BLM Global Network Sues Soros-Backed Org. Behind Pro-Hamas Protests for ‘Fraud’

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BLM Global Network Sues Soros-Backed Org. Behind Pro-Hamas Protests for ‘Fraud’

(Headline USA) The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation filed a lawsuit this week against another leftist activist organization funding the anti-Israel student encampments on college campuses, accusing the group of withholding tens of millions of dollars in promised funding.

The Tides Foundation has “refused to honor its promises and continues to commandeer BLMGNF’s donations,” said the lawsuit filed in California Superior Court on Monday.

BLMGNF went on to accuse the Tides Foundation of using funds allocated for BLMGNF to support a BLM breakaway group run by anti-police activist Melina Abdullah, who was involved in her own legal battle against BLMGNF.

BLMGNF ended its relationship with the Tides Foundation in 2022, and the Tides Foundation has refused to hand over the nearly $33 million BLMGNF gave to it, the complaint says.

The Tides Foundation is a Los Angeles and San Francisco-based organization that has funneled tens of millions of dollars into various left-wing causes for years.

According to the New York Post, the umbrella group acts as a “fiscal sponsor,” collecting donations for groups that may not have tax-exempt status or protections.

It has been heavily involved in the recent anti-Israel protests on college campuses, managing donations for pro-Palestinian groups such as the Adalah Justice Project. 

Leftist billionaire George Soros, whose Open Society Foundations also funds radical pro-Palestinian groups, has funneled nearly $14 million into the Tides Foundation over the years.

“Tides has engaged in deceptive business practices and has operated in a quasi-banking capacity without appropriate regulatory oversight of licenses,” the BLMGNF lawsuit said. “Tides operates with a level of autonomy and minimal regulatory scrutiny that is starkly at odds with the regulatory framework imposed on traditional financial institutions.”

BLMGNF went on to accuse the Tides Foundation of acting as a bank without being regulated as one.

A spokeswoman for the Tides Foundation dismissed BLMGNF’s allegations as “completely” false.

“Resources in the Black Lives Matter [collective action fund] were never intended to be granted to large, well-funded national organizations like Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, and were always intended to be granted to local Black Lives Matter chapters,” the spokesperson said. “BLMGNF’s lawsuit seeks to circumvent the intent of the Fund’s donors and deprive grassroots Black Lives Matter chapters critical resources, for its own benefit.”

BLM has fallen under intense scrutiny in the past for its own fiscal mismanagement, which led in large part to the group’s downfall after having enjoyed pride of place as one of the most influential and sought-after charities during the 2020 George Floyd riots.

The group was accused of spending its donations on lavish lifestyles for its top leadership while ignoring the social justice causes in the black community that it pledged to address.

At one point BLM cofounder Patrice Cullors shrugged off the discrepancies in the group’s expenditures and the failure to live up to their promises, suggesting that she had simply been the beneficiary of a massive outpouring of “white guilt money.”

Illegal Immigrants Refuse to Leave Tent City in Denver, Send Officials List of Demands

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Illegal Immigrants Refuse to Leave Tent City in Denver, Send Officials List of Demands

(Headline USA) A group of illegal immigrants in Denver set up a tent city this week and said they would not leave it until city officials met a list of their demands, including free housing and “culturally appropriate” groceries, local outlet KDVR reported.

Denver Human Services notified the illegals this week that they needed to leave the encampments they set up near train tracks and under a bridge, relocating instead to more permanent shelters funded by the city.

The immigrants responded with their own notification that they would not leave the area until Mayor Mike Johnston agreed to 13 demands.

Those demands include unlimited shower access, free immigration lawyers, free housing and free groceries provided by the city. Among them:

  • “Migrants will cook their own food with fresh, culturally appropriate ingredients provided by the City instead of premade meals—rice, chicken, flour, oil, butter, tomatoes, onions, etc.”
  • “Shower access will be available without time limits & can be accessed whenever”
  • “Medical professional visits will happen regularly & referrals/connections for specialty care will be made as needed”

The illegals also insisted the city provide them with “connection to employment support, including work permit applications for those who qualify.”

Additionally, the illegals demanded privacy within the city’s shelters once moved there, writing, “No more verbal or physical or mental abuse will be permitted from the staff, including no sheriff sleeping inside & monitoring 24/7—we are not criminals & won’t be treated as such.”

A spokesperson for Denver Human Services, Jon Ewing, said the city just wanted “to get families to leave that camp and come inside,” and promised the migrants would at least receive “three square meals a day” and the freedom to cook for themselves.

“At the end of the day, what we do not want is families on the streets of Denver,” Ewing said.

Former Obama Adviser Blasts Biden’s ‘Terrible’ Economic Messaging

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Former Obama Adviser Blasts Biden’s ‘Terrible’ Economic Messaging

(Headline USA) Former Obama adviser David Axelrod blasted President Joe Biden this week, arguing the president’s economic messaging was a “terrible mistake.”

Axelrod was responding to a sit-down Biden did on Wednesday with CNN’s Erin Burnett, who grilled Biden on the state of the economy and voters’ disapproval of the way he’s handled it.

Biden attempted to boast about his economic record during the interview, claiming he’s “already turned it around.”

He also dismissed polls cited by Burnett in which Americans list the economy as their top concern.

“The idea that we’re in a situation where things are so bad … When I started this administration, people were saying there’s gonna be a collapse in the economy,” Biden insisted.

“We have the strongest economy in the world,” he continued. “Let me say that again: in the world.”

Axelrod, however, warned Biden’s message would fall on deaf ears.

“I don’t understand this,” the Democratic strategist said during a follow-up panel discussion with Burnett.

“I don’t understand—all these months later, you know, I thought they spent $25 million mistakenly last fall touting Bidenomics and making the same argument that the president is making here.” 

The media recently began to take note of the Biden campaign’s quiet de-emphasis of the term, which it has boldly tried to appropriate for itself from what had been a conservative pejorative by confusing the public into thinking that the economy was in good shape.

“It was a bad call to use that term,” said Drew Westen, a psychology professor at Emory University and Democrat messaging consultant, according to USA Today. “At that time, people were seeing the Biden economy as the inflation economy.”

The failed effort not only underscored the economic failures, thus, but also the administration’s brazen attempts at gaslighting the public on a wide array of issues—something that Biden has continued to do, even falsely claiming during the CNN interview that inflation was at 9% when he took office.

In reality, it was at 1.4%, as Fox Business reported. However, it quickly shot up after he assumed office, Biden’s his failed energy policies and vaccine mandates exacerbated a supply-chain crisis.

Axelrod noted that Biden would be wise to attempt to empathize with the economic hardships many Americans were experiencing as a result of his mismanagement.

“He is a man who’s built his career on empathy. Why not lead with the empathy?” Axelrod said. “And I think he’s making a terrible mistake… If he doesn’t win this race, it may not be Donald Trump that beats him. It may be his own pride.”

Biden’s own former chief of staff, Ron Klain, made a similar criticism of his former boss during a meeting with Democratic strategists last month.

“There’s too much talking about bridges and not enough about eggs and milk,” Klain said. “Like I tell you, if you go into the grocery store, you go to the grocery store and, you know, eggs and milk are expensive, the fact that there’s a f***ing bridge is not [inaudible].”

Fulton County Exposed for Double-Scanning Ballots in 2020 During Ga. Hearing

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Fulton County Exposed for Double-Scanning Ballots in 2020 During Ga. Hearing

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The Georgia State Election Board has demanded that Fulton County implement an independent election monitor ahead of the 2024 election after it was discovered that the county scanned thousands of ballots twice during its 2020 recount, Just the News reported.

The state board, in a 2-1 vote, both administered an official admonishment and determined that Fulton County had to comply with its demands after county officials showed themselves to be either incompetent or fraudulent.

Still, the investigators maintained that, despite the double-counting anomaly, Democrat Joe Biden defeated then-President Donald Trump in the state.

Biden’s certified victory had him winning by 11,779 votes in the hotly disputed race, which in many ways continues to resonate in ongoing lawfare suits against Trump as the two candidates gear up for a November rematch.

According to a Georgia Recorder report, election board member Ed Lindsey Jr. initiated the motion Tuesday to issue the reprimand and to appoint the monitor for the upcoming election.

“My purpose here is not to let it ride but to move this matter forward so that we can have some assurance regarding the 2024 election,” said Lindsey, a former Republican lawmaker.

Lindsey’s election board colleague Janice Johnston, also a Republican appointee, voted against the motion on the grounds that the investigation did not go far enough, letting Fulton County off the hook too easily.

“With over 140 violations of election laws and rules, it would be a travesty not to refer this to the Attorney General and let this ride,” Johnston noted.

An election integrity group called VoterGA concurred with Johnston, issuing a statement arguing that the state election board failed because it did not refer “the most important case in its history” to state Attorney General Chris Carr for investigation and prosecution.

According to VoterGA cofounder Garland Favorito, a referral to the AG’s office is “standard practice” in such situations.

He noted that nearly 60,000 ballots were in dispute as part of the underlying complaint from which the violations stemmed.

Charlene McGowan, general counsel for the office of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, admitted at the hearing that Fulton County may have failed to follow proper procedure.

However, according to VoterGA and other critics, McGowan also concealed some of the most important details.

“As long as we have the paper ballot, we have the paper trail that accurately reports the voter’s choice,” McGowan claimed, adding that county officials “used improper procedures during the recount of the presidential contest.”

But she failed to note that Fulton County officials had refused to let the general public view the ballots.

In fact, previous reports suggested that the county may have illegally destroyed some of its paper ballots shortly after the election in spite of—or perhaps because of—concerns that some of the digital images appeared to show double scans of the same ballot or register other irregularities that would potentially invalidate them.

Although the board’s refusal to make the criminal referal likely shut the door on prospects of accountability for bad actors in the last election, hope remained strong that the coming election could right those past wrongs.

Joseph Rossi—one of the two individuals whose complaint triggered the initial investigation—delivered a speech at the hearing  slamming Fulton County officials for their failure to run a smooth and secure election and expressed his relief that his efforts were finally vindicated.

“It has now been factually proven both the hand audit. . . and the Certified Machine Count were both found to be in violation of Georgia Election Law,” Rossi said.

In addition to Fulton County’s election monitor, the state also issued a raft of reforms strengthening election integrity—three of which were signed into law this week Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

The first bill will require that all ballots be watermarked; the second, that election workers be United States citizens; and the third, that QR codes be eliminated from ballots and that procedures be eased to allow for more third-party election oversight.

Hunter Biden Could Stand Trial Next Month after Court Rejects Appeal on Gun Charge

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(Headline USA) Hunter Biden’s federal gun case should move forward, an appeals court ruled Thursday, setting the stage for the president’s son to stand trial on criminal charges next month in Delaware.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers went to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after the judge overseeing the case last month rejected his bid to dismiss the prosecution. A three-judge panel of the appeals court did not rule on the merits of his claims, but said the court doesn’t have jurisdiction to review the matter.

In an order shortly after that ruling came down, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika said the case would proceed to trial on June 3, and is expected to last three to six days. Noreika, who was appointed to the bench by former President Donald Trump, later denied another bid to dismiss the case that challenged the constitutionality of the central gun charge.

The rulings pave the way for the Justice Department to bring President Joe Biden’s son to trial in the midst of the president’s re-election campaign. Hunter Biden is separately charged in a tax case in California that is tentatively scheduled to go to trial in late June.

His legal team, however, suggested they will continue fighting the issue, which they can ask the full appeals court to consider.

“In reviewing the panel’s decision, we believe the issues involved are too important and further review of our request is appropriate,” defense lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said in an emailed statement.

Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to lying about his drug use in October 2018 on a form to buy a gun that he kept for about 11 days in Delaware. He has acknowledged an addiction to crack cocaine during that period, but his lawyers have said he didn’t break the law.

The yearslong investigation had looked ready to wrap up with a plea deal last year, but the agreement imploded after a judge raised questions about it. Biden was subsequently indicted.

Under the deal, he would have gotten two years’ probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor tax charges. He also would have avoided prosecution on the gun charge if he stayed out of trouble.

His attorneys have argued that prosecutors bowed to political pressure to indict him amid heavy criticism of the plea deal from Trump and other Republicans. They had also challenged the appointment of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel to lead the prosecution.

Prosecutors countered the evidence against him was “overwhelming,” including cocaine residue found in the pouch where he stored his gun, and noted that charges had been filed during the presidency of his father.

In her ruling last month, Noreika said that the defense had provided “nothing credible” to suggest that the lawmakers or anyone else had any impact on the special counsel, adding: “It is all speculation.”

He faces separate tax counts in Los Angeles alleging he failed to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes over three years while living an “extravagant lifestyle,” during his days of using drugs. He is separately challenging rulings rejecting his motions to dismiss those charges.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Pentagon Plans to Spend Nearly $2 Trillion on Stealth Fighter w/ Reliability Issues

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(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The cost of the Pentagon’s most expensive weapon system is projected to increase by more than 40% despite plans to use the stealth fighter less, in part because of reliability issues.

The U.S. Department of Defense’s F-35 Lightning II is the most advanced and costly weapon system in the U.S. arsenal.

It’s a joint, multinational program that includes the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, seven international partners and foreign military sales customers.

The Pentagon has about 630 F-35s. It plans to buy about 1,800 more. And it intends to use them through 2088.

“Yet DOD plans to fly the F-35 less than originally estimated, partly because of reliability issues with the aircraft,” according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

“The F-35’s ability to perform its mission has also trended downward over the past 5 years,” it noted.

DOD estimates the F-35 program will cost over $2 trillion to buy, operate, and sustain over its lifetime.

Specifically, sustainment cost estimates have increased 44%, from about $1.1 trillion in 2018 to about $1.58 trillion in 2023.

One reason for the increase in cost estimates is the extension of the service life of the aircraft, according to the report.

“The military services have lowered the number of hours each aircraft is estimated to fly, which has contributed to reduced cost estimates and the services’ ability to meet their affordability targets,” according to the report.

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Growth in the F-35 Joint Program Office’s F-35 Lifetime Sustainment Cost Estimates FY 2018-2023 / SOURCE: Government Accountability Office analysis of Defense Dept. data

The office that manages the F-35 program, the F-35 Joint Program Office, started a new initiative called the War on Cost in 2023. The goal is an affordable F-35.

How to get there:

  • Improve the reliability and maintainability of components on the aircraft;
  • Reduce the incidents of foreign object debris entering the aircraft engine;
  • Improve engine reliability and availability to increase the time an engine can remain in an aircraft so that overall cost of engine sustainment can be decreased.

The F-35 Joint Program Office said such efforts have reduced sustainment costs by about $84 billion over the lifetime of the program—roughly 5.38% of the overall cost estimate, but still a drop in the bucket compared to the $480 billion in upward revisions to the estimate over the course of just six years.

“DOD officials stated that these efforts will not fundamentally change the estimated lifetime sustainment costs,” according to the report. “These DOD officials told us that significant F-35 program cost reductions will only come from flying the aircraft less or reducing the number of aircraft in the fleet.”

And the F-35 isn’t meeting its performance goals.

“The F-35 fleet is not meeting most of its performance goals, including those for availability and for reliability and maintainability, according to DOD and contractor data,” the report noted. “We have consistently found that the F-35 fleet is not meeting its availability goals, which are measured by mission capable rates despite increasing projected costs.”

Abbott Tells Texas Schools to Disregard Biden’s Gender-Bending Title IX Rewrite

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Abbott Tells Texas Schools to Disregard Biden’s Gender-Bending Title IX Rewrite

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday directed the Texas public university systems and community colleges to not comply with a new rule change implemented by the Biden administration related to Title IX.

“Last week, I instructed the Texas Education Agency to ignore President Biden’s illegal dictate of Title IX,” Abbott wrote to chairmen and regents statewide. “Today, I am instructing every public college and university in the State of Texas to do the same.

The latest directive comes after Abbott said last week that the state will not comply and he instructed the Texas Education Agency not to do so.

Texas also sued the administration over the rule change last week, as did multiple states, the Center Square reported, arguing it is illegal.

At issue is the Biden administration’s Department of Education rewriting the Title IX statute to expand the definition of “sex” to include “gender identity.”

The revision effectively subverts the intented spirit of the law—to level the playing field for biological women—by allowing biological men to identify as women, thereby gaining an unfair competitive advantage in athletics and other areas where gender differences previously necessitated accomodations.

“As I have already made clear, Texas will not comply with President Joe Biden’s rewrite of Title IX that contradicts the original purpose and spirit of the law to support the advancement of women,” Abbott wrote.

Title IX, which is part of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, states, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

It was created to prohibit discrimination against women in all educational programs that receive federal money, including K-12 schools, colleges and universities. The new rule redefines biological sex and requires schools to allow men and boys, claiming to be women and girls, respectively, to use female-only facilities and join female-only sports or lose federal funding.

“I signed laws to ensure the safety of our students on campus and provide a process for adjudicating reports of sexual harassment and sexual assault with adequate due process for all parties involved, as well as laws to protect the integrity of women’s sports by prohibiting men from competing against female athletes—and ​I will not let President Biden erase the advancements Texas has made,” Abbott said in his letter

Abbott sent the letter to Texas A&M University System, Texas Southern University, Texas State University System, Texas Tech University System, Texas Women’s University System, University of Houston System, University of North Texas System, and University of Texas System, and to all Texas community colleges.

He did so after Texas A&M’s school paper, The Battalion, wrote in a May 1 article that it was “scrambling” to implement changes to comply with the new rule change.

One week later, The Battalion article appeared to have been rewritten and included a link to the governor’s letter and a statement from the university saying it was reversing course.

The school “anticipate[d] rulings from one or more federal courts in the very near future,” said Kelly Brown, A&M’s associate vice president of communications. “In the meantime, please be advised that the A&M System will not take any action to implement the new federal regulations.”

Over the past few years, Abbott and the Texas legislature have taken several actions to protect girls’ sports.

Last year, Abbott signed a new bill into law, the Save Women’s Sports Act, to protect the integrity of fair competition and women’s sports. It prohibits biological men from competing against biological female athletes at Texas colleges and universities.

In 2021, Abbott signed a similar bill into law to protect girls’ sports in Texas public schools. In the legislative sessions of 2017 and 2019, he signed four bills into law to address student safety and adjudication processes for reports of sexual harassment and sexual assault on college campuses.

Kemp Signs New Laws Strengthening Ga.’s Election Integrity Reforms

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(T.A. DeFeo, The Center Square) Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed an election reform measure that supporters hoped would close many of the loopholes exploited during the notorious 2020 race, even as evidence from a state hearing confirmed that foul play likely delivered the results of that race to Democrat Joe Biden.

Yet, with feckless and dishonest officials, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, still controlling the mechanisms for administering the election, questions remained as to whether the raft of reforms would proove toothless in November.

Moreover, anti-integrity lawfare activists such as Steele Dossier architect Marc Elias promptly threatened to do all they could to undermine the state legislature’s efforts by leveraging the court system against it.

Senate Bill 189—updating the earlier SB 202, the Election Integrity Act of 2021—removed the secretary of state from the State Election Board, instilling at least the semblance of oversight and accountability for Raffensperger’s office.

It also barred local election officials, elections board and employees in the secretary of state’s office from securing state contracts specific to voting equipment—a concern that arose due to the nebulous influence that Dominion Voting Systems had and outrage over reports that its software may have been vulnerable to hacking.

The new legislation also set deadlines for submitting absentee ballots, established additional ballot chain of custody rules starting in 2025 and eliminated QR codes on ballots starting in 2026.

“SB 189 is a testament to our commitment to restoring faith in Georgia’s elections,” state Sen. Max Burns, R-Sylvania, said in a statement.

“Building upon the solid foundation laid by Senate Bill 202 in 2021, we continue to prioritize integrity and accessibility,” Burns added. “By championing transparency and accountability, we pave the way for fair elections that uphold the voice of every Georgia citizen.

SB 189 also requires all advance and absentee ballots to be counted within an hour of polls closing.

Moreover, it allows a political party’s presidential candidate to qualify for Georgia’s ballot if the individual has secured access in at least 20 other states or territories.

“Although there is always more work to be done, our new laws will ensure even more accuracy, safety, and transparency,” Kelly Loeffler, chairwoman of Greater Georgia and a former Republican U.S. senator, said in a statement.

“On the eve of a presidential election, Georgians deserve to have confidence that—despite the best efforts of liberal activists in our courts, our media, and our federal government—their votes will count.”

Loeffler lost her 2021 runoff race against Raphael Warnock under suspicious circumstances, delivering control of the Senate to the incoming Democratic administration.

Even though the new laws relieved Raffensperger of some of his authority and likely meant more oversight of his office, he too lauded the measure and promised to push for funding for the new requirements.

“Georgia is already a national leader in election integrity and security, and we congratulate Gov. Kemp and the General Assembly on the passage of the additional election integrity measures contained in this bill,” Raffensperger said in a statement to The Center Square.

“As my office continues to lead on ensuring free, fair, and accurate elections, I look forward to working with the General Assembly and Georgia counties next session to make sure that the changes the legislature put in place are fully funded,” he claimed.

The most controversial provision in the new laws was, perhaps, an expansion of the ability to challenge and potentially remove ineligible voters from the voter rolls.

Despite reports in recent election cycles that dead voters and out-of-state voters had received applications for absentee ballots, some on the Left continued to insist that the possibility of disfranchising active voters outweighed concerns over illegitimate votes dilluting those of legally registered and verified voters.

The ACLU of Georgia said it planned a legal challenge.

“SB 189 is a step back for voters’ rights and voting access in the state of Georgia,” Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU of Georgia, said in a statement.

“Most importantly, this bill will require already overburdened election workers to spend time processing unnecessary voter challenges,” she complained.

She suggested that maintaining the integrity of the election was, at best, a secondary responsibility to ensuring customer satisfaction.

“As always, elected state officials should work to make voting easier and not more difficult for Georgia citizens,” Young claimed. “We are committed to protecting Georgia voters and will see the governor in court.”

In a statement, Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye, executive director of the Democratic Party of Georgia, called the signing “a slap on the back to MAGA conspiracy theorists like his [Kemp’s] lieutenant governor who refuse to accept President Biden won in 2020.”

The Trump-endorsed Burt Jones was elected lieutenant governor in 2022 after NeverTrump fraud-denier Geoff Duncan declined to run for re-election.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Is BLS is Cooking Jobs Reports to Make Biden’s Economy Look Better?

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Is BLS is Cooking Jobs Reports to Make Biden’s Economy Look Better?

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Last Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report showed that U.S. employers added some 175,000 jobs in April.

But while April’s numbers captured most of the headlines, the same jobs report also contained downward revisions for earlier this year, with the BLS admitting that “employment in February and March combined is 22,000 lower than previously reported.”

Close observers have noted that the BLS has revised its jobs numbers downward nearly every month since President Joe Biden has been in office. In other words, BLS has been releasing rosy jobs reports, only to quietly update the reports later with more accurate and dismal statistics.

 

The early downward revisions for 2024 follow the BLS chopping off more than 300,000 jobs last year that were supposedly added in the 12 months ending in March 2023.

“The BLS confirmed what we have been saying for much of the past year, namely that hundreds of thousands of US jobs were nothing more than a figment in the BLS’s imagination, and politically motivated excel spreadsheets,” ZeroHedge commented last August when the BLS’s sizeable revision occurred.

The fluctuating statistics have finally caught the attention of lawmakers in Congress. Last week, Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., grilled Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su about her Biden-friendly reports.

“Either you’re putting out fake numbers to give Joe Biden good headlines—and then quietly revising the job numbers down—or the BLS is failing to accurately report the numbers,” Miller said.

Su insisted that the BLS has always revised its jobs reports—which is true, but omits the fact that the lion’s share of Biden jobs reports have been subject to downward revisions, with very few upward revisions taking place. Su then laughed when Miller said, “Never to this level have the numbers been so inaccurate.”

Su’s apparent lack of concern for the inaccurate BLS reports had Miller calling for her job.

“We’ve seen why you can’t remain as secretary,” she said.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Barron Trump Chosen as Fla. Delegate for Republican National Convention

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Barron Trump Chosen as Fla. Delegate for Republican National Convention

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Barron Trump, youngest son of former President Donald Trump, joined the lineup of Florida delegates for the state’s Republican Party, according to NBC News.

This will be the 18-year-old Barron’s introductory foray into the political fray as he follows in the footsteps of his older brothers, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., and sister Tiffany.

Only the oldest Trump sibling, daughter Ivanka, appears to have opted not to serve as one of the Sunshine State’s at-large delegates during the Republican National Convention, due to take place July 15-18 in Milwaukee.

“We have a great delegation of grassroots leaders, elected officials and even Trump family members,” said Florida GOP chairman Evan Power. “Florida is continuing to have a great convention team, but more importantly we are preparing to win Florida and win it big.”

 

A spokesperson for the Trump campaign indicated that Barron, who will graduate from high school on May 17, “is very interested in our nation’s political process,” according to Politico.

Personal acquaintances of the presumptive GOP nominee’s only child with former first lady Melania Trump hinted that the 6-foot, 7-inch Barron had lofty aspirations beyond his father’s 2024 campaign, according to the Daily Mail.

“Barron is handsome, tall—taller even than his father—and very knowledgeable for someone his age,” an insider source said. “He’s also far more politically interested than people realize. I see all the attributes of a future President if he has the appetite for it. And why not? He has the Trump genes.”

Trump supporters already lined up Barron for the 2044 presidential run.

In addition to expressing hope for a Trump political dynasty, many users proclaimed the young Trump to be an “American Caesar.”

“The Barron Trump thing is funny because actually as the son of a billionaire who is at the age to be radicalized by the internet, and who is exposed to the intense corruptions of deep politics, he literally is growing up in precisely the context necessary for a Caesarian figure,” said user C.Jay Engel.

The Florida GOP also approved several other top supporters of the former president as he seeks a second term.

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