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Top Democrats Demand Investigation Into DeJoy’s Secret Deal With Musk To Gut USPS– www.politicususa.com

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Top Democrats Demand Investigation Into DeJoy’s Secret Deal With Musk To Gut USPS– www.politicususa.com
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House Democrats who oversee the USPS are concerned that the Trump administration is maneuvering to get around the law and gut the United Postal Service.

In a letter to House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY), twenty House Democrats led by Oversight Committee ranking member Gerry Connolly (D-VA) wrote:

We write to request that you convene an immediate hearing on the Trump Administration’s plans for the United States Postal Service (USPS). Since the Committee’s most recent hearing on the USPS, the Trump Administration has reportedly explored privatizing the USPS, firing the bipartisan Postal Board of Governors, merging the USPS into the Department of Commerce, and is now subjecting the USPS, America’s most trusted federal institution, to the chainsaw approach of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This broad assault on the independence of the USPS demands Congressional oversight, especially from the Committee with jurisdiction over the USPS.

On December 14, 2024, the Washington Post reported that President Trump was considering actions to privatize the USPS and push thousands of federal service employees out of their jobs in favor of a broad privatization of the agency’s essential services. Two months later, further reporting noted that President Trump was preparing plans to fire the bipartisan Postal Board of Governors and “merge” the Postal Service into the Commerce Department, “potentially throwing the 250-year-old mail provider and trillions of dollars of e-commerce transactions into turmoil.”

Nothing Can Erase Corporate Media’s Complicity In Covid Scandal– thefederalist.com

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Nothing Can Erase Corporate Media’s Complicity In Covid Scandal– thefederalist.com
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The New York Times turned to a popular strategy from the propaganda press playbook this week when it published what it wanted Americans to believe was a mea culpa declaring, “We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives.”

There is no doubt that the chaos and tyranny that went down in 2020 “changed our lives.” People were denied the ability to grieve their dead, told not to celebrate holidays with family and friends, masked to give birth without the support of a spouse, ripped out of classrooms to stare at a screen, and segregated from society based on their jab status.

Trump must defy rogue judges or risk a failed presidency– www.theblaze.com

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Trump must defy rogue judges or risk a failed presidency– www.theblaze.com
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If a federal judge told President Trump to deliver a specifically curated speech and then pull down his pants on live television, should he comply? If he refused, would that trigger a “constitutional crisis”? If you pay attention to the left, the answer might very well be “yes”!

The only “constitutional crisis” we face is the erroneous idea that the judiciary is atop the food chain rather than on equal footing with the other two branches of government. If Trump hopes to succeed this time around, he had better remind the judiciary of its impotence to enforce unconstitutional edicts.

Granting courts ultimate veto power over public policy creates a judicial supremacy the Founders never intended.

Federal judges have repeatedly attempted to restrict Trump’s presidential authority with overreaching demands. They have ordered the administration to fund private foreign aid organizations, reinstate specific personnel, and publish designated information on government websites. In one case, a judge even directed the secretary of defense to retract a statement on the Pentagon’s policy regarding transgender troops. And over the weekend, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg attempted to block the deportation of violent gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.

Pope Francis shows intent to stay in office by signing off on three-year reform plan– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Pope Francis shows intent to stay in office by signing off on three-year reform plan– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Pope Francis has approved a three-year extension to the Catholic Church’s reform process, showing his determination to continue leading despite spending a month in hospital battling pneumonia.
The Vatican announced that the 88-year-old pontiff signed off on the decision from Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where he has been receiving treatment since February 14.
“On 11 March, the Holy Father definitively approved the start of a process of accompaniment and evaluation of the implementation phase by the General Secretariat of the Synod,” the Vatican said.

At least 40 killed as dozens of tornadoes, storms swept the country over the weekend – ABC News– news.google.com

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At least 40 killed as dozens of tornadoes, storms swept the country over the weekend – ABC News– news.google.com
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  1. At least 40 killed as dozens of tornadoes, storms swept the country over the weekend  ABC News
  2. 42 dead as recovery operations begin in wake of monster storm that spawned violent tornadoes, dust storms  Fox Weather
  3. Cleanup under way after massive storm barreled across at least eight US states  The Guardian US
  4. Residents survey the aftermath of deadly weekend storms across the southern U.S.  NPR
  5. EF-1 tornado confirmed in Paulding County during overnight storm  FOX 5 Atlanta

Department of Veterans Affairs Ends Transgender and Intersex Care Directives – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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Department of Veterans Affairs Ends Transgender and Intersex Care Directives – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com
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On Monday, citing Donald Trump’s “Defending Women” executive order, the federal Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it would “phase out treatment for gender dysphoria” by discontinuing hormone replacement therapy for patients not already in treatment.

The agency provides health care and benefits for about nine million veterans, tens of thousands of whom—by the VA’s estimate—identify as trans. Its press release says that the agency’s LGBTQ+ veteran care coordinators, who run its LGBTQ Health Program, would not be affected by the changes. But Pete Hegseth, Trump’s secretary of defense, has been vocal about his ire toward the LGBTQ community and his support for cutting VA health care.

Although the VA has never provided gender-affirming surgeries, it has been able to provide letters in support of veterans seeking them. That’s now on the chopping block.

“It’s infuriating,” a medical professional with the agency, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Mother Jones. “To be honest, I don’t understand how it’s allowed—how are they able to tell providers what they can and cannot treat?”

The announcement follows reporting in the Advocate on a Veterans Health Administration memo with similar provisions circulated on March 14, which rescinded the agency’s 2018 directive establishing health care standards for transgender and intersex veterans. In response to subsequent coverage by National Public Radio, VA press secretary Peter Kasperowicz told NPR that there had been no policy change—but by Saturday night, the agency officially published the memo, which showed otherwise.

Pro-life lawyers claim Poland’s new abortion center breaks federal law– www.lifesitenews.com

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Pro-life lawyers claim Poland’s new abortion center breaks federal law– www.lifesitenews.com
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Executive Summary

  • On March 8, activists from the Abortion Dream Team opened the AboTak “abortion clinic” near the Polish Parliament, where Polish law is now set to be openly violated.
  • Women seeking abortions at the “clinic” are expected to receive assistance in obtaining illegal abortions – acts that constitute crimes under Polish law (Article 152 § 2 of the Penal Code).
  • The Ordo Iuris Institute has reported the clinic’s creators to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw for potentially committing a crime.
  • The report names Justyna Wydrzyńska, an abortion activist, as one of the suspects. She is currently on trial in the Warsaw-Praga District Court for a similar offense.
  • Ordo Iuris has also submitted a request to the Warsaw Police Department, seeking information on the extent of police protection offered to the illegal facility.

Judge’s Husband Promotes Lawfare Against Homeschoolers– thefederalist.com

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Judge’s Husband Promotes Lawfare Against Homeschoolers– thefederalist.com
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For too long education experts have failed Wisconsin students. Too often the political left focuses on advancing a progressive narrative instead of simply teaching the basics. Recently, Wisconsin Gov. (and former education superintendent) Tony Evers proposed replacing mothers with “inseminated persons” in state law. Now, Dane County Judge Susan Crawford is running for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Throughout her career she has proudly advanced progressive causes. So it should come as no surprise that her husband, Shawn F. Peters, wrote a controversial book on homeschooling recommending the removal of parents’ right to homeschool their children in Wisconsin by using novel litigation tactics.

Wisconsin voters deserve to know whether Judge Crawford supports her husband’s extreme views on homeschooling. Should any litigation come before her that advances her husband’s extreme legal claims, will she be able to objectively consider the arguments? According to Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction statistics, “home-based” education continues to grow in popularity. While only 966 students were homeschooled during the 1984-85 academic year (0.10 percent), during the 2023-24 academic year almost 30,000 students (3.04 percent) benefited from a homeschool environment.

YouTube Discriminates Against Christian Channel– www.lifenews.com

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YouTube Discriminates Against Christian Channel– www.lifenews.com
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Is YouTube discriminating against Christians?

Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is raising the alarm about evidence suggesting the tech giant—which has a long history of censorship—has unfairly treated a Christian family TV station.

“[I]n the case of YouTube TV, concerns have been raised alleging that your company has a policy (secret or otherwise) that discriminates against faith-based programming,”?Carr wrote March 7 to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, and Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube.  (Alphabet owns Google, which owns YouTube.)

Carr says Great American Media, which is helmed by former Hallmark Channel leader Bill Abbott, drew his attention to YouTube TV’s refusal to host the network. Great American Media, which also includes TV star and outspoken Christian Candace Cameron Bure as chief creative officer, focuses on a range of faith-based and family-friendly content.

“A Is for Abortion.” High School Pushes Leftist Agenda on Women’s History Month– www.lifenews.com

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“A Is for Abortion.” High School Pushes Leftist Agenda on Women’s History Month– www.lifenews.com
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America’s public high schools are strange places to find displays of the alphabet. Perhaps with plummeting standardized test scores and a substantial increase in English-as-a-second-language students in sanctuary districts, high school educators feel the need to review kindergarten basics. In Fairfax County, Virginia’s West Springfield High School, located just 17 miles from the White House, school administrators and teachers have decorated the history hallway this month with a special, leftist rendition of the alphabet.

The display, titled “The ABCs to ME,” is decorated with the school’s colors: a blue background lined with an orange border. Featured in the display is a sign that reads, “A is for Abortion” with an image of a coat hanger with a positive pregnancy test.

 

This is an Unborn Baby at 22 Weeks. Its Legal to Kill Him in Most States– www.lifenews.com

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This is an Unborn Baby at 22 Weeks. Its Legal to Kill Him in Most States– www.lifenews.com
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Any story about media coverage of abortion in the United States is ultimately an act of frustration. Name the last time a media representative, particularly in the cable universe, showed a baby delivered at 22 weeks of gestation. Or the last time they noted the recent data that nearly 36% of babies born at 22 weeks will survive and 82% will do so at 25 weeks (reports of even better save rates are emerging). How many media outlets share information and stories about the growing range of conditions that are amenable to treatment and can be cured inside the womb, illustrating the separate personhood and “patienthood” of these little ones? Images and accounts like these should be commonplace today, but on 24-hour-a-day networks like CNN and MSNBC they are nowhere to be seen.

Trump rages ‘every shot fired by Houthis will be treated as fired by IRAN’ in furious threat after US warship attacked– www.thesun.co.uk

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Trump rages ‘every shot fired by Houthis will be treated as fired by IRAN’ in furious threat after US warship attacked– www.thesun.co.uk
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DONALD Trump has threatened to hold Iran accountable for “every shot” the Houthis fire from now – just hours after a US warship was attacked in the Red Sea.

The Houthi rebels – Iran’s major proxy terror group – claimed to have twice attacked the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and its accompanying warships within 24 hours.

Don Lemon Admits Fearmongering Americans About COVID Gave Him Highest Ratings On CNN– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Don Lemon Admits Fearmongering Americans About COVID Gave Him Highest Ratings On CNN– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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According to Don Lemon, the most profitable time of his career was fear-mongering the masses about COVID-19, despite him getting nearly everything wrong. This combined with the mostly peaceful 2020 riots was the highest point of his career.

Presenting the pinnacle of his career:

It turns out, that the vaccine never did what they pretended it would do, as it was never intended to prevent transmission. So while he advocated for you to be shunned from society, he could not have been more wrong if he tried.

ABC, CBS OMIT Deportation of Hezbollah-Sympathetic Doctor– www.newsbusters.org

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ABC, CBS OMIT Deportation of Hezbollah-Sympathetic Doctor– www.newsbusters.org
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The networks spent the better part of last week advocating on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student agitator being processed for denaturalization and deportation due to his activities in material support of Hamas. However, when it came to a Rhode Island doctor who left the country to attend a Hezbollah funeral, ABC and CBS decided to bite their tongues, completely omitting the story from their evening newscasts.

NBC, though, found a bit of time for the story- albeit tucked into their story on deportations of suspected gangbangers and subsequent detention in a Salvadoran supermax:

Trump doubles down on tariffs as stocks sink: ‘not going to bend’– www.cnbc.com

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Trump doubles down on tariffs as stocks sink: ‘not going to bend’– www.cnbc.com
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President Donald Trump on Thursday doubled down on his escalating tariff plans, even as his economic agenda continued to rattle investors and contribute to a weekslong stock market sell-off.

“I’m not going to bend at all,” Trump said when asked about his tariff plans during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Trump specifically said he would not change his mind about enacting sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” on other countries that put up trade barriers to U.S. goods. The White House has said those tariffs are set to take effect April 2.

Trump’s comments came as major stock indexes continued to tumble Thursday, with the S&P 500 falling 10% from its recent highs and entering correction territory.

Canada Launches WTO Complaint On US Steel, Aluminium Tariffs– www.ndtv.com

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Canada Launches WTO Complaint On US Steel, Aluminium Tariffs– www.ndtv.com
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Canada launched a complaint with the World Trade Organization on Thursday over US President Donald Trump’s across-the-board imposition of 25-percent tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.

The steep levies, which came into force on Wednesday, contained no exemptions despite countries’ efforts to avert them.

“Canada has requested WTO dispute consultations with the United States regarding the imposition by the United States of import duties on certain steel and aluminium products from Canada,” the WTO said.

“Canada claims that the measures, which terminate Canada’s exemption from additional duties on certain steel and aluminium products and increase duties on aluminium articles, and which took effect on March 12, are inconsistent with US obligations,” the global trade body said.

Trump threatens to put 200% tariff on French Champagne and other EU spirits– www.cnbc.com

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Trump threatens to put 200% tariff on French Champagne and other EU spirits– www.cnbc.com
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he plans to put a 200% tariff on alcohol from France and other European nations in the latest escalation of global trade tensions.

The U.S. tariff comes after the European Union moved to reinstate an import tax on American whiskey.

“The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky. If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.,” Trump said on Truth Social.

Judge Blocks Trump From Stripping Law Firm That Peddled Russian Collusion Hoax of Its Security Clearances– townhall.com

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Judge Blocks Trump From Stripping Law Firm That Peddled Russian Collusion Hoax of Its Security Clearances– townhall.com
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Katie wrote about this: the security clearances for a slew of bad actors from the deep state got revoked, including those from law firm Perkins Coie, who were one of the prime drivers of the Russian collusion hoax.

“This is an absolute honor to sign. What they’ve done is just terrible. It’s a weaponization, you could say weaponization against a political opponent, and it should never be allowed to happen again,” said President Trump last week when he signed the executive order stripping the firm of its clearance.

With U.S. Aid Cuts No Longer a Threat, Rwanda Bets Big on Soft Power – The New York Times

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With U.S. Aid Cuts No Longer a Threat, Rwanda Bets Big on Soft Power – The New York Times
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Since an armed rebel group backed by Rwandan troops launched a major offensive in the Democratic Republic of Congo, professional cyclists have raced on lush Rwandan hills, John Legend performed a sold-out concert in the capital, Kigali, and entrepreneurs have gathered at a conference center for a financial technology convention.

Rwanda’s role in the war waged by the rebel group M23 has drawn criticism from the United States, China and the United Nations. But so far the strong words have done little to tarnish the country’s status as a premier destination for investors, tourists, athletes and celebrities.

In his first weeks in office, President Trump ended virtually all American foreign aid, cutting off development programs around the world and leaving the United States with one less negotiating tool when responding to conflicts. Now, with Mr. Trump attending to other crises and slashing government spending, experts say Rwanda is betting on its soft power and reputation as a security partner and investment hub in Africa to minimize the backlash to the offensive.

“Rwanda appears to have calculated that in this moment, the pressure will not be coordinated, and that it can weather the storm,” said Murithi Mutiga, the Africa director at the International Crisis Group.