Ford to Receive $9.2 Billion from Feds and More from States

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Ford to Receive $9.2 Billion from Feds and More from States

(Headline USA) Battery plants planned in Tennessee and Kentucky for Ford‘s electric vehicles are on track to receive up to a $9.2 billion federal loan from the U.S. Department of Energy in addition to millions more from the two states.

The money for construction would secure a sizable chunk of funding for Ford’s shift to electric vehicle manufacturing in the two states.

Ford’s plans include two battery plants in Kentucky and one in Tennessee, each through a joint venture with battery partner SK On, of South Korea. Additionally, there will be a Ford assembly plant in Tennessee able to build up to 500,000 electric pickup trucks a year. The companies are planning an $11.4 billion investment in the projects.

The three battery plants combined are expected to create 5,000 construction jobs, as well as 7,500 operations jobs once the plants are up and running, the Energy Department said in its announcement.

The loan would come through the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program. The company — named BlueOval SK under the joint venture — commented on the Federal give away.

“We’re thrilled the Department of Energy joins BlueOval SK in our vision to electrify the future of mobility,” Robert Rhee, BlueOval SK’s CEO, said in a statement to media outlets. “BlueOval SK will use this loan to its fullest as we create 7,500 good American jobs, strengthen critical domestic supply chains, and produce high-quality batteries for future Ford and Lincoln electric vehicles here in Tennessee and Kentucky.”

However, the announcement drew sharp criticism from the United Auto Workers union, which called it “a massive $9.2 billion giveaway loan to Ford Motor Co. through the Department of Energy to create 7,500 low-road jobs with no consideration for wages, working conditions, union rights or retirement security.”

Ford has said its assembly plant and the battery plant in rural Stanton, Tennessee, will employ about 6,000 people with an investment of roughly $5.6 billion. Ford plans to start production by 2025.

Before landing the Ford project, Tennessee had invested more than $174 million in the unused megasite outside of Memphis where the plants are being built. Tennessee lawmakers have committed to spending nearly $900 million on state incentives, infrastructure upgrades and more as part of a sweeping plan with Ford. The agreement included $500 million in capital grant funds.

Production is also scheduled to start in 2025 at the two battery manufacturing plants being built in Glendale, Kentucky. The venture will employ 5,000 people to produce batteries for future Ford and Lincoln electric vehicles. Ford and its battery partner have invested $5.8 billion in the Kentucky project.

Kentucky’s state incentives package for the project includes a $250 million loan.

The news of the corporate welfare comes about three weeks before the UAW is scheduled to open contract talks with Ford, Stellantis and General Motors.

Newly elected UAW President Shawn Fain has criticized the companies, saying they make billions without fairly compensating workers. Many in the industry expect strikes against one or more of the companies as the union tries to get general and cost-of-living pay raises and eliminate tiers of workers who are paid different wages, sometimes for doing the same work.

“We have been absolutely clear that the switch to electric engine jobs, battery production and other EV manufacturing cannot become a race to the bottom,” Fain said in a news release about the Ford battery project loan. “Not only is the federal government not using its power to turn the tide – they’re actively funding the race to the bottom with billions in public money.”

The loan also follows the Department of Energy’s recent decision to abruptly reject a $200 million loan for a proposed Kentucky electric vehicle battery facility. The department didn’t offer a reason for the decision.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

LGBT Cult Admits They Are Coming for the Children

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LGBT Cult Admits They Are Coming for the Children

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Sexual deviants and their “allies” gathered on Friday in the East Villiges Tomkins Square Park for the annual New York City Drag March where some of the attendees showed their true colors by screaming that they are “coming for your children.”

“We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children,” the child groomers proclaimed, with some of them dancing topless in the crowd, according to a video posted on Twitter by Timcast News.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., responded to the true intentions of the LGBT cult by stating that children should be protected from their grooming.

“This movement grooms minors to have mastectomies and castration and fuels a multi-billion dollar medical child abuse industry. Pass the Protect Children’s Innocence Act. Let kids be kids,” she wrote.

Timcast News CEO Tim Pool also commented on the video by saying that everybody finally agrees that these people are groomers, including themselves.

“We are like ‘they are groomers.’ They are like ‘We are coming for your children.’ So we all agree they are groomers,” he wrote.

The recent comments from the crowd are extremely similar to the song by the San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus that was released in July 2021, in which the group of groomers openly proclaimed that they will “convert your children” because it is their “gay agenda,” the Post Millennial reported.

“We’re coming for them. We’re coming for your children,” the men sang.

After the video became viral and people started to push back against the abomination, the group deleted the video and gaslighted normal people by saying that it was “tongue-in-cheek humor.”

However, the grooming sessions — also known as drag “queen” story hour and “family-friendly” drag shows — became very popularized by leftists who want to tell children about sex.

Additionally, the leftists are actively pushing for child mutilation, pretending that it is a “gender-affirming care.” As predicted, conservative states constantly prohibit sexual performances and child mutilation, while leftist states do exactly the opposite by turning themselves into sanctuary states for these procedures and performances.

Payback: Sanctuary Cities Slapped w/ Over 500 Buses of Illegal Aliens

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Payback: Sanctuary Cities Slapped w/ Over 500 Buses of Illegal Aliens

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Since Texas’ border security mission Operation Lone Star launched more than two years ago, the multi-agency effort has led to the apprehension of nearly 400,000 foreign nationals who entered the U.S. illegally.

Since last April, Texas has sent over 500 buses of foreign nationals to six so-called sanctuary cities.

Gov. Greg Abbott provided an update Friday on Operation Lone Star achievements, saying Texas is continuing “to fill the dangerous gaps left by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border. Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Biden’s open border policies.”

Since March 2021, Texas OLS officers have apprehended more than 384,000 illegal foreign nationals and made more than 29,000 criminal arrests with over 28,000 felony charges reported. They’ve also seized over 419 million lethal doses of fentanyl, more than enough to kill everyone in the United States.

Last year, Texas began its busing strategy to “provide much needed relief to border communities” by busing people north who’d illegally entered the U.S. and were unlawfully released into Texas, Abbott argues. The first destination city was Washington, D.C., including dropping off buses in front of Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence. Since last April, Texas has bused more than 10,000 illegal foreign nationals to Washington, D.C.

By August of last year, Texas expanded the busing strategy to two additional cities, having now bused more than 8,200 to New York City and over 2,600 to Chicago.

Last November, Texas added another city, Philadelphia, and has so far bused over 1,600 people there.

This year, Texas expanded the busing strategy to two more cities: Denver and Los Angeles. Since May, Texas has bused over 210 people to Denver and since June 14, over 40 to Los Angeles.

All told, Texas has bused more than 21,050 people to six sanctuary cities since last April.

Busing is voluntary and free to passengers. All adults must sign waivers, including guardians and parents of minors being transported.

While many have criticized Abbott for his busing strategy, the Democratic-led city of El Paso has transported more people to New York City and Chicago than the state has this year.

According to El Paso’s “Migrant Situational Awareness Dashboard,” the city has arranged the transportation of 13,972 people to New York City and Chicago as of June 23, via plane, train and charter bus.

Unlike the city of El Paso, which has received over $10 million in federal taxpayer money since last July, Texas taxpayers are funding Texas’ busing strategy.

And Abbott notes that while Democratic mayors and governors in the six states are complaining about receiving busloads of 50 people at a time, Texas has borne the brunt of illegal entries, dealing with over 4,000 a day in a light month like May.

Last month, for example, Border Patrol agents in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s three busiest sectors in Texas reported over 130,500 apprehensions and gotaways, those who illegally enter and intentionally evade capture. That’s over six times more people than Texas bused to sanctuary cities over the last year, and doesn’t count all of the five Texas sectors.

Del Rio Sector agents apprehended 30,840 people who’d illegally entered the U.S. in Texas and reported over 14,500 gotaways last month, according to data The Center Square exclusively obtained from a Border Patrol agent.

Rio Grande Valley Sector agents apprehended nearly 40,000 and reported over 2,000 gotaways, a low number compared to previous months, some suggest because far fewer agents are in the field.

El Paso Sector agents reported 26,774 apprehensions and over 16,000 gotaways.

The judges and commissioners of at least 42 Texas counties have declared an invasion at the southern border, with more expected to do so, and dozens of counties have issued disaster declarations citing a surge of crime stemming from the southern border.

While Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has maintained the border is secure, Abbott and 24 other Republican governors who’ve pledged to support OLS argue the opposite. So far, hundreds of personnel from law enforcement agencies and national guard units from over 10 states are currently in Texas supporting OLS.

New Probe Reveals Biden’s Shocking Inadmissible Illegal Alien Scandal

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New Probe Reveals Biden’s Shocking Inadmissible Illegal Alien Scandal

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden administration finds itself embroiled in yet another crisis amid allegations of illegally facilitating the entry of hundreds of alleged inadmissible illegal aliens into the United States.

The accusations have prompted a new investigation by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee and the Subcommittee on National Security, focusing on the Department of Homeland Security’s mishandling of parole authorities.

On Friday, Chairmen James Comer, R-Ky., and Glen Grothman, R-Wis., notified embattled Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the new probe.

In a joint statement, the lawmakers expressed their concerns over the administration’s parole grants exacerbating the border crisis. They stated, “The Committee on Oversight and Accountability continues to investigate the Biden Administration’s disastrous policies and mismanagement that have contributed to a historic border crisis.”

Highlighting the alleged misuse of parole, Comer and Grothman added, “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently implemented further processes to provide unlawful categorical parole, in violation of clear statutory language, to large numbers of inadmissible aliens.”

According to the lawmakers, Biden and Mayorkas have been exploiting the use of patrol to greenlight access to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who fit in certain categories. Comer and Grothman concluded, “The flagrant abuse of the parole statute is evidenced by the fact that the Biden Administration has paroled over a million inadmissible aliens into the United States in just over the last two years.”

They accused Biden of granting parole to “illegal border crossers apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents as well as inadmissible aliens presenting themselves at ports of entry after making appointments through the CBP One mobile application.” 

The Republican lawmakers have set a deadline of July 7 for Mayorkas to respond to their inquiries. The new investigation follows the introduction of impeachment articles against Mayorkas by several Republican lawmakers two weeks prior.

Simultaneously, the House Committee on Homeland Security is already investigating Mayorkas over allegations of dereliction of duty. Representative Clay Higgins (R-La.), a ranking member of the Homeland Committee, introduced impeachment proceedings against Mayorkas on June 7.

While Mayorkas has largely dismissed the impeachment threats, expressing dubious concerns for the alleged dangers of climate change instead, the allegations and investigations continue to cast a shadow on the Biden administration’s handling of immigration and border security.

Read the Comer and Grothman’s full letter to Mayorkas here.

Mic-Grabbing Black NYC College Grad Says She Is ‘Always in the Right’

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Mic-Grabbing Black NYC College Grad Says She Is ‘Always in the Right’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) After taking away the microphone from a white woman and giving an entitled speech, a black graduate of a community college in Queens, New York City, responded to the backlash she received from people on social media by saying that she is “always in the right.”

“To everyone saying I should be embarrassed or I’ll never get a job… I’m a black woman in America,” Kadia Iman — the LaGuardia Community College graduate — said on Instagram, as reported by the New York Post.

“I am always in the right… [you] will not gaslight me into thinking I’m the bad guy. I did it for girls that look like me. Love [you].”

On Wednesday, Iman posted a video for the 18,000 people who follow her on TikTok, in which she snatched the microphone out of the hands of a white woman during the graduation ceremony. The white woman tried to fight her off but quickly lost her grip.

”I’m graduating today. I don’t like how you snatched the mic out of my hand, so today is going to be all about me!” Iman screamed into the microphone before dropping it and storming off.

Even though Iman deleted the clip from her TikTok account to avoid further backlash, the footage still circulates online and has been viewed millions of times.

Iman also released a follow-up video after the incident, in which she defended her actions by saying that the reason why she took away the microphone from a white woman is because the latter was a racist who didn’t allow her to say her name during the graduation simply because Iman is black.

That statement was a lie because another black girl who graduated that day confirmed that nothing like that happened, adding that she was able to both say her name and some other “extra” things, Candace Owens of the Daily Wire reported.

Even though the leftist followers defended Iman, conservatives, including Owens and Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire, criticized her behavior.

“‘Today is all about me’ says the most uninteresting and unimpressive person you’ll ever encounter. It’s always the dullest, blandest nobodies who think they’re the main characters,” Walsh tweeted.

He then mentioned the horrible state of the higher education in the United States.

“I guarantee this person writes at a fourth-grade level and can’t name five US presidents. These are the people graduating from universities these days. Childish morons with egos the size of Jupiter.”

Pro Basketball Player’s Fatal Heart Attack Post Forced COVID Vaccine Concern

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Pro Basketball Player’s Fatal Heart Attack Post Forced COVID Vaccine Concern

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Professional basketball player Óscar Cabrera Adames, who had previously voiced grave concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine, passed away this week after suffering a fatal heart attack, Fox News reported on Saturday.

Sports commentator Héctor Gómez took to Instagram to announce the tragic news, stating that the 28-year-old Dominican athlete died while undergoing an endurance test at a health clinic in the Dominican Republic.

According to Fox, experts believe that Adames had been afflicted with myocarditis, a condition that weakens the heart and its electrical system.

Adames’s untimely demise followed his claims of being diagnosed with myocarditis subsequent to a government-mandated COVID vaccine.

In a Spanish-language post on social media, Adames lamented, “I got damn Myocarditis from taking a f—ing vaccine. (I got 2 doses of Pfizer) And I knew it! Many people warned me.”

The professional basketball player expressed his discontent with the vaccine requirement for his work, stating, “But guess what? It was compulsory or I couldn’t work. I am an international professional athlete and I am playing in Spain.”

According to Fox, Adames added, “I have no health problem, nothing, not hereditary, no asthma, NOTHING! I suddenly collapsed to the ground in the middle of a match and almost died. I’m still recovering and I’ve had 11 different cardiology tests done and guess? They find nothing.”

Gómez, a popular sports commentator in the Caribbean country, revealed that Adames was the nephew of Hugo Cabrera, a beloved basketball player and esteemed figure in the Dominican Republic.

Adames’s death comes days after CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and the Biden administration came under fire for pushing COVID vaccines despite knowing that they were not effective in preventing the spread of the Chinese-originated virus.

A YouTube channel, apparently owned by Adames himself, shows his skills in Basketball.

It remains unclear whether local authorities will investigate the sudden death of Adames.

 

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Victory: SCOTUS Upholds Law Against Encouraging Illegal Immigration

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Victory: SCOTUS Upholds Law Against Encouraging Illegal Immigration

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The U.S. Supreme Court has resoundingly upheld a crucial law that criminalizes the encouragement and inducement of illegal immigration into the United States.

By a strong majority vote of 7 to 2, the Court rejected a challenge to the conviction of Helaman Hansen, an immigration scammer who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a fraudulent immigration scheme.

Federal prosecutors revealed that approximately 500 illegal aliens had enrolled in the scheme, collectively paying Hansen around $1 million, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

The Court’s ruling serves as a smackdown to the ACLU and the far-left who dubiously argued that Hansen’s First Amendment right to free speech had been violated when he was incarcerated for encouraging illegal immigration.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing the majority opinion, outlined the Court’s rationale, emphasizing that the challenged law “forbids only the intentional solicitation or facilitation of certain unlawful acts.” Barrett concluded that the law does not infringe upon the First Amendment.

According to NBC News, between 2012 and 2016, Hansen charged applicants $10,000, promising them a pathway to U.S. citizenship through adult adoption.

In addition to violating the federal law prohibiting the encouragement of unlawful immigration, Hansen was also found guilty of 12 counts of mail fraud and three counts of wire fraud, as reported by NBC.

In February 2022, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the law, claiming that the law’s language was too vague. The Biden administration challenged this decision, leading to the case being brought before the Supreme Court.

Justice Thomas filed a concurring opinion, aligning with the majority. Liberal Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion. 

The Court’s ruling is expected to act as deterrent to those who unlawfully encourage illegal immigration, an issue of significant importance to the nation.

Mercenary Rebel Headed Toward Moscow

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Mercenary Rebel Headed Toward Moscow

(Headline USA) Moscow on Saturday erected checkpoints with armored vehicles and troops on its southern edge, Red Square was shut down and the mayor urged motorists to stay off some roads as the Russian capital braced for the arrival of a private army led by a rebellious mercenary commander.

Authorities declared a “counterterrorist regime” in the capital and its surrounding region, enhancing security and restricting some movement.

On the southern outskirts, troops erected checkpoints, arranged sandbags and set up machine guns.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin warned that traffic could be restricted in parts of the capital. He declared Monday a non-working day for most residents.

Crews dug up sections of highways to slow the march of the Wagner mercenary army.

Access to Red Square was closed, two major museums were evacuated and a park was shut.

Prigozhin’s private army appeared to control the military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, a city 660 miles (over 1,000 kilometers) south of Moscow that runs Russian operations in Ukraine, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said.

Wagner troops and equipment also were in Lipetsk province, about 360 kilometers (225 miles) south of Moscow, where authorities “are taking all necessary measures to ensure the safety of the population,” said regional Gov. Igor Artamonov, via Telegram.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Ga. Won’t Update Dominion Voting Machines Before 2024

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Ga. Won’t Update Dominion Voting Machines Before 2024

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Despite cybersecurity experts warning of vulnerabilities, Georgia delayed a software update for its Dominion voting machines until after the 2024 presidential election.

Last week, a nearly 2-year-old report was made public and showed that Dominion voting machines had significant vulnerabilities, Just the News reported. The findings led the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency [CISA] to issue a public advisory last year.

Despite the revealed information, Georgia election officials said that the machines won’t be updated until after the 2024 elections because it’s such a massive undertaking.

In July 2021, University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman with Professor Drew Springall, of Auburn University, completed the report and focused in part on vulnerabilities they found after examining Dominion’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices for three months.

On June 14, 2022, a redacted copy of the report was released by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. ​

Just the News wrote that the report was completed on behalf of the plaintiffs in the case of Curling v. Raffensperger and found that the Dominion machines are vulnerable to vote-flipping.

Halderman said that the machines were capable of being easily manipulated in mere minutes by bad actors, adding that the QR codes on printed ballots could be altered and malware installed on individual machines “with only brief physical access.”

The report also concluded that the broader voting system could be attacked if bad actors have the same access to it as certain county-level election officials.

However, Halderman said that these vulnerabilities could not have been exploited in past elections.

“My technical findings leave Georgia voters with greatly diminished grounds to be confident that the votes they cast on [the current Dominion ballot-marking devices] are secured, that their votes will be counted correctly, or that any future elections using Georgia’s [ballot-marking devices] will be reasonably secure from attack and produce correct results,” he said.

Anti-Life Donations Dry Up a Year After Overturning Roe v. Wade

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Anti-Life Donations Dry Up a Year After Overturning Roe v. Wade

(Headline USA) The ‘rage giving’ did not last.

Anti-life pro-abortion activists, who received a windfall of donations following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade one year ago, say giving has dropped off.

After the Dobbs decision, some major funders of abortion access also have ended or shifted funding from organizations working in states where infanticide is now banned, said Naa Amissah-Hammond, senior director of grant-making with Groundswell Fund, which funds abortion activist groups.

Holly Calvasina explained her experiences with the boom and bust of abortion fundraising as director of development at the reproductive health clinic CHOICES in Memphis, Tennessee.

Last year, CHOICES raked in over $150,000 in donations to their annual spring appeal. That’s up from $2,000 in 2021. This year, the appeal raised $40,000.

Organizations in states where abortion has been banned or limited have needed to pivot away from funding abortions, said Marsha Jones, executive director of The Afiya Center, based in Dallas.

However, she said funders are less interested in supporting maternal health than they were in supporting abortion activism.

Data on last year’s charitable giving to any sector is hard to come by. The overreaction to COVID-19 has slowed the public release of donor reports to the IRS, though a delay of up to two years was typical before.

Donations to human services and public society benefit organizations, sectors that could include abortion access nonprofits, both declined in 2022, according to the Giving USA report released last week.

In comparison, red states have been generously funding pregnancy centers after the Dobbs decision.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

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