Biden moves to entrench deep state ahead of Trump victory

Biden Moves To Strengthen Bureaucrat Protections As Trump Pledges To Gut Administrative State
The plan from the Biden administration, which Politico reported is almost finished as of Thursday, would make it harder for presidents to remove civil service protections from federal bureaucrats, thus making them more difficult to fire.

New York Senate votes to repeal adultery law
Last month, Democratic Assemblyman Charles Lavine proposed legislation to repeal it, which the assembly overwhelmingly approved.

Democratic senator makes shocking statement about Sotomayor
As activists call for Sotomayor to step down and allow Biden to appoint a younger progressive justice, Sen. Blumenthal suggests she should consider the "larger national and public interest" when deciding her future on the court, a veiled reference to the impact of Justice Ginsburg's death in 2020.

Be Skeptical of that '60 Minutes' Report on Havana Syndrome
CBS has decided that the mysterious ailments — headaches, earaches, etc. — afflicting some American service personnel are perhaps explained by a secretive Russian program to create energy weapons.

How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation
More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs.

Easter cash heist: Burglars steal millions from money storage facility in LA
LAPD is calling it one of the largest heists in L.A. history.

Disney World Moves Forward With ‘Largest Expansion’ In History After Backing Out Of Fight With DeSantis
The governor responded to news on Thursday that Disney was moving forward with its expansion plans by posting on X: “Not quite what the media/left/corporate GOP were predicting last year...”

Florida construction crane segment collapses onto downtown bridge
A construction worker is dead and another two were hospitalized after a section of a crane collapsed onto Fort Lauderdale traffic during rush hour Thursday afternoon.

Black Lives Matter activist on trial for fraud; accused of using George Floyd's death to buy real estate, guns, and luxuries
The activist is accused of "fraudulently utilizing a Black Lives Matter non-profit organization by way of misrepresentations," according to the FBI.

Inmates at New York prison will get to watch eclipse after all
The inmates argued that denying them the right to see the total eclipse would violate their religious rights and that they view it as a religious event.

NYC’s two-time $10M scratch-off winner still spends up to $500 a day on lottery tickets
“He diversifies — buying different types of tickets to find more possibilities of winning.”

Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker pleads not guilty to charges over his Jan. 6 reporting
Baker on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to the four nonviolent misdemeanor charges the Biden Justice Department brought against him in connection with his reporting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Capitol Police chief ducks Blaze Media’s investigation
Chief J. Thomas Manger responded to the House Subcommittee on Oversight’s questions with obfuscations and lawyerly evasions. But our investigation continues.

Trump fraud trial bond drawn into question by New York AG
The $175 million bond in Trump’s civil fraud trial is at risk after the New York attorney general’s office questioned the qualifications of the California-based company that posted it.

Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff peddles $5K knit portraits at NYC cannabis shop
Look out, Hunter Biden — there’s another White House "con-nected" artist hitting New York’s art scene.

Jill Biden gets testy when CBS anchor confronts her over Joe's dismal polling
"But when these polls — like the Wall Street Journal one — land in the White House, and [Biden's] losing in all the battleground states ..." CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil said before Jill cut him off.

Zito: Pennsylvania Democrats lose ground as working-class voters shift to GOP
Longtime Democratic strongholds in Pennsylvania's former coal country are turning red, driven by blue-collar voters increasingly alienated by the Democratic Party's embrace of elites and progressive social issues.

Biden up by 10 points in Pennsylvania survey
The Franklin & Marshall College poll found Biden garnered support from 48% of voters surveyed, compared to Trump’s 38%.

Nebraska Proposal Could Thwart Biden’s Easiest Path To Victory — If Republicans Pass It In Time
A proposal known as LB 764 would repeal a 1991 state law that splits the state’s five Electoral College votes based on how each candidate performs in the state’s three congressional districts.

NY Times: Inside a GOP Plan to Encourage Early Voting Despite Trump’s Attacks
Donald Trump’s falsehoods about mail voting have created a strategic disadvantage for Republicans, who must rely on Election Day turnout. The group Turning Point Action has a $100 million plan to change voters’ habits.

Flashback: Trump records video encouraging Republicans to vote early
Trump offered his strongest support yet for early voting in a roughly 40-second video shared by the RNC.

Axios deep dive: Trump's Spotify playlist
Trump thinks, talks, and acts like no other politician in our lifetime. There's a Rosetta stone that demystifies how his mind works, his closest friends tell us: his Mar-a-Lago Spotify playlist.

DC Loves Cornyn’s Bid To Replace McConnell. Texans? Not So Much
Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn seems to enjoy wide support among Washington’s movers and shakers for a potential Senate leader bid, but his home state of Texas might have the last word.

Key fed official raises possibility that interest rates won’t be cut in 2024
Kashkari’s remarks sent shudders through the markets, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging more than 500 points on Thursday afternoon and the tech-heavy Nasdaq losing about 1.4% of its total value.

How Far $100 Goes at the Grocery Store After Five Years of Food Inflation
From beef to mayo, consumers continue to spend more to buy less.

Brent settles above $90 for first time since October on geopolitical tension
Contracts closed on Thursday at their highest levels since October, having received support in recent days from the heightened geopolitical tensions and potential supply risks.

Gavin Newsom's Restaurant Offers $16 Hourly Wage to Employee
Thankfully for Gavin and his friends, the restaurant appears not to meet the threshold for the new $20 minimum wage.

House leaders demand answers from Mayorkas on terrorists being released into US
This fiscal year, as of March 22, 210 known or suspected terrorists were apprehended attempting to illegally enter the U.S., according to CBP data.

COVID relief money used to fund services for illegal aliens in Democrat-run city
The taxpayer money was "intended to help residents recover from the pandemic," the IRG noted. Instead, Madison rerouted some of the money to organizations providing services to illegal aliens.

Bird-flu pandemic could be ‘100 times worse’ than COVID, scientists warn
A bird-flu pandemic may be on the horizon after a rare human case was discovered in Texas, experts have warned.

Ohio reports first avian-flu outbreak among dairy herd
On Thursday, it confirmed that infected cows from Texas arrived in the state on March 8.

Biden warns Netanyahu the situation in Gaza is ‘unacceptable’
In his call with Israel’s leader, Biden said U.S. policy will change if Israel does not take “specific, concrete, and measurable” steps to address the devastation.

Blinken: Israel Risks ‘Becoming Indistinguishable’ From Hamas Terrorists
“If we lose that reverence for human life, we risk becoming indistinguishable from those we confront.”

Trump says he’s not ‘loving the way’ Israel is fighting in Gaza: It’s ‘losing PR war’
Former U.S. president stresses support for IDF op against Hamas but calls to "get it over with."

Netanyahu warns ‘we’ll harm those who harm us’ as Israel braces for Iranian response
“We will know how to defend ourselves, and we will act according to the simple principle: that those who harm us or plan to harm us, we will harm.”

Biden Admin Considers Not Calling Terrorists ‘Terrorists’ If They Stop Shooting Rockets At Ships
The Houthis could be removed from the terror list if the group halted its attacks in the region.

Commuter brandishes knife to ward off anti-Israel protesters blocking him from entering Lockheed Martin facility
“Get out of the way or somebody is going to die,” he told the agitators.

US Secretary of State Blinken says Ukraine will be NATO member
Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed the U.S. commitment for Ukraine to eventually join NATO but held back commitments ahead of the alliance’s annual summit, which will take place in Washington in July.

Russia and NATO are now in 'direct confrontation'
NATO was "already involved in the conflict surrounding Ukraine (and) continues to move towards our borders and expand its military infrastructure towards our borders," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Macron says he has no doubt Russia will target Paris Olympics
A Macron aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, declined to say whether the president was referring to specific intelligence.

Russia Takes Aim at Hawaii
Article 5 doesn't apply to Hawaii as it is situated in the Pacific Ocean. This makes Hawaii the only U.S. state that could be attacked without requiring 31 other countries to come to America's aid.

Scottish first minister targeted by new hate crime law
Scotland's new "hate speech" received more than 4,000 complaints on its first day, and most of them were reporting First Minister Humza for his racist rants against white people.

Michael Jackson’s alleged victims request to obtain sealed records that include nude photos of late singer
"There is no legitimate justification for Plaintiffs’ gross attempt to violate the privacy of a man who has been deceased for almost a decade."

Marvel Courts Controversy Again By Casting Woman In Typically Male ‘Fantastic Four’ Role
The bigger controversy is why they'd reboot the "Fantastic Four."

Joe Rogan Blasts ABC’s ‘The View’: ‘It Is A Rabies-Infested Henhouse’
“Well, it is the show that people love to hate. They get so much hate-watching and hate-watching viral clips of them saying ridiculous things. I mean, it is a rabies-infested henhouse.”

‘Disinfo’ Guru To Voters: Trust Corporate Media Instead Of ‘Doing Your Own Research’
“One thing everyone can do to make sure they are seeing accurate information is to use trusted sources ... it means using media organizations that follow — that adhere — to professional journalism standards like ... your local NPR affiliate,” Schwanke said.

Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Biden ‘Pissed’ Edition
When Joe Biden is incapable of solving a problem of his own making, the media will surely report that he’s at least "angry" and "frustrated."

NYT Columnist Writes Off Critiques Of Big Food And Big Pharma As Right-Wing New Ageism
Cue the next column from a newspaper writing off efforts by some to preserve their health as an exercise in right-wing Christian nationalism.

Disgraced news reader Dan Rather attacks Trump, pro-lifers
The far-left Democrat mouthpiece called Trump a "cheating, lying, racist, treasonous, fascist, vile man" — and then continued his temper tantrum by claiming he's never seen pro-lifers who are foster parents.

SEC pauses climate disclosure rule pending court challenge
Comes as a result of legal challenges from GOP-led states.

WaPo: America’s new high-risk, high-reward $20 billion climate push
In an ambitious effort to fight climate change, the EPA is assisting local groups in financing clean-energy projects.

New Jersey pushes back on NYC's $15 congestion toll
"You are not eliminating pollution; you are just displacing it."

Ford Delays Production Of New Electric Vehicles By Years As Consumers Sour On EVs
Ford’s electric vehicle business lost $4.7 billion before interest and taxes in 2023. By contrast, the division that makes gasoline and hybrid vehicles for consumers made a $7.5 billion profit.

Biden DOJ sues Utah for discrimination after prisoner castrates himself to protest being denied hormones
Remember a few years ago when this was considered a mental disorder? I was talking about the prisoner, although I can understand why you'd assume I meant the Biden administration.

Senior leftist Harvard professor denounces 'DEI regime' and 'ideological litmus tests'
"It does not take much discernment to see, moreover, that the diversity statement regime leans heavily and tendentiously towards varieties of academic leftism and implicitly discourages candidates who harbor ideologically conservative dispositions."

Minority Contracting Comes to Medicine
Hospitals are giving minority contractors a big leg up on everything from medical equipment to cancer screening.

Ozempic maker fires back at Bernie Sanders over claim that the weight-loss drug company 'ripped off' Americans
Novo Nordisk said Americans with insurance can receive Ozempic injections for $25 a month.

Nutritionist sounds the alarm on rise in flat posteriors due to office jobs
A flat “office bum” doesn’t just pose aesthetic problems, it “can lead to more dangerous conditions” including “dead butt syndrome.”

NYC Leaving AI Chatbot In Place After It Advised Small Businesses To Break The Law
Said it’s ok to serve cheese "if it has rat bites."

Elon Musk boosts pay of AI engineers to prevent poaching from OpenAI
Musk said the “talent war for AI is the craziest talent war I’ve ever seen.”

George Carlin’s estate settles lawsuit over AI comedy special
As part of the settlement, the AI-created special will be disappeared.

Gas stations in North Carolina deploy K-9 units as security after surge in crime
“It’s good. Folks don’t know how to act in public. Folks being ignorant so if they can’t follow the rules, let them get bit,” Greensboro native Michael Rogers said.