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SEND IN THE TROOPS: Trump Orders Military Control of Border Lands |
The Trump administration took another step Friday to reclaim America’s national sovereignty and fully secure the southern border.
In a memo sent to top-ranking cabinet members, including Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem, President Trump ordered the military to take control of federal lands near the border and assist with “border-barrier construction and emplacement of detection and monitoring equipment.”
“Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats,” the order states. “The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more direct role in securing our southern border than in the recent past.”
By giving the Department of Defense jurisdiction over the lands, soldiers have the right to detain illegal aliens as they would be trespassing on a U.S. military base. The military also has the right to detain aliens until they are handed over to immigration authorities.
It’s a common-sense move that should prove highly effective. Far better to use the military’s force and manpower right here in our backyard than to start pointless wars abroad. Read more.
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Dem Governor, Family Escape Arson Attack
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An arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion early Sunday morning, but thankfully, Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family managed to escape after authorities swiftly alerted them to the danger.
Police arrested 38-year-old Cody Balmer in connection to the attack, charging him with attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson, and aggravated assault against an enumerated person. Balmer allegedly used “homemade incendiary devices,” according to state police.
Authorities said Shapiro and his family were in a different section of the Harrisburg mansion than the area that was burned. The family had been celebrating the first night of the Jewish holiday Passover on Saturday.
“Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg,” Shapiro said Sunday in a statement on X. “Every day, we stand with the law enforcement and first responders who run towards danger to protect our communities. Last night, they did so for our family – and Lori and I are eternally grateful to them for keeping us safe.” Read more.
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White House Doctor Reveals Details on Trump’s ‘Excellent Health’
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Americans can finally rest assured knowing their commander-in-chief isn’t a comatose old man with the memory of a goldfish.
On Friday, Donald Trump underwent his annual physical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and the results showed the president is in good shape and fit to serve.
“President Trump exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health and is fully fit to execute the duties of the Commander in Chief and Head of State,” wrote United States Navy Capt. Sean P. Barbabella, who took note of Trump’s “active lifestyle,” including the president’s “frequent victories in golf events.”
Trump clocked in at an impressive 224 pounds, had a blood pressure of 128/74, and scored a perfect 30 out of 30 on a cognitive test. Notably, the memo detailed a scar on Trump’s right ear, which was grazed by a bullet during the assassination attempt on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.
There might be a lesson in here for all of us: so long as you remain active, you can rip Diet Coke like nobody’s business and still have good health.
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Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer behaved like a bashful 5-year-old last Wednesday in the Oval Office in a photograph that speaks a thousand words.
A potential 2028 contender, Whitmer planned to meet with President Trump to discuss aid for her citizens who had just been hit by an ice storm and funding for an Air National Guard base near Detroit.
However, according to The New York Times, Trump aides whisked the governor into the Oval Office where a full press corps greeted her.
Whitmer then childishly attempted to shield herself from the cameras using what appeared to be binders.
A meeting with … Dictator Trump? The horror! The horror! Whatever will the BlueSky users think?
To be fair, we can’t give Whitmer too much stick. According to the same report, Whitmer congratulated Trump in a handwritten letter, praised his support of the auto industry during his inaugural address, and even gave him her personal cell number.
Very classy.
Read more and check out the hilarious photo here.
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Zelensky Keeps up His Petty Beef with JD Vance
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The Ukrainian warmonger is still trying to beef with JD Vance.
During a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday, Volodymyr Zelensky claimed the Trump administration was suffering from a “shift in reality” over their views on the war with Russia – and also singled out the vice president.
“It seems to me that the vice president is somehow justifying Putin's actions,” Zelensky said of Vance.
"I tried to explain, 'You can't look for something in the middle. There is an aggressor and there is a victim. The Russians are the aggressor, and we are the victim,'" Zelensky went on to say.
In early March, Vance rightfully called out Zelensky in the Oval Office for his disrespectful outburst in front of President Trump. Though Zelensky back-tracked and thanked the president in a phone call later that month, he is already back taking petty swipes – and it probably won’t go over well with the administration.
Maybe Zelensky should be grateful for once and stop nipping at the hand that feeds him.
Read more.
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Crucial Tariffs on Semiconductors Are ‘Coming Soon,’ Commerce Sec. Says
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The Trump administration announced Friday that electronics such as laptops and smartphones would be exempt from the president’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs. However, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick clarified Sunday the move is only temporary as the administration works out new sector-based tariffs.
“They’re exempt from the reciprocal tariffs but they’re included in the semiconductor tariffs, which are coming in probably a month or two,” Lutnick told ABC’s “This Week.”
The list of exemptions published Friday included a spate of tech components like routers, semiconductor chips, and memory chips, all of which would not be subject to the hefty tariffs on Chinese imports nor Trump’s global 10% tariff. During the interview, Lutnick emphasized the importance of making these crucial products on U.S. soil.
"We can't be beholden and rely upon foreign countries for fundamental things that we need," Lutnick explained. "These are things that are national security that we need to be made in America."
Indeed. Key sub-sectors of the economy – semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, agricultural products – should 100% be made in the USA. Anything less is a victory for China and our adversaries across the globe.
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‘A Potential Friend’: Bill Maher Completely Changes Tune on Trump |
Speaking of brash, unfiltered pundits who loathe the Democratic Party …
During Friday’s episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the HBO host detailed a fascinating interaction he shared with Donald Trump at a White House dinner in late March. Maher described speaking honestly about his policy disagreements with Trump but said the president never became angry at him and that his calm reactions were “emblematic” of why Democrats are deeply unpopular.
“Honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump,” Maher said. “That's just how it went down, make of it what you will. Me, I feel it's emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days.”
“So MAGA fans, don't worry, your boy gave me nothing, just hats,” he went on to say, “Hats and a very generous amount of time and a willingness to listen and accept me as a possible friend even though I'm not MAGA, which was the point of the dinner.”
We’re glad Maher, who once described Trump as a “fascist,” has finally moved past his Orange Man Bad era.
Read more.
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Egg-norant or Genius? Woman Goes Viral for Unconventional Take on Easter Tradition |
An Easter egg-spert or completely egg-norant?
Minnesotan content creator Kate Heintzelman went viral over the weekend after posting a video of her very unconventional and, some might say, unsanitary approach to dying Easter eggs.
In a clip that has racked up millions of views, Heintzelman filled her toilet bowl with two dozen eggs, coated them with different colored food dyes, mixed in vinegar and baking soda, and produced some rather exquisite Easter eggs.
“I wanted to make the eggs really cute and I tried it earlier with vinegar and the baking soda and it exploded all over my counter and I thought I turned it red,” the Minnesotan explained. “So I said, ‘I’m just going to do it in the toilet because I don’t care if that gets stained.'”
Unless your toilet is absolutely immaculate, we don't recommend you try this at home.
Check out her final product here. |
Stephen A. Smith for POTUS? |
You know your political party is fracturing and down bad when a charismatic outsider is seriously eyeing a dark horse run.
Think about the Republican Party in 2015. The base was sick of the same, tired GOP schticks, like bailing out corporate America, tax cuts for the uber-wealthy, and funding foreign wars. John McCain and Mitt Romney were not exactly inspiring presidential leaders: They were creatures of the swamp. Like the Democratic Party today, the GOP was rudderless and weak. But along came Trump, and the rest is history.
Democrats now could be facing a similar wrecking ball – and although it will be painful for the establishment in the short term, it might serve them well in the long run.
Stephen A. Smith is dipping his toes into politics, and ambitious Democrats – Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, and Tim Walz, to name a few – should be quaking in their boots.
On Sunday, the sports pundit and newly-minted critic of the Democratic Party hinted at a potential 2028 run for president, saying he has “no choice” but to consider jumping into the race.
“Here's the reality: People, literally people, have walked up to me, including my own pastor, for crying out loud, who has said to me, 'You don't know what God has planned for you. At least show the respect to the people who believe in you, who respect you, who believe that you can make a difference in this country, to leave the door open for any possibilities some to three years down the line.' And that's what I've decided to do," Smith told ABC News.
If there’s one quality that defines Smith, it’s his brutal albeit refreshing honesty. Like Trump, the man has zero filter, which is why he’s so popular. Unlike, say, Kamala Harris, he has common sense and a natural charisma. He is also an outsider to the political system and does not curry favor with either party. All these traits are politically potent, even more so when your potential opponents are lacking them.
If there’s one quality that defines modern Democrats as a whole, it’s their complete and utter fecklessness. For years, the party hid former President Joe Biden’s dementia from the American people, and when the time came to replace him with a nominee of their choosing, they opted for Harris, an unpopular and dim-witted empty suit. And who did she pick as her running mate? The goober governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz. It’s no wonder Democrats are growing so desperate they may have to rely on a sports broadcaster of all people because their leaders are too dumb and unimpressive.
The last thing America wants is Kamala 2.0 or another Obama-era. They want politicians willing to shake things up and take risks. And with a power vacuum in the Democratic Party and such a dearth of talent for 2028, it’s anyone’s for the taking. Dems shouldn’t write off Smith as a bloviating loon, and neither should Republicans.
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April 14, 1865: Considered by many historians to be one of the most significant days in U.S. history, April 14 marks the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at the hands of stage actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Following the effective end of the Civil War, Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head as the president watched a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln succumbed to his wounds the next day at 7:22 a.m. and was the first U.S. president to be assassinated.
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