Posts on Friday, April 25, 2025
Here at American Thinker, we predicted that AOC is a real possibility as the 2028 Democrat party presidential candidate. Yesterday, AOC made it plain that she thinks so, too. AOC’s appeal to the left is obvious: She’s female, glib, telegenic, well-recognized, vaguely Hispanic, antisemitic, and a truly leftist ideologue. Bernie Sanders rightly sees her as the bridge between his old-fashioned class warfare and the new multi-culti warfare, both vehicles for the Marxist overthrow of the West. That’s why the two of them have been appearing in venues across America to rally the true believers.
President Donald Trump’s administration has declared war on those who declared war on American citizens.
After all, among other things, the Trump administration values freedom, security, merit, and health. And those who declared war on American citizens did so in part by attacking all of those things.
Friday morning on the social media platform X, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded to an alarming new report about the incidence of obesity among National Guard and Reserve troops by calling the situation “completely unacceptable” and pledging a new military made up of “FIT, not FAT” service members.
The “Tesla Takedown” effort appears to be falling flat.
Over recent months, left-wing activist groups have waged war on Elon Musk and his automotive company Tesla in an attempt to reduce his immense financial power and damage his reputation.[Snip]After reaching all time highs in the wake of Trump’s landslide election victory, Tesla stock has fallen significantly since the start of 2025 when it reached a valuation well north of $1 trillion.Yet the stock has come roaring back over the past week, surging 25 percent following the release of the company’s first quarter earnings.
Virginia Giuffre, the most prominent victim of late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, took her own life Thursday — just weeks after she made headlines for saying she had “four days to live” following a collision with a bus.
“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia,” the 41-year-old’s family said in a statement to NBC News.
“She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”
Katie Hobbs’ Arizona Agriculture Employee
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ARRESTED for Alleged Human Smuggling of
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In yet another stunning failure of leadership from Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, a now-former employee of the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) has been arrested at the southern border for alleged human smuggling of illegal aliens — a scandal that now threatens to sink Hobbs’ controversial nominee to lead the agency.
Joshua Castro, who served as a produce inspector for the AZDA, is facing both felony and misdemeanor federal charges after Border Patrol agents caught him allegedly transporting illegal aliens across the U.S. border earlier this month, KOLD reported.
Stephen Miller Slams Democrats for Criticizing
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All day Friday, numerous Democrats railed at the FBI’s surprise arrest of an activist judge for allegedly helping an illegal migrant escape deportation, prompting White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to play political whac-a-mole in response.
Democrats “spent the last 8 years stripping Americans of due process to jail them for protected political activity” and for “illegally spying on the Trump Campaign,” Miller said in a post on X.
Democrats used the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the spy agencies “to pursue political enemies” and to launch “a coup” against President Donald Trump, Miller added.
Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, has died by suicide, her family said Friday.
Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living for several years. Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein and his enablers. Other Epstein abuse survivors later credited her with giving them the courage to speak out. She also provided critical information to law enforcement that contributed to the investigation into and later the conviction of Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as other investigations by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Not a day seems to go by without some activist lower court judge issuing an overreaching injunction blocking part of President Trump’s agenda.
Throughout Wednesday and Thursday alone, judges across multiple venues handed down decrees barring numerous executive actions taken by the president since returning to office. From DEI to election policy, these cases are but a few of the more than 170 lawsuits Democrats and left-wing political actors have filed to sabotage Trump and the 77 million Americans who voted for him.
Despite this clear effort to destroy American democracy via a judicial coup, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) seems to have no interest in stopping it
Longtime Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang received applause and laughter from The View co-hosts and the show’s audience after he called Vice President JD Vance “a pope killer.”
Co-host Sara Haines asked Yang playing Vance on the NBC sketch comedy show. “I just thought there would be better people for it,” Yang said. “It was my impostor syndrome. I was like, there are better people for this. I worked with an accent coach, I had to get it between Ohio and Appalachia with the accent. It’s hard, it’s very subtle!”
Whoopi Goldberg told Yang his Vance portrayal “was funny as hell.”
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) is calling for an “uprising” in the streets of the United States until President Donald Trump stops his agenda of increased interior immigration enforcement.
This week, Wilson joined other House Democrats in touring the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Krome Detention Center, which holds criminal illegal aliens while they await their deportations from the U.S. Following the tour, Wilson held a press conference where she told voters to call the offices of congressional Republicans and “threaten” them. She also called for an “uprising” in the streets until the Trump administration stops arresting and deporting illegal aliens.
Kennedy Center events scheduled for LGBTQ+
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Washington— Organizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights for this summer’s World Pride festival in Washington, D.C., amid a shift in priorities and the ousting of leadership at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions.
Multiple artists and producers involved in the center’s Tapestry of Pride schedule, which had been planned for June 5 to 8, told The Associated Press that their events had been quietly canceled or moved to other venues. And in the wake of the cancellations, Washington’s Capital Pride Alliance has disassociated itself from the Kennedy Center.
Dems Lose Their Minds Over Arrests of
Judges, JD Vance Finishes One of Them
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Judges, JD Vance Finishes One of Them
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There have been a couple of very concerning cases involving the arrests of judges for their actions concerning alleged illegal aliens over the past couple of days. First, there was the story of a judge who was allegedly housing an illegal alien gang member in his home. He was banned by the state Supreme Court in New Mexico from ever holding a judicial position again, and federal agents arrested him earlier this week.
Then there was the judge in Wisconsin who the FBI arrested for allegedly obstructing ICE when they came to her court looking for an illegal alien.
Moscow described Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Friday talks with US special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff “constructive and quite useful” — as President Trump’s threat to abandon efforts to end the Ukraine war looms large.
The talks lasted for three hours following Putin’s open-armed welcome of Witkoff, photos show. Witkoff mirrored Putin’s wide grin, greeting him like an old friend.
The two met to hammer out a proposed peace plan to end the bloodshed in Ukraine, but it wasn’t immediately clear Friday if an agreement was reached.
John Maynard Keynes, who should be burning in Hell for his shyster economic theories, is largely responsible for our current looming apocalypse. His theory basically is that only demand, made more real than just wishing for things by creating fiat money and credit, is important, since in his myopic, context-dropping theory, people produce a supply when there is a demand. (That they’d want the money they are paid to be valuable enough to buy someone else’s products he neglects to envision.)
His theory was refuted by F.A. Hayek at the time. But politicians usually ignored the refutations, since they saw a way of expanding their power and budgets
At a recent town hall in Georgia, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) made it clear that he believes President Donald Trump’s actions justify impeachment, even as Trump remains widely popular in the state Ossoff represents. The exchange took place during a tense back-and-forth with an unhinged Karen who demanded that Ossoff do more to remove Trump from office.
The woman, sounding like she was auditioning to be a co-host of "The View," railed against what she called “authoritative rule” and demanded drastic action. “I will not live in an authoritative country, and neither will any of these people,” she shouted. “He needs to be impeached. I will not live like this…
Hating on Jews is all the rage
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Young people are slaves to fashion. (That’s one vice I’ve never been accused of, even when I was young.)
You name it – mustaches, bell-bottom jeans, Barack Obama, hula hoops, big hair, Burt Reynolds, electric cars, transexuals, solar panels, line-dancing to country music, etc., etc., etc.
Someday, there may be a fashion convergence on Netflix where we have a mustachioed Barack Obama, sporting big hair and bell-bottomed jeans, line-dancing to country music with a transexual Burt Reynolds playing with a hula hoop as they both get run over by a Tesla fired by a solar panel.
Meanwhile, we have antisemitism.
Revealing courtroom sign erected by judge
Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for 'hiding
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Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for 'hiding
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A Milwaukee judge arrested for allegedly hiding an undocumented migrant from ICE has a sign on her courtroom offering Zoom hearings to those who 'felt unsafe' coming to court.
'If any attorney, witness coordinator, or other court official knows or believes that a person feels unsafe coming to the courthouse to courtroom 615, please notify the branch 31 clerk to request court appearance via ZOOM,' reads the sign on County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan's door.
It's not uncommon for judges to offer Zoom hearings for victims of violent crimes who fear facing their aggressors. But the sign is circulating online following Dugan's arrest Friday, which has sent waves across the political spectrum.
Mexico is calling on broadcasters to ban a series of Department of Homeland Security ads that feature Secretary Kristi Noem dissuading migrants from illegally crossing the border into the United States.
The ads, which aired during a Mexican soccer game, showed men being put in handcuffs and placed in police cars and migrants crossing the dangerous Rio Grande and scaling the border wall.
“If you are considering entering America illegally, don’t even think about it,” Noem said in the ad. “If you come to our country and you break our laws, we will hunt you down. Criminals are not welcome.”
Following the ad’s airing, a Mexican government agency released a statement
President Trump and first lady Melania will likely have a third-row seat to Pope Francis’ funeral on Saturday, sandwiched between African dignitaries — and far away from Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky.
World leaders are expected to sit in alphabetical order according to the name of their country in French, in line with Vatican protocol that also dictated Pope John Paul II’s funeral in 2005. That puts the delegation from the US — which translates to États-Unis — after Ethiopia and before Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland.
Front row to the papal service, which begins Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, will be powerful archbishops, bishops and cardinals.
George Santos was weeping “crocodile tears” at his sentencing, a Navy veteran who previously accused the lyin’ ex-pol of stealing thousands meant for his sick dog claimed on Friday.
Disabled, formerly homeless vet Richard Osthoff showed up to federal court in Central Islip to see his nemesis get hit with a hefty prison sentence — even after he turned on the water works for the judge.
“That wasn’t real. He’s not remorseful. He’s crying because he knows that he’s getting bitten on the a-- and he’s gotta go away now,” Osthoff said, adding bitterly, “Have fun, George.”
Osthoff – who claimed Santos helped him launch a GoFundMe to help his dog
The closure of two schools founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan has left the inner city families they were designed to help questioning how their children will achieve an education.
The New York Times reports that in a surprise announcement this week, The Primary School, a tuition-free educational institution founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, revealed that it would be closing its doors in the summer of 2026. The school, located in East Palo Alto, California, was established in 2016 with the mission of serving children from low-income families by providing them with access to education, health care, and social workers under one roof.
The state of Washington, which does not officially recognize Easter or Yom Kippur as state holidays, became the first state in the nation to recognize the two Islamic holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as unpaid state-recognized holidays when Democrat Governor Bob Ferguson signed the legislation into law this month.
“Senate Bill 5106, sponsored by Sen. Yasmin Trudeau (D-Tacoma), adds both Eid holidays to a list of 20 other state holidays. Rep. Osman Salahuddin (D-Redmond) sponsored the companion bill,” Ferguson’s website stated. “The new law does not establish Eid holidays as paid holidays, but rather adds them to the state’s list of recognized observances,
New report exposes how government program
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A new transparency report looking at a popular multibillion-dollar program in the Department of Labor has found a meager success rate, setting the stage for possible cuts amid the Trump administration's push to slash waste.
The Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration has released a detailed report investigating the financial performance and efficiency of the Jobs Corps Program, a federally funded residential career training and education program popular with unions and designed for eligible low-income young adults aged 16-24.
The report, which analyzed 124 job centers, looked into the definitions of what constitutes "graduating" from the program and found that the average graduation rate ranges from 32% to 38%,
JUST IN: President Trump Pardons Nevada
Judge Michele Fiore 24 Hours After The
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Judge Michele Fiore 24 Hours After The
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On Wednesday, The Gateway Pundit shared this article from JoeHoft.com about how an Obama Judge denied Nevada Judge Michele Fiore a new trial. Fiori was targeted because of her actions during the Bundy Ranch Standoff years ago. On Thursday, Judge Fiore was pardoned by President Trump[Snip]Here is Judge Fiore's pardon:[Snip]PURSUANT TO MY POWERS UNDER ARTICLE II, SECTION 2, CLAUSE 1, OF THE CONSTITUTION, HAVE GRANTED UNTO THE INDIVIDUAL NAMED BELOW A FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON For those offenses against the United States individually enumerated and set before me for my consideration: United States v. Fiore, 2:24-cr-155 MICHELE FIORE
California floats plan to allow homeless
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A new bill in the Golden State would allow homeless community college and state university students to sleep in their cars during the blue state's housing crisis.
A Public Policy Institute of California report found California has among the lowest homeownership rates and the most expensive housing in the U.S., with rent about 50% higher than the national median.
The California bill seeks to provide a short-term solution to the state's decades-long housing strife.
Assemblymember Corey Jackson, a progressive California Democrat with a doctorate in social work, proposed a bill in March that would require the chancellors of the California state universities and the governing board of each community college
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem revealed in a podcast this week how her purse was snatched at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., describing it as "professionally done."
The purse was taken Sunday by a White man wearing a mask, and the bag contained $3,000 in cash as well as personal documents including her passport, keys, driver's license and a DHS badge, an agency spokesperson confirmed.
"It was kind of shocking, actually, because it was sitting right by my feet. I actually felt my purse, he hooked it with his foot and drug it a few steps away and dropped a coat over it and took it,"
Staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are building a master database to speed-up immigration enforcement and deportations by combining sensitive data from across the federal government, multiple sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.
The goal is to create a massive repository of data pulled from various agencies, according to sources familiar with the project who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to talk about it. The administration has previously sought to centralize information from a number of agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and Health and Human Services, among others.
Palantir, a Silicon Valley data-analytics company co-founded by a Musk ally
Former President Joe Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, will attend Pope Francis‘s funeral this weekend in Rome.
“President Biden and Dr. Biden will attend Pope Francis’s funeral,” a Biden spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Examiner.
Biden did not attend the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2023, which occurred during his presidency. Benedict served as pope from 2005 through 2013, when he took the unusual step of becoming pope emeritus at 85.
Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush will not attend the funeral.
Celebrity chef Jose Andres says immigration
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“Immigration is not a problem for America to solve,” Andres told ABC News’s The View. “It’s an opportunity for America to seize. Actually, we should be celebrating because unemployment has been very low. This is good news.”
“Restaurant industry has a hard time finding workers, so we can keep opening restaurants and moving the economy forward, in urban America and rural America.”
More than restaurants, farmers are struggling to find people who can take care of the land, and immigrants play a “super important role,” according to Andres.
“Who do you think works the golf courses, taking care of the grass?” he asked.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday that will enable the government to fire probationary employees more easily.
Instead of automatically gaining full status in one or two years, workers can only do so if their managers sign off on their performance.
“The American people deserve a Federal workforce that is high-quality, efficient, dedicated to the public interest, and no larger than necessary,” Trump wrote in the order. “The Government Accountability Office has documented, however, that agencies have not been using probationary and trial periods as effectively as they could to remove appointees whose continued employment is not in the public interest.”
Procter & Gamble and other prominent corporations fund a "racial justice" group whose leader, a former Obama White House official, lashed out this week at what he called "white mediocrity" and urged a "woke" army of black youth "to wage war with whiteness."
David Johns, who led President Barack Obama’s White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, made the remarks at an event Tuesday to promote a boycott against Target for rolling back its DEI programs.
Johns is the executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, a black LGBT group that aims to fight "anti-Blackness." The nonprofit lists companies like Airbnb, Sephora, Sony, and Procter & Gamble as sponsors.
President Donald Trump told Time magazine in an interview published Friday that genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping called him to discuss trade negotiations — a day after the Chinese Foreign Ministry claimed any reports of such negotiations were “fake news.”
China and America are embroiled in an ongoing trade conflict that began when President Trump announced a plan to overhaul America’s trade relations with all economic partners. On April 2, Trump unveiled a list of tariffs imposed on nearly every country that exports goods to the United States, including a 34-percent tariff on China. The White House later told reporters that every country on the list except for China
Disgraced former Republican lawmaker George Santos, who was expelled from the US Congress for using stolen donor cash to bankroll a lavish lifestyle, was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday.
Republican Santos, 36, had faced at least two years in prison and a maximum of 22 years after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft for his elaborate grifting while a lawmaker. Judge Joanna Seybert in Federal District Court in Central Islip sentenced Santos to seven years and three months, a courts spokesman told AFP.
He’s headed to the unhappiest place on Earth.
A disgruntled former Disney World employee who hacked into menus at the park’s restaurants to say foods were safe for people with allergies to eat when they weren’t was handed a stiff sentence and a nearly $700,000 fine.
Prosecutors said Michael Scheuer of Winter Garden, Florida, manipulated “allergen information in restaurant menus to indicate that food items were safe for customers with certain allergies, when they were not.”
In another bizarre twist, Scheuer, who investigators said was retaliating against Disney after he was fired for unspecified “misconduct,” changed menu information related to wine regions
Here’s something that will infuriate the left.
Under President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the U.S. military has seen an extraordinary surge in recruitment, reflecting a renewed sense of pride and purpose. Data shared on Fox News' “Fox & Friends” reveals that the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Space Force have far exceeded recruitment goals, driven by the administration’s focus on restoring military strength.
Host Brian Kilmeade highlighted the figures.
"The Army, Air Force, and Marines—you are up 108% in November, 119% in February, 108% after the election, 105% with the Navy, with the Marines up 112%, and 100%. They are through the roof.
Biden Sec Behind $7.5 Billion EV Charging
Station Flop Suddenly Has Thoughts On
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose agency struggled to install electric vehicle (EV) chargers with billions of dollars in three years, criticized the Trump administration’s approach to enhancing government efficiency on Thursday.
Buttigieg argued that the Trump administration’s push to streamline the federal government with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is missing the mark by being too broad and cutting spending that should not be eliminated during an appearance on comedian Andrew Schulz’s podcast. When he was transportation secretary, Buttigieg’s agency had $7.5 billion at its disposal to install EV charging stations around the U.S. from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill, but only managed to complete a few dozen projects.
Political analyst Mark Halperin said on a Friday podcast that he believes numerous left-wing individuals suffer from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” due to unfair media coverage.
Over 35% of Americans have “no trust at all” in the mass media, while just 31% have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence — a record low, according to a Gallup survey. On “The American Compass Podcast,” guest host Drew Holden asked Halperin, who hosts shows on his 2WAY platform featuring Americans who call in, whether the record-low trust resonates with him based on the callers on his shows.
The Trump administration dismantled a major marriage fraud operation that raked in millions of dollars attempting to give immigration benefits to illegal migrants.
Federal immigration authorities uncovered a “sophisticated network of individuals” who recruited, enticed and groomed American citizens into bogus marriages with foreign nationals in order for them to illegally obtain immigration benefits, according to a Friday press announcement by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The major bust marked the Trump administration’s latest efforts to stop illegal migrants from taking advantage of the U.S. immigration system.
“Some marriages are made in heaven. Some are just made up,” USCIS spokesperson Matthew Tragesser told
I guess I am a total jerk, but according to The New York Times, I should be deeply concerned that an illegal alien from Jamaica who came here as an adult, was convicted of kidnapping and who spent most of his time in the United States, was deported back to his home country. (Snip) Apparently, the new standard for being deported is...well, NOBODY should ever get deported. If you think different, then you are a Nazi, or at least Nazi-adjacent.
As is often the case, the headline tells the people who are inclined to have their opinions assigned to them by The New York Times
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo blasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) during a Thursday broadcast, warning Democrats not to get behind her as she tours the country with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — and appears ready to potentially mount a presidential campaign in 2028.
Cuomo, in addition to criticizing Ocasio-Cortez’ thin Congressional resume, referred to the Bronx native as an “80/20 loser” whose only real accomplishments can be measured in social media “likes.”
“AOC has done nothing meaningful in Congress. She’s done it all on social media,” Cuomo began. “And she’s one of your leading names and who’s going to be president?”
Letitia James Lawyers Up, Attempts to
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Dismiss Serial Mortgage Issues as 'Mistakes'
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Letitia James has acknowledged that she is in legal hot water by hiring big-gun criminal defense attorney Abbe David Lowell. (If that name sounds familiar, it's because Lowell was one of Hunter Biden's lawyers during his special counsel probe — which resulted in gun and tax charges for the then-first son.)
To be precise, James herself didn't hire Lowell; her office did. "The attorney general’s office said that Lowell was hired by the attorney general’s office and not retained personally by James," reports the Times Union. Yes, that means taxpayers are footing her legal bills. Neat trick.
Lowell sent a six-page letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has formally terminated the service of every member sitting on the Department of Defense’s advisory committees.
Based on the information available on the website two days ago, the now-defunct panels included several well-known Democrats and Bush-era Republicans.
Janine Davidson (Chair) – Former Under Secretary of the Navy under Obama. A staunch Democrat and longtime proponent of Obama-era military reforms, now steering Pentagon policy advice.
Michèle Flournoy – Held major Pentagon roles under Clinton and Obama; often discussed as a potential Secretary of Defense under Hillary Clinton or Biden.
Colin Kahl – National Security Advisor to then-VP Biden, later Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under Biden. .
Dr. Mehmet Oz, newly sworn in as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has exposed billions of dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse plaguing America’s healthcare safety nets.
Appearing on America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer, Dr. Oz laid out a clear and urgent mission: protect the most vulnerable — not enrich bureaucrats, fraudsters, and corrupt insiders.
“Right now, my main focus, without any question, is to wage a war on fraud, waste, and abuse — because that’s what’s required. All hands on deck,” Dr. Oz said.
Under President Trump’s directive to “love and cherish Medicare and Medicaid,” Dr. Oz has mobilized an aggressive “war room”
Google’s Waymo self-driving robotaxis
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Waymo’s self-driving robotaxis may be available for personal ownership in the future, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said.
The vehicles are currently the only driverless robotaxis that collect fares on rides in the US, operating a fleet of 700 vehicles, with the majority based in San Francisco.
“There is future optionality for personal ownership,” Pichai said during a post-earnings call on Thursday, though he did not provide a timeline or details on the potential sale price.
Waymo’s presence has been growing, completing more than 250,000 fully autonomous paid rides each week, according to Alphabet. The robotaxis are on the road in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Austin, with plans to expand to
California is expected to run out of license plate numbers next year, according to the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
This has prompted the department to prepare the launch of a new series of alphanumeric license plates for the first time. Why It Matters - California's current license plate configuration is running out sooner than expected as there has been a higher than anticipated increase in car sales.
According to the California New Car Dealers Association, 463,114 new vehicles were registered in the state in the first quarter of 2025. This marks a 8.3 percent increase year-on-year.
Democratic Michigan U.S. Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed believes Democrats have an "opportunity" to win back young men, while also focusing on speaking to the pain many voters are feeling throughout society.
The former public health official, who has been endorsed by progressive Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, announced his campaign on April 17, joining an increasingly crowded primary field of Democrats aiming to replace Michigan's outgoing Democratic Senator Gary Peters in 2026. State Senator Mallory McMorrow announced before El-Sayed, and Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan's 11th District threw her hat into the ring on Tuesday. Former Michigan state House Speaker Joe Tate is also expected to run.
I almost - ALMOST - didn't write about this because listening to the whining of these people was so Gott-danged painful, I was near the end of my tether.
But then I remembered two things - pain is best shared, and I have y'all.
YOU WIN!
Actually, though, I think I'm performing some sort of public service by publicizing how intellectually barren the squishy grey brain matter swishing around the voluminous craniums of a fair majority of college types who owe money on their student loans is.
It offers an explanation of why progressives act as they do, for one thing, and why people so readily believe the AOC and Bernie
The left-wing fanatics over at New York Magazine chose to use Earth Day to celebrate the budding legacy of George Soros’s “loyal parasite” son Alex Soros, the crown prince of his empire.
“Alex, 39, is dressed in black leather boots, black pants, and a black turtleneck, a uniform that matches his pallid complexion, intense demeanor, and Ph.D. in European intellectual history,” fan-boyed the magazine’s features writer Simon van Zuylen-Wood in his 7,959-word Earth Day nonsense.
Zuylen-Wood’s item tried to cast the radical extremist as being America’s savior from President Donald Trump, as was exemplified by his headline: “The New Soros: With Trump on the rampage, Alex Soros takes control
A pair of groups, both linked to billionaire George Soros and his son Alex Soros’s network of left-wing organizations, is suing to block President Donald Trump from ridding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of a civil rights office mostly for newly arrived migrants.
In February, Trump ordered the elimination of DHS’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which served mostly migrants and some American citizens.
Under former President Joe Biden, bureaucrats placed at the civil rights office had deep ties to the open borders lobby and the “Abolish ICE” movement, a situation which Breitbart News exposed in 2023.
Now, left-wing legal firm Democracy Forward, representing several non-governmental organizations, including
SNAP Crackdown: Trump Ag Secretary Ensures
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Under Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, the USDA has issued guidance to state agencies to strengthen SNAP eligibility verification and ensure illegal immigrants do not receive federal benefits.
The move seeks to align the department with President Trump's executive order seeking to end taxpayer subsidization of the open borders crisis.
“President Trump has made it clear that American taxpayers will no longer subsidize illegal aliens,” Secretary Rollins said in a statement Thursday. “We are stewards of taxpayer dollars, and it is our duty to ensure states confirm the identity and verify the immigration status of SNAP applicants."
A woke California PhD student is going viral online after declining a coveted NASA internship she spent “years” seeking — and she’s blaming “the current administration” for her shocking decision.
Daniela Lucas, a 26-year-old bioengineering student at UC San Diego, recently uploaded a TikTok video showing her dramatically selecting “Decline Offer” for an internship in NASA’s Human Health and Performance program.
“No one tells you how hard it is to reject an offer from your dream internship at NASA because of the current administration,” Lucas, 26, wrote over the video.
“I worked years to receive this letter, just to have to decline,” she added, including a crying face and devil emoji.
Former New York lawmaker George Santos sobbed as he was sentenced to prison for spinning a web of lies that eventually saw him steal identities and commit fraud.
He was sentenced on Friday to 87 months in prison, over seven years, with an additional two years of supervised release.
'Where is your remorse? U.S. District Court Judge Joanna Seybert asked Santos during the Friday sentencing. 'Where do I see it?'
With the disgraced lawmaker, the judge said, 'it’s always someone else’s fault.'
Santos, 36, pleaded guilty in August 2024 to committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
New Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said that Damascus seeks to normalize ties with Israel, US Congressman Cory Mills told Bloomberg on Thursday after a meeting with him last week in Syria.
Mills said he held talks with Sharaa about the conditions for removing US-imposed economic sanctions, as well as the possibility of peace with Israel, according to the report.
Sharaa told Mills during their meeting that Syria is interested “under the right conditions” in joining the Abraham Accords — the series of normalization agreements that US President Donald Trump’s previous administration negotiated between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
A Wisconsin Democratic judge has been arrested for allegedly hiding a violent undocumented migrant in a jury deliberation room to stop ICE from taking him into custody.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of obstructing the arrest of Eduardo Flores Ruiz, 30, on April 18.
Ruiz, who is from Mexico, had been charged with battery for allegedly punching someone 30 times in the face after they complained about his loud music.
When ICE agents showed up to arrest him, Dugan, the government claims, hid him.
She was taken into custody Friday at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.
Key players in the booming marijuana business have been pushing the White House to consider loosening up federal laws that they believe have stymied the industry’s growth domestically – and have helped illegal cartels meet the pot demands of average Americans, On The Money has learned.
The basic problem Pot Inc. faces in the US is banking. Sale of weed and its various forms like gummies and even pot-laced soft drinks is estimated at between $40 billion and $60 billion, depending on what stoner source you’re quoting. It’s fully illegal in just a handful of states and is decriminalized or allowed for medical use in all the others.
Democratic Rep. Adam Smith of Washington admitted Thursday evening that the Biden administration failed to secure the border and that changes to asylum laws were needed.
The Supreme Court temporarily halted the Trump administration’s efforts to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) early Saturday, saying those who were slated for deportation had a right to challenge their removal. Smith claimed during an interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation the big problem was a failure to “compromise” in Congress.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is reportedly considering a run for Senate in 2026, but only if Governor Brian Kemp does not enter the race.
Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff currently holds the seat Greene is said to be eying.
The Daily Caller, citing two unnamed sources, reports that Greene believes she would “crush” the Republican primary if Kemp does not enter the race. Kemp is widely considered a favorite to win and clear the field if he chooses.
The Daily Caller reports:
Greene’s potential candidacy for incumbent Democratic Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff’s seat would put the conservative congresswoman at the center of one of the most closely watched races of 2026.
Medi-Cal, the State of California’s version of Medicaid, has been spending on extraneous programs such as housing while running up a deficit so extreme that the state has had to borrow over $6 billion to save it.
As Breitbart News reported last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration had to seek $6 billion in loans to keep the program from collapsing, partly due to the cost of covering illegal aliens, which he did last year.
Now, CalMatters.org reveals that the federal government is cracking down on Medi-Cal and other Medicaid providers that have been using money to support “rent assistance” and “medically tailored meals”
A Democratic congresswoman urged Americans to hit the streets, flood Republican lawmakers with “threatening” calls, and cause an “uprising” over the conditions at a Florida ICE detention center — all while clad in a full pink suit and flower-adorned cowboy hat.
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) toured Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Krome Detention Center in Miami on Thursday before holding a news conference on Instagram Live to tell reporters that federal authorities were planning to erect a “tent city” to expand the number of detainees at the facility.
Wilson said she blamed the Laken Riley Act, the bill signed by President Trump in January that required the detention of illegal
A veteran Wisconsin judge was arrested Friday for allegedly helping a Mexican illegal migrant evade ICE agents in her courtroom, the head of the FBI announced.
Judge Hannah Dugan, who has been on the Milwaukee County bench for nearly a decade, was nabbed on an obstruction charge after she was accused of interfering in Eduardo Flores Ruiz’s arrest last week.
“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in an X post.
“Thankfully our agents chased down the
A Chinese-owned and operated factory complex in Ohio illegally imported workers from China, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio.
Last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio released a statement saying that federal officials had seized $126 million in assets related to an investigation into illegal staffing and money laundering.
“It is alleged that many of the workers were illegally smuggled into the United States, primarily through Mexico, and encouraged to travel to the Dayton area to be employed by one of the target entities and serve as a workforce at the various factories,”
More than two-thirds of National Guard and Reserve troops are classified as overweight or obese, a growing health crisis that could undermine military readiness and weaken America’s national security posture, according to a new report from the American Security Project (ASP).
“With the diminished size of the [active-duty] force and increasing demands on the National Guard and reserves, service members separated due to obesity and its comorbidities are vital personnel the Armed Forces cannot afford to lose,” the study’s authors warned.
The report, released this week, underscores the urgent need for updated health policies specifically tailored to the part-time military population.
Virginia Vehicle Property Tax Is Highest
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Virginians pay an average of $1,139 in annual property taxes just to own a car — the highest in the nation. In the 2025 legislative session, Republicans proposed providing car tax relief to low-income families, but Democrats killed the bill — just as they’ve repeatedly killed Republican bills that would provide tax relief for Virginians.
Democrat Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell called Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) proposal for car tax relief “a zombie gimmick that got rejected in the 90s.”
Democrats seem to forget the history of the issue, which heavily favors Republicans. In 1997, Jim Gilmore (R) was elected governor on a platform of getting rid of the car tax.
The Michigan Secretary of State’s review of non-citizens on state voter rolls only included those with driver’s licenses, excluding any who registered to vote without a driver’s license or another form of identification, raising concerns about more non-citizens being on the voter rolls than previously disclosed.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) announced earlier this month that 15 non-citizens had voted in the November election, after her office conducted a review of the state voter rolls.
However, the review was limited in its scope, after Benson’s team explained to her how long it would take to identify active voters without ID. A Michigan election integrity advocate warned
Former New York GOP Rep. George Santos faces up to 87 months in prison ahead of his sentencing in federal court Friday in connection with his wire fraud and identity theft case.
The 36-year-old former representative served in Congress for close to a year before being ousted in 2023 by his House colleagues. Santos had not yet been convicted of a crime at that point, but had been indicted on 23 counts related to wire fraud, identity theft, falsification of records, credit card fraud and other charges.
Santos pleaded guilty to federal fraud and identity theft charges in August as part of a plea deal. He admitted to deceiving donors
Turns out that when you import the third world, you get all that comes with it - including people planning anti-American terror attacks. The authorities in Mankato, Minnesota, of all places, have apprehended one Mohamed Adan Mohamed after he attempted to steal merchandise from a gun store and posted his plans on social media.
The Blue Earth County Attorney’s Office has filed felony charges against Mohamed Adan Mohamed after he allegedly stole $2,150 worth of firearm magazines and made a threatening, anti-American post on social media.
According to the criminal complaint, Mohamed entered a Mankato store last week wearing a COVID mask, gloves, a green stocking cap, and a heavy winter coat.
Unilever lays down the law after woke
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Ben & Jerry’s founders try to buy back
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Unilever on Thursday said the conglomerate has no intention of selling Ben & Jerry’s — despite a bid by the founders of the popular ice cream brand to buy back the company.
Starting July 1, Unilever’s ice cream brands will be spun off and renamed the Magnum Ice Cream Company, a nod to the division’s other popular company. The spin-off will be listed in the Netherlands as a separate company.
“The separation and listing of ice cream is the option that we consider maximizes shareholder value, that has not changed,” Unilever CEO Fernando Fernandez said on a media call, according to Bloomberg.
Apple is reportedly planning to shift most production of the iPhones it sells in the US to factories in India by the end of 2026 – as CEO Tim Cook’s firm looks to dodge massive tariffs on Chinese imports.
While the Cupertino, Calif.-based firm had already added more manufacturing capacity in India in recent years, it has accelerated those plans as US-China trade relations have soured. That’s despite the fact that manufacturing costs can be as much as 10% higher in India.
Apple is holding “urgent talks” with key manufacturing partners Foxconn and Tata to facilitate its India plans, Reuters reported. The two firms have three total factories in
The Camping World CEO claims he was forced to close down one of his North Carolina stores as he defied local politicians over the massive American flags flying over the locations.
Marcus Lemonis made the shocking revelation that one of the national RV dealerships in Greenville, NC, was shuttered on April 18.
Lemonis says he was forced to shut down operations at the smaller of the two locations after the city council sued him and the company for violating city ordinance with the larger-than-life flags, and continues to impose fines.
“We think the ordinance is wrong,” Lemonis told local radio station WTIB, according to WITN. ” I think it’s also wrong council
The press, as it is wont to do, is trying to trivialize one candidate’s life in public service that goes back to Ronald Reagan and all the way to Gov. George Allen here in Virginia by repeatedly calling the new presumptive GOP lieutenant gubernatorial nominee “Radio Show Host” John Reid.
It’s what “Better Call Saul” Alinsky famously said to do in his leftist manifesto, “Rules for Radicals”: Marginalize, trivialize, and isolate your opposition from his allies so that you can more easily take him down.
So, it’s completely understandable if you just think Reid’s resume solely consists of being a radio show host as he becomes
JD Vance Serves Beer To Service Members
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Vice President JD Vance poured a few beers for American service members at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, speaking to troops briefly while his plane refueled during his return trip back to the United States.
The vice president has seen a busy week beginning with Easter Sunday at the Vatican, where he briefly met with the late Pope Francis just hours before the pontiff died of a stroke, followed by a trip to India with Second Lady Usha Vance and their three children.
Vance, according to the pool report, commented on the hectic nature of his schedule as he spoke to the crowd, saying
‘Lawlessness’: Washington Dem Gov
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Signs Bill Giving Racial Preference In
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The Democrat governor of Washington state signed a bill this week that gave preference to “black, indigenous, and people of color” for forgivable loans, a proposal called “lawlessness” by a United States senator.
The bill, HB 1696, states:
As part of the covenant homeownership program, the department shall contract with the commission to design, develop, implement and evaluate one or more special purpose credit programs to reduce racial disparities in ownership in the state by providing down payment and closing cost assistance… The contract must authorize the commission to use up to
‘Financial and Ethical Misconduct’
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Allegations Against Davos Founder Klaus
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Manipulating research, using company funds to pay for private, in-room massages, asking junior staff to withdraw thousands of dollars for personal use, demanding senior management deliver a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
These are just some of the lurid allegations that pushed the World Economic Forum (WEF) to launch an investigation into its now departed founder, Klaus Schwab, after anonymous whistleblowers aired their concerns about the German octogenarian.
The assertions – reportedly sent last week in a letter to the WEF, which organises the annual elite gathering of globalist devotees at Davos in Switzerland – accuse Schwab and his wife, Hilde, of financial and ethical misconduct,
Any time a public figure dies, unless he or she was notoriously evil, there is a flurry of heartwarming human interest stories about what the departed person was like, replete with anecdotes and information that was previously little known. Pope Francis is no exception, and one of the things we have learned about him was that he had a great love for music.
A disgraced US cardinal accused of covering up a clerical child sex abuse scandal was chosen to help seal Pope Francis’ casket and entomb his remains for his burial.
Cardinal Roger Mahony, 89, the retired Archbishop of Los Angeles, is one of nine cardinals and dozens of other clergymen who will play a ceremonial role in closing the late pope’s coffin Friday ahead of the pontiff’s funeral Saturday morning in St. Peter’s Square, the Vatican announced Wednesday.
Mahony, who was stripped of his administrative and public duties in January 2013, will also help oversee the pope’s interment at Rome’s Basilica of Saint Mary Major following the funeral.
A senior Russian military general was killed Friday in a fiery car explosion in Moscow.
Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the main operations directorate of the Russian armed forces, died when the vehicle blew up in the town of Balashikha, Russian media reported.
The bomb had been planted in a parked car and was detonated remotely as the officer, who lived nearby, walked past, law enforcement sources said. (Photo) Footage captured a vehicle entirely engulfed in flames near an apartment building just moments after the explosion.
Where do we go when the judges that make up the judicial branch are the ones subverting the law? The branches of our government, as they currently stand, are not coequal. The judiciary has gone off the rails, and it’s time for President Trump to teach them a lesson. In this instance, a constitutional crisis is exactly what I voted for. I’m not talking about packing the court or lawlessness across the country, I’m talking about an out-of-control activist judiciary that is working in tandem to completely subvert the authority of the executive branch regarding each individual part of President Trump’s agenda, undermining the clear authority
Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were taken into custody Thursday after federal agents raided their Las Cruces home.
The two face charges of evidence tampering amid allegations they harbored Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, an alleged illegal alien who is also believed to be a member of Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang.
"Under President Trump, we have arrested over 150,000 aliens—including more than 600 members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang," said Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem. "If you are here illegally and break the law, we will hunt you down, arrest you and lock you up. That's a promise."
The Trump fight to clean up higher ed continues — now the president has issued an executive order demanding 100% transparency about foreign sources of funding for US schools.
Federal law already requires that schools report any foreign funding they receive.
But under Joe Biden, the administration broke with precedent and stopped releasing the donor names to the public and instead just listed the place of origin.
The result?
Nearly a billion dollars flowed in during his administration from shady offshore tax havens, often concealing the true national source of the funding.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that President Donald Trump’s actions against Harvard University are lawless, reckless, and vicious.
Jansing said, “As you know, Harvard University is suing the Trump Administration for freezing billions in funding to the school after it rejected a list of the administration’s demands. Is Harvard doing the right thing?
Schumer said, “Yes. In fact, today, a group of Jewish senators and myself sent a letter to the administration telling them that, look, going against anti-semitism is important, but what they’ve done goes way beyond that.
Last week, the New York Times discovered that President Donald Trump was serious when he promised to liberate the economy from the oppressive weight of the regulatory state, describing it as “deregulation on a mass scale.”
Cornell’s Donald Kenkel, who was chief economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in the first Trump administration, told the Times that “It’s going on much more quietly than some of the other fireworks we’re seeing, but it will have great impact.”
Great, indeed. In both senses of the word.
PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) was greeted to the sound of booing during her fourth town hall with hundreds of her constituents in Vancouver Thursday night. The second-term congresswoman received tough feedback from those who voted for her, facing major backlash for her vote in support of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, among other things. Most people at the town hall started booing immediately after Gluesenkamp Perez stepped onto the stage. The congresswoman was not able to get many words in throughout the entire hour-long event. Many people at the event who spoke with KOIN
King Abdullah and the Islamists
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A remarkable situation is fast developing in which the West is becoming more Islamist — the term for Islamic holy war extremism — than the Arab Muslim world itself.
This week, Jordan banned the extremist Muslim Brotherhood. All Brotherhood offices there have been closed, and its assets will be confiscated, shortly after 16 of its members were arrested in an alleged armed plot against the kingdom.
The authorities found weapons and explosives being stored in residential areas and transported across Jordan; secret missile-manufacturing facilities that could have produced up to 250 short-range missiles; and “training and recruitment operations” linked to the group.
Top Democrat in the Florida state Senate
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says his party is 'dead' and registers
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Florida state Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo announced Thursday that he is leaving the Democratic Party.
“Here’s the issue, the Democratic Party in Florida is dead,” Pizzo said in remarks on the Senate floor.
He said he had sent in a voter registration form to change his party affiliation to “no party affiliation."Pizzo said the state's political system resembled "the infighting, power struggles, corruption and decline of civic virtue that pervaded and eventually ushered in the fall of Rome."
"So, too, are we players, or perhaps props, in the mess that is bottom partisanship,” Pizzo said.
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order titled "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy." The basic point of this is to undermine what is known as disparate-impact theory. Here's how the executive order describes it.
A bedrock principle of the United States is that all citizens are treated equally under the law. This principle guarantees equality of opportunity, not equal outcomes. It promises that people are treated as individuals, not components of a particular race or group. It encourages meritocracy and a colorblind society, not race- or sex-based favoritism. Adherence to this principle is essential to creating opportunity, encouraging achievement, and sustaining the American Dream.
What Is Democratic Legality?
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Since 2021, the left has waged a veritable war against the American legal system in a variety of ways.
One serial target of Democrats and the Left has been the Supreme Court. In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke to an angry throng of pro-abortion protestors assembled at the very doors of the court chambers.
He threatened two of the justices, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, by name. Schumer yelled to the volatile crowd that the justices' views would make them "reap the whirlwind," and the two would not know what "hit" them.