>>24507584 (lb)
>Where do you think they got all this skin?
Circumcision most likely.
Kevin Roberts
@KevinRobertsTX
A new CBS poll found that 58% of weekly Mass-attending Catholics approve of President Trump’s job performance overall.
Not surprising, as these are the Catholics taking the faith seriously rather than just bearing the title.
Catholics understand that President Trump is by and large getting the policy right.
https://x.com/KevinRobertsTX/status/2044781870072627226/photo/1
GOP could gain over a dozen house seats depending how much SCOTUS weakens Section 2 of the VRA
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 JUST IN: The Supreme Court is reportedly about to GUT the pro-Democrat race based VRA Congressional Districts, and the decision could drop imminently
THIS WOULD BE HUGE!!
"I have been told by reliable sources that decision is DONE and the minority is SLOW-WALKING the dissent so states do not have time to redistrict ahead of it." — former White House press secretary Sean Spicer
We could gain over a DOZEN HOUSE SEATS depending how much SCOTUS weakens Section 2 of the VRA — if they indeed do this.
Nothing is final yet, but if and when it is, that's a JAW-DROPPING DEFEAT for the Left!
It's unclear EXACTLY how many the GOP could pick up for the 2026 midterms. FLORIDA convenes soon, but it depends on when this drops.
h/t
@OpenSourceZone
@seanspicer
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2044923998555763040
California Provides Sex-Change Procedures to Homeless Illegal Aliens
Last month, we received a report from a whistleblower who claimed that illegal aliens were staying in San Francisco’s homeless shelters. Following up on the tip, we visited numerous publicly funded shelters in San Francisco, and spoke to employees and residents about their policies, sometimes through a translator.
We discovered not only that the shelters were housing illegal immigrants but also that they were apparently housing a population of male-to-female “transgender” illegal aliens, who had hoped to obtain “gender-affirming care.” And, to our shock, state and local governments apparently are providing it.
St. Vincent De Paul’s MSC-South facility is San Francisco’s largest homeless shelter, and, in 2024, signed a $66 million service contract with the city. After we arrived at the front entrance, an employee wearing a do-rag and a light green polo shirt showed us around and confirmed that illegal aliens were living there.
“You got a few people here from El Salvador. . . . You got a few people here from Venezuela. You got a few people here from a little bit of everywhere,” he said.
As a rule, he suggested, management instructed employees to refuse cooperation with federal immigration authorities. “When the ICE thing was going around, we all had a meeting, and they told us, ‘We ain’t letting them in.’”
Among the shelter’s residents was a group of Hondurans who identified as transgender. During our visit to MSC-South, whose executive director did not respond to a request for comment, we spoke with two Honduran men, “Lyca” and “Alondra,” who identified as transgender women. Both indicated that the local government gave them shelter and food.
Lyca, who wore long hair and red lipstick, was candid about this arrangement. He confirmed that he was an illegal immigrant and that the shelter doesn’t ask questions about immigration status. “Tengo Medi-Cal,” he said, referring to the state health-care program, which, under Governor Gavin Newsom, began providing “full scope” coverage to illegal aliens, which includes transgender procedures, or “gender affirming care.” He said he was receiving cross-sex hormone therapy—and bore the physical signs of having done so.
At the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center, a city-funded shelter on the eastern waterfront that did not respond to our comment request, we heard similar stories. “Jacqueline”—a self-identified “trans woman” from Mexico living at the shelter who claimed to be a lawful U.S. resident—indicated that there were illegal aliens living in the shelter.
Wearing rouge on his cheeks and a low-cut red shirt, Jacqueline flaunted his large chest. He said that he had gotten transgender hormone treatments, and confirmed that he had received breast implants from the state Medi-Cal program. Though Jacqueline claimed to be a legal resident, he suggested that the state also provides implants to illegal immigrants. “Even though you’re undocumented,” he said, “you can get them.”
“You have to have a process, the hormones . . . go through therapy,” he said. “Es un proceso.”
We asked Jacqueline if he had also completed “bottom surgery,” a type of genital procedure that can involve castrating a male and turning his penile tissue into a “neo-vagina.” San Francisco has multiple clinics that offer bottom surgery, which the state reportedly provides to Medi-Cal recipients, under the theory that it can be a “medical necessity” for those whose gender identity does “not match their gender assigned at birth.”
“Did you do bottom, too? Bottom surgery?” we asked.
“I’m waiting for that one,” Jacqueline replied.
Sometimes, these policies are hidden under euphemisms; other times, however, they are more explicit. At the end of our trip, we visited a third government-funded shelter, the Taimon Booton Navigation Center, which is focused on “transgender, gender non-conforming & intersex people.” (The center does not post its address publicly and displays a sign referring to what appears to be its former name, the “Bryant Street Navigation Center.”) Outside the facility, which did not respond to our request for comment, we met a group of male-to-female transgender illegal aliens, who told us that they wanted to receive transgender medical treatment.
Apparently, word has traveled down the continent to the transgender communities in Mexico, Honduras, and elsewhere: if you make it all the way to California, the government will pay for your shelter, hormones, and surgeries—no questions asked.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/homeless-illegal-immigrants-sex-change-california
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data
-Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells CNBC’s Sara Eisen at the Invest in America Forum on Wednesday that the Trump administration expects banks to comply with a mandate to collect citizenship data.
-The administration has been considering an executive order to require banks to request additional documents from customers and earlier this week Bessent indicated the EO is coming.
-Banks are required to collect information through “know your customer” rules, but have pushed back against this plan. But Bessent told CNBC, “If Treasury and the banking regulators say it’s their job, it’s their job.”
Banks in the U.S. may not like the idea of being forced to collect citizenship data on customers, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says they better be prepared for the task.
“If Treasury and the banking regulators say it’s their job, it’s their job,” Bessent told CNBC’s Sara Eisen at the Invest in America Forum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
An executive order that has been discussed for months took a step closer to reality earlier this week when Bessent said in an interview with Semafor that the EO is “in process.”
The planned EO is one more plank in President Donald Trump’s broader effort to tie his immigration policy to collection of information in the United States, including for voting and Census efforts.
In the U.S., citizenship documents are not necessary in order to open a bank account. Banks are required to verify identity.
The U.S., like many countries, uses “know your customer” rules for bank accounts to prevent money laundering and other forms of financial crime, verifying client identities, assessing risks, and monitoring transactions to prevent fraud. Laws including the Bank Secrecy Act, or BSA, and the USA Patriot Act also underpin efforts to verify customers. Banks collect Social Security numbers, or an individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN, names, dates of birth and addresses, among other documents.
But that doesn’t satisfy Bessent. “Why can unknown foreign nationals come and open a bank account?” he said at the CNBC event. “Our bank executives job is to know your customer. How do you know your customer if you don’t know if they have legal or illegal status, whether they are a U.S. citizen or green card holder?”
Overseas, citizenship information is more often required for banking access, but there is no universal mandate. Bessent told Eisen: “Every other country does it. Every other country. … There should be stricter rules.”
Republicans have voiced support for the idea.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced a bill in March to require Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or National Credit Union Administration-insured banks and credit unions to verify that anyone opening an account is a U.S. citizen, a permanent resident, or in the country on a valid visa, with an additional verification check on legal status.
Bessent has previously said that Real IDs would not be considered legal documents under this new executive order.
Last October, Cotton wrote to the Treasury “to urge the Department of the Treasury to undertake a comprehensive review of current rules that allow illegal aliens to obtain financial services and access to the U.S. banking system.”
In addition to legal questions, some policy experts and banks have warned about damage to the economy if people are denied access to the banking system and deposit accounts, as well as potentially big increases in administrative costs for banks.
Allowing noncitizens, including undocumented immigrants, to legally open bank accounts using documentation, such as an ITIN, means they can pay taxes and avoid being part of the “unbanked” existing in a purely cash economy. Being unbanked is often associated with less ability to move up the social ladder and contribute to economic growth.
For banks, center-right think tank American Action Forum estimated a citizenship verification requirement could add anywhere from 30 million to 70 million paperwork hours and $2.6 billion–$5.6 billion in costs. “Verifying new accounts is the tip of the iceberg; the lack of details makes it difficult to estimate the costs of verifying existing accountholders,” it wrote in a March analysis.
Illegal immigrants “don’t have a right to be in the banking system,” Bessent told CNBC.
Correction: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke at the Invest in America Forum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. An earlier version misstated the day.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/banks-citizenship-data-collection-customer-accounts.html
WV National Guard Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, who was shot while on duty in Washington, DC in November, throws out the first pitch prior to the WVU-Penn State game.
https://x.com/joebrowvm/status/2044528526926266552
On the move?
Trump Vows to Get to the Bottom of Missing High-Level US Scientists: We’ll Know in ‘Next Week and a Half’
President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to get answers for the growing number of high-level American scientists who have either died or gone missing recently.
The mysterious trend has been picked up by multiple news outlets, pointing out a series of puzzling circumstances that have led to the individuals’ deaths or being unaccounted for. Among that list was Retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland, who hasn’t been seen since he left his New Mexico home in late February. McCasland, like the others, had access to extremely sensitive information during his time with the U.S. government. Further fueling conspiracies was the fact that he previously oversaw a facility that was rumored to house UFO materials.
On Wednesday, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the disappearances. Leavitt said it was “worth looking into” and that she would go through the necessary channels to provide more information later.
The next day, Doocy again brought up the situation to Trump. The president revealed he actually held a meeting on the subject and expected an answer soon.
“Well, I hope it’s random,” Trump said of the disappearances, “but we’re going to know in the next week and a half. I just left the meeting on that subject, so pretty serious stuff, but we’re gonna be– hopefully, I don’t know, [it’s a] coincidence, whatever you want to call it, but some of them were very important people, and we’re going to look at it over the next short period.”
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-vows-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-missing-high-level-us-scientists-well-know-in-next-week-and-a-half/
Brandon Gill
@realBrandonGill
65% of Haitian non-citizen households are on welfare.
They are draining our resources, making America weaker and poorer.
It is absolutely idiotic to give them backdoor amnesty by extending TPS.
https://x.com/realBrandonGill/status/2044556407165300790
New poll for California governor (without Swalwell)
InteractivePolls
@IAPolls2022
EMERSON: CA Governor (top 2 advance)
🟥 Steve Hilton: 17% (+4)
🟥 Chad Bianco: 14% (+3)
🟦 Tom Steyer: 14% (+4)
🟦 Xavier Becerra: 10% (+7)
🟦 Katie Porter: 10% (+2)
🟦 Matt Mahan: 5% (+2)
🟦 A. Villaraigosa: 3% (=)
🟦 Betty Yee: 1%
🟦 T. Thurmond: 1%
⬜ Not sure: 23%
https://x.com/IAPolls2022/status/2044765287241961639
RFK Jr defends Trump administration's funding priorities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vqMEi240IY
Citizen Naturalized Under Joe Biden Brutally Murders DHS Employee Lauren Bullis
Since President Trump took office, USCIS has implemented measures to ensure individuals with criminal histories and who otherwise lack good moral character do not attain citizenship
WASHINGTON – Today, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Olaolukitan Adon Abel, a 26-year-old born in the United Kingdom, who was naturalized by the Biden Administration in 2022, brutally murdered DHS employee and public servant Lauren Bullis on April 13.
This individual possesses a prior criminal record that includes convictions for sexual battery, battery against a police officer, obstruction, assault with a deadly weapon, and vandalism, and now stands accused of murdering Lauren Bullis in a brutal shooting and stabbing while she was walking her dog.
Olaolukitan Adon Abel has also been arrested for the murder of an unidentified woman whom he reportedly shot outside a Checkers, before randomly shooting a homeless man multiple times outside a Kroger in Brookhaven.
Lauren Bullis served in multiple roles at DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG). She served as an Auditor in the Office of Audits and as a Team Leader in the Office of Innovation. In every role she held, Lauren exemplified dedication to the OIG mission. Lauren approached her work with integrity, thoughtfulness, and a commitment to excellence that strengthened our organization and the communities we serve. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Lauren was a bright spot for so many of the DHS community. She brought warmth, kindness, and a genuine sense of care to her colleagues each day.
“On Monday, a DHS employee, Lauren Bullis, was brutally shot and stabbed to death by Olaolukitan Adon Abel, a 26-year-old, born in the United Kingdom, who was naturalized by the Biden Administration in 2022. Since President Trump took office, USCIS has implemented measures to ensure individuals with criminal histories and who otherwise lack good moral character do not attain citizenship,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “He has also been arrested for the murder of an unidentified woman whom he reportedly shot outside a Checkers, before randomly shooting a homeless man multiple times outside a Kroger in Brookhaven. These acts of pure evil have devastated our Department and my prayers are with the families of the victims.”
In an effort to remove murderers like this from our communities, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the creation of a new vetting center on December 5, 2025, to enhance screening and vetting of immigration applications, with a focus on identifying terrorists, criminal aliens, and other threats to public safety. The center will leverage advanced technologies and work closely with law enforcement and intelligence partners to strengthen national security and uphold the integrity of the U.S. immigration system.
Pursuant to long-neglected statutory authority, USCIS also restored the practice of conducting neighborhood investigations of potential new citizens. The purpose of a neighborhood investigation is to verify aliens’ eligibility for naturalization by reviewing their residency, moral character, loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, and commitment to the nation’s well-being. These investigations are vital to maintaining the integrity of the naturalization process, assuring assimilation, and safeguarding the value of American citizenship. The agency began conducting neighborhood investigations in November 2025.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/04/15/citizen-naturalized-under-joe-biden-brutally-murders-dhs-employee-lauren-bullis
Europe could run out of jet fuel in 6 weeks, IEA warns'
-The International Energy Agency warned Thursday that Europe is going to run out of jet fuel in as few as six weeks.
-Analysts echoed similar warnings to CNBC this week, saying the fuel crisis depends on how prolonged the Strait of Hormuz blockade will be.
-European airlines are heading into the peak travel season, which usually economically benefits several European countries.
Europe may have just six weeks left of jet fuel, with serious consequences for the continent’s economy, the International Energy Agency warned on Thursday.
“Several European countries may start to face shortages of jet fuel in the next 6 weeks, depending how much they are able to import from international markets to replace the lost supply from the Middle East, which accounted for 75% of Europe’s net imports of jet fuel previously,” the IEA told CNBC in an emailed statement.
Earlier, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said the Strait of Hormuz blockade will result in “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,” in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday.
He added that the broader economic impact includes “higher petrol (gasoline) prices, higher gas prices, high electricity prices,” with some parts of the world “hit worse than the others.”
Birol previously warned that the energy crisis was set to hit harder in April as oil supply constraints worsen.
“In April, there is nothing,” Birol said last month. “The loss of oil in April will be twice the loss of oil in March. On top of that you have LNG and others. It will come through to inflation, I think it will cut economic growth in many countries, especially emerging economies. In many countries the rationing of energy may be coming soon.”
Analysts echoed similar warnings to CNBC earlier this week, with Claudio Galimberti, chief economist at Rystad Energy, telling CNBC’s Ritika Gupta on “Europe Early Edition,” on Tuesday that the situation facing airlines “pretty much depends on how many barrels will be flowing through the strait.”
Rico Luman, senior economist at ING, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Tuesday: “We’ve seen these vessels now stopping, so supplies from the Middle East have run out, and we need replacements.”
Air travel generates 851 billion euros (nearly $1 trillion) in gross domestic product for European economies each year and supports 14 million jobs, ACI Europe said.
European airline EasyJet said Thursday that the Middle East conflict and rising fuel costs are weighing on customer bookings, with those buying tickets for later in the year down 2% compared with 2025.
Meanwhile, the budget carrier said it took on roughly £25 million ($34 million) in additional fuel costs in March alone, and hedged at least 70% of its summer fuel to protect against volatility.
ACI Europe, which represents airports across the European Union, said last week that peak summer travel will be disrupted, with “harsh economic impacts” for several member states that rely on the economic boost.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/europe-jet-fuel-shortage-6-weeks-iea.html
baker notable
Trump says he'll get to the bottom of the missing / dead American scientists.
This is a direct threat to Donald Trump's intestinal security.