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It’s hard to believe this could happen but the Telegraph has seen the documents which support that it did. A toddler at an unnamed nursery school was suspended for transphobia. The toddler in question isn’t identified either but, at most, this was a 4-year-old child. Other kids no older than seven were suspended for the same reason.

Department for Education (DfE) data show the child, aged either three or four, was suspended from a state school in the 2022-23 academic year for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity”.

The school and further details of the case were not disclosed.

But statistics show that 94 pupils at state primary schools were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia and homophobia in 2022-23.

These included 10 pupils from year one and three from year two, where the maximum age is seven.

The leader of a gender critical organization suggested the story was almost too crazy to believe.

“Every once in a while, the extremes of gender ideology throw up a story that seems too crazy to believe, and a toddler being suspended from nursery for so-called transphobia or homophobia is one such example,” Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, told the newspaper.

“Teachers and school leaders involved in this insanity should be ashamed of themselves for projecting adult concepts and beliefs onto such young children,” she added.

Author JK Rowling also called the story “totalitarian insanity.”

This is totalitarian insanity. If you think small children should be punished for being able to recognise sex, you are a dangerous zealot who should be nowhere near kids or in any position of authority over them. https://t.co/IZI0sP58ss

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 31, 2025

Elon Musk agreed.

Utter madness! https://t.co/NoywkcaGlU

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 31, 2025

And Ted Cruz.

Absolutely true 👇 https://t.co/STlwdqJS1e

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 31, 2025

Riley Gaines said “Even the youngest are punished for being honest.”

Toddlers as young as three years old have reportedly been suspended from nursery for “transphobia”—in other words, for trusting their instincts and recognizing reality.

Even the youngest are punished for being honest.
https://t.co/i91Unkac4w

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) March 31, 2025

So what actually happened here? Again, we don’t have any details but a spokesman for the Education Department seemed to be defending this.

“All pupils and staff should feel safe and protected at school and should never face violence or abuse,” a Department for Education spokesperson told The Independent.

It makes no sense at all. How can a child this age be held accountable for transphobia? Here’s Helen Joyce speculating on what most likely happened in this case.

“Children shouldn’t be taught any nonsense about gender identities…”@HJoyceGender on the toddler suspended from nursery for “transphobia” with @TalkTV pic.twitter.com/9TilQL1Q2c

— Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) March 31, 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office was asked about this and said he did not agree with it, sort of.

Asked about the suspension of the nursery pupil, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “I’ve seen these reports. Obviously the Prime Minister would not support those sorts of measures. But equally, I don’t know the specific incident in the case.

“I think the data around this is all pretty significantly analysed, so I think it’s quite hard to provide any comment on any specific cases.

“Pupils and staff should never be subject to abuse, but any action taken to tackle behaviour should also be proportionate.”

The spokesman didn’t actually say this treatment was insane, he suggested it was disproportionate, which is not the same at all. Starmer’s take seems to be that the toddler shouldn’t have been suspended just given a different corrective. Maybe we could just leave the little kids out of it? That doesn’t seem to occur to any of these people.

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ONE PING ONLY, VASILI

Our Secretary of Defense popped up on X today and dropped the MOA PINGS on the Gillibrands of the country.

For far too long, we have allowed standards to slip. We’ve had different standards for men/women serving in combat arms MOS’s and jobs….

That’s not acceptable, and it changes right now! pic.twitter.com/Zn9OyBew6G

— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) March 31, 2025

DA DADA DA DA I’M LOVIN’ IT

Different physical standards for men and women in the U.S. military have existed for a long time. BUT, there were also combat roles that were male-only.

Then, under Obama, all combat roles were opened to men AND women. BUT, different physical fitness standards for men and women…

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) March 31, 2025

…Then, under Obama, all combat roles were opened to men AND women. BUT, different physical fitness standards for men and women remained.  

Today at @DeptofDefense — we fix this. All combat roles are open to men and women BUT they must all meet the same, high standard. 

No standards will be lowered AND all combat roles will only have sex-neutral standards. Common sense.

This has been a battle royale forever, since Colorado’s vile representative Pat Schroeder started her crusading when I was still on active duty. And man, let me tell you what – we all hated her and whatever three female officers she would always trot out to congressional hearings to make the case. All those chicas were worried about was their fitreps, whining that guys who had a combat ticket beat them out for promotions, so they needed to be able to break into those MOSs. 

No one asked the enlisted girls who were going to be the ones humping the hills constantly, breaking down from marches with too heavy packs our frames were never meant to carry, and going deaf from artillery what we thought.

What we knew was that we couldn’t do it, and we were perfectly happy the way things were. I can’t haul a 175 lb guy off a battlefield, and I didn’t want his worrying about me to get him killed because he hesitated when we were all supposed to be moving.

Hell, no. All of us Marines of the female persuasion were plenty happy to fill our niche, appreciate the men for what they could do that we couldn’t, and vice versa.

We signed up knowing the limitations and the ‘why‘ of the limitations, and that was fine by us. 

But always comes the over-educated elite, 90% of whom have never spent a day in uniform in their lives, who always know best.

It’s always a total cluster, and that’s what this has been.

From the zoo surrounding the circus to get that first Army girl her ‘Ranger tab,’ with the women being coached beforehand and then allowed to repeat phases they’d failed – unlike the male candidates – just to be able to shove some chick over the line and say ‘Lookee here!’ 

…When the first integrated class started on April 19, none of the nineteen female candidates made it through the Darby phase of the course.

Eight were “recycled” back to the beginning of the phase to take a second crack at the course with the next class to show up, which is an entirely normal procedure. None of the eight passed on the second try. Of those eight, three candidates were given a third try but were required to start back at the very beginning and re-do RAP week, in what is known as a “Day One” recycled (as opposed to joining the next class after it completed RAP week, which is how the average recycle usually works).

Getting a third attempt at the course is certainly unusual, but it’s not unheard of. The opportunity is offered on relatively rare occasions to candidates who have performed well in most aspects of the course but struggled with a single test or task. In this particular class, three of the eight female candidates remaining were given a third try, as were two male candidates who had passed RAP week but failed Darby twice. (At this point, it’s worth mentioning two things. First, the two male candidates did not take the offer for a third chance as Day One recycles; all three female candidates did. Second, RAP week consists largely of pass fail physical tests that have objective and essentially unfudgeable metrics of success—you either run five miles within the time limit, for example, or you don’t; you either complete the twelve-mile weighted ruck march on time, or you don’t. Many people don’t pass all those tests even when entering the course for the first time in peak physical condition. The female candidates did, and they did it despite having already been subjected to the exhaustion and malnutrition of Darby Phase twice. Day One recycles are viewed by a lot of candidates as something close to a death sentence for your chances of passing the course for exactly that reason. That the female candidates passed RAP week events under those conditions speaks to their level of physical stamina and conditioning.)

What a disgrace. And then what a disservice to the women who could actually complete the course – I think there’s been a couple – who will always get the side-eye, as in ‘Did she really?’ 

There are something like 100 women in Ranger battalions now.

But what was changed to get to that number? What lethality was compromised?

…It is important to emphasize that those whom I interviewed expressed admiration for the graduating females’ grit and perseverance and were not critical of the female candidates’ character or commitment. The officers and enlisted soldiers I spoke to uniformly respected the female candidates’ efforts and willingness to put themselves through the rigors of Ranger training. They repeatedly emphasized that their critiques were intended simply to highlight how systematic political pressure forced changes to the legendary Ranger course, damaging its integrity, just as political pressure forced detrimental changes at every level of the military during the eight years of the Obama administration.

There are always going to be the female studs who could, say, complete the Ranger course or get through SEAL training, but it’s not just the course. It’s the sustained combat environment that makes guys stronger but breaks a woman’s frame down. It’s just a fact. A female who tears a course up at Fort Benning is not going to look the same after three moths up and down the mountains in Afghanistan – something the males did routinely. Or even humping the hills of Camp Pendleton – it’s physiology. 

Some of us have been saying from day one that if women are allowed in combat arms there should be one physical standard, not two. An M2 or 240B doesn’t suddenly get lighter because it’s being carried by a female. So having two fitness standards for combat arms is complete BS. https://t.co/SSrqAmAaXR

— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) March 31, 2025

For those unfamiliar with the weapons my friend J.R. is referring to, the M2 is a 50 CAL that they’re saying all the pieces clock in at about 84lbs [not a one person show, thank you Jeff] and the M240 is carried version machine gun, in at almost 30 lbs. His point is the fellows who carry these also have packs and ammo to lug with them. Think Adam Baldwin in Full Metal Jacket. 

He was lugging an M60 around Hue. With a 100-round belt, that’s an extra 30 lbs.

This is the right move by Hegseth.

SecDef did it the right way, too. He didn’t say ‘no women’ – he said everyone meets a single, lethal standard for combat arms..

…The memo, which orders the military branches to “develop comprehensive plans to distinguish combat arms occupations from non-combat arms occupations,” specifies in hand-underlined text that the soon-to-be-developed standards must not “result in any existing service member being held to a lower standard.”

“All entry-level and sustained physical fitness requirements within combat arms positions must be sex-neutral, based solely on the operational demands of the occupation and the readiness needed to confront any adversary,” Hegseth wrote.

My fellow women veterans are already taking condescending virtue signalers to task all over X, and it is a GLORIOUS thing to see.

No. Combat arms is particularly physically demanding. Anyone doing that job needs to meet appropriate physical standards. It’s not subjective how such standards are measured. Civilians weighing in on these things with your vague emotional reservations put our service members in…

— 🇺🇲 Estella 🇮🇱 (@ArchLuminous) March 31, 2025

…Civilians weighing in on these things with your vague emotional reservations put our service members in danger because you have absolutely no idea how anything in combat works. I know you think you’re being principled, but you simply have no business weighing in on this.

Well done.

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In May of 2022, three nooses were found tied to a small tree outside Haven Middle School in Evanston, IL. Here’s a local news report that captured the immediate reaction to the discovery. This is only about a minute long.

It turned out there were two students present when the nooses were tied. Over the weekend, the parents of one of those students told their version of what happened that day. It all started on a day that students held a protest over some teachers who were being reassigned to different schools. That protest turned into complete chaos and police were called to the school.

On that same day a 6th grader walked outside and began tying some ropes from a recess bin into nooses.

By lunchtime, what had begun as a peaceful protest devolved into what one teacher described to me as “an absolute mob scene.” Inside the school, seventh and eighth graders were running through the hallways, slamming locker doors shut, and chanting “Fuck Latting,” referring to Haven’s principal, Christopher Latting. Someone called the police.

a sixth grader…pulled three jump ropes out of a recess bin and started tying them in knots.

He started fashioning them into nooses. He made three. Another child saw that he seemed upset, so he ran up to [Mike] Klotz’s son and asked him to come speak to his friend. Klotz’s son crossed the yard to ask the boy what he was doing—and checked if he was okay.

The two friends spoke a little. Then the child who made the nooses hung them on a small, shrub-like tree, and the two boys ran off to another part of the yard, leaving the ropes hanging a few feet off the ground.

Within hours, every parent in the district had received an email from superintendent Devon Horton about the nooses found on the tree. Horton was a big proponent of anti-racist education and his email left no doubt what had happened.

“This is a hate crime and a deliberate and specific incidence of an outwardly racist act. It resounds with a tone of hate and hurt that will impact members of our entire community, namely Black and African American students, staff, and families who have experienced generations of harm.”

Mike and Melissa Klotz, who are both left-wing, got a call from the father of the 6th grader who had tied the knots. He admitted his son had done it and said their son was also involved. But after asking around, Mike Klotz was convinced that his son hadn’t done anything except go to check on his friend when asked to do so.

Meanwhile, the Haven “hate crime” was the major topic of discussion at the school, not just between classes but in class. Nearly a week later, Klotz’ son, and the other boy who tied the knots, were placed on administrative leave while the incident was under investigation by the police. That investigation took six weeks, causing both of them to miss the end of 6th grade.

But in mid-June, police finally concluded the nooses had been tied by one boy but were not intended as a racial threat. On the contrary, the final report saw them as a “cry for help.”

The final, 33-page police report detailing the authorities’ investigation —which Klotz showed to The Free Press after it was made available via a Freedom of Information Act request—states that the boy responsible for putting the ropes in the trees “has some very serious mental health issues and has tied knots previously as a soothing technique.”

According to the report, police spoke to a Haven student who said she watched a boy “place the rope over a tree, and put the noose around his neck for approximately 1 to 2 minutes.” She said the boy had a “look on his face” that was “serious,” and he “appeared as though he did not want to be there.” She told police other students there were worried he might “harm himself,” but added: “The tree the rope was placed over was not big enough to hold his weight.”

This was a troubled kid maybe signaling he wanted to harm himself, not a hate crime. But superintendent Horton promised the district would continue to investigate to determine how to respond. A parent group called “District 65 Parents & Guardians” also rejected the police conclusions and demanded the student and the family be identified. And Kim Foxx’s office referred the matter to juvenile court, threatening the 5th grader with a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct. The juvenile court eventually dropped the matter.

The Klotz’s son really had no part in the nooses and there was no hate crime here anyway. Nevertheless, they decided to move, leaving Evanston for another town about 6 miles away, so their son could start the new year in a new school district. Unfortunately, he really hasn’t recovered. Formerly a straight A student, the boy now struggles in school. As for his parents, they now feel adrift from the progressive politics they have always believed in.

Melissa [Klotz] told me that what happened to her son completely changed her perspective on life. She said she’s now cynical about politics, and she’ll never vote again.

“I’ve lost faith in everything,” she said. “Now I just assume all people are bad people, unless they can prove otherwise.”

As for Superintendent Devon Horton, he moved on to a new job in Georgia about one year later. All of his anti-racist efforts don’t seem to have accomplished much for students in Evanston.

Last November, a district-wide “Equity Progress Indicator” report showed that the racial achievement gap in Evanston has actually been widening. The percentage of black students meeting standards in language arts dropped from 33.4 in the 2023-24 school year to 31.7 the following year, whereas that same metric for white students stayed consistent, at around 82 percent. In the meantime, enrollment in District 65 has continued to fall.

But Horton did enjoy one notable achievement: In November 2022, just six months after the Haven “hate crime” incident, the National Alliance of Black School Educators named him “Superintendent of the Year.”

He generated a lot of reactions to a “hate crime” that never happened and won an award for his efforts.

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Protests used to be really something in America. Back in the anti-war 70s, college kids and young adults were protesting continued U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and it was effective enough to alter the direction of the country. Those same hippies are now grandparents and great-grandparents, if they’re still alive. You might guess that a lot of their grandkids are the ones protesting Elon Musk and Tesla, Donald Trump, ICE, and whatever else they think is wrong. But that doesn’t seem to be the case most of the time. Many are foreign nationals here on a student visa. A lot of them are paid protesters.  

At Republican Congresscritter town halls all over the country, rooms are filled with people funded and Astroturfed in by left-wing advocacy groups. In Wisconsin over the weekend, Elon and a few Trump cabinet members appeared in their personal capacities to get out the vote in the Wisconsin Supreme Court battle between Republican Judge Brad Schimel and Dane County leftist Judge Susan Crawford. Musk offered two different $1 million dollars prizes for people that attended the rally. Wisconsin’s Democratic Attorney General, Josh Kaul, sued to keep that from happening, but the courts did not give him the relief he sought, and the giveaway ensued. When the protesters at the rally began disrupting, Musk noted that it was inevitable that the George Soros contingent would be present. 

While a lot of the talent from the Trump get out of the vote effort in 2024 have become cheeseheads the last couple of weeks to drive up turnout, Democrats in the Badger state chose a different way of 
protesting – by running over Schimel yard signs before losing control of their car. 

Just got this from a listener:

“This morning someone ran over my Brad Schimel for WI Supreme Court sign in Brookfield, WI and is now stuck in my ditch.” pic.twitter.com/WME3yDZ3RD

— Dan O’Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) March 30, 2025

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took the stage in Wisconsin and noted the lengths to which people previously espousing environmental concerns are willing to go in order to destroy Teslas, the best-selling electric vehicles in the country. 

🚨 TRANSPORTATION SEC. SEAN DUFFY WITH THE TRUTH NUKE

“Before this last election they all wanted to force us into an EV, after the election they’re burning EVs. How crazy is that?”pic.twitter.com/M05PJZowxO

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 31, 2025

Meanwhile, on the side of the road, another protest developed. This one was the two-person type, holding up the obligatory Musk is a Nazi sign. 

Masked liberal protester does multiple Nazi salutes on the side of a busy road.

“Only Nazis Want Musk,” the sign the man was holding read as he did multiple Nazi salutes.

Lmao.pic.twitter.com/qFfOpNNc1a

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 31, 2025

Gotta love the mask-wearing…outdoors. They must have gotten the secret memo from Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins that COVID is still deadly and spreads most virally on the side of the road as people drive by doing 70 mph giving these two the bird, creating a wind draft behind them. They’re much safer on the side of the road facing oncoming traffic covering up their piehole. The mask will help keep their loose teeth in one place for identification purposes later when someone hugging the shoulder because they’re checking their texts whacks them with the rearview mirror. 

Grandma did not seem to understand the concept that there are more cameras on a Tesla than there are at a space launch. 

TERROR: Democrats are completely unaware that they’re being filmed when they attack Teslas because the drive-by media isn’t covering the attacks. pic.twitter.com/p3LRXnDDf2

— @amuse (@amuse) March 30, 2025

In New York City, protesters are saving democracy by burning Teslas.

NYC- The current scene in front of a Tesla showroom in New York which is being completely surrounded by anti-Elon Musk protesters.

One protester is holding a sign that reads “Save Democracy, Burn a Tesla” | @sav_says_ | @TPUSA pic.twitter.com/z0xERACHh6

— FRONTLINES (@FrontlinesTPUSA) March 29, 2025

This totally normal-looking woman is now a resident in the Graybar Hotel because she gummed up, literally and figuratively, a Tesla. 

Florida woman slapped with felony charge for vandalizing Tesla with ‘large wad’ of chewing gum: report https://t.co/UzkH0dGbVP pic.twitter.com/PCtCc2vrCQ

— New York Post (@nypost) March 29, 2025

In Seattle, this protest also passed as a Doo-Dah Parade.

Tesla building security watching overhead as protesters dance on the street during a #TeslaTakedown protest in Seattle pic.twitter.com/FGMexOAIit

— Lindsey Wasson 📸 (@lindseywasson) March 29, 2025

In my head as I was watching this, I was wondering where the “Springtime For Hitler” song from the Producers was playing behind them. Didn’t have to wait long. 

Found the original audio… pic.twitter.com/wzdsWdNRAL

— Dave Trebas (@DTrebas) March 30, 2025

In Southlake, Texas, the protest ended promptly at High Noon. Why? No, there wasn’t a shootout coming at the O.K. Corral. Noon was the time through which these protesters were being paid to protest. At 12:01, they no longer gave an excrement about the issue to put in their own personal time as a protest. They were off the clock. It’s like an old Looney Tunes cartoon.

There’s other forms of protests underway by a bunch of disturbed people who have the added benefit of being moronic enough to record their violent incitements. That is such an extra assist to an otherwise busy law enforcement community.  

Pro tip: When you make a selfie video in your car advocating for the shooting of ICE officers, Homeland Security will come calling. 

🚨 #BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem just issued a GRAVE WARNING to this man who called on others to sho*t at ICE agents, and any potential criminals who follow through.

“If you threaten or attempt to harm a law enforcement officer we will find you and prosecute you to the… https://t.co/DMVx9aZKAC pic.twitter.com/fiIUrNTVmH

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 30, 2025

But my all-time favorite in the category of dumbest protest ever has to go to these Columbia alums who are so anti-Semitic that after they’ve paid the money, passed the classes, and earned the diploma from one of the more elite institutions in the country, they tear it up to protest the crackdown on anti-Semitism on campus by the Trump administration. 

Pro-Palestine Columbia graduates rip up their diplomas to protest the Trump admin pic.twitter.com/hfOmrbf5OY

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 30, 2025

I’m fairly certain that show of solidarity will finally turn everyone in the country against the Jews once and for all. If you’ve ever wanted to see a live demonstration of the difference between someone being book smart and street smart, well, I’m not sure this video is actually going to help. If you have deluded yourself into thinking tearing up $300,000 in 2025 dollars is the way to convince others to join your cause, you are too dumb to have received the paper in the first place. You’re actually weakening the judgment and prestige of the university with each rip. 

Remember this from Donald Trump’s State of the Union in February, 2020? 

Speaker Pelosi tears up President Trump’s speech as the president ends his State of the Union address.

“It was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative.” pic.twitter.com/Lg1pdfgyyI

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 5, 2020

That didn’t cost her $300,000. If you add up the seven people I saw in that video who tore up their diplomas, that’s about $2.1 million dollars’ worth of what used to be considered among the finer educational experiences in the world. 

Now take this woman in the middle, the one whose name you can read on the diploma now rend in two. Her name is Eliza Margarita Bates. Just out of morbid curiosity, I did a little digging to see what would come up about her. In 2022, as part of a Mexico-based writing residency called Under the Volcano, Ms. Bates put this up as her bio, demonstrating her fun, wit, and positive outlook on life. 

I am a chronically ill and invisibly disabled writer and communications consultant to the Left. I have worked in the labor movement almost my entire adult life, first as an organizer and now in communications strategy. I pay the bills ghost writing OpEd’s (you may have seen my writing under the names of labor union leaders in fancy outlets) and speeches, and supporting workers in telling their own stories in the press. My personal writing focuses on work and the body and is centered on disability, illness, and on finding meaning — and sometimes dark humor — when our bodies are no longer able to produce labor under capitalism. I take a lot of expensive medications to stay alive, including immunosuppressants, and I spend my free time fighting with greedy health insurance companies. I live in Brooklyn, NY, with my musician husband, my 4-year-old Batman unicorn princess boy, a very sweet pit bull, and two mean cats.

She certainly sounds like a catch, doesn’t she, fellas? Too bad she’s off the market. Today’s left is a collection of the most humorless, soulless people on the planet. Think there’s a lot of mostly peaceful thoughts going through her head? 

We’re just over two months into a four-year term. If this is the energy and direction that’s going to drive the Democratic Party, I’m pretty optimistic about who’s going to lead the country for the foreseeable future. Today’s Democratic party features prominently members of Congress like Jasmine Crockett, who seems to have a problem with people of a different race than hers. Watch this from The Breakfast Club late last week. 

Now racist Jasmine Crockett has a problem with Byron Donalds interracial marriage…

I wonder why she didn’t have a problem with Kamala being married to Doug?

She needs to be expelled from Congress.
pic.twitter.com/byK4Fl9dab

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) March 30, 2025

You know, it wasn’t too long ago that on MSNBC, gaslighting about Donald Trump outlawing same sex and mixed race marriages was opined on the airwaves. Of course, that was nonsense. Crockett, a regular feature on the network, seems to genuinely have a problem with mixed race unions. I was previously under the impression that holding such a viewpoint was racist. 

The fun part about all this? It’s only Monday. 85-90% chance that this column will not feature the craziest stuff said and done this week by the time we get to Friday. 

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Last Thursday night, President Trump signed an executive order putting an end to unionized collective bargaining at more than two dozen government agencies. This could potentially end union representation for more than half of all government workers. The unions and those who support them greeted Trump’s move as a declaration of war and promised a swift response. A statement released by the president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said lawsuits were on the way.

“This administration’s bullying tactics represent a clear threat not just to federal employees and their unions, but to every American who values democracy and the freedoms of speech and association. Trump’s threat to unions and working people across America is clear: fall in line or else.

“These threats will not work. Americans will not be intimidated or silenced. AFGE isn’t going anywhere. Our members have bravely served this nation, often putting themselves in harm’s way, and they deserve far better than this blatant attempt at political punishment.

“AFGE is preparing immediate legal action and will fight relentlessly to protect our rights, our members, and all working Americans from these unprecedented attacks.”

The lawsuit from AFGE hasn’t materialized yet and is still probably a week or two away, but Immediately after Trump executive order was signed last week, some of the agencies involved sued the unions in federal court. One of the unions that was sued was the National Treasury Employees union. Here’s a bit of what that lawsuit says.

Since taking office,two ofPresident Trump’s top priorities for his Administration have beento improve the efficiency and efficacy of the federal workforce, and to promotethe national security of the United States.Unfortunately, many Executive Branch departments and agencies have beenhamstrung in advancing both of those important efforts by restrictive terms of collective bargaining agreements (CBAs).

These CBAs significantly constrain the Executive Branch, restricting how agencies hire and manage employees. They also effectivelydelegate important decision-making to unaccountable private arbitrators in the form of grievance arbitration. Virtually all limit the power of the President and his Executive Branch officials to promptly identify and address underperformance…

In light of the Executive Order and OPM guidance, Plaintiff now respectfully seeks a declaratory judgment from this Court that it has the power to rescind or repudiate the national CBA, as well as local supplemental agreements and MOUs(collectively, CBAs)with the National Treasury Employees Union(NTEU)and Defendant, one of the local chapters of NTEU that implements and executes the terms of the CBA in Kentucky.

Plaintiff wishes to rescind or repudiate those agreements, including so it can protect national security by developing personnel policies that otherwise would be precluded or hindered by the CBAs. But to ensure legal certainty and avoid unnecessary labor strife, it first seeks declaratory relief to confirm that it is legally entitled to proceed with doing so.

Today, the NTEU filed a lawsuit in response. 

A union that represents 150,000 U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block President Donald Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ability to collectively bargain with government agencies through their unions.

The National Treasury Employees Union said in the lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C. federal court that Trump’s executive order last week exempting more than a dozen agencies from collective bargaining obligations violates federal workers’ labor rights and the U.S. Constitution and threatens the union’s very existence.

The NTEU said the order applies to more than 100,000 of its 158,000 members and would require agencies to stop deducting union dues from those workers’ paychecks, a major blow to the union’s revenue and bargaining power.

That last paragraph sums up what this is all about for the unionists. Trump is cutting off their dues money so they will fight to protect that. The Trump administration is not only reducing the size of government, it is reducing Democrats’ piggy bank for future elections. Given what a serious challenge this represents, I’m surprised this isn’t getting more attention. So far the union issue seems to be on the back burner to opposition to DOGE. But that could change. 

As I mentioned before, the public sector unions can’t risk a strike because that would give Trump a perfect opportunity to fire them. However, they can continue to protest outside of work hours. There’s another big protest planned for this coming Saturday, April 5.

Another test of the strength of the protest movement against Trump will come on April 5, when a coalition of liberal groups is planning nationwide demonstrations, including one at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

“Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They’re taking everything they can get their hands on, and daring the world to stop them,” Indivisible, the organization running the so-called Hands Off! protests, said in a social media post.”

A bunch of unions, including NTEU, are part of the coalition that is supposed to turn out Saturday so we’ll have to wait and see how that goes.

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I should do a daily column on their lunacy, this is getting to be so ridiculous.

It must be delightful to realize that YOU are the burden to your government, and not the other way around.

I mean, that has to be so, else why are they constantly on the march to reduce food and energy sources for the British people?

The criticism over energy bills and cutting allowances for pensioners has been particularly brutal, and it turned out to be an awful winter on top of it.

“I would say to Keir, would he have his own children freezing?”

Sara from Northamptonshire sends a fuming message to the Prime Minister as she sits in a cold house, unable to turn the heating on due to high costs. @Iromg pic.twitter.com/pwbqc3oC4e

— Talk (@TalkTV) November 22, 2024

Too bad, so sad.

But it won’t make no nevermind, as we say down here.

The happy Malthusian enthusiasts in Keir Starmer’s Labour government are going out of their way to starve whoever they didn’t freeze to death this past winter.

Skinny, starving people freeze faster, you know.

It’s Settled Science™.

So the first thing they announced was, rather than killing off cows, they’re working out how just to take the land back from farmers. It’s a shame if they grew foodstuffs on it for people, too, but these are the sacrifices one must make to save the planet for…somebody.

None of you British peasant people, obviously.

Any time a progressive says they’re looking for ‘new ways to deliver’ anything, gird your loins particularly when they’re not busy chattering away about it. This means they’re up to no good, sneaky style.

The Land Use Framework, which states that 9% of England’s farmland will need to be taken out of production for climate goals, is “flying under the radar” for many farmers.

This is according to Laura Greenman, partner at HCR Law, who is urging farming businesses to have their say on the plans as the industry is “once again under threat”.

The Land Use Framework, which was launched for consultation at the end of January, seeks a new strategic approach to managing land use in England.

As part of it, the government is looking at new ways to deliver housebuilding, nature goals, energy infrastructure and entire new towns.

The framework states that 9% of England’s agricultural land will need to be taken out of production to meet environmental and climate targets.

What, ho?!

Nine percent of British farmland, gone? Just like that?

Ms Greenman, who seems to be abominably named considering she’s arguing for the practical side, points out very politely that none of these big plans talks about ‘FOOD‘ production. Doesn’t take it into account at all.

…Ms Greenman says that while it focuses on planning, energy and infrastructure, she warns that little consideration has been given to food security.

…“The framework claims to support Britain’s food security while suggesting that 760,000ha of agricultural land in England must be removed from production,” says Ms Greenman.

What? 

No worries, says Labour. Who needs food?

We’ve plenty of it, and besides, bugs don’t take up much space.

Speaking of that, old chaps, LET’S TALK ABOUT THOSE FISH AND CHIPS…

Maritime bosses are warning that ‘nonsensical’ Net Zero measures could sink the British fishing industry overnight as Labour looks to implement stricter measures on fishing boats, canal barges and pleasure craft.

Net Zero killing off another industry. pic.twitter.com/zV0Oryu1SX

— Net Zero Watch (@NetZeroWatch) March 31, 2025

You can wave goodbye to that distinctly succulent British treat if Labour has anything to do with it.

FOR THE CHILDREN

Labour is implementing stricter net zero measures on fishing boats, canal barges and pleasure craft, The Telegraph can reveal.

Under the maritime decarbonisation strategy, boat owners will be forced to swap out diesel engines, petrol generators and wood-fired stoves for electric motors, batteries and extra shore power hookups.

There will also be tax rises on marine fuel, with new boats required to be entirely electric.

Maritime bosses branded the Government’s plans “completely and utterly impractical”.

Richard Gregson, the owner of Worcester-based Classic Yacht Brokerage, said: “It’s complete nonsense to have net zero on yachts.

“The technology for electric engines on small boats isn’t really there. The amount of diesel a yacht burns in a year is negligible, and even if the diesel engines were replaced it would be offset by the making of electric batteries.”

And listen to all the complainers. Good grief.

…Jerry Percy, the chief executive of the New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association, representing operators of craft less than 10 metres in length, said that adding emissions taxes to fuel for Britain’s fishing boats would “destroy the industry overnight”.

“At the moment we get a subsidy on diesel for fishing vessels; we pay less than you pay for it at the pumps. If they even remove that subsidy… three quarters of the fleet would go bankrupt,” he said.

Speaking about proposals to force fishing boats to go electric, he added: “It’s going to take some persuasion for companies to build port infrastructure for what is a relatively small number of vessels … I think we need to transition, but it’s not going to be easy”.

Peter Braybrook, the secretary of the National Association of Boat Owners, cautioned that replacing diesel engines and generators on canal boats would be impractical.

“The major problem is charging them on most canal boats, which are about seven foot wide and 60 foot long,” he said.

He added that the available space was not enough to install solar panels capable of charging boats for more than six hours’ operation.

Mr Braybrook warned the net zero measures could trigger a wave of homelessness, as people who lived on canal boats because of the high cost of housing would be unable to afford an enforced switch to electric power.

“No way they could do it,” said Mr Braybrook. “They’d be forced off the water, off their off-grid lifestyle, and probably into homelessness.”

Seriously now – this is a government on crack.

More Madness.

Labour launches a crackdown on boats.

Not the ones crossing the Channel illegally.

But British ones run by British people who are trying to scrape a living.

I suspect Mad Miliband has something to do with this madness.

Only @reformparty_uk will put British… pic.twitter.com/6LHAPql8C9

— Lee Anderson MP (@LeeAndersonMP_) March 29, 2025

Pretty soon they’re going to run out of peasants to run over.

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I’m sure you have heard all about how mean, nasty, ugly and rapacious the Republicans are. They work assiduously, day, night, through rain, sleet, snow, and even hurricanes to steal candy out of baby’s mouths and needed care away from the weak and disabled. 

Elon Musk, who is a very stupid man who has never accomplished a thing, is finally in a place where he can get rich by stealing Social Security and Medicare funds. After a lifetime with no accomplishments, he is filling his pockets with your money. 

Uh, yeah, right. Whatever. 

As Democrats scream to high heaven about how Elon Musk is cutting aid to the needy, Kathy Hochul is…cutting aid to the needy, dumping a program to allow family members to take care of their disabled relatives, and giving a contract to a political contributor–who is working with the communist Service Employees International Union–to sweep in and control the market for home health aids. 

This is in the name of efficiency. Efficiently ripping off the taxpayers, the disabled, and private businesses not part of the Democratic Party grift, that is. 

NY Senate GOP is urging @SecKennedy to investigate Kathy Hochul’s overhaul of the CDPAP program.

In 8 days over 100,000 elderly and disabled New Yorkers will lose their Medicaid home healthcare, and 600+ businesses will be shut down.

“We request that @HHSGov open an… pic.twitter.com/st6wBEPA8N

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 24, 2025

A lack of funds does not drive Hochul’s need to cut back on Medicaid expenditures–she has increased Medicaid funding more in four years than Andrew Cuomo did in 11. As she cuts funds for autism and other programs for the needy, the primary motivation seems to be consolidating the market and ensuring that her contributors get their palms greased. 

New York is facing yet another lawsuit alleging it rigged the bidding process for Gov. Kathy Hochul’s move to overhaul a massive $9 billion homecare program.

The new filing alleges that powerful healthcare union 1199SEIU was in on the fix to help controversial firm Public Partnerships LLC secure the multi-million dollar contract to handle payment services for the rapidly expanding Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program.

At least five lawsuits have so far been filed to try and unravel Hochul’s overhaul of the CDPAP, two of which have specifically alleging bid-rigging on the part of the governor’s administration.

Hochul and the state legislature, as part of the gov’s revamp of the allegedly fraud-ridden program, agreed to get rid of nearly 700 middlemen firms that acted as payroll agents between CDPAP caregivers and Medicaid in favor of one hand-picked contractor.

Critics, including the existing middlemen firms like Mark’s Homecare LLC — which filed the latest suit in Albany Supreme Court — have been crying foul about the process leading up Public Partnerships LLC being awarded the bid.

I have a hard time finding time to cry for many of the other companies getting edged out of the market–the entire industry is rife with corruption and questionable business practices–but making it even more difficult for family members to take care of their loved ones is disgusting. But then again, this is New York, where the scheme to dump COVID patients into nursing homes was cooked up. Far be it from me to suggest that killing off the aged and infirm was the plan, but…maybe it was the plan. 

NY Senate GOP is urging @SecKennedy to investigate Kathy Hochul’s overhaul of the CDPAP program.

In 8 days over 100,000 elderly and disabled New Yorkers will lose their Medicaid home healthcare, and 600+ businesses will be shut down.

“We request that @HHSGov open an… pic.twitter.com/st6wBEPA8N

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 24, 2025

NY Senate GOP is urging 

@SecKennedy

 to investigate Kathy Hochul’s overhaul of the CDPAP program.

In 8 days over 100,000 elderly and disabled New Yorkers will lose their Medicaid home healthcare, and 600+ businesses will be shut down.

“We request that 

@HHSGov

 open an investigation into its implementation and the motivation behind this deeply flawed process.”

Kathy Hochul overhauled this Medicaid program and gave the entire contract to her billionaire donor friend at the advice of a consulting firm which owns 25% of her friend’s company.

RIGGED AND CORRUPT

When Elon Musk moves to pare back fraud in Social Security and Medicare to ensure that services can be well-funded, the left screams “cuts in benefits.” When Kathy Hochul enables fraud and cuts benefits, the left screams “government efficiency.” Projection, thy name is Democrat. 

Whatever the Democrats say, expect the opposite to be true. Republicans are not angels by any means, but the modern Democrat Party is nothing but a scam. 

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I’ve covered this topic a lot lately but over the weekend the New York Times editorial board weighed in on the question of why Democrats lost the last election and how refusal to acknowledge that could hurt them moving forward.

Frankly, if you read my post about this last week (or this earlier one), there’s nothing new here. Still, the fact that the NY Times is saying pretty much the same things is news in itself. There is clearly a right answer to this question about why Democrats lost the last election but many Democrats, including the new chair of the DNC, seem intent on getting this wrong.

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. They have instead settled on a convenient explanation for their plight.

That explanation starts with the notion that Democrats were merely the unlucky victims of postpandemic inflation and that their party is more popular than it seems: If Democrats could only communicate better, particularly on social media and podcasts, the party would be fine. “We’ve got the right message,” Ken Martin, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said while campaigning for the job. “What we need to do is connect it back with the voters.”

So if that’s the wrong answer, what is the correct answer? People don’t like what Democrats stand for.

Most voters did not like Mr. Trump. They did prefer him to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Polls make clear that inflation was not the only reason. Voters also trusted Republicans more than Democrats on immigration, crime, government spending, global trade and foreign policy. Among the few exceptions were abortion and health care. As the headline of a recent Times news article summarized, “Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for Trump.” Only 27 percent of Americans now have a favorable view of the Democratic Party. It is the party’s lowest approval rating in decades.

The Times says Democrats need to do three things to come back from the wilderness. First, admit they lied to everyone about Joe Biden.

Already, many voters believe that Democrats refuse to admit uncomfortable truths on some subjects, including crime, illegal immigration, inflation and Covid lockdowns. Mr. Biden’s age became a glaring example.

Second, they need to admit they moved too far left for many voters. Listen as the NY Times sounds a lot like Bill Maher talking about woke extremism and cancel culture.

Even today, the party remains too focused on personal identity and on Americans’ differences — by race, gender, sexuality and religion — rather than our shared values. On these issues, progressives sometimes adopt a scolding, censorious posture. It is worth emphasizing that this posture has alienated growing numbers of Asian, Black and Latino voters.

Finally, the editorial board says Democrats need to offer some new ideas, i.e. something besides “orange man bad” to win voters back.

Almost as interesting as the editorial itself are some of the responses from readers. The top response is a post arguing that Bernie Sanders and AOC are the answer to the party’s problems. 

The Democrats are just as susceptible to the influence of money in politics. They’ve abandoned the working class in order to maintain the status quo, despite the fact the status quo became worse and worse for the average Joe.  Bernie Sanders and AOC realize this and Sander in particular has been warning us for over a decade. We need an economic New Deal and the only way that can happen is if the rich get taxed. The donor class is not a fan of this however, and, well, money talks.

As I pointed out last week, moving toward Bernie is doubling down on stupid. People are already abandoning the party as too far left, so going even farther to the left is not smart. However, the Bernie posts seem to emphasize that while he’s a socialist he’s not a big proponent of wokeism. He remains focused on the traditional concerns of socialism, class warfare.

The #3 response from a frustrated Democrat is worth a read as it seems to confirm that wokeism is a turnoff, even for many “POC’s.”

I’ve been a registered democrat all my life. I am also a POC. I reluctantly agree with the sentiment that “Even today, the party remains too focused on personal identity and on Americans’ differences — by race, gender, sexuality and religion — rather than our shared values.” I feel that the Democratic Party has become a group of fringe issue votors who are losing sight of the main issues that plague Americans, of whatever gender, race, or ethnicity- access to health care, affordable housing, a decent wage, safe water and air, the right to choose, and access to affordable college education. We have to focus and get back to these fundamentals. I also read with regret University of Michigan’s decision to cancel the DEI program. At first I was outraged, then I saw that millions of dollars were wasted but diversity actually decreased! If instead of these cushy “diversity administrators and offices” we had simply provided scholarships to black youth, benefits would have been far higher. I think we democrats are wasting our time thinking about how to talk about things than actually doing anything useful to improve the lives of our citizens. We need a wake up call.

Another one like that:

The Trump campaign saw a golden opportunity in the Democrat’s insane support of policies like puberty blockers and mastectomies for children and transgender competition in women’s sports.  Promoting officials like Rachel Levine and the baggage thief Sam Brinton looked like providing “representation” rather than hiring for merit.  That was a culture war on biology, the mainstream of normies, and the basis of society and family.

What I don’t see in the comments is anyone defending Joe Biden or the current leadership of the party. It suggests the Democrats in denial are mostly the elected ones at the top while the people who make up the party (at least most of the ones reading the NY Times) are already convinced something needs to change.

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Honest to God, it makes you wonder if this is how the Left has been paying off their border-crossing shock troops.

If you’ll remember back to last week, when Elon and the DOGE team made their first official appearance together on Bret Baier’s show, I said the segment on Social Security should be required viewing for every little old recipient squawking about a billionaire 400 times over trying to steal their $1500 a month check.

The reason SS recipients now have to personally come to an office to change their banking info if they wanted a bank deposit address changed was because of the rampant phone fraud the DOGE team had uncovered almost immediately. Forty percent of ALL CALLS were fraudulent efforts to change direct deposit info. This was done to protect Granny, not rob her and make her life miserable.

🚨STOPPING FRAUD: DOGE Engineer and Elon reveal that 40% of all calls to Social Security are from fraudsters trying to change direct deposit info in order to steal funds.

ELON: “What we’re doing will help their benefits. Legitimate people as a result of the work of DOGE will… pic.twitter.com/hNARRRLgbw

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 27, 2025

HOLY SMOKES, RIGHT?

Honey, that ain’t the half of it.

There’s a guy by the name of Antonio Gracias, who, as founder and managing partner at Valor Equity Partners, has proven to be a pretty smart fellow in his own right. As a patriotic American, he was willing to work with Elon at DOGE.

And how lucky are we? 

Because what Gracias revealed he and the DOGE team found at Social Security ‘by accident’ after, as he said…

‘There are a lot of good people in the system who pointed us in this direction and I want to honor them right now. That work in the government today. Who took risks to show us these numbers and tell us this was going on.’

…is gobsmacking.

What is the ‘this’ he’s referring to that they found?

That the Biden administration in 2024 – one year – gave 2.1 MILLION NON-CITIZENS social security numbers.

There’s only one reason to do that.

The Biden administration was giving millions of Social Security Numbers to illegal aliens.

Some of these people did vote.

Their names have been given to the authorities for prosecution. pic.twitter.com/lxQLpXiL9x

— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) March 31, 2025

…GRACIAS: “In 2021, 270,000 non-citizens got social security numbers. In 2024, 2.1M non-citizens got social security numbers.  We went in to find fraud and found this by accident.  

….this is non-political…

… I have been from DC, to the social security offices, to the border to track this down. Very good people helped us along the way and I want to thank them.”

So that’s irritating, right?

What does it actually mean in terms of dollars, cents, and ‘illegal’?

It turns out the system took quite a hit – the worst part being? It was intended to hit the system hard. To create a class of Democratic loyalists, dependent on the state from the very second they stepped over the border. 

HOLY CR*P 🚨

– Democrats did give MILLIONS of illegals Social Security Numbers
– They were REGISTERING TO VOTE
– Elon Musk has confirmation THEY DID VOTE
– Democrats qualified illegals for MAX SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
– They enrolled in Medicaid with their new Social Security… pic.twitter.com/ixWAObSyoL

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 31, 2025

…“If I hadn’t seen this myself, I’m not sure I believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Elon is right. This is true. The defaults in the system from social security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, MAX PAY for these people and minimum collection. 

We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid as an example. We’ve gone through on every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people in those benefit programs. 

 And then what was really, really disturbing us was why we’re asking ourselves why. So we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records and we found people here registered to vote in this population. Yes.  

Who did vote? We found some by sampling that ACTUALLY DID VOTE.  

We have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service. Yeah. Already, already. That is already happening right now. The truly disturbing thing though, I just want you to know this, a truly disturbing thing to me, and the darkest thing about this, to me, the voter fraud is terrible.”

Look at how many they’d already locked on at the beginning of 2025.

It’s not just the fact that 2.1 million Social Security Numbers were issued to non-citizens in FY2024. It’s the trend line. The number was doubling every year. pic.twitter.com/0w6OQhgZCi

— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) March 31, 2025

It doesn’t take long to erase honest-to-God Americans if you double the number of illegals every year who are allowed to masquerade as citizens by your own government.

And if you don’t think the Coconut Queen wasn’t going to keep this ball rolling, I have some burnt rubber in Minnesota to sell you.

This utterly explains the DOGE freakout and violent spazz attacks against Elon and the entire concept.

Democrats don’t want to ‘save’ Social Security or any of the benefits associated with it.

They want to save their slush fund.

🚨🇺🇸 EXPOSING THE SCHEME: WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS PLAN TO HOOK MIGRANTS ON LIFETIME BENEFITS

A whistleblower’s shocking testimony reveals a coordinated effort to sign illegal immigrants up for permanent Social Security disability benefits—a disturbing strategy to create lifetime… https://t.co/wqd4bgiICU pic.twitter.com/CSY8uQnx8s

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 31, 2025

…The whistleblower, who worked directly with migrants, revealed staffers were instructed to identify and document minor health issues like “recurring headaches” or “lower back problems” that would qualify migrants for long-term disability payments that would continue for life.  

This wasn’t just assistance—it was a deliberate plan to ensure they “never have to work a day in their lives in America.” 

This testimony aligns with the Trump administration’s recent executive order aimed at preventing taxpayer money from supporting illegal immigration, including measures to identify federally funded programs providing benefits to those unlawfully present in the country…

The entire twelve-minute presentation is here when you have time. It is well worth the watch and absolutely chilling.

🚨NEW: Antonio Gracias @AntonioGracias talks about how the fraud in Social Security and Voter Fraud works (12 MINUTES OF MUST WATCH)

GRACIAS: “In 2021, 270,000 non-citizens got social security numbers. In 2024, 2.1M non-citizens got social security numbers.

We went in to find… pic.twitter.com/7BcmfEfhFH

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) March 31, 2025

…MUSK: “People think that Biden was asleep at the switch. They weren’t asleep at the switch. It was a massive large scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and making it a deep blue one party state from which there would be no escape.”  

GRACIAS: “Human Traffickers made $13-15B off of this. This is a human tragedy. We created a system that created an incentive for people to come here and get taken advantage of by these traffickers.” 

MUSK: “This is not made up by the right. This is absolutely true…The real reason for these attacks and the burning of the cars, is that we’re going to turn off the payments to illegals…I think this is the biggest voter fraud in the history of America by far. If the machine behind the Kamala puppet had won then they would have legalized all the illegals and there would be no swing states.”

Thank YOU, Antonio Gracias, son of Spanish immigrants, for volunteering to expose the despicable perfidy, unspeakable evil, and contemptible thievery. 

Especially for being willing to expose yourself to the virulent madness of the Left.

Because they are losing it over ‘turning off the payments’ big time.

Beege ADDS: As we’ve been chatting this up in the comments and on X, lemme just add it in here to clarify people questioning the legal v illegal immigrant and numbers:

I think the gist of the exponential rise in numbers is precisely that the rise in Social Security was the border or whatever scheme Biden was letting them in under, be it flying Haitians and Venezuelans in for ‘temporary status,’ whatever. 

The DOGErs still have to separate the wheat from the chaff, but no one in their right mind thinks that LEGAL immigration shot up to more than DOUBLE in a SINGLE YEAR to goose those Social Security numbers. 

At 2:25 in the last video in my post, @AntonioGracias goes into what he found out happened at the border and how these illegals got into the SS system.

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Columbia has lost another president. Katrina Armstrong has been the interim president at Columbia since former president Minouche Shafik resigned last August. Armstrong has been attempting to negotiate with the Trump administration to get $400 million in funding restored and has taken a lot of criticism from the left for giving in to the administration’s demands. On Friday she announced she was stepping aside so a acting president could take over.

The interim president of Columbia University abruptly left her post Friday evening as the school confronted the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding and the Trump administration’s mounting skepticism about its leadership.

The move came one week after Columbia bowed to a series of demands from the federal government, which had canceled approximately $400 million in essential federal funding, and it made way for Columbia’s third leader since August. Claire Shipman, who had been the co-chair of the university’s board of trustees, was named the acting president and replaced Dr. Katrina Armstrong…

Less than a week ago, the Trump administration had signaled that it was satisfied with Dr. Armstrong and the steps she was taking to restore the funding. But in a statement on Friday, its Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism said that Dr. Armstrong’s departure from the presidency was “an important step toward advancing negotiations” between the government and the university.

If you haven’t been following this closely, the Trump administration made a list of demands and last weekend it seemed Armstrong and the school were prepared to meet most of them. Secretary of Education McMahon released a statement saying Columbia was on its way to having the funding restored. But last Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Armstrong had been sending mixed messages. In a chat with Columbia administrators and professors she indicated the school wouldn’t really be following through on some of the demands.

In the conversations with faculty, Armstrong also downplayed the changes agreed to with the Trump team. One issue Armstrong highlighted was the mask policy. While Columbia’s letter to the Trump team agreed to ban masks that conceal identity during unauthorized protests, Armstrong told faculty there was no mask ban.

Secretary McMahon responded to that report saying the school must comply if it wanted to restore funding.

“They have to abide and comply with the terms that we have set down and [we’ve] talked with them and they’ve agreed to,” McMahon told a small group of reporters over breakfast at the Education Department’s headquarters near Capitol Hill.

In short, Katrina Armstrong appeared to lie to the Trump administration and that was quickly noticed on Monday. By Friday she was gone and the Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism seemed to approve of her departure. It sounds like that became another Trump administration demand and this one was met pretty quickly.

Taking over as acting president is journalist Claire Shipman who was formerly a correspondent on ABC’s Good Morning America. Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg wished her luck but said his committee would be watching.

“Now is not the time for Columbia University to regress as it works to combat the rampant antisemitism plaguing the school. So far Columbia has largely failed to uphold its commitment to Jewish students and faculty – leaving them to face harassment, intimidation, and even assault. Thankfully, the Trump administration is ushering in an era of common sense, and this Committee is working diligently alongside it to continue the momentum we’ve created in addressing antisemitism. But the school and its administrators must put in the work to combat this evil. Ms. Shipman, while we wish you all good success, we will be watching closely.”

It’s too early to say if Shipman will take a different approach to the job or if she’ll just try to continue the process of having the $400 million in funding restored. My guess is the latter as it’s a bit late for a show of protest. But who knows. There is still lots of pressure from the left who would rather see the school fight the demands, no matter what it costs.

Meanwhile, I notice today that Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) the coalition leading the protests at Columbia, no longer has an Instagram account. There are some articles from December saying they had been kicked off Instagram, but the account was still active as recently as a week ago. Now it’s gone. That’s going to make it harder for them to organize even as the pressure on them seems to be increasing.

Update: Apparently this just happened. Other people are noticing this morning.

🚨 BREAKING: CUAD removed from Instagram.

CUAD = the coalition behind pro-Hamas protests at Columbia.

🔴 Glorified Hamas & Hezbollah
🔴Intimidated Jewish students
🔴 Occupied buildings

Instagram acted. @Columbia hasn’t!

When will the university protect its students?… pic.twitter.com/RRInpqXidj

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) March 31, 2025

Why is this happening now? Possibly because of this lawsuit.

More confirmation that this just happened. CUAD is now moving to Telegram.

BREAKING: META HAS DISABLED THE CU Apartheid Divest INSTAGRAM FOR THE SECOND TIME WITH NO OPTION FOR APPEAL.

This comes after a long and concerted effort from corporations and imperial powers to erase the Palestinian people.

Follow us on telegram at https://t.co/1NXahLcCST pic.twitter.com/RFKK7Q7lmq

— CU Apartheid Divest (CUAD) (@ColumbiaBDS) March 31, 2025