'A real winner': Vance goes to war online with liberal defenders of mistakenly deported MS-13 member
APRIL 01, 2025
Depressed liberals are increasingly at risk of suicide due to so-called climate change, according to a group of European and French-Canadian scientists. The alleged findings, while morbid, could signal a bright future for the human race. A world with fewer annoying people would make life more tolerable for the rest of us. The species would grow more resilient, and the planet might also (somewhat ironically) benefit from the decline in population, assuming it isn't a hoax.
"Negative psychological responses related to the observed and anticipated impacts of climate change, such as climate anxiety, eco-anxiety and climate-related guilt have ... emerged as a potential risk factor for poor mental health and suicide-related behaviors," the authors wrote last month in Nature Medicine. "International surveys show that concern about climate change is associated with feelings of despair, hopelessness, anger, frustration and guilt, especially among younger populations."
President Donald Trump’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is nearing a historic deal with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency that will allow agents to more efficiently locate and arrest illegal aliens already ordered deported from the United States.
The IRS-ICE agreement, which anonymous sources told Politico is close to being finalized, will see the tax revenue agency open its databases to ICE agents when they need to confirm the names and addresses of illegal aliens who have been ordered deported by a federal immigration judge.
Politico, which interviewed opponents of the plan, admits that it is likely the partnership between the IRS and ICE “may result in a short-term increase in arrests and worksite raids” that specifically target illegal aliens who federal judges say have no asylum basis to be in the U.S.
“An ICE official, granted anonymity to discuss the policy planning, said the data would likely improve efficiency by helping ICE confirm addresses, streamlining time-consuming work that agents often have to do manually,” Politico reported.
According to such sources, the agreement will work as follows: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem or ICE Director Todd Lyons will submit a request to the IRS for information regarding an illegal alien ordered deported.
From there, IRS officials would be allowed to hand over information on such illegal aliens
The Trump administration deported multiple planeloads of suspected terrorists to El Salvador on March 15 to be imprisoned in the southern nation's Terrorism Confinement Center. Attorneys for the government confirmed in a Monday court filing that one of the illegal aliens sent packing was removed "because of an administrative error."
An article in the Atlantic concerning the accidental deportation apparently left certain bleeding-heart liberals with the impression that the deportee was an "innocent father" betrayed by his adoptive government.
Vice President JD Vance rained on liberal critics' grief parade, pointing out they were rending garments over the deportation of a foreign national found by more than one immigration court to be a "danger to the community" and a member of the terrorist organization Mara Salvatrucha.
Vance's suggestion that it was imprudent to throw a conniption over Kilmar Abrego Garcia's ouster prompted the critics to rage even more.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Monday announcedthe closure of the $4 million agency museum built by the Biden administration.
Zeldin referred to the one-room, 1,595-square-foot facility as one of former President Joe Biden's failed "pet projects," noting that during its nine months of operations, it saw fewer than 2,000 external visitors.
'The museum closure represents just one step in our broader commitment to transparency and fiscal responsibility.'
While admission was free to the public, he stated that each visitor cost taxpayers $315.
The museum is located at the EPA's Washington, D.C., headquarters and opened in May 2024. Despite its small size, the facility cost $4 million to open and costs another $600,000 annually.
Zeldin shared a video on X giving a tour of the museum and explaining the decision to shut it down.
He stated that a timeline featured in the museum "conveniently omits" President Donald Trump's first administration. A separate video showed a gap in the timeline between 2014 and 2021.
"This agency has been spending $123,000 on cleaning, $207,000 for security, $54,000 on maintenance, and an additional $54,000 on storage," Zeldin said. "From May 2024 through last month, only 1,909 members of the public visited the museum. Even though it is free admission, this museum costs you, the taxpayer, $315 per external visitor."
He described it as a "shrine to [environmental justice] and climate change."
"Under President Trump, we are ending the practice of burning tax dollars on pet projects," Zeldin declared.
In a Monday op-ed on Fox News, Zeldin stated that he has terminated Biden-era spending that will save taxpayers $22 billion.
Zeldin noted that the money allocated toward the "scarcely visited" museum could have been used by the Biden administration to provide "clean air, land, and water to forgotten communities."
"The museum closure represents just one step in our broader commitment to transparency and fiscal responsibility," Zeldin wrote. "This isn't about diminishing our commitment to environmental protection; it's about enhancing it through responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. The days of unchecked spending on monuments to the egos of the left are over. Under our leadership, fiscal responsibility and mission focus will guide every decision. The American people deserve nothing less."
Additionally, Zeldin announced on Tuesday that the EPA would be moving out of its D.C. headquarters.
"EPA will be saving American taxpayers $18 MILLION in annual lease costs by moving staff out of the 323,000 square feet of space we occupy in the Ronald Reagan building in D.C.," he stated.
On Monday, the Department of Labor announced that it had identified $1.4 billion in unused COVID-era funding.
A press release from the DOL noted that the agency is working to recover another $2.9 billion.
'Government waste hates to see us coming.'
"The roughly $4.3 billion was intended for states to use for temporary unemployment insurance during the pandemic. Instead, several states continued spending millions of dollars despite no longer meeting necessary requirements, which was uncovered in a 2023 audit conducted by the department's Office of Inspector General," it read.
The unused funding was turned over to the Department of Treasury's General Fund, the DOL reported.
DOL Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer stated, "Any money still sitting around for pandemic-era unemployment funds is a clear misuse of Americans' hard-earned tax dollars."
"I'm keeping my promise to be a good steward of your money by rooting out waste to ensure American Workers always come First," she added.
Chavez-DeRemer told Fox News Digital, "There's no reason leftover COVID unemployment funds should still be collecting dust."
DOL Deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling called it "unacceptable" that the taxpayer funds "went unchecked" for several years.
"In a huge win for the American taxpayer, we've clawed back these unused funds and will keep working to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse," Sonderling vowed.
The funds were a part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in 2020, which created a program to provide "expanded unemployment insurance."
The 45-page IG report found that, although the program ended in 2021, four states were allowed to access the reimbursement money "despite not meeting program requirements." According to the report, the four states collected $105.1 million in reimbursements they were not eligible to receive.
The report claimed the issues occurred because there were not "sufficient controls" to ensure states were eligible or that unused funds were returned to the federal government.
Last week, the Department of Government Efficiency applauded Chavez-DeRemer and Sonderling for canceling $577 million in "America Last" grants, saving taxpayers $237 million.
"Government waste hates to see us coming," the DOL wrote in a post on X.
On Monday evening, the White House announced that President Donald Trump has tapped former Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-N.Y.) to serve as the DOL's inspector general.
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.