Friday, July 3, 2026
Are we witnessing 1930's Germany in NYC?
Mamdani the Fraud: New York Cuts Power During Heat Wave to Bronx Jewish Neighborhood
As New York baked under another summer heat wave, parts of the Riverdale neighborhood in the Bronx, home to a large Jewish community, lost power after Con Edison shut off electricity to protect its equipment.
Con Edison announced the outages Thursday, saying it temporarily cut power to some customers in Riverdale to reduce strain on the electrical grid and speed up service restoration. The utility directed affected residents to report outages and seek relief at city cooling centers.
The end of one small piece of sclerotic government: Ancient manual retirement system for fed employees housed in PA cave finally comes to end after DOGE cuts
Ancient manual retirement system for fed employees housed in PA cave finally comes to end after DOGE cuts
"Now people can retire as soon as they want, instead of waiting six months for paper to be carried into a mine," Musk said on Wednesday.
The Trump administration has officially ended the federal government's decades-old paper retirement processing system, replacing a notoriously slow, manual operation housed inside a former Pennsylvania limestone mine with a fully digital process.
The milestone, dubbed the "Last Day of Paper" by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), marks one of the Department of Government Efficiency's biggest victories after years of failed reform efforts. Located more than 230 feet underground in Boyers, Pennsylvania, the OPM retirement processing center stored more than 400 million paper records and manually processed roughly 10,000 federal retirement applications every month. Strangely though, for decades, retirement paperwork was physically mailed between agencies before arriving at an underground facility, where employees sorted and processed applications by hand.
"It was unlike anything I'd ever seen before," OPM Director Scott Kupor told Fox. "Many government employees have just been constrained by a system that does not allow innovation and does not allow some element of risk-taking." "The only thing I did that was different than any other predecessor was we gave people permission to actually solve the problems that I knew needed to be solved," Kupor added.
Despite repeated attempts by previous administrations to digitize the retirement system, the federal government continued relying on paperwork well into 2026. Elon Musk first told reporters about the mine last year during an appearance with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. "We're told the most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000," Musk said. "Why is that? Well, because all the retirement paperwork is manual on paper," he continued. "It's manually calculated and written down on a piece of paper. Then it goes down to mine!"
"Now people can retire as soon as they want, instead of waiting six months for paper to be carried into a mine," Musk said on Wednesday. "It's a great example of what Elon and the DOGE team was doing," Kupor added. "Rethink processes from ground zero, be creative in terms of what the solutions are, and recognize that you have to actually make significant change if you want to ultimately drive efficiency in the government." The retirement center is housed within Iron Mountain, a sprawling underground storage complex that also safeguards records and artifacts for government agencies, museums, major corporations, and historical institutions. Kupor argued that digitizing the retirement process represents more than a technological upgrade, saying it demonstrates how innovation can improve government services while reducing costs to taxpayers.
"Yesterday was the end of paper retirement processing at OPM, a major milestone in modernizing how we serve the federal workforce," the OPM confirmed in an official statement.
The Islamists have taped into a vein of Jew hatred
Middle Class White Woman Radicalized on Social Media, Converted to Islam, Sent Money to Hamas
“I wish every day were October 7"
After 9/11, there was a lot of talk about ‘radical Islam.’ There is no ‘radical Islam’ or ‘moderate Islam’, but lately there is more of a trend of middle class white women becoming radicalized on social media, supporting Islamic terrorists and sometimes converting to Islam. To some degree this is just BLM 2.0 or Transgender 3.0 with bored empty people becoming caught up in social media contagion. But it’s also an entry point for the enemies of our country who are happy enough to recruit these useful idiots.
A middle-class upstate New York mom has been charged with allegedly supporting an Islamic terrorist organization after donating $30,000 in cryptocurrency to the violent, antisemitic group, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Catherine Beth Washburn, 37, a self-proclaimed stay-at-home mom, according to her Facebook account, exchanged messages with a terrorist in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group in Gaza, once telling him “I wish every day were October 7,” according to prosecutors in the Western District of New York.
Old media photos show her as a mother of two children, smiling with her husband. She lived in a $280,000, three-bedroom house and appears to have spent significant time in the small town of Dansville.
However, her social media accounts are now filled with pics of her wearing a hijab and anti-Israel diatribes — including one post showing the home addresses of so-called “Zionists.”
Washburn also took a selfie of herself and placed the image next to the Hamas flag and two hand grenades, prosecutors claimed.
My condolences to her husband and kids whose lives she no doubt wrecked along the way while cosplaying in her exciting new role as an Islamic terrorist.
According to the criminal complaint, Washburn is a leader of the Direct Action Movement for Palestinian Liberation (DAMPL), an extremist organization formed in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
An analysis of financial records determined that Washburn was sending cryptocurrency to this individual, making approximately 80 transfers of cryptocurrency totaling approximately 30,116 USDC, which is the equivalent of $30,116, to an account he used. In a November 2025 message,
What would be even funnier is if it turned out she was getting scammed, an entirely real possibility because social media is awash in fake ‘palestinian’ scams (apart from the actual big ‘palestinian’ scam) in which scammers pretending to be ‘palestinians’ or Hamas ask for crypto donations.
Unfortunately this is part of a larger phenomenon and based on what just happened in New York and Colorado, Washburn, or whatever her Islamic name is, could have been elected to Congress.
The Reflecting Poo is an American treasure and must be treated a such
Pirro Steamrolls Lame Reporters Who Tried to Minimize Vandalism at the National Mall Reflecting Pool
One of the many ways Democrats continue to prove how pathetic they’ve become, and how they have no ideas to better the lives of regular Americans, is their endless attempts to scandalize Trump administration projects intended to repair and beautify the nation’s capital.
It baffles me that cleaning up Columbus Circle, outside the major D.C. travel hub, Union Station, is somehow controversial. Democrats would rather the fountain was still covered in pro-Hamas graffiti and didn’t, you know, actually work.
They’ve really worked themselves into a lather over Trump’s actions to reseal the bottom of the iconic Reflecting Pool and fix leaks. The pool lies in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall. The effort has not been without its setbacks, as algae entered the chat and turned parts of the water green, much to the delight of the anti-Trump crowd.
But who in the world would celebrate that? TDS-riddled leftists, of course. Even though I have been and remain a staunch critic of former President Joe Biden, if he had made any efforts like Trump’s, I would have been supportive and hopeful that the problems could be fixed.
But not the Left. Read this snarky drivel from a well-known leftist outlet that I won’t even bother naming [emphasis mine]:
Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News host-turned-U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, grew heated over her decision to prosecute a former Olympic canoeist for touching the president’s beloved Reflecting Pool last month.
No, you absolute moron, it’s the nation’s beloved Reflecting Pool, not Trump's. And the suspect isn't being charged for touching it — he was indicted for vandalizing it, as we will describe in a moment.
The writer went on to charge that the project was “a $14 million waste of time, increasing heat absorption and triggering the worst algae bloom in years.” Heat absorption? Come on, AWFL. Go to Amazon and buy a life.
Pirro has seen enough of this nonsense and is sick of people trying to downplay reports that the pool has been repeatedly and significantly damaged by deranged activists. At a Thursday press conference regarding the indictment of three-time U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn, 67, of Bethesda, MD, on a felony destruction of property charge for allegedly ripping apart the newly installed blue sealant, Pirro pushed back on the media’s endless insistence that there’s no proof he did anything wrong.
Come sit on the grand jury if you have exculpatory evidence, Pirro dared the biased journo:
U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro: “The damage is over $1,000 [on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool].”
Reporter: “How do you prove that $1,000 [in damage]?”
Jeanine Pirro: “With an expert. Come to the trial.”
Reporter: “Did he have any tools or was it just his bare hands?”
Jeanine Pirro: “Right now, we believe it's his bare hands, both hands.”
Reporter: “In your belief, was it probably damaged before?”
Jeanine Pirro: “Oh, he damaged it!”
Reporter: “Do you believe there had already been damaged before?”
Jeanine Pirro: “He damaged the pool!”
Reporter: “There are all these videos —”
Jeanine Pirro: “Well, good, I'm glad you got that evidence. Come on to the grand jury, you can testify. NEXT!”
The Reflecting Pool Vandalism Is More Than Just Odd Leftist Behavior VIP
Would the media try to tie Reflecting Pool vandalism to the events of January 6, 2021? Of course they would! But the two incidents don't actually have anything to do with each other, so Pirro wasn’t having it, as RedState’s Buzz Patterson noted.
Watch:
“Not you!” is right.
We’ve seen so many performative displays and assaults on basic logic by the Left and their accomplices in the media in the Trump era as they try to justify their increasingly socialist fantasies. The cheering of problems and vandalism at one of the nation’s most treasured monuments marks yet another low, along with their knee-jerk defense of anti-Trump vandals who stand accused of serious crimes.
Pirro wasn’t standing for their BS gaslighting, and nor should any American who believes in this country.
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So, if they're not working how are they getting by? Welfare!
90,000 Haitians live in Massachusetts and only 10,000 are working…
How far the Democrats have strayed from their position on birthright citizenship
Ohio Sen. Moreno to Reintroduce Former Sen. Harry Reid’s ‘Exact Bill’ Eliminating Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens
Socialists and Islamists are joined at the hip by their love of totalitarianism and violence
Darializa Avila Chevalier Dating Mamdani Lawyer Who Repped Al Qaeda Terrorists, Including 'Close Associate' of Bin Laden
The pair met outside of an 'ICE detention facility,' according to Chevalier
Presumptive Democratic congresswoman and Zohran Mamdani-backed socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, is dating Mamdani's chief legal counsel, 48-year-old Ramzi Kassem, who is best known for defending al Qaeda terrorists, including a "close associate" of Osama bin Laden.
Chevalier confirmed the relationship in a statement shared with City & Stat
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