This is a very big deal.
One of Ireland's longest-running and best known opinion columnists says he was explicitly told that only negative stories about Trump would be published.
Many of us have long suspected that there was editorial pressure to attack Trump in the Irish media. This is the first journalist brave enough to come out and state it explicitly.
9:33 AM · Apr 27, 2026
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https://x.com/EoinLenihan/status/2048757352644460573
A King County program manager who ran a taxpayer-funded racial equity initiative steered more than $800,000 in grant money to five of her own family members over five years, according to a county investigation, adding to mounting scrutiny over financial controls in the region’s human services and homelessness bureaucracy.
According to the Seattle Times, Yolanda McGhee, who managed Liberation and Healing from Systemic Racism, known as Liberated Village, was fired in January for what the county called serious policy violations. The $10 million initiative was housed in the King County Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS), which has already faced criticism over lax oversight of billions in grant spending.
Between 2022 and 2025, Liberated Village distributed more than $10 million through 19 contracts. During that period, money flowed to companies owned by McGhee’s daughter, two brothers, a cousin, and a sister-in-law, according to a county investigation obtained by The Seattle Times through a public records request.
County officials reportedly first received a warning in 2020, when a former contractor employee emailed multiple county workers accusing McGhee of a “glaring conflict of interest” involving her daughter’s work. No one followed up. Staff later told investigators the pandemic had made the department too chaotic to act.
Three years later, DCHS leaders independently discovered a contractor link to McGhee’s daughter and brought it to the county’s Ethics Program. Officials concluded it was not a conflict, in part because McGhee claimed she did not influence her daughter’s hiring.
A month later, managers found McGhee had submitted a $9,999 payment for one of her brothers, one dollar below the threshold that typically triggers competitive bidding. The payment was canceled, but officials did not reassign McGhee’s work or investigate further.
The allegations went beyond undisclosed family payments. Three contractors told investigators that McGhee pressured them to hire or subcontract with her daughter’s company. Two contractors also alleged she pushed to remove two Latino consultants from the program because it was intended to “uplift black and brown scholars,” with one claiming McGhee said on a program call, “They look too white.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/king-county-racial-equity-program-manager-fired-for-steering-800k-to-family-members
The United Nations elected Iran as one of 34 vice presidents of the 11th Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, which opened April 27 at UN headquarters in New York. Iran was nominated by the Non-Aligned Movement, representing 121 largely developing nations.
The appointment drew immediate objections from the United States, Australia, the UAE, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Christopher Yeaw, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, called Iran’s selection an “affront” to the NPT, saying it was “indisputable that Iran has long demonstrated its contempt for the non-proliferation commitments of the NPT,” and declared it “beyond shameful and an embarrassment to the credibility of this conference.”
The UAE called the appointment “antithetical to the values of the NPT,” warning: “If a state party can disregard its obligations, undermine verification, destabilize its region, threaten international waterways, and still be elevated to a leadership position in this process, then we must ask what message this conference is sending.” Russia defended Iran and accused the objecting nations of “political attacks.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/un-elects-iran-as-vice-president-nuclear-non/
eric swalwell got his shit kicked in right after bondi was fired
allegedly, bondi was covering for and protecting swalwell
A pro-illegal immigrant group received more than $8.7 million from taxpayers in the year that it helped spark destructive protests, but despite outcry and probes from Washington, it faces no consequences.
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) reported the government grants in its latest tax filing covering July 2024 through June 2025, the month that Los Angeles, California, was set ablaze by anti-deportation rioters. The chaos kicked off in June 2025 after CHIRLA created an anti-ICE network that led to a union leader’s arrest and encouraged supporters to arrive at a federal building for a rally that turned violent, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported. CHIRLA defended the mob as rioting against deportations spread across central California for days and caused damages somewhere between $32 million and $1 billion, according to local and federal agencies.
House and Senate lawmakers responded by announcing investigations into CHIRLA that have produced no findings or legislative reforms as leftists use the tax-exempt nonprofit system to fund radical causes. The House Judiciary Committee and Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri sent CHIRLA letters in June demanding records of its finances and internal communications.
There have been no reports of CHIRLA handing over the information, and lawmakers have announced no further action. The House Judiciary Committee did not threaten a subpoena if CHIRLA ignored its requests, while Hawley threatened “potential referral for criminal investigation.” The IRS and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli did not respond to the requests for comment about a probe they announced last year into the anti-ICE riots, while the FBI’s Los Angeles office declined to comment.
CHIRLA’s $8,726,683 from taxpayers in fiscal year 2024 made up 35% of its total revenue, according to its records. CHIRLA has received more than $80.6 million in government grants since former President Joe Biden took office and opened the U.S. border to historic illegal immigration, tax filings show.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2026/04/28/anti-ice-group-received-millions-from-taxpayers-in-a-year-heres-what-we-got-in-return/
WATCH: Rep @AndyOgles
told me he heard a reporter at the WHCD Saturday night say "I hope they kill the orange MF" (talking about President Trump) while she was hiding from the shooter.
2:21 PM · Apr 27, 2026
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https://x.com/LyndenBlake/status/2048829891450188107
04/28/2026 • Power & Market • Jp Cortez
The bulk of the US gold reserves held in Fort Knox are made up of impure “non-standard” bars that don’t qualify for use in international settlements. In practice, this means that most of America’s massive gold stockpile is illiquid and wouldn’t be readily accepted on the international market should the need arise:
“It’s a decrepit relic just like our monetary policy is. With respect to America’s gold stockpile, we hold ourselves to a lower standard than the rest of the world,” Money Metals CEO Stefan Gleason said.
The French central bank recently sold 129 tonnes of similar non-standard gold that was stored in New York and replaced it with higher-quality bars that will remain in France.
Notwithstanding the lack of any credible physical audits for decades, US gold reserves are reported to be 8,133.5 metric tons. That’s roughly 261.5 million troy ounces. About half of that (147.3 million ounces according to the US Mint) is stored at Fort Knox. The rest is spread out between the Denver Mint, the West Point Bullion Depository, and the Federal Reserve vault in New York.
America’s gold is valued at $42.22 per ounce by statute. The price does not fluctuate with market movements.
According to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), gold bars must contain 350 to 430 fine troy ounces and have a minimum fineness of 995.0 parts per thousand to be acceptable for international settlements. In fact, the “good delivery” standards across the globe have been transitioning to 0.9999 purity.
Based on documents released during a 2011 House Committee on Financial Services Hearing, however, we find only around 17 percent of the gold bars held by the US government in Fort Knox meet any modern-day purity standards.
Here’s a breakdown of the purity of the gold bars held in Fort Knox:
Fineness between 899 and 901 – 64 percent
Fineness between 901.1 and 915.4 – 2 percent
Fineness between 915.5 and .917 – 17 percent
Fineness of 0.995 or higher – 17 percent
The average purity of US gold reserves is 916.7
Keep in mind, we’re operating on guesswork here because the US government’s gold holdings have not been audited since at least the 1970s.
In 1974, the government put together a publicity stunt in the name of an audit. The US Treasury opened just one of its 15 Fort Knox vault compartments to politicians and reporters to view the gold and confirm its existence.
That’s been called an audit. However, none of the bars that were passed around were ever matched to a serial number, assayed or tested for purity, or even verified as part of the United States’ holdings. As Sound Money Defense League Director Matthew Cortez pointed out, “It seems the made-for-TV spectacle in 1974 was more of a pep rally than any credible proof of what the amount of US gold purported to be in those vaults.”
Following the 1974 publicity stunt, the US Treasury says it conducted a multi-year process of opening and inventorying vault compartments and affixing new tamper-evident seals to the doors of each compartment upon completion. However, these so-called audits failed to meet basic transparency or accounting standards.
Some reports have since gone missing, and there is no record of comprehensive assaying, weighing, or transactional history available to the public.
Furthermore, there is evidence that seals on vault compartments have been broken over the years, bars have been moved for unknown reasons, and seals have been re-affixed without fresh auditing. Subsequent annual reviews of the schedules of compartment seals serve only to whitewash the prior discrepancies.
In sum, the US Treasury’s management of US gold reserves is replete with audit “no-nos” that would never pass muster at a responsibly run private depository.
An “audit the gold” bill introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) last year would not only require a comprehensive audit of US gold reserves, including, importantly, an accounting of any transactions involving said gold. It would also require the Treasury to refine all non-standard bars so that they meet modern requirements for international settlements—a process that could take several years.
https://mises.org/power-market/ft-knox-full-impure-gold-unfit-international-transactions
ordinary citizens in israel want an investigation of the response, or lack of response, from the government/idf on the morning of october 7th
israeli civilians were left fending for themselves for hours on end before any kind of government intervention occurred
but instead, we have this law fare by the left in israel
i do wonder why ogles did not provide name of female journalist, or if he did not know her name
why you would send money to multi-millionaires to begin with is what i'd like to know
i'm not a bot, bitch
ikr
itay chen, American/israeli, who was murdered that day, his father has spoken out publicly calling for an investigation
it seems like the government does not want this to occur
if it was a false flag, still over 1000 were murdered that day, and hundreds were taken hostage, as we all know
i guess if they can cover up 9/11 they can also keep this under wraps
disgusting world we live in