18K Cows Killed in Texas Dairy Farm Explosion

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18K Cows Killed in Texas Dairy Farm Explosion

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) An explosion at a Texas dairy farm killed nearly 20,000 cows  and left one person in critical condition on Monday.

Workers at Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmit, Texas, secured their cows in a holding area, preparing them for milking. An estimated 18,000 of them died when a concentrated explosion went off at Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmit. According to Fox News Digital, only a few of the cows in the holding area survived.

“Your count probably is close to that. There’s some that survived, there’s some that are probably injured to the point where they’ll have to be destroyed,” Castro County Sheriff Sal Rivera said.

Several employees were trapped inside the milking building just after the explosion. The Sheriff’s Department received eight calls from workers and neighbors of the farm.

One victim was airlifted from the scene in critical condition; all other employees were fine.

The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office.

“The speculation was probably what they call a honey badger, which is a vacuum that sucks the manure and water out and possibly that it got overheated and probably the methane and things like that ignited and spread out and exploded and the fire,” Rivera said in a statement.

This explosion is the latest in a string of destruction at large-scale farms and food processing plants.

In January, the nation’s 3rd largest egg production plant burned down, killing 100,000 birds.

“We have not heard any response from authorities regarding the causes of hundreds of other plant fires over the last year and unfortunately don’t expect this case to be any different,” the local paper reported regarding the incident.

A flour mills, meat processors and other food manufacturing plants across the nation have all seen catastrophe, leading many to question the source of the attacks.

The FBI warned of cyber-attacks against food manufacturers after the egg processing plant burned down.

“Ransomware actors may be more likely to attack agricultural cooperatives during critical planting and harvest seasons, disrupting operations, causing financial loss, and negatively impacting the food supply chain,” the FBI alert stated.

MLK-Cosplaying Tenn. Lawmaker Temporarily Reappointed to State Legislature

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MLK-Cosplaying Tenn. Lawmaker Temporarily Reappointed to State Legislature

(Headline USA) The second of two insurrectionist Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will follow his colleague in a return to work on Thursday, a week after their ouster from the legislature propelled them into the national spotlight.

Leftists rallied around Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, trying to frame their disruption as a civil-rights struggle even though there was little question that the two bullhorn-wielding activists violated House rules in disrupting the legislative session to abet anti-gun rioters.

On Monday, the Nashville Metropolitan Council took only a few minutes to unanimously restore Jones to office. He was quickly reinstated to his House seat the same day.

Pearson was easily reappointed to his position by Shelby County commissioners Wednesday, and delivered a performative speech like a fiery pastor to a throng of jubilant supporters outside in a churchlike celebration.

Meanwhile, Republican critics, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson were both perplexed and bemused that Pearson—formerly a clean-cut prep-school graduate who espoused centrist views—had grown out an afro hairstyle and refashioned himself as a modern-day Martin Luther King Jr.

Carlson accused the Bowdoin alumnus of cosplaying as a Baptist minister while likening his act to those of other disingenouous code-speakers—including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez.

Pearson’s and Jones’s re-appointments are interim and special elections for the seats will take place in the coming months. Both have said they plan to run.

Republican Gov. Bill Lee has avoided commenting on the lawmakers’ expulsion and instead said the controversy was an issue concerning the House.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Brazil’s Phony Socialist President Visits Xi, Pivots Toward China

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Brazil’s Phony Socialist President Visits Xi, Pivots Toward China

(Headline USA) Brazil’s newly installed socialist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, visited the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on Thursday as he looks to boost ties with China in its growing alliance of anti-Western imperialists.

As was the case with Joe Biden—who was installed in the U.S. under similar circumstances following a dubious and highly contested election that saw the administrative state aggressively suppressing all political dissent—the new president’s pivot toward the growing Chinese superpower marked a dramatic about-face for the country’s foreign policy.

His predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, sometimes nicknamed the “Trump of the Tropics” was forced into exile in Florida to avoid political persecution in his home country, which saw massive demonstrations of public outrage and rallies against blatant vote fraud following last year’s election.

The right-wing populist and members of his family at times caused friction with Chinese authorities on issues from the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to controversial telecommunications company Huawei.

“Lula,” as the socialist leader is known to his cultist followers, arrived late Wednesday and was due to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing on Friday before concluding his visit on Saturday.

China’s “Belt and Road” initiative already has led to alarming expansion of its sphere of influence, cutting a path for trade and cooperation from southern Asia through the Middle East and northern Africa, into Eastern Europe and back around.

However, the communist country’s foray into the Western Hemisphere could pose serious implications for the United State on matters including energy policy and national security, providing China a springboard to attack much as the Soviet Union did with Cuba during the Cold War.

The Brazilian government said the two nations were expected to sign at least 20 bilateral agreements during Lula’s trip.

In Shanghai, Lula also planned attend the official swearing in of close adviser and former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff as head of the Chinese-backed New Development Bank.

The institution posits itself as an alternative to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which are controlled mainly by the United States and its Western allies.

It is focused on the so-called BRICS group of developing nations made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Collectively, the anti-Western alliance is poised to encompass roughly three-quarters of the global population and all of its major oil producers if China succeeds.

It is currently taking steps to replace the U.S.-backed petrodollar as the global standard for the oil industry, which would undoubtedly lead to even greater destabilization of the Biden administration’s precarious economy.

Established more than seven years ago, the bank has approved 99 loan projects totaling more than $34 billion, mainly for infrastructure projects, according to China’s Foreign Ministry.

Much of that credit has gone to Brazil for projects such as a metro system in the business capital of Sao Paulo.

Lula was shown arriving at the bank’s headquarters and embracing Rousseff, his former chief of staff who succeeded him as president representing the Workers Party. Both later became embroiled in legal controversies, but Lula bounced back to win a third term by a narrow margin.

During his meeting with Xi, Lula is expected to discuss trade, investment, reindustrialization, energy transition, climate change and peace agreements, according to the Brazilian government.

China is Brazil’s biggest export market, each year buying tens of billions of dollars worth of soybeans, beef, iron ore, poultry, pulp, sugar cane, cotton and crude oil. Brazil is the biggest recipient of Chinese investment in Latin America, according to Chinese state media, although Lula has spoken against outright Chinese ownership of Brazilian companies.

One of the agreements Lula will sign in China will be for construction of the sixth satellite built under a binational program that will monitor biomes such as the Amazon rainforest.

China also recently ended a ban on Brazilian beef imposed in February after the discovery of an atypical case of mad cow disease.

On Thursday, he also visited a Huawei research center in Shanghai where he was shown a presentation on 5G and solutions in telemedicine, education and connectivity

“A very strong investment in research and innovation,” Lula tweeted in a show of a support for a company shunned by the U.S. and many European countries as a potential security risk due to evidence that it used spying software.

A key piece of Lula’s outreach abroad is his proposal that Brazil and other members of the developing Chinese world-order mediate peace over Ukraine. However, his suggestion that Ukraine cede Crimea as a means to forge peace has angered Kyiv and its closest backers.

China has also sought to play a role in ending the conflict, though in a manner highly supportive of Moscow. It has refused to condemn the invasion, criticized economic sanctions on Russia and accused the U.S. and NATO of provoking the conflict.

Russia and China declared a “no limits” relationship in a 2022 joint statement and Xi reaffirmed the closeness of ties in March by meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

A Chinese peace proposal presented in February contains aspects in common with Lula’s, such as ceasing hostilities and starting negotiations, but says nothing about the return of Ukrainian territory seized by Russia and its separatist allies.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Fed. Appeals Court Reverses Texas Judge’s Block on Abortion Pill

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Fed. Appeals Court Reverses Texas Judge’s Block on Abortion Pill

(Headline USA) A federal appeals court reversed a lower-court judge’s decision to ban the abortion pill mifepristone but kept in place restrictions on when the drug could be used and said it could not be dispensed by mail.

The ruling late Wednesday temporarily narrowed a decision in Texas that had completely blocked the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the nation’s most commonly used method of abortion.

The case is likely to go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Texas order roiled abortion activists who have sought a loophole following the overturning of Roe v. Wade as a growing number of red states impose heartbeat laws that would ban inpatient abortion procedures and hold accountable those who administer them.

A separate case in Texas is also seeking to extend the state’s abortion law to hold accountable those who facilitate access to abortion pills.

“We are going to continue to fight in the courts, we believe the law is on our side, and we will prevail,” White House press secretary Karine Jean–Pierre said Thursday, speaking to reporters from Dublin during a visit by President Joe Biden.

Just before midnight Wednesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone in 2000 could remain in effect.

But in the 2-1 vote, the panel of judges put on hold changes made by the regulator since 2016 that relaxed the rules for prescribing and dispensing mifepristone. Those included extending the period of pregnancy when the drug can be used from seven weeks to 10, and also allowing it to be dispensed by mail, without any need to visit a doctor’s office.

The two judges who voted to tighten restrictions, Kurt Engelhardt and Andrew Oldham, are both appointees of former President Donald Trump. The third judge, Catharina Haynes, is an appointee of former President George W. Bush. She said she would have put the lower court ruling on hold entirely for now to allow oral arguments in the case.

Either side, or both, could take the case to the Supreme Court. Opponents of the drug could seek to keep the full lower court ruling in effect. The Biden administration, meanwhile, could ask the high court to allow all the FDA changes to remain in place while the case continues to play out.

The appeals court judges in the majority noted that the Biden administration and mifepristone’s manufacturer “warn us of significant public consequences” that would result if mifepristone were withdrawn entirely from the market under the lower court ruling.

But the judges suggested changes the FDA made making mifepristone easier to obtain since 2016 were less consequential than its initial approval of the drug in 2000.

It would be “difficult” to argue the changes were “so critical to the public given that the nation operated—and mifepristone was administered to millions of women—without them for sixteen years” the judges wrote.

When the drug was initially approved in 2000, the FDA limited its use to up to seven weeks of pregnancy. It also required three in-person office visits: the first to administer mifepristone, the next to administer the second drug misoprostol and the third to address any complications. It also required a doctor’s supervision and a reporting system for any serious consequences associated with the drug.

If the appeals court’s action stands, those would again be the terms under which mifepristone could be dispensed for now.

Democratic leaders in blue states said they were preparing in case mifepristone becomes restricted.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday that her state would stockpile 150,000 doses of misoprostol.

The White House also has contingency plans in place, but Jean-Pierre held off on detailing them while the legal action continued.

Instead, she detailed a proposed a new federal rule to limit how law enforcement and state officials collect medical records if they investigate women who flee their home states to seek abortions elsewhere.

Pharmaceutical executives this week also signed a letter that condemned the Texas ruling and warned that FDA approval of other drugs could be at risk if U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision stands.

The lawsuit challenging mifepristone’s approval was brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was also involved in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, the Mississippi case that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned. At the core of the lawsuit is the allegation that the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone was flawed because the agency did not adequately review safety risks.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Shareholders of Four Major U.S. Banks Asked to Oppose ‘Net Zero’ Proposals

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Shareholders of Four Major U.S. Banks Asked to Oppose ‘Net Zero’ Proposals

(National Legal and Policy Center) Ahead of the annual meetings for four major banks during the last week of this month, National Legal and Policy Center is asking its fellow shareholders to oppose 10 proposals on proxy statements brought forth by activist groups who seek to destroy the fossil fuel industry.

The proposals, in similar form and wording, demand that Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo align their “climate transition” and “fossil fuel lending” policies with their futile and economy-killing “net-zero” emissions goals.

NLPC filed exempt solicitation reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month, which oppose the radical shareholder proposals at each of the banks.

The reports can be found at the following links: Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo.

In their attempt to make their cases to defund the oil and gas sectors, the activist proponents have unleashed a torrent of unrealistic forecasts infected by insufficient data and deeply flawed science, all issued by a cabal of dubious “authorities.”

As NLPC explains in its report on Bank of America:

The proponents rely on corporate media-driven narratives which portend extreme climate catastrophe, that is inconsistent with sound scientific principles and are unlikely. Therefore, above and beyond the Company’s flawed rationale for opposing the three proposals, the urgent climate mitigation strategies demanded by the proponents are unjustified.

Instead, we ask shareholders to consider the dubious “risks” of climate change versus the actual global economic and health risks of energy shortages caused by the activists’ war against fossil fuels, and versus the unviable, unrealistic near-term transition to renewable energy.

In each of its reports on the four banks, NLPC points out the flaws in the activists’ proposals regarding:

  • “Research” that isn’t really research, but is instead the product of the politicized United Nations, so-called “Net Zero” alliances, and the ineffective and non-binding Paris Climate Agreement;
  • “Research” that is distorted by, for example, the discredited “hockey stick” chart that was removed from UN IPCC reports for years until it magically reappeared in its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6);
  • Exaggerated emphasis on unrealistic, worst-case scenario outcomes that are embraced by sensationalist corporate media organizations;
  • Absurd expectations placed upon nonviable renewable power sources that cannot be expected to replace fossil fuels to meet ever-increasing energy demand;
  • Ignored environmental and humanitarian impacts due to the emphasis on renewables, such as their need for massive metals extractions, land use and destruction, and dependence on slave labor.

Among the demands by the climate activist shareholders are for the banks to implement a “time-bound phase-out of…lending and underwriting to projects and companies engaging in new fossil fuel exploration and development.”

Regrettably, rather than stand up to the climate activist bullies, the banks’ responses to their proposals state that they are addressing Net Zero and emissions goals, and thus the proposals are unnecessary.

“These and other big banks have cowered in fear for decades before the propagandists who have brought climate alarm to every shareholder meeting the last couple of decades,” said Paul Chesser, director of the Corporate Integrity Project for NLPC.

“It’s time for these boards of directors and C-suite occupants to grow a spine, gain an understanding of the actual science as informed by real, observed data, and perhaps take a remedial course in Energy Physics 101.”

Founded in 1991, NLPC promotes ethics in public life and government accountability through research, investigation, education, and legal action.

Dem. Knives Are Out for Ailing Sen. Feinstein as Judicial Nominees Languish

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Dem. Knives Are Out for Ailing Sen. Feinstein as Judicial Nominees Languish

(Headline USA) As she recuperates from a case of shingles,  Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has fallen under attack from empathy-lacking members of the radical Left who are anxious to shore up questions over her soon-to-be-open Senate seat by ousting her ahead of schedule.

That could potentially install disgraced Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., or another choice to fill her seat with a year and a half to go until the 2024 election, giving the selection made by California Gov. Gavin Newsom an incumbency advantage in the race, which has several contenders already.

The senator, who turns 90 in June and is the oldest sitting member of Congress, has faced questions in recent years about her cognitive health and memory, though she has defended her effectiveness representing a state that is home to nearly 40 million people.

Feinstein herself appeared to be surprised by an announcement in February that she would not seek reelection in 2024, opening up her seat for the first time in over 30 years.

While Schiff and Rep. Katie Porter currently lead in the polls, Newsom might deem it necessary to make good on his pledge to support a black woman for the seat by replacing Feinstein with Rep. Barbara Lee, who is currently trailing significantly.

Republican contender Eric Early, who announced his plan to run, is likely to be a non-contender in the California race, where Democratic primaries often carry more weight than the general election. Nonetheless, a high-profile Republican like former gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder or former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger might prove a game-changer if they were to enter the fray.

Feinstein asked Wednesday to be temporarily replaced on the Judiciary Committee, shortly after two House Democrats and a former Obama speechwriter all called on her to resign following her extended absence from Washington. The chorus is likely to grow now that the floodgates have been opened.

The Judiciary Committee, where she has been a longstanding fixture, is key in the process for approving judicial nominations, meaning her absence may cost President Joe Biden precious opportunities to install more radical judges to lifetime federal appointments.

In a statement, the long-serving Democratic senator said her recovery, which she disclosed in early March, had been delayed because of complications. She provided no date for her return to the Senate and said she had asked Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to serve in her committee seat until she was able to return.

“I intend to return as soon as possible once my medical team advises that it’s safe for me to travel,” Feinstein said. “In the meantime, I remain committed to the job and will continue to work from home in San Francisco.”

California Rep. Ro Khanna, one of two Democratic House members who called Wednesday for Feinstein to resign, said in a statement Wednesday: “This is a moment of crisis for women’s rights and voting rights. It’s unacceptable to have Sen. Feinstein miss vote after vote to confirm judges who will uphold reproductive rights.”

Khanna, a California progressive who has endorsed Lee’s campaign, wrote on Twitter that she should step aside.

“We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty,” he wrote. “While [Feinstein] has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties.”

Not long afterward, Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota tweeted that he agreed with Khanna.

Feinstein, he wrote, “is a remarkable American whose contributions to our country are immeasurable. But I believe it’s now a dereliction of duty to remain in the Senate and a dereliction of duty for those who agree to remain quiet.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday from Ireland, where President Joe Biden was visiting, that Biden and first lady Jill Biden “wish Senator Feinstein the very best and a speedy recovery.”

She said Biden is “deeply appreciative of her support” for his judicial nominees and “respects and appreciates her commitment to public service.”

Newsom declined through a spokesperson to comment on Khanna’s statement.

“The governor is not calling on her to resign,” the spokesman, Anthony York, said in an email.

Before the calls for her resignation, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, acknowledged in remarks to CNN that Feinstein’s absence has slowed down their push to confirm nominees in the closely divided panel.

“I can’t consider nominees in these circumstances because a tie vote is a losing vote in committee,” Durbin said.

Feinstein has had a groundbreaking political career and shattered gender barriers from San Francisco’s City Hall to the corridors of Capitol Hill.

She was the first woman to serve as president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the 1970s and the first female mayor of San Francisco. She ascended to that post after the November 1978 assassinations of then-Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk by a former supervisor, Dan White. Feinstein found Milk’s body.

In the Senate, she was the first woman to head the Senate Intelligence Committee and the first woman to serve as the Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat. She gained a reputation as a pragmatic centrist who left a mark on political battles over issues ranging from reproductive rights to environmental protection.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Biden to Extend Medicaid, Obamacare to Hundreds of Thousands of Illegals

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Biden to Extend Medicaid, Obamacare to Hundreds of Thousands of Illegals

(Headline USA)  President Joe Biden is set to announce that his administration is expanding eligibility for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the matter.

The action will allow participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, to access government-funded health insurance programs even as members of Congress warn of the need to rein-in federal entitlement programs, which run the risk of depletion before taxpaying citizens are able to access the benefits that they have vested in them.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter before the formal announcement on Thursday.

Obama’s 2012 DACA fiat—which later was ruled by courts to have overstepped his constitutional authority by failing to enforce existing immigration laws—was the first sign that Democrats were shifting radically toward an open-border policy that has come into full fruition during the Biden presidency, with at least 5 million illegals having flooded into the U.S.

However, the illegal immigrants protected under DACA were still ineligible for government-subsidized health insurance programs because they did not meet the definition for having “lawful presence” in the U.S. That’s what Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services will aim to change by the end of the month, effectively creating a back-door pathway to amnesty without legislative approval.

The White House action comes as the DACA program is in legal peril and the number of people eligible under the program is shrinking.

An estimated 580,000 people were still enrolled in DACA at the end of last year, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. That number is down from previous years.

Court orders currently prevent the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from processing new applications. The DACA program has been mired in legal challenges for years, while Congress has been unable to reach consensus on broader immigration reforms.

DACA recipients can work legally and pay taxes, but they don’t have legal status and are denied many benefits available to U.S. citizens and foreigners living in the U.S.

In recent years, millions of people in the U.S. signed up for Medicaid, the program that provides health care coverage for the poorest Americans, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The government increased federal subsidies to drive down the cost of plans on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace. As of last year, just 8% of Americans were without health insurance, according to HHS.

But DACA recipients, as well as those in the country without documentation, are barred from joining those federally funded programs. About half of the roughly 20 million immigrants who are living in the U.S. without documentation are uninsured, according to research from the left-wing Kaiser Family Foundation.

While there’s bipartisan support to enact some sort of protections for the immigrants, negotiations have often broken down over debates about border security and whether an expansion of protections might induce others to try to enter the U.S. without permission.

Biden, a Democrat, has repeatedly called on Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Other classes of immigrants—including asylum seekers and people with temporary protected status — are already eligible to purchase insurance through the marketplaces of the ACA, former President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care law, often called “Obamacare.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Trump Blasts AG Letitia James ahead of Slated Deposition in NYC

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Trump Blasts AG Letitia James ahead of Slated Deposition in NYC

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Fresh off a week of massive fundraising and a swell of support in the wake of a sham indictment, Donald Trump wasted no time pillorying New York Attorney General Letitia James ahead of a deposition slated for Thursday in the $250-million business fraud lawsuit the leftist prosecutor has been slogging for nearly four years through the courts.

Trump’s return to NYC comes on the heels of his arraignment last week in the politically motivated case brought in a separate witch hunt by Soros-bought D.A. Alvin Bragg.

Trump is expected to be questioned Thursday for a second time by James, who is suing the former president and the Trump Organization over allegedly misleading banks and investors by inflating the value of properties bearing the Trump name.

In addition to the $250 million, James wants to permanently ban Trump from running a business in New York and ban Trump and the Trump Organization from buying commercial real estate in New York for five years.

On the eve of his scheduled Thursday deposition, Trump took to Truth Social and blasted James for doing the dirty work of the Biden regime and its continued quest to weaponize the justice system.

“The good thing about the A.G. Peekaboo James ‘persecution’ is that I will finally be able to show what a great, profitable, and valuable company I built, actually, some of the greatest real estate assets anywhere in the world,” Trump wrote. “Her effort, in strict coordination and association with the lying, Country killing scum ‘working’ in the White House, and now discredited District Attorney Alvin Bragg, will prove to be FAKE, and even fraudulent. Her only hope is that she ‘shopped’ a judge as bad as her!”

Much like the first time Trump spared with James during a deposition last year, the former president is expected to invoke his Fifth Amendment right and refuse to answer questions to avoid potentially incriminating himself. Trump invoked the Fifth more than 400 times during his previous deposition, and made no apologies for it.

“Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,” Trump said in the session. “One statement or answer that is ever so slightly off, just ever so slightly, by accident, by mistake, such as it was a sunny, beautiful day, when actually it was slightly overcast, would be met by law enforcement at a level seldom seen in this country, because I’ve experienced it.”

Trump expected more of the same from James.

“The A.G. case should be tried in front of the Commercial Division, not in front of a highly partisan, Trump Hating Judge who was sought out, or ‘shopped,’ by Peekaboo James,” he posted on Truth Social leading up to Thursday’s slated deposition.

NPR Quits Twitter after Being Labeled ‘State-Affiliated’ Media

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NPR Quits Twitter after Being Labeled ‘State-Affiliated’ Media

(Headline USA) NPR announced this week that it is quitting Twitter after the the social media company designated it as “state-affiliated” media.

The media outlet, which is partly funded by the U.S. government, told staffers in an email that its decision to stop sharing content on Twitter was one made out of respect for their “serious work.”

“It would be a disservice to the serious work you all do here to continue to share it on a platform that is associating the federal charter for public media with an abandoning of editorial independence or standards,” NPR CEO John Lansing wrote in an email, NBC News reported.

Lansing said that even if Twitter were to remove the “state-affiliated” label, he would not be convinced to reactivate the outlet’s account.

 “At this point, I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter,” he said. “I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again.”

Individual NPR reporters and staffers can make their own decisions about whether to remain on Twitter, he added.

NPR was not the only publication slapped with a “state-affiliated” label. PBS and BBC were given a similar label, which heretofore has been used to identify propaganda outlets affiliated with authoritarian governments, such as Russia’s Sputnik.

Twitter revised the label to “government-funded media” after pushback from NPR, with CEO Elon Musk saying he wants to be as “accurate” as possible.

Musk’s Twitter has become increasingly aggressive in pushing back on NPR’s propaganda, slapping many of its articles with fact checks. For example, a tweet from NPR in March questioning the World Athletics Council’s decision to ban transgenders from competing against biological women in international events received additional context from Twitter.

“Multiple studies on trans athletes (including elite athletes) have been conducted which show that they retain higher muscle mass, strength, and running speed than women,” Twitter said.

DA Alvin Bragg Plays the Race Card on Soros Ties

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DA Alvin Bragg Plays the Race Card on Soros Ties

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Flogging what legal analysts have called a disastrous case against Donald Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has resorted to playing the race card, claiming that criticizing his financial ties to George Soros is “racist.”

In the court filing against subpoenas issued by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Bragg responded to critics who mention his Soros ties, accusing both Jordan and Trump of using a racist “dog whistle.”

“Mr. Trump in particular has threatened New York officials with violent and racist vitriol […] Mr. Trump stated that ‘the thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system will be defeated, discredited, and totally disgraced,’” Bragg said in court documents reviewed by Headline USA. “Mr. Trump also called District Attorney Bragg a ‘SOROS BACKED ANIMAL’—a dog whistle Chairman Jordan repeated on television on March 23, 2023, calling District Attorney Bragg ‘the Soros-backed, new DA, left-wing DA Alvin Bragg.’”

“These statements have had a powerful effect,” the filing continued. “District Attorney Bragg has received multiple death threats.”

Bragg, however, did not mention where Jordan called him a racial slur. Instead, the Manhattan DA claimed that Jordan is aping Trump’s alleged racist attacks by calling him “Soros-backed.” Bragg’s claims echo a talking point uttered by mouthpieces in the mainstream media after their attempts to dismiss the Soros-Bragg ties failed.

Leftist talking head Seth Myers and the fake news sites the New York Times and Washington Post followed suit, attempting to label criticism directed at Soros as “racist”, “anti-semitic” and “incendiary” according to reports by the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.

A growing chorus from realists, however, has pushed back, noting that scapegoating the globalist billionaire’s former religion is true anti-semitism.

“Any criticism of Bragg will be deemed racist, but then there is the other aspect, the accusation that critics (that is, those noting proven facts) of Soros are acting antisemitic,” RedState’s Brad Slager wrote. “How showing the actions of one man is a bigoted slight on an entire class of people is never explained. This is a two-pronged defense maneuver being used, but the press has set itself up for failure.”

Bragg and Jordan have bumped heads in recent weeks as the Soros-backed DA moved forward with what some have called politically motivated charges against Trump.

The Jordan-led Judiciary Committee announced Monday a field hearing with the victims of the Manhattan DA’s policies. The hearing is to be held at the New York City-based Jacob Javits Federal Building, according to the New York Post. The Manhattan D.A.’s office claims that the House Judiciary Committee and GOP members of Congress are overstepping their legal authority. Bragg hired Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, a private law firm, to help with the lawsuit.

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