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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Above the Law? Hakeem Jeffries Threatens Retaliation if Dems Who Stormed ICE Facility Face Consequences
[Twitchy] House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is issuing threats of retaliation should any Democrats who recently stormed an ICE detention facility in New Jersey be held accountable for their actions. He’s blathering on about ’red lines’ and that there are ’clear lines that they dare not cross.’ Guess line crossing doesn't apply to Democrats.
Urges dems to continue to stomp tiny little feets.


Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2025 05:17 || Comments || Link || [185 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We are above the law"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/14/2025 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Do it. DO IT. We dare you. Throw a full blown real insurrection.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/14/2025 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Who could have imagined picking cotton would lead to such turmoil.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2025 10:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Is he gonna hold his breath until he turns blue? That'd be fun to watch.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/14/2025 13:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Has Ashli Babbitt's death sentence been commuted?
Posted by: Regular joe || 05/14/2025 13:42 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Director of National Intelligence fires top National Intelligence Council officials
[FoxNews] Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the top officials leading the National Intelligence Council – whom whistleblowers describe as "radically opposed to Trump" — and has moved the agency to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, to ensure she can block any "politicization of intelligence," Fox News Digital has learned.

Gabbard fired Mike Collins, who was serving as the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, Tuesday, senior intelligence officials told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital reached out Langan-Riekhof for comment and did not immediately hear back, and couldn't immediately find contact information for Collins.

Collins also has whistleblower complaints against him for political bias and "deliberately undermining the incoming Trump administration," officials said.

They added that Collins was closely associated with Michael Morrell, the former deputy director of the CIA who worked to write a public letter in 2020 claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," and to get signatures from top ex-intelligence officials.



Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [114 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They added that Collins was closely associated with Michael Morrell, the former deputy director of the CIA

Serving up Deep State calamari. More please.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2025 4:34 Comments || Top||

#2  "Gabbard fires 'deep state' heads of National Intelligence Council to root out 'politicization of intel'- Senior intelligence officials told Fox News Digital DNI Gabbard is moving the National Intelligence Council to ODNI"

..."The moves come as Gabbard has taken steps to root out leakers and alleged "deep state holdovers" who officials say are politicizing intelligence analysis and "trying to sabotage President Trump’s agenda."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gabbard-fires-deep-state-heads-national-intelligence-council-root-out-politicization-intel
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/14/2025 15:14 Comments || Top||


Judge who ruled against Trump funding freeze has ties to taxpayer-funded homeless org
[NYPOST] A Rhode Island federal judge who blocked President Trump's sweeping freeze on federal assistance earlier this year has been slapped with a complaint from a conservative legal group alleging that he could benefit from his decision.

Providence US District Judge John McConnell sat on the board of Crossroads Rhode Island, a homeless services provider that has benefited from federal assistance, from 2006 to at least 2023, the nonprofit's tax records show. Between 2011 and 2021, the judge served as the board's chairman.

America First Legal, which began digging into McConnell's past after he issued a preliminary injunction halting Trump's freeze earlier this year, argued in a complaint filed to the Boston-based 1st Circuit Court of Appeals that the judge's ties to Crossroads pose a conflict of interest.

Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [132 views] Top|| File under:


#2  upholds Trump’s authority

ULULULU!!!
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/14/2025 1:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Grand Jury Indicts Judge Hannah Dugan
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 05/14/2025 1:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Please continue to follow the money.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2025 5:07 Comments || Top||

#5  This non-profit, what would be it's income sheet and expenses administrative take?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/14/2025 11:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Crossroads Rhode Island, a homeless services provider that has benefited from federal assistance

It's a scam. It has never been anything but a scam. They dropped $24 billion on this nonsense in California and now they can't, or won't, tell where all the money went. Pretty sure it went into the pockets of people like Judge McConnell. Think about it. Twenty-four billion dollars that is lost and we still have hobos all over the place.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/14/2025 13:09 Comments || Top||

#7  You could divide all that money up and just give it to the hobos and they'd be living in luxury. They could sit in mansions, snort cocaine all day and they would still have money to burn.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/14/2025 13:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
DHS chief Noem accuses lawmakers of 'committing felonies' at Newark ICE facility: 'They should be censured'
[FOX] Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday called out members of Congress for allegedly assaulting law enforcement officers during a heated altercation outside a Newark immigration detention center last week.

Noem criticized the lawmakers for defending their actions as a supposed "oversight." Appearing on ‘Jesse Watters Prime,’ Noem accused the lawmakers of committing criminal behavior.

"This wasn't oversight. This was committing felonies. This was going out and attacking people who stand up for the rule of law. And it was absolutely horrible," Noem said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2025 03:36 || Comments || Link || [128 views] Top|| File under:



#3 
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2025 6:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Censured? Can I commit a felony and just get a censure?
Posted by: Hellfish || 05/14/2025 17:41 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Hellfish, only if you are a Democratic Congresscritter.
Posted by: Rambler || 05/14/2025 17:54 Comments || Top||


Buttigieg says 'right now I'm not running for anything' during Iowa stop
[FoxNews] Pete Buttigieg, under attack from Trump over his job as Biden's transportation secretary, says now is not the time to 'point fingers or blame other people'.
"Especially me"

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/14/2025 00:17 || Comments || Link || [130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's too busy chestfeeding.
Posted by: Rambler || 05/14/2025 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Great work you did there on air traffic control for the past four years. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/14/2025 7:05 Comments || Top||

#3  I found the perfect office for him!!

San Francisco Street Cleaner (Mop and broom only)
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/14/2025 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: badanov || 05/14/2025 13:25 Comments || Top||

#5  That's funny, seems a lot of transportation systems are not running either.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/14/2025 16:00 Comments || Top||


Jasmine Crockett calls Trump voters stupid and uneducated
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [162 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ai didn't expect intellectual elitism from a fat black woman, but here we are.
IQ is a bell curve, and for whites the curve is centered at 100 while for blacks it's cantered at 85.
I guess she's angry so many black men voted for Trump.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 05/14/2025 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Both funny as well as sad. The numbers are not with her.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/14/2025 4:37 Comments || Top||

#3  The more educated indoctrinated and credentialed voters voted the right left way.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/14/2025 7:07 Comments || Top||

#4  IN 1966 just out of the Marine Corps I hired into a shipyard as a trainee draftsman for $2.00 an hour.
I retired 34 years later with $700,000.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 05/14/2025 15:19 Comments || Top||

#5  WOW!! Talk about "Pot/Kettle!!
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Grolet1842 || 05/14/2025 20:36 Comments || Top||


Schumer: ''We're just looking forward.''
[X]
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [104 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So are we...looking forward to the day we no longer have to put up with the likes of you..
Posted by: Warthog || 05/14/2025 8:54 Comments || Top||

#2  So, when you cannot answer truthfully without incriminating yourself and an outright lie would be too obvious, just say something that means nothing. Now, that's a politician.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/14/2025 13:22 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: badanov || 05/14/2025 23:45 Comments || Top||



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