Leavitt says Trump will ensure Colorado terror suspect 'will be held accountable'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKESgPQ4NjU
Putin has to be nervous about this, expert warns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKIGHZZqTM
Bombshell report uncovers stunning relationship between China and Harvard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYxpqodUZoQ
Waters Ordered To Pay Massive Fine For Violating Campaign Finance Laws
The campaign of progressive California Rep. Maxine Waters has agreed to pay a $68,000 fine after an investigation revealed that it broke many election regulations.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) stated in a batch of documents that the longtime House lawmaker’s 2020 campaign group, Citizens for Waters, violated many campaign finance regulations.
The FEC accused Citizens for Waters of “failing to accurately report receipts and disbursements in calendar year 2020,” “knowingly accepting excessive contributions,” and “making prohibited cash disbursements,” according to one document that appears to be a legally binding agreement that allows both parties to avoid court.
Waters’ committee agreed to pay the civil fine as well as “send its treasurer to a Commission-sponsored training program for political committees within one year of the effective date of this Agreement.”
“Respondent shall submit evidence of the required registration and attendance at such event to the Commission,” the document said.
According to the inquiry, Citizens for Waters took inappropriate campaign contributions from seven persons totaling $19,000 in 2019 and 2020, even though the maximum allowed individual contribution is $2,800.
The committee offloaded those excessive donations, albeit in an “untimely” fashion, the document said.
Waters’ campaign committee also “made four prohibited cash disbursements that were each in excess of $100, totaling $7,000,” the FEC said.
The campaign committee “contends that it retained legal counsel to provide advice and guidance to the treasurer and implemented procedures to ensure the disbursements comply with the requirements of the Act.”
Leilani Beaver, Citizens for Waters’ attorney, wrote to the FEC last year, claiming that the campaign financing infractions were “errors” that “were not willful or purposeful.”
Waters, the leading Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, has been in Congress since 1991.
OpenSecrets was the first to report the fresh movements in the inquiry.
Waters has previously drawn public attention for a very similar thing.
In 2023, a Fox News Digital investigation discovered that Waters’ campaign paid her daughter $192,300 for a “slate mailer” operation between January 2021 and December 2022.
Waters reportedly paid her daughter a single dollar out of thousands for campaign labor.
The FEC dismissed a charge alleging Waters’ campaign accepted improper campaign donations in 2018 by a 5-1 vote.
Waters previously made headlines when she made a series of nasty comments about First Lady Melania Trump.
Waters called on President Donald Trump to investigate and potentially deport First Lady Melania Trump during an anti-DOGE protest in Los Angeles last weekend.
Clips of the rant went viral as Waters suggested that the first lady’s citizenship status- she’s been a U.S. citizen since 2006- should be scrutinized as a means of pushing back on the president’s executive order eliminating birthright citizenship.
“When he [Trump] talks about birthright, and he’s going to undo the fact that the Constitution allows those who are born here, even if the parents are undocumented, they have a right to stay in America. If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he ought to first look at Melania,” Waters was seen saying from the stage of a rally in Los Angeles, per a number of videos posted online.
“We don’t know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look,” the aged congresswoman continued.
Prior to that, she erupted in outrage and screeched her disapproval of both Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk at an event in Washington, D.C.
At a rally held by Democratic lawmakers protesting Musk’s access to information at the Treasury Department, Waters accused him of overstepping his boundaries without the consent of voters during her speech.
“We have got to tell Elon Musk that nobody elected your ass. Nobody told you you could get all of our private information. Nobody told you you could be in charge of the payments of this country,” Waters yelled.
https://conservativebrief.com/maxine-waters-pay-92021/
Fag flag month.
Maybe they ran out of cartridge yellow.
Federal employee charged in ‘one of the largest Food Stamp frauds in U.S. history
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/usda-employee-and-five-others-charged-multimillion-dollar-food-stamp-fraud-and-bribery
Top CNN reporter fired after costly defamation suit
The departure comes on the heels of a Florida jury awarding a U.S. Navy veteran at least $5 million over a report that said he operated in a "black market."
CNN chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, whose 2021 report portraying a U.S. Navy veteran as illegally exploiting Afghans was found to be defamatory earlier this year, is leaving the network.
“Tough to say goodbye but it’s been an honor to work among the very best in the business,” Marquardt wrote in a Monday post on X (formerly Twitter). “Profound thank you to my comrades on the National Security team & the phenomenal teammates I’ve worked with in the US and abroad.”
Marquardt has been among the centerpieces of CNN’s coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war. He was also the focus of a defamation lawsuit against the network from Zachary Young, who sued over a report saying that he charged Afghans exorbitant fees to be evacuated in the aftermath of the U.S. military withdrawal from the country.
In January, a Florida jury awarded Young $5 million. Following the verdict, a settlement was reached to resolve the entirety of the case before jurors calculated punitive damages, which is intended to punish malicious conduct and could’ve added millions more to the total award, for an unspecified amount.
The decision may have amplified the perception of alleged bias from CNN amid President Donald Trump’s persistent criticism of the network.
After the verdict, CNN said at the time, “We remain proud of our journalists and are 100% committed to strong, fearless and fair-minded reporting at CNN, though we will of course take what useful lessons we can from this case.”
The disputed segment opens with Jake Tapper describing the U.S. government’s evacuation of citizens. He goes on to say Afghans “trying to get out of the country face a black market full of promises, demand of exorbitant fees, and no guarantee of safety or success.” The segment then switches to Marquardt describing the situation of a man located in the U.S. whose family remained in Afghanistan and said that he found people on Facebook charging $10,000 per person to be evacuated. Marquardt stated, “according to Afghans and activists we’ve spoke with, desperate Afghans are now being exploited” because of the “exorbitant” and “impossible” amounts charged, pointing to a LinkedIn post from Young advertising his services and chat logs between him and people inquiring about his business.
Discovery wasn’t kind to Marquardt or CNN, with internal emails suggesting that the network ignored evidence contrary to its narrative for the segment. In a message to a CNN colleague, he wrote that CNN is going to “nail this Zach Youngmfucker.” A producer said that the plaintiff had a “punchable face.”
CNN declined to comment for this story.
Before his eight-year stint at CNN, Marquardt was ABC News’ foreign correspondent for roughly the same amount of time. He has won Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/alex-marquardt-exits-cnn-defamation-loss-1236235263/
Supreme Court leaves in place Maryland ban on ‘semiautomatic’ rifles
The Supreme Court has declined to hear two challenges to gun-control laws in Maryland and Rhode Island, leaving the bans in place. The Maryland case involved a law prohibiting semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 and AK-47, which was enacted after the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting1. The challengers argued that these firearms are widely owned and should be protected under the Second Amendment, but the Fourth Circuit Court ruled that they are military-style weapons not suited for self-defense. Three justices—Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas—supported hearing the case, but they fell one vote short of the required four1. Justice Kavanaugh indicated that the Court may address the issue in the near future.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-gun-control-challenges/
Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
Wild daytime footage from Paris on Champs Elysee.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1929387495541588077
Disney Laying Off Hundreds In TV & Film Entertainment, Corporate Finance
Major layoffs are underway Monday the Walt Disney Company, with several hundred employees impacted globally, Deadline has learned. The bulk of them are across divisions of Disney Entertainment, including marketing for both film and television as well as television publicity, casting and development. Also affected are Disney’s corporate financial operations.
According to sources, the size of the cuts on the film and TV side of Disney Entertainment is comparable. No teams are being eliminated. The majority of the Disney Entertainment Television staffers are said to be based in Los Angeles. Deadline will continue its coverage as more details about those impacted emerge during what is expected to be a tough day on the Disney campuses.
This is the fourth — and largest — round of layoffs in the past 10 months that has affected various Disney television operations. They are part of an ongoing cost-cutting process at the traditional media companies as they reshape their business to focus on streaming while facing economic headwinds. Disney’s Bob Iger set the pace upon his return as CEO, establishing a goal of at least $7.5 billion in cost reductions at the start of 2023, with about 7,000 jobs eliminated that year.
In early March, just under 200 Disney employees were laid off, representing almost 6% of the workforce in the ABC News Group and Disney’s entertainment networks, including Freeform and FX.
A big restructuring last October involved the shutdown of ABC Signature, with its operations folded into 20th Television, and the consolidation of ABC and Hulu Originals scripted drama and comedy teams. It resulted in about 30 Disney Entertainment Television layoffs.
And last July, DET underwent a round of staff cuts that impacted roughly 140 people, representing about 2% of the total workforce, 60 of them at National Geographic.
The latest cuts follow Disney’s better-than-expected Q2 earnings last month, fueled largely by experiences and sports, with streaming also delivering strong results as direct-to-consumer operating profit increased by $289 million to $336 million. At the annual shareholder meeting earlier this spring, Iger spoke about creating new jobs, largely in Disney experiences, including theme parks.
The Disney layoffs also come on the heels of staff cuts at NBCUniversal as the company is spinning off several cable networks into a new company named Versant.
https://deadline.com/2025/06/disney-layoffs-tv-film-entertainment-1236413707/
Geiger Capital
@Geiger_Capital
Holy. Shit.
Atlanta Fed is now projecting that Q2 GDP will be +4.6%… a massive expansion.
Opposite effect of the tariffs from Q1
https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/1929572780774768685