days.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/mine-federal-government-retirement-records-doge-rcna200101

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“It really became a proof point and a rallying cry to everyone to say this is possible.Now we get to go build the productbehind that and actually do something that’s scalable,” Gebbia said.

Matt MacIsaac, who runs day-to-day operations at the mine for OPM, said that while Musk’s Oval Office invocation of his workplace as a location ripe for a DOGE overhaul initially surprised him,he supported the modernization push.

“We’re ready to make this process better, make it more efficient and really get what we need for the civil servants,” said MacIsaac, who has worked for OPM since 2009 and in the mine since 2016.

Gebbia said the overhaul won’t involve closing the mine office, where 450 OPM employees work. The larger Iron Mountain facility bills itself as "a highly secure and resilient location" not only for storing records, but also as a data center.

“So the mine will always be here, and so will these paper records, but we can build a process where there’s no new paper added to the mine, step one, and step two, we can build a process where no paper has to leave the mine,” Gebbia said. Gebbia said federal retirees could see changes as early as May 1.

"We're working at startup speed, so we're working through iterations right now, and our next one will be testing with retirees on May 1," he said."We're moving at an incredible pace."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/mine-federal-government-retirement-records-doge-rcna200101

(I seriously don’t understand when scanners were very effective in the early 1990’s, why didn’t the government ever think it would save them time and money. If they had scanned them perhaps the personnel there could have been reduced to 10% if that.)

A Brief History of Document Scanning

June 28, 2020

“As we discussed, these are the most familiar to us today andgained popularity in the early ’90s. Flatbeds optically scan handwritten documents or images and convert them into a useful digital form for businesses across the globe.” Before we delve into the history of scanning, let’s get some background on that crucial tool: the scanner. The device was invented in Kiel, around 50 years ago, and originated in the guise of the fax machine. The original goal was to transmit information for the newspaper industry.

https://rivercitydata.com/a-brief-history-of-document-scanning/