EXCLUSIVE: Postmaster Falsely Tells Congress He Can’t Deploy Cops to Stop Mail Theft

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EXCLUSIVE: Postmaster Falsely Tells Congress He Can’t Deploy Cops to Stop Mail Theft

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress earlier this month that he doesn’t have the statutory authority to deploy postal police officers to protect letter carriers, collection boxes and mail vehicles—telling lawmakers that the officers are only allowed to work at post offices and other Postal Service property.

“I don’t have authority to patrol the streets,” DeJoy said at a May 17 House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing.

However, this is false, according to Postal Police Officers Association President Frank Albergo, as well as records reviewed by Headline USA.

Albergo told Headline USA that the postal police officers, or PPOs, had the ability to protect mail routes until August 2020, when the Postal Service ordered them to confine their activities to Postal Service property. The Postal Police Officers Association has been suing the Postal Service over this issue ever since then.

Albergo believes that the USPS is restricting officers as a collective bargaining tactic to drive down their pay—by treating them as security guards, rather than full police.

The move to restrict PPOs also comes as the Postal Service devotes more resources to U.S. Postal Inspection Service to monitor mail and conduct online surveillance. USPIS Postal Inspectors are distinct from PPOs, with the former assisting other agencies such as the FBI in their investigations, and the latter largely being devoted to preventing street crime.

In any event, what DeJoy told Congress earlier this month is blatantly false, Albergo said.

“For nearly 50 years, PPOs have protected letter carriers and mail-in-transit. In fact, from the beginning of 2016 to the end of 2018, PPOs conducted over 100,000 off-property patrols to protect employees and the mail,” he told Headline USA.

Albergo also said DeJoy misled Congress when he said that he’d need about 100 times more PPOs than his current roster of fewer than 600.

Albergo said about 700 PPOs can significantly curtail mail theft if strategically deployed.

“The Postal Service must think in terms of 700 federal police officers in 20 specific geographic locations—not 700 officers spread out across America.  PPOs obviously cannot police over 200,000 letter carrier routes. But is the Postal Service saying that all 200,000 letter carrier routes are unsafe?” he said.

“Of course not. There are certain zip codes and delivery routes that are frequently targeted by criminals—most of which are in the very locations where PPO workforces are present.”

Albergo and his union might be back on the streets soon. The Postal Police Officers Association recently won an arbitration decision over the issue, and filed a lawsuit in March to compel the Postal Service to put officers back on the streets.

But meanwhile, mail theft and mail-related crime continues to plague the country.

In 2022, 412 USPS letter carriers were robbed on the job, according to a Postal Service press release from earlier this month. Additionally, the agency reported an increase in high volume mail theft incidents from mail receptacles: 38,500 2022 and more than 25,000 in the first half of fiscal year 2023.

“With 305 incidents reported in the first half of FY23, these incidents are increasingly more prevalent,” the Postal Service admitted.

Albergo noted the bitter irony that the Postal Service is attempting to become a quasi-NSA—monitoring Black Lives Matters protestors, J6ers and other political activists—at the expense of keeping letter carriers safe.

“According to the Inspection Service, it has the power to conduct surveillance on every piece of mail but does not have the power to deploy uniformed postal police officers to protect the mail and postal workers,” he said.

“Can you imagine a law enforcement agency that doesn’t want their uniformed law enforcement officers to enforce the law? Actually, in this day and age, you probably can imagine it.”

The Postal Service has declined to comment on the PPO issue, citing the pending litigation.

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

Pro-Family Org. Issues Travel Warnings for California, Minnesota over Child Endangerment

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Pro-Family Org. Issues Travel Warnings for California, Minnesota over Child Endangerment

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The American Principles Project, a pro-family political-action committee,  issued travel warnings last week for the states of California and Minnesota citing laws that endanger children, the Washington Times reported.

The APP said that the two states are essentially “trans refuge” states due to the anti-family laws in place.

In a statement, the organization noted that both California and Minnesota have recently passed laws “which legal experts argue could result in even out-of-state parents losing custody of their children.”

According to the APP’s legal team, “these laws give state family courts the power to take temporary emergency jurisdiction over a minor coming into the state to access sex-change drugs or surgical procedures, regardless of if the minor is traveling from another state.”

APP President Terry Schilling noted that “families traveling to California or Minnesota could be at risk for that awful scenario actually playing out—losing custody of their kids to an industry that aims to sterilize and mutilate their bodies,” calling it “frightening” and “enraging” that anti-family policies would be enacted in America.

Schilling added that the APP for those reasons advised families against traveling to the far-left bastions.

“Right now, parents traveling to both these states with their children run a very real risk of having their families ripped apart,” Schilling wrote.

“Until the terrible laws enabling this abuse are nullified or repealed, parents need to be aware of these risks and plan accordingly.”

The warning was issued in the wake of the NAACP’s performative travel warning for Florida.

“Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals,” the far-left organization declared.

“Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color,.” it added.

Ky. AG, Rising GOP Star Daniel Cameron Denounces Attacks on Black Conservatives

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Ky. AG, Rising GOP Star Daniel Cameron Denounces Attacks on Black Conservatives

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a black Republican, denounced leftist attacks on black conservatives in a Monday interview, Newsmax reported.

Cameron recently won the Republican nomination for the upcoming gubernatorial race in Kentucky, one of the bellwethers that is likely to offer some indication of the national mood heading into the 2024 presidential election season.

He noted that he believes the people of Kentucky will not be receptive to the Left’s so-called anti-racist agenda.

He has been called the “the black face of white supremacy” in recent weeks.

In Cameron’s words, such attacks are “appalling and disappointing but not uncommon.”

For the AG, those people “discount not only my opinion, but my parents’ opinion, countless family members, a lot of black folks that are conservative.”

Fortunately, he noted, the Republican base at least does not find attacks on the basis of race to be appealing.

“The good news is that folks are disregarding and dismissing [such viewpoints] and will continue to adhere to and be attracted to the principles of the Republican Party,” he said.

Cameron has made a wave in the Republican party by describing himself as a “Reagan Republican” in a party that has turned in a more populist direction in the past decade.

In respect to the anti-racism of the Left, however, Cameron remains staunchly opposed to classifying Americans according to race.

According to the aspiring governor, the people of his state share his sentiments.

“Here in Kentucky we don’t care what you look like, we care about your values,” Cameron said. “That’s why I am the Republican nominee for governor here … [and] we feel confident that we are going to win in November.”

He will face off this November against Democratic incumbent, Gov. Andy Beshear, who “does not understand Kentucky’s values” and lacks “common sense.”

Cameron also noted that his opponent “will not be able to hide from his record,” which includes a veto of “legislation that would have banned biological men from playing in women’s sports.”

Feinstein’s Alarming Kamala Confusion: ‘What Is She Doing Here?’

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Feinstein’s Alarming Kamala Confusion: ‘What Is She Doing Here?’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., expressed confusion over the role of Vice President Kamala Harris during tie-breaking votes in the Senate. This incident has brought attention to concerns about Feinstein’s age and her ability to effectively carry out her duties in the Senate.

During a Senate vote, a befuddled Feinstein reportedly asked her staffers, “What is she doing here?” referring to Harris, who was presiding over the Senate chamber at the time, according to the New York Times. Staff members have forced Feinstein to remain on the Senate floor, informing her she cannot leave because of missing votes.

Feinstein and Harris served together in the Senate until Harris was tapped by then-candidate for president Joe Biden to be his running mate.

Despite calls for her resignation, the 89-year-old senator has chosen not to step down, defying the far-Left wing of the Democrat Party. If Feinstein were to resign, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, also a Democrat, would appoint a replacement.

Radicals on the far Left have been vocal in demanding Feinstein’s resignation, claiming her absence and failure to vote are effectively thwarting the leftist agenda of the party.

Others have torched Democrat leadership over what they perceive as “elderly abuse.” Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly protecting Feinstein from resignation calls to support her embattled protégé Rep. Adam Schiff, who is vying for Feinstein’s Senate seat in 2024.

Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee, both Democrats, are also challenging Schiff for the seat. According to a confidant of the Pelosi family cited by Politico that the prevailing political strategy is to keep Feinstein in the senate “as long as possible” to benefit Schiff’s campaign.

Feinstein, who has represented California in the Senate since 1992, recently returned to the Senate after an extended absence due to health complications and multiple hospitalizations. The Times published an exposé on Sunday, revealing that since her return, Feinstein has been heavily reliant on her staff for function.

When asked about her months-long absence, Feinstein appeared disoriented and denied having been away at all, claiming, “No, I haven’t been gone. You should follow the – I haven’t been gone. I’ve been working.”

BLM Rioters Who Destroyed Catholic Saint Statue Get Pass from Dem. DA

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BLM Rioters Who Destroyed Catholic Saint Statue Get Pass from Dem. DA

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) California‘s Marin County District Attorney Lori E. Frugoli announced that the charges against Black Lives Matter rioters who vandalized a statue of a Catholic saint were reduced following “an innovative restorative justice solution.”

According to the release by the Marin County District Attorney’s office, the vandals who spray-painted and tore down the statue of St. Junipero Serra at a Catholic parish in San Rafael, Calif., on Oct. 12, 2020, during a protest marking California’s “Indigenous People’s Day” had their charges reduced from felonies to misdemeanors. Catholic News Agency reported that the felony charges were originally filed in November 2020.

“It is the District Attorney’s Office’s goal to achieve a fair result on all cases, and I strongly believe justice was served on this one,” Frugoli stated in the release.

“While this issue has raised emotions because of the sensitivities around religion, community boundaries and historic inequities, the fact is that a resolution through accountability has been reached through restorative justice and that is a victory for this community.”

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone responded to Frugoli and Marin County Deputy District Attorney Aicha Mievis.

“I am disturbed but not surprised. I have seen this happen too many times before. We are promised justice and equal treatment, only to have our legitimate concerns dismissed, and we ourselves treated as unworthy of consideration,” he wrote.

Cordileone then added that the reason why the charges were reduced was only because Catholics are not one of the “oppressed” groups in the United States.

“It is clear to me that this course of action would not have been taken with anyone else. In fact, this crime likely would have been charged as a hate crime, at least if it were perpetrated against certain other minority and vulnerable groups of people,” he wrote.

Cordileone then wrote that, unlike some of those “vulnerable” groups, Catholics are actually oppressed in the United States.

“There have been more than 100 attacks on Catholic Church property across the nation, including in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, one of which was someone firing a bullet into our Cathedral,” he wrote.

“Anti-Catholicism has a long and ugly history in this country. Now, with this decision, you have given the signal that attacks on Catholic houses of worship may continue without serious legal consequence.”

Jordan, Massie Probe FBI-Bank of American Collusion against J6 Patriots

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Jordan, Massie Probe FBI-Bank of American Collusion against J6 Patriots

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) House Republicans have launched an investigation into Bank of America’s alleged collusion with the FBI, as the financial institution faces harsh criticism for reportedly providing the data of January 6 protestors to the embattled federal agency. Bank of America, a whistleblower said, provided the information voluntarily and with no warrants.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a member of the weaponization subcommittee, sent a damning letter to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, notifying him of the GOP probe and demanding all related documents to be turned over to the Judiciary Committee.

“The Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government are conducting oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its receipt of information about American citizens from private entities,” the letter noted.

Jordan and Massie cited the testimony of an FBI whistleblower, retired FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst George Hill, who said that the financial institution “voluntarily and without any legal process” funneled to the agency “a list of individuals who had made transactions in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area with a BoA credit or debit card between January 5 and January 7, 2021.”

Hill also indicated that the bank investigated customers who bought weapons during that time frame. “This information appears to have had no individualized nexus to particularized criminal conduct, but was rather a data dump of BoA customers’ transactions over a three-day period,” Hill said, who was joined by his former supervisor, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Boston Field Office Joseph Bonavolonta.

“This information undoubtedly included private details about BoA customers who had nothing at all to do with the events of January 6,” they continued, according to Just The News.

Massie torched Bank of America for reporting the information without a warrant to the FBI in an interview with Fox News’s Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday.

“If you bought so much as a hot dog with a credit card or a debit card from Bank of America on January 5, January 6 or January 7 in Washington, D.C., in 2021, they put you in a list and gave it to the FBI,” Massie told host Will Cain.

“They enhanced that list by data mining the private records of their customers to see anybody who’s bought a firearm and that wasn’t geofenced of limited by that day and that’s very disturbing,” Massie added of Bank of America.

DeSantis Ramps Up Attacks against Trump

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DeSantis Ramps Up Attacks against Trump

(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) A prevailing question as the Republican primary kicks into high gear has been: will Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis return fire for former President Donald Trump’s attacks or hold back?

Since his announcement last week, DeSantis has gone after Trump and laid out what appears to be a leading criticism: the former president’s COVID-19 response.

A campaign video released online by DeSantis’ team features a montage of Trump’s comments as president. In the video Trump talks about the need to shut the country down, how only the president could make that decision, and speaks of his work with Anthony Fauci, who has become a villainous figure for most Republican primary voters.

“After Fauci’s lockdowns destroyed millions of lives, Donald Trump actually said Fauci ‘should be respected for the job’ he did,” DeSantis’ war room wrote on Twitter alongside the video.

DeSantis has repeatedly touted his own COVID-19 response. He took criticism for opposing lockdowns but was later vindicated as those lockdowns apparently did little to slow the spread of COVID while significantly hurting the economy.

“First, we need an honest reckoning about what happened during COVID,” DeSantis said during his announcement, calling the federal pandemic response “authoritarian” and not in line with the data. “I saw an interest in the narrative and politics over evidence…”

During the Twitter event announcing his candidacy, DeSantis took subtle shots at Trump without naming him, saying he had frustration with the former president’s inability to enact his agenda and blasted the “culture of losing” in the GOP. Later, though, DeSantis ramped up his attacks, honing in on Trump’s COVID response.

Those attacks have been repeated by DeSantis’ supporters. Rep. Thomas Massie, who praised DeSantis during his Twitter Spaces event, mimicked that argument on Twitter Friday.

“Fauci’s boss was Trump,” he wrote.

Trump has hit DeSantis fast and hard in a string of attacks before the Florida governor announced his candidacy. Nicknaming him “DeSanctimonious,” Trump has called DeSantis unelectable and said he needs a “personality transplant.”

One of Trump’s most persistent attacks against DeSantis so far is that DeSantis would never have become governor in the first place if not for Trump’s endorsement. That argument has already appeared in multiple campaign videos since DeSantis’ announcement.

Trump posted another video on TruthSocial Sunday to that effect, this time of DeSantis thanking Trump for his endorsement and a Fox News anchor crediting Trump’s endorsement with DeSantis’ surge in support.

“This is a Classic,” Trump wrote with the video. “A 27 point DeSanctus swing from my Endorsement. A must watch!”

DeSantis has hit Trump for failing to deal with immigration and also for a criminal justice bill Trump signed that many conservatives called weak on crime. Crime has since become a major concern for voters as a crime wave has hit many of the nation’s large cities.

DeSantis also attacked Trump in an interview with Eric Bolling, saying Trump has lost his edge since when he first announced in 2015.

​​”But when he’s taken Disney’s side against me, I just kind of wonder, like, okay, I get he wants to hit me, but don’t take the side of a multinational corporation that wants to sexualize kids,” DeSantis said. “He’s also hitting me against voting against immigration amnesty.

“So I’m not sure what his strategy is, but I think he’s taking positions that are a little bit different than four or five years ago,” he added.

NYC Dem. Mayor to Stuff Illegal Aliens in Harlem Jail

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NYC Dem. Mayor to Stuff Illegal Aliens in Harlem Jail

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) After years of promoting the Big Apple as a sanctuary city, New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams will open a former prison in Harlem to house illegal immigrants.

New York City has been dealing with an influx of 70,000 migrants in the last year and continually struggled to find housing for their guests. Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul approved the plan to house the migrants in the former Lincoln Correctional Center into a shelter for migrants.

“We’re grateful to the state for providing this site and partnering with the city to open this space as a temporary site for asylum seekers as New York City continues to face this humanitarian crisis,” Adams’ office said in a statement.

According to Breitbart, the border crossers will be kept in actual jail cells.

Up until this point, Adams was contracting local hotels, such as the historic Roosevelt Hotel, for hundreds of thousands of dollars, forcing the city’s taxpaying citizens to foot a $75 million bill.

The surge of illegal immigrants strained the city’s public resources, infrastructure, housing prices and services for New Yorkers. Despite the problems the migrants caused the city, Hochul encouraged the arrival of migrants.

“There are not enough workers here in the state of New York … at the same time we have this historic labor shortage, we also have this unprecedented influx of individuals arriving in New York — all of them legally seeking asylum,” she said. “They’re eager to work, they want to work, they came here in search of work, for a new future.”

The citizens paid an estimated $5 million every day to attempt to deal with the issue. Since there are more than 30,000 illegals who are currently being housed in New York City’s taxpayer-funded facilities, the total amount would be $10.89 million.

Despite that the city begged both the Biden and Hochul administrations to send money to cover the fees, the Federal Emergency Management Agency only gave a mere $8 million to the city in December, which wouldn’t be enough to cover even two current days.

BLM Loses Warner Brothers Deal after Flopping on Contract, Failing to Produce Content

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BLM Loses Warner Brothers Deal after Flopping on Contract, Failing to Produce Content

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Warner Bros Television Group released Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors from a contract after the organization neglected to provide any content for production.

“The studio signed an overall deal with BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors at some point in 2020,” said a source from within the organization, but the “deal expired at end of October 2022” and “did not result in any produced shows.”

The botched deal and failure to produce followed a pattern that has BLM reportedly on the brink of insolvency after years of mismanagement and highly dubious spending.

According to the Post Millennial, the multi-year, multi-platform deal would provide an outlet for original material produced by the group—including scripted comedies, dramas, animated shows and documentaries centered around black stories.

Variety reported on the initial deal but did not disclose its financial value to the public.

Cullors helped found BLM in 2013, but stepped down after bad press following the discovery that she used company funds to purchase four different multi-million dollar homes in Georgia and California.

Several reports of BLM higher-ups using donated money for personal luxuries emerged in the following months. Cullors was also caught contracting her baby daddy’s charity as “lead developer of the art & cultural events,” to the tune of $238,000.

Damon Turner, who fathered Cullors’s only child, formed the company Trap Heals a few days before he partnered with the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.

In April 2022, Cullors decried required tax forms as “triggering” and claimed they were “weaponized” against organizations like BLM.

“If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes,” said fellow co-founder Hawk Newsome. “It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement.”

Cullors lashed out at her critics, particularly conservative news outlets, threatening to sue them for defamation.

BREAKING: Calls Grow Louder to Oust McCarthy as House Speaker

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BREAKING: Calls Grow Louder to Oust McCarthy as House Speaker

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Several House Republicans and conservative personalities have initiated a campaign to remove Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., from his position as House Speaker. The controversial move comes in response to McCarthy’s recent debt ceiling deal with embattled President Joe Biden and Democrats, which has raised concern about McCarthy’s ability to govern.

The debt ceiling debate between McCarthy and the White House came to a surprising end on Saturday when the House Speaker announced the deal. The text of the bill, which was released on Sunday, has been met with harsh criticism from several prominent Republican leaders. McCarthy said Republicans had three days to review the bill.

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., torched the Biden deal as an “even more malodorous” plan than the GOP’s Limit, Save, Grow Act, which was passed earlier this year. “What a disaster,” Biggs added in a Sunday tweet. In a separate tweet, Biggs said the McCarthy-Biden deal does not “stop, or even slow down, deficit spending.”

Echoing Biggs’s concerns, Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., another conservative stalwart, called the deal “nothing material & just more talking points,” arguing that the agreement does not deal with debt.

Mounting criticism could lead to a congressional motion to oust McCarthy as the Republican leader in the House, warned Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, in a Sunday interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press. Comer said that McCarthy deserves a chance to lead House Republicans but said there could be one person who “tries to abuse that motion.”

Several provisions of the deal, including only withdrawing $1.9 billion from the leftist-ordered $80 billion funding to the IRS, have fueled calls to remove McCarthy.

Responding to the news that the bill only withdraws $1.9 billion from the IRS, congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini said on Monday, “Do we not have a single Republican with the courage to file a Motion to Vacate the chair?”

Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon blasted the Republican leader over what Bannon called a “total surrender” to the White House. In an interview with Newsweek, Bannon called the bill “not acceptable” and warned it will add another $4 to $5 trillion to the national debt.

“This shows no leadership whatsoever,” he added, also saying that a motion to vacate is likely to follow if the bill is passed.

Controversial activist Laura Loomer joined the calls to oust McCarthy, saying “MOTION TO VACATE. Too bad nobody in the GOP in Congress has the courage to do it.” 

Political commentator Gunther Eagleman said McCarthy needed to be “held responsible for getting played by Joe Biden and the Democrats on the debt ceiling,” also adding a “#VacateTheChair” comment on a Sunday tweet.

McCarthy has dismissed the ousting efforts, saying he was “not at all worried.”  

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