Texas Gov. Abbott Sends SOS to Fellow Governors, Seeks Border Security Help

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Texas Gov. Abbott Sends SOS to Fellow Governors, Seeks Border Security Help

(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent an SOS to his fellow 49 governors Tuesday asking for help to secure the state’s 1,254-mile-border with Mexico.

Abbott sent a letter to every governor of every U.S. state asking for their help after the public health authority Title 42 ended on May 12 and roughly 150,000 people are estimated to be congregated on the Mexican side approaching to enter the U.S. illegally.

Groups of tens of thousands have already arrived in the Rio Grande Valley and other areas of Texas, overwhelming Border Patrol agents. Abbott already has sent more than 10,000 Texas National Guard troops as border communities continue to declare emergencies.

The call for help comes after at least 125 known, suspected terrorists have been apprehended illegally entering the southern border this fiscal year and as the former ICE chief argues Biden administration policies are the greatest national security threat since 9/11.

While the Biden administration has sent 1,500 military personnel to help Border Patrol agents process illegal foreign nationals into the U.S., they aren’t acting in a law enforcement capacity.

“Since taking office, President Biden has willfully refused to enforce our nation’s immigration laws while systematically dismantling every effective border security policy that previously led to the lowest number of illegal border crossings in decades,” Abbott wrote the governors. “The resultant surge in illegal immigration and transnational criminal activity is a direct consequence of these misguided actions.

“The flood of illegal border activity invited by the Biden Administration flows directly across the southern border into Texas communities, but this crisis does not stop in our state,” Abbott wrote. “Emboldened Mexican drug cartels and other transnational criminal enterprises profit off this chaos, smuggling people and dangerous drugs like fentanyl into communities nationwide.

“In the federal government’s absence, we, as Governors, must band together to combat President Biden’s ongoing border crisis and ensure the safety and security that all Americans deserve.”

Referring to an Emergency Management Assistance Compact, he said the states are empowered to provide assistance to each other “in times of disaster or emergency, both of which accurately describe the current border crisis.

“Join us in the mission to defend our national sovereignty and territorial integrity and send all available law enforcement personnel and resources to the Texas-Mexico border to serve alongside our thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers,” Abbott urged his fellow governors.

He also explained that the Texas legislature first allocated $4.5 billion on border security operations from 2021-2023 through Operation Lone Star. The current budget is allocating an additional $4.6 billion over the next two years. Texas also began building its own border wall using hundreds of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars and private donations totaling over $55 million so far.

Since March 2021, Operation Lone Star officers have apprehended more than 376,000 illegal foreign nationals and made over 28,000 criminal arrests, with over 25,000 felony charges reported. They’ve also seized more than 416 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill more than the entire U.S. population.

“Texas alone should not have to shoulder the financial burden of protecting our nation,” Abbott wrote.

He also thanked the governors of Idaho and Florida for already committing to send assistance to secure the Texas-Mexico border.

$15M Study to Have IRS File Your Taxes

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$15M Study to Have IRS File Your Taxes

(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 included $15 million to study the creation of a government-run tax e-filing system — a study that has been marred by partisan researchers, and with many of the questions in the study already answered.

Progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren have advocated for a “free direct efile tax return system” which would fundamentally change the tax system in the U.S. according to the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. Instead of taxpayers determining how much they owe subject to audit, as they do now, this new system would see the government calculate each citizens’ taxes.

The IRS hired New America as one of its investigators, whose top officials worked for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. New American is already on the record as endorsing this plan. Other hires include Ariel Jurow Kleiman, a Loyola Law School professor who has written a paper endorsing the plan.

“Why bother with the ruse of an ‘independent’ study?” the Journal wrote.

While the results are unlikely to be surprising, the IRS already commissioned a study by MITRE on public attitudes regarding a system like this. It found only 37% of filers would use an IRS service like this, and only 29% of filers would use it if it didn’t have a state tax filing feature. About 50% of respondents want to stick with their current third party software.

“Among the nearly 50% of respondents who say they want to stick with their current commercial software, among their reasons was, ‘I don’t think it’s the IRS’s role to prepare taxes.’ Sensible thinking,” the Journal wrote.

This new costly study is partisan and duplicative, and the IRS should put its money to better use to serve taxpayers.

Illegals Pushing Court Backlog Beyond Breaking Point, Getting Worse

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Illegals Pushing Court Backlog Beyond Breaking Point, Getting Worse

(By James Varney, RealClear Wire) New migrants pouring into the U.S. after the Biden administration let a COVID-19 restriction called Title 42 expire last week will not break the nation’s stretched court system. The system is already shattered, according to several former judges, immigration experts and Department of Homeland Security data.

The average wait time for a “Notice to Appear” before a judge at one of the nation’s 66 immigration courts is now four and a half years. In some cities it is much longer. In New York City, new migrants do not have to appear in court until 2032. This growing backlog creates an incentive for more people to cross the border and request asylum as each new case pushes assigned court dates further into the future. In the meantime, many migrants are permitted to live and work in the United States.

“It’s well past broken,” said Art Arthur, a former immigration court judge and now a resident fellow at the conservative Center for Immigration Studies. “The courts weren’t set up for this. When you don’t do anything at the front end, the back end just collapses. Everybody who shows up now knows the chances are 90% or better you’re going to be here indefinitely or forever.”

The impact on the courts of the expiration of Title 42 – a restriction former President Trump implemented to expel migrants, even if they were seeking asylum – is one of several unknowns the U.S. will confront in the current wave of migration. The cost to taxpayers is also unclear, though complaints have been mounting in border states that must absorb the crush and in self-proclaimed sanctuary cities that are struggling with pledges made years ago to house and care for migrants.

Federal agencies charged with handling immigration, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Executive Office of Immigration Review and Immigration and Customs Enforcement – did not respond to requests for comment or declined to answer questions on the record.

But a Feb. 18, 2023, internal ICE document obtained by RealClearInvestigations listing the top 10 backlogged locations shows court dates are already far in the future.

The document shows New York leading the list as “fully booked through October 2032.” That time lag tops Florida locations, booked until 2028; Atlanta and San Antonio, where a migrant in the system does not have to appear until 2027; and a handful of other cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and Indianapolis, where the backlog carries into 2026.

Early estimates are that at least 11,000 arrivals could pour into the U.S. every day with Title 42 lifted. But much smaller totals have clogged the system for years. Baltimore, for instance, is “mostly booked” with fewer than 3,500 people, while Atlanta has a four-year wait time for just 1,757 people, according to ICE’s February figures.

Critics note the sharp disconnect between the estimated number of migrants who have crossed the border since Biden became president – more than 5 million – and the relatively small numbers of people with court dates. In theory, all migrants, whether they request asylum or not, would be assigned a court date. But the Biden administration has begun a policy of “paroling,” i.e. releasing, many encountered migrants with the expectation they would report to immigration offices at their final destinations.

That leaves most of the millions floating, according to those who study the issue closely.

“Both parolees and asylum applicants are eligible for work authorization,” said Rosemary Jenks, director of government affairs for NumbersUSA, a group pushing for tighter immigration policies. “Despite that, a huge number of those who say they’re here for asylum never actually file an asylum application, so they live and work here illegally.”

As more migrants arrive, court backlogs will undoubtedly be pushed even further into the future. That in turn may prompt more migrants to work through the system, further burdening an overwhelmed system. The delays already in place make it all but impossible for judges to hear cases properly, according to Arthur and another former immigration court judge in Texas, Tony Rogers. Even if somehow the courts were able to triple or quadruple the roughly 600 judges now on the bench, the system cannot keep up with the crush of people crossing the southern border.

“The judges can’t do anything more than saw the wood in front of them,” Rogers said. “It’s a dysfunctional system from top to bottom that is way past broken. This is exactly why all of them are coming – they know you can’t meaningfully try a case five years or more after a claim, and if you buy time long enough they’ll give you something. You’re not going to get deported and sent back.”

The average pending docket for Texas immigration court judges has skyrocketed to 8,000 from the 1,800 average that prevailed when Rogers left the bench 12 years ago, he said, and those figures do not reflect the reality within the U.S. at the moment, with its estimated population of 11.35 million undocumented immigrants.

“It’s actually even worse than what they’re telling you,” Rogers said. “These numbers only reflect people in the system. If they filed NTAs” – notices to appear – “for all the people that have entered, it would be even worse. No one can give you a statistic for that.”

Beyond the overwhelmed court system, the financial strain on taxpayers continues to grow. Sanctuary cities like New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. are struggling to meet the cost of just small fractions of the people swarming across the southern border.

New York City is now reportedly spending roughly $8 million a day to house and care for them, some of whom have been bused there from Texas. Mayor Eric Adams said he is considering housing some migrants in a closed prison. Washington, D.C., facing a budget gap of roughly $1.7 billion, says its Office of Migrant Services has spent more than $15.1 million providing housing and other services to immigrants, a figure expected to climb to $52.5 million by October. In January, the state of Illinois rejected Chicago’s request for money saying it had already spent close to $120 million on its “asylum seeker emergency response.”

Like the federal agencies, numerous others knowledgeable about the situation both within and without government did not respond to questions, including Susan Long and David Burnham, the co-directors of TRAC Immigration, a nonpartisan Syracuse University clearing house on information about immigration.

Members of Congress were unwilling to discuss the overloaded court system. RCI reached out to every Republican member of the House Border and Security Enforcement Committee and they did not respond. Similarly, RCI sought comment from a half dozen Democrats on the Committee, as well as two Republicans and Democratic ranking member Jerrold Nadler of New York on the House Judiciary Committee. None responded.

On May 11, hours before Title 42’s midnight expiration, the GOP majority in the House passed H.R. 2, which they labeled the Secure the Border Act.

“House Republicans are fighting to do what the Biden administration refuses to: secure our sovereign borders and protect Americans,” said a joint statement from three GOP committee chairmen – Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mark Green of Tennessee, and Michael McCaul of Texas. “The images coming out of border communities for the end of Title 42 this week are horrifying. There’s no question the border is not secure and the Biden administration has lost all control.”

Federal records show ICE wasn’t using Title 42 to expel many immigrants before. In 2022, the monthly figure for those expelled under Title 42 fell from 8,008 in May to 3,791 in December, the document shows. In the last five months of 2022, an average of 4,000 were expelled by Title 42.

But perceptions about Title 42 being an enforcement tool had worked as a brake on unfettered immigration the Biden administration has chosen to release, Jenks said.

“They know even that’s gone now,” she said. “It’s preposterous and that’s why they keep coming.”

Whatever impact the lifting may have, it can hardly hurt the effectiveness of a court system already characterized by Kafkaesque delays, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that has long worked for immigration controls.

“This is kind of a farce,” said Ira Mehlman, FAIR’s media director. “With people having a hearing 10 years from now, it’s pointless, and knowing there are such meaningless dates so far in the future is exactly the incentive and why you see so many people in line to enter.”

Pence Allies Launch ’24 Super PAC w/ Former VP’s Blessing

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Pence Allies Launch ’24 Super PAC w/ Former VP’s Blessing

(By Philip Wegmann, RealClear Wire) With his blessing, close friends and longtime allies of former Vice President Mike Pence are standing up a super PAC to support his expected bid for the presidency. And while he has not formally declared his candidacy, the new organization is the clearest sign yet that Pence intends to challenge his old boss, Donald Trump, for the 2024 Republican nomination.

It also reflects how they will do it. The new PAC, called “Committed to America,” has hired staff from the establishment machine that bucked Trump in Georgia, and they are preparing to put Trump on the defensive while reintroducing Pence to primary voters, “not as vice president,” but this time “as his own man.”

“People know Mike Pence,” said Scott Reed, a veteran of presidential politics who will serve as co-chair of the group along with former Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling. “They just don’t know him well.” The story they hope to tell includes his work as vice president but will also emphasize his deep connections to the right, particularly among social conservatives, from his time as chairman of the Republican Study Committee in the House to his term as governor of Indiana.

Because of that experience, they believe Pence already owns “the constitutional conservative lane.”

Up until the end, Pence never broke publicly with Trump or sought the spotlight at his expense, often working quietly behind the scenes to keep a chaotic administration on track while steering it in a more conservative direction. It wasn’t until he was out of office that Pence began codifying his divorce from Trump and encouraging others on the right to split with the populist ex-president.

Other candidates have flirted with a new emphasis on the Right that is more comfortable with expanding government and less beholden to established orthodoxy on fiscal and foreign policy. Not Pence.

He has called for a national abortion ban while others, such as Trump and former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, have retreated to more pragmatic ground. He says that the conflict in Ukraine “is not our war” but supports sending aid to Kyiv because “freedom is our fight.” He has warned his fellow conservatives against the temptation of going “beyond the scope” of limited-government principles to the point of criticizing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for using state power to settle political debates.

Those positions are why Pence’s allies argue that “there is no other classical conservative in this field.” But does the current GOP electorate, recently hopped-up on populism, have an appetite for the measured conservatism of a former talk-radio host who once described himself as “Rush Limbaugh on decaf,” or do they want an overly caffeinated brawler as their champion?

Pence smiled when RealClearPolitics put that question to him in Iowa last month. “I don’t know,” he said. “We may have to test that theory.”

Enter Bobby Saparow, who will serve as executive director for “Committed to America.”

He is the rare Republican operative with a win over Trump on his resume. Saparow ran Gov. Brian Kemp’s reelection campaign last year, successfully fending off a challenge from former Republican Sen. David Perdue, whom Trump hand-picked, bankrolled and championed in an attempt at retribution after Kemp refused to throw out Georgia’s 2020 election results. Kemp won by 50 percentage points.

“We have all the confidence in the world that the results that we were able to garner for Gov. Kemp we can duplicate for the vice president,” Saparow said. “There is a roadmap of success,” he said of that victory over Trump’s political machine, while also insisting the PAC could “replicate” that model for a national election.

“The loudest people in the room don’t always make up the majority,” a source familiar with the organization’s “methodical” plans said, explaining that “peeling off Trump voters has been done before” and adding it was possible again “if you do it correctly.”

That work will begin with a paid voter contact program in Iowa, a state that a source familiar with the organization’s efforts described as their “first and most important defining event.” Pence has made numerous trips there already, and allies believe that because of his Midwestern roots and social conservativism, the former Indiana governor has a shared sensibility and built-in advantage.

But for any advantages perceived by his team, Pence still trails Trump badly in the RealClearPolitics average. DeSantis, not the former vice president, is the front-runner’s closest competition, and DeSantis remains 30 points behind. While Trump defends that lead by making personal attacks and bestowing nicknames, the competition has been hesitant to fight back head-on for fear of alienating the Trump base.

Pence has been clear that principle drove his split with Trump when he refused to go along with the plan to throw out the 2020 election. He also wrote critically in “So Help Me God” – a recent memoir titled in reference to his constitutional oath of office – of the former president’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, the day a mob broke into the U.S. Capitol, some of them hunting for the vice president and his family.

Democrats point to that riot as disqualifying Trump for the presidency. Republicans have not – yet.

“Within about 60 seconds, when one understands the constitutional aspects of what took place on Jan. 6, they’re going to know that there is no more committed constitutional conservative than Mike Pence. No one laid it on the line for the Constitution as the former vice president did,” said a source familiar with the organization’s plans when asked how they’ll contrast the two men.

“That case needs to be made,” the source explained. “I’m not sure a lot of primary voters have focused on that. And they will.”

Congressional Leftists Threaten ‘Pushback’ If Biden Compromises on Debt Ceiling

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Congressional Leftists Threaten ‘Pushback’ If Biden Compromises on Debt Ceiling

(Headline USA) Leftist lawmakers, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned President Joe Biden not to negotiate with Republicans this week over the debt ceiling.

Biden is set to meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and other congressional leaders this week to reach a deal on the debt ceiling before the U.S. defaults. McCarthy and House Republicans passed their own debt ceiling increase that includes significant spending cuts, which Biden has thus far dismissed as a non-starter.

Leftists insisted that Biden continue to hold his ground, despite the economic disaster that a default would guarantee.

“It’s really important we don’t give ground,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told Axios. “We have made it clear … that if they give on these core Democratic values, there will be a huge backlash.”

Ocasio-Cortez echoed this threat, warning Biden that there would be “pushback” among congressional Democrats to “nearly any significant concession.”

“It’s profoundly destructive and it also threatens to weaken the president,” she said of potential negotiations.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., agreed: “”I’m very, very concerned … It makes us look weak and like we don’t know what we’re doing.”

However, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has signaled much more openness to negotiations, telling reporters this week that his talks with McCarthy have been “good and productive.”

“We are closer to a deal,” he said on Tuesday, adding that both sides agreed a default would be a horrible idea.

But McCarthy was more critical than Schumer, saying the two sides are still “far apart.”

“I still think we’re far apart,” McCarthy said on Monday. “It doesn’t seem to me yet that they want a deal. It seems like they want to look like they’re in a meeting. They’re not talking anything serious.”

Twitter Reacts to Shoot-Down of Russian ‘SuperCum’ Missiles

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Twitter Reacts to Shoot-Down of Russian ‘SuperCum’ Missiles

Editor’s note: Article contains graphic language and tweets that may be inappropriate for some audiences.

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) On the night of May 16, Russian forces launched numerous missiles at Ukraine in a barrage that nearly reached Ukraine’s capitol city of Kyiv.

Russians launched the 18 missiles in concert from land, sea and air, from the north, east, and south.

The air defense reportedly was successful in defending the capitol from any serious damage. The only damage sustained was from blown up missile fragments, which landed in various places throughout the city, including a Kyiv zoo.

Three people were injured in the attack. No casualties were reported in the attack.

On the whole, however, Ukrainian air defenses destroyed all 18 Russian missiles before they could reach their targets, the Ukrainian state media outlet Rubryka reported.

The Russians also reportedly conducted aerial reconnaissance using a tactical drone called “SuperCam,” which they pronounce as “SuperCum.”

The drone’s suggestive name immediately started trending on Twitter, prompting numerous jokes and memes, some pro-Russia and others pro-Ukraine.

Some Twitter users posted memes of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s famous sexualized dancing performance from his earlier acting days.

Another Twitter user posted a photo of missiles, calling it an “exclusive photo” of “the SuperCum UAV.”

For some who found photos of it, the drone looked exactly like they thought it would.

Others called attention to the fact that Americans seem concerned with the name of a small Russian drone as their nation collapses.

On a more serious note, some suggested that the error was the result of a Russian disinformation campaign to undermine the Ukrainian military’s credibility.

After realizing their mistake, Ukrainian media sources corrected the term to SuperCam, but it was too little, too late.

Zelenskyy’s Ukraine has been armed to the tooth by the west, a large part of which appears to be using Ukraine to fight a proxy war against Russia.

Western gifts include a missile defense system from the U.S. government.

DOJ Retaliates against Hunter Biden Whistleblower by Quashing IRS Investigation

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DOJ Retaliates against Hunter Biden Whistleblower by Quashing IRS Investigation

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has reportedly dismissed the entire investigative team in charge of Hunter Biden’s multi-year tax fraud investigation. 

The whistleblower who contacted Congress claiming a cover-up in this investigation said the investigative team’s removal was “clearly retaliatory,” according to the New York Post. Moreso, the whistleblower’s attorneys told Congress that the move was on the order of the Justice Department. 

“Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress,” attorneys Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt wrote. “He was informed the change was at the request of the Department of Justice.”

Though the whistleblower did not categorically identify the president’s coke-addict son as the subject of the investigation, sources within Congress have reportedly confirmed that is the case. 

The report added that IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel also testified before the House Committee on April 27 that “there will be no retaliation for anyone making an allegation or a call to a whistleblower hotline.”  However, the attorneys added that “this move is clearly retaliatory and may constitute obstruction of a congressional inquiry.

“Our client has a right to make disclosures to Congress … He is protected by 5 U.S.C. § 2302 from retaliatory personnel actions — including receiving a ‘significant change in duties, responsibilities, or working conditions’ (which this clearly is) because of his disclosures to Congress,” they stated.

“We respectfully request that you give this matter your prompt attention. Removing the experienced investigators who have worked this case for years and are now the subject-matter experts is exactly the sort of issue our client intended to blow the whistle on to begin with,” the attorneys concluded.

Taliban Handing Out Passports for Terrorists to Travel to U.S.–Mexico Border

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Taliban Handing Out Passports for Terrorists to Travel to U.S.–Mexico Border

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., warned on Monday that the Taliban was giving known terrorists “visas and passports” and sending them into America via the southern border, the Daily Caller reported.

“We know that people from over 170 countries are now coming across our border,” Waltz said. “The word has gone out that it’s wide open, and if you can just get there and step foot across our border then you can enter into our asylum system, get a workplace, or get a workforce visa and wait 5 to 7 years to maybe show up for court.”

The warning came after Border Patrol agents arrested an Afghan man on the FBI’s terrorist watch list just before the expiration of the pandemic-era Title 42 protections on May 11.

This year alone, Border Patrol agents have arrested 332 known or suspected terrorists who attempted to come into the U.S.

But the new migrant surge is sure to exacerbate even further the national security risk.

Waltz expressed concern that with the release of many terrorists after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, some inevitably would plan to infiltrate the U.S.

“We have to remember, going back to Afghanistan, there were thousands and thousands of the most hardened ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Taliban fighters released from the prison that was at Bagram,” Waltz said. “One of them was the suicide bomber that killed our 13 Americans at Abbey Gate.”

He also admitted that the American government lost track of many of the terrorists released in Afghanistan.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents encountered record-breaking numbers of illegal immigrants at the southern border in the 2022 fiscal year; 2023 is on pace to break that record with 1.2 million encounters thus far.

The number of “special interest” migrants, or those who frequently cross the border for “nefarious activity,” increased by 600%.

The inaction of the Biden administration was “almost treasonous,” said Tom Homan, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under former President Donald Trump.

“This administration has created such a crisis that it’s not about immigration anymore,” he said.

“It’s about border security,” he added. “When you cause a crisis this big and take 70% of agents off the line, that makes the border vulnerable.”

Anti-Capitalist Cafe’s ‘Pay What You Can’ Crashes One Year In Business

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Anti-Capitalist Cafe’s ‘Pay What You Can’ Crashes One Year In Business

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) After just over a year of operation, a Toronto, Canada, coffee shop will be closing because its anti-capitalist system of “pay what you can” system failed. 

The Anarchist’s owner Gabriel Sims-Fewer expressed disappointment that his anti-capitalist business venture did not survive without money coming into the business, the Daily Wire reported.

In a strongly worded post on the company’s website, Sims-Fewer expressed his appreciation for the opportunity to “live and work in ways that don’t enthusiastically embrace the pure misanthropy of capitalism,” but blamed the shop’s failure on a lack of “seed capital” from “ethically bankrupt sources.”

Sims-Fewer said that the coffee shop was unable to weather the quiet winter season and was unable to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer-term. However, he expressed hope that the idea of a pay-what-you-can system could be revived in a different form.

“The Anarchist has been a huge success in every way I hoped and has given me so much inspiration and education that I plan to put to use in future projects,” he told his customers. He then added, “F*** the rich. F*** the police. F*** the state. F*** the colonial death camp we call ‘Canada.’ Solidarity.”

The owner also apologized for being a “white cisgender” man and admitted he didn’t hire people who were white, cisgender, heterosexual men — making the business less white-male-centered than the industry standard, the Daily Wire noted.

Sims-Fewer didn’t help his business after posting on Instagram last year shocking images of police officers being hung by the neck, along with the acronym “ACAB.” The message behind this is clear: All Cops Are Bastards.

He added to the social media post that “the queen was sh** and should have died sooner,” a reference to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, who served as the monarch of Canada and other commonwealth realms.

The owner allowed customers to pay whatever they wanted for drip coffee–and more expensive drinks would be subsidized.

CNN Reporter Dressed Down for ‘Emotional’ Criticism of Trump Town Hall

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CNN Reporter Dressed Down for ‘Emotional’ Criticism of Trump Town Hall

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Oliver Darcy, a CNN reporter who criticized his own network for airing President Trump’s recent town hall, was dressed down by CNN’s new boss Chris Licht, and was visibly shaken by the ordeal.

Darcy’s criticism of the event was published in his newsletter, “Reliable Sources.” The relevant section of this particular letter bore the title “Trump and the Town Hall,” and opened with a denunciation of the event.

“It’s hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening,” Darcy wrote, criticizing the editorial decision to have Trump on CNN.

While Darcy praised Kaitlan Collins’s handling of Trump, he also argued that Trump was not contained by her. Darcy also aired CNN’s dirty laundry.

“CNN and new network boss Chris Licht are facing a fury of criticism — both internally and externally over the event,” he wrote, informing the public of internal dissatisfaction with Licht’s leadership.

This led to Darcy being confronted and dressed down by Licht to the point where Darcy was “visibly shaken,” according to The Blaze.

Dylan Byers, a former CNN reporter and self-styled “veteran reporter,” addressed the tension inside of CNN. Licht addressed Darcy’s criticisms in a meeting, according to Byers, who was relying on anonymous sources.

“America was served very well by what we did last night,” Licht said, directly contradicting Darcy’s assertion.

Licht’s dress down of Darcy came later in the day, and included Darcy’s editor, CNN’s communications chief and several members of CNN’s brass.

Anonymous sources informed Byers that Darcy stood by his reporting and challenged the criticism that he was emotional. The same source, however, also reported that “they put the fear of God into him.”

Byers argued that the rebuke is consistent with Licht’s vision for CNN.

“Indeed, there may be no single maxim that better characterizes the Zaz-Lichtian philosophy of New CNN, and the expectations of its journalists, than dispassion,” he wrote.

Byers noted that this radical departure from the old CNN model by which most of the current CNN reporting staff operated, is not fully embraced by many of their veteran reporters. Fortunately for Licht, the move is supported by the CNN brass.

Byers noted that, while no one was as brazen as Darcy, “the vast majority” of his insider contacts at CNN admired his reporting.

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