Author: HP McLovincraft

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Ohio Democrat Who Voted Against DHS Funding: Americans ‘Expect Their Leaders’ to Keep Them Safe

Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) said Americans expect leaders to take public safety seriously, in contrast to his votes of “Nay” on two House measures tied to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding during the longest shutdown of any U.S. federal agency in history.

In July 2025, Landsman said Americans “expect their leaders to be serious about keeping them safe” during a July interview with Rahm Emanuel on the New Democrat Coalition podcast, according to an exclusive clip shared with Breitbart News.

The comment comes after Landsman voted against two House Republican DHS funding bills earlier this year.

“If Greg Landsman was serious about keeping Ohioans safe, he wouldn’t purposely hold DHS funding hostage and force TSA workers to go weeks without pay. It’s hypocritical and reckless for Landsman to play politics with the hardworking men and women who work tirelessly to keep our country safe,” RNC Spokesman Hunter Lovell told Breitbart News.

The record 76-day Department of Homeland Security shutdown ended April 30, 2026, when Congress passed legislation funding key components including the Secret Service, TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, and CISA, while leaving ICE and Border Patrol funding to a separate reconciliation effort. During the shutdown, a March 27 White House memorandum said more than 60,000 TSA employees — including roughly 50,000 officers — were not being paid, with nearly 500 leaving their jobs and airport security wait times stretching to three hours or more. 

As staffing shortages worsened, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were deployed to assist at airports with duties such as crowd control and ID checks, while a separate report found roughly 3,000 TSA agents failed to show up for work on a single day, further straining operations.

The issue has taken on new urgency after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump and Republican officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, April, 25. Trump said a Secret Service agent was shot in his bulletproof vest during the confrontation with the suspect, who was taken into custody.

The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, allegedly wrote a manifesto planning to target Trump administration officials, attended a No Kings protest, and donated $25 through ActBlue earmarked for Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign. 

The department shutdown also coincided with multiple serious attacks inside the United States, including a deadly mass shooting in Austin and an attack at Temple Israel in Michigan. In Austin, a gunman opened fire on a crowd of mostly college students, killing three people and injuring 16 others, nine of whom were hospitalized. Authorities said the attacker was killed by police within minutes. The suspect wore clothing reading, “Property of Allah,” and investigators found Iran-related material at his residence.

In Michigan, a separate incident unfolded at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, where a vehicle was driven into the building and gunfire was exchanged with security. The attacker, who was identified as a Lebanese national who had become a U.S. citizen, died at the scene. No victims were reported among those inside the synagogue, though authorities initially responded to the situation as an active shooter event.

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Report: Foundation for Govt. Accountability finds 14K luxury vehicles linked to SNAP recipients

In a recent disclosure, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins revealed that more than 14,000 luxury vehicles have been linked to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients within a single state.

Citing a 2023 analysis from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), Rollins noted that the data identified high-end brands — including Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Porsche, Tesla, BMW, Lexus, and Cadillac — associated with thousands of Americans registered for taxpayer-funded food assistance.

Many of these vehicles were late-model releases with staggering price tags, such as Lamborghinis valued at over $680,000 and Ferraris exceeding $600,000.

The report specifically highlighted several egregious cases of individuals maintaining lavish lifestyles while receiving government benefits. Among the notable examples were a university professor owning a $346,000 Rolls-Royce, a self-described “celebrity barber” operating a 2018 Lamborghini Huracán valued at $220,000, and a professional football player driving a 2022 BMW M760i worth $158,000.

These findings have since sparked renewed debate regarding program integrity and the effectiveness of current asset tests used to determine eligibility for federal nutrition assistance.

“And this is just in one state,” Rollins emphasized in an X post. “We need to defend our nutrition programs for those most in need, not for scammers gaming the system.”

The vehicles reported were three Bentleys, three Ferraris, 11 Lamborghinis, 59 Maseratis, 141 Porsches, 244 Alfa Romeos, 306 Land Rovers, 2,098 Teslas, 3,636 Lexuses, 1,914 BMWs and 1,131 Cadillacs.

In just ONE state, 14,000 individuals receiving SNAP benefits were driving LUXURY VEHICLES!

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The Elites And Their Contempt

Last week, I was unexpectedly hit with a post-lockdown trauma response. While driving to a baseball game days before the NFL Draft came to Pittsburgh, I passed a digital highway sign instructing me to avoid nonessential travel.

Suddenly, memories of empty highways with signs instructing drivers to “Stay Safe and Stay Home” came flooding back to me.

As the week developed, it began to occur to me that the parallels were deeper than my subjective emotional response. Road closures intensified, rendering my beloved city of Pittsburgh less and less functional. Even sidewalks were closed. 

Entire parking garages were emptied and abandoned. Pittsburgh’s “most visited museum,” the Kamin Science Center, has been closed to the public for weeks because it was within the footprint of the upcoming event. For the actual days of the draft, Pittsburgh Public Schools were shuttered as if a blizzard had rendered travel impossible.

The attempt by local officials to trigger hysteria in the populace worked, maybe too well. People traveling to Pittsburgh for the event heeded the instructions to use the special free public transit to make their way in. Parking operators, expecting a huge windfall, saw themselves lower their exorbitant prices midday. For example, the Rivers Casino quickly abandoned their plan to charge $250 per day, lowering their rate to $100 for the first day of the draft and then abandoning charging altogether for subsequent days.

Local businesses outside the official footprint of the event were told to prepare for heavy crowds, but instead experienced a weekend worse than anything they had seen since the Covid hysteria. Those who didn’t want to go to the draft were terrified to go anywhere near the city.

In summary, children were deprived of education, small business owners were drastically harmed, public spaces which exist for the common good were shuttered, and normal life ceased for those who actually live in the City of Pittsburgh. While all of this was happening, local politicians were patting themselves on the back for how well everything was pulled off, taking pride that this draft broke attendance records for the NFL and that their plans of getting people in and out of the city were effective. It was our own personal Operation Warp Speed.

I think there’s a lesson here that applies not merely to Pittsburgh politics but also to the wider dysfunction we see in elected officials throughout what used to be Western Civilization.

Our political leaders view their own constituents with a sort of boredom or indifference. In the leadup to the draft, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania engaged in a number of public works projects designed to improve the area in preparation for the draft. 

Suddenly, our governments remembered that potholes aren’t supposed to be allowed to exist and that crime isn’t supposed to be allowed to happen. For three days, Pittsburgh had a heavily subsidized and highly functional public transit system, something that hasn’t existed the entirety of my lifetime.

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Trump Admin To Stop Universities From Charging ‘Unlimited Tuition’ At Taxpayer Expense

The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday that it has finalized rules to to help stop colleges and universities from charging exorbitant amounts in tuition, paid for by taxpayers.

“For 20 years, colleges and universities have been able to charge virtually unlimited tuition for their programs, despite the fact that many graduates see very little or no return on investment, the results of this decades long policy on American graduates are staggering,” Nicholas Kent, Under Secretary of Education, said on a press call Thursday. “American families live within their means, and it’s time for colleges and universities to do the same.”

It has been a decades-long reality that colleges and universities have increased their tuition costs knowing Department of Education loans — funded by the American taxpayer, regardless of their education status — will foot the bill. Meanwhile, students are stuck for years with mountains of debt and a degree that does not yield jobs that pay a sufficient amount to justify the debt.

The current student loan portfolio under the Department of Education is $1.7 trillion, and it is estimated that fewer than 40 percent of borrowers are in repayment, while nearly 25 percent are in default.

College loans have skyrocketed 343 percent since 2005, and tuition has “increased faster than any other household expense,” Kent said. According to the department, 71 percent of college graduates delay major life milestones, like buying a home, because of student loan debt. While graduate students hold over one-third of student loan debt, 40 percent of master’s programs have a negative return on investment.

Meanwhile, colleges and universities “raked in billions of dollars at the expense of students and taxpayers over the past 20 years, and today, that era is over,” Kent said.

The final rule, set to take effect July 1, has four primary provisions, including borrowing caps for graduate and professional students. The department is eliminating the Grad PLUS program, which allowed graduate and professional students to borrow up to the full cost of attendance.

Graduate students will be limited to an annual cap of $20,500, with a lifetime cap of $100,000, while professional students will have an annual cap of $50,000 and a lifetime cap of $200,000.

The rules also alter the definition of “professional” degrees to pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, chiropractic, law, medicine, optometry, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, theology, and clinical psychology.

Some programs, like postgraduate nursing, are no longer eligible.

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Trump Teases Upcoming Release on UFO Files: Things ‘You Wouldn’t Believe’

President Donald Trump said that stunning information will be revealed when the administration makes public its files on UFOs.

“Well, I think we’re going to be releasing as much as we can in the near future… Anything having to do with UFOs or related material we are going to be releasing,” Trump said in a video posted to X.

“And I think some of it’s going to be very interesting,” he said.

Trump did not provide a timetable for the release of the information.

“I interviewed some pilots, very solid people, and they said they saw things that you wouldn’t believe. So you’re going to be reading about it,” he said.

Earlier in April, Trump said a Pentagon study of UFOs resulted in “many very interesting documents,” adding that “the first releases will begin very, very soon,” according to USA Today.

In February, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had ordered federal agencies “to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.”

Rep. Tim Burchett, a Republican from Tennessee, has said that the full spectrum of reports would shock the nation, according to The Hill.

“I’ve been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is, and I’ll just tell you this, if they would release the things that I’ve seen, you would stay up at — you’d be up at night worrying about or — thinking about this stuff,” Burchett said.

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Violent Offenders Freed By One Twisted Word

New York’s Family Court Act exemplifies how euphemistic terminology undermines justice for violent crime victims. The law classifies 13- to 15-year-olds who commit armed robberies and murders as “juvenile delinquents” engaged in “acts which if committed by an adult would be a crime,” rather than calling them what they are: criminals. This linguistic sleight of hand enables a system where 12-year-olds can commit murder yet face only short-term incarceration. The sanitized language serves a political agenda that prioritizes rehabilitation rhetoric over accountability, leaving communities vulnerable to repeat offenders who understand the system offers minimal consequences for maximum violence.

Recent cases from Florida and Maryland illustrate the growing crisis. An 11-year-old shot teenagers in Florida, while separate incidents involved a 17-year-old and 12-year-old in murders. Miami-Dade experienced a wave of carjackings committed by offenders aged 16-18. Baltimore police made over 500 teen arrests in 2022, with more than 120 juveniles caught carrying handguns. Maryland statistics reveal that individuals under 19 commit 15 percent of violent crimes statewide. The CDC defines youth violence as intentional harm by those aged 10-24, including weapons offenses and gang activity. These numbers reveal a disturbing trend that soft-on-crime policies have enabled rather than prevented.

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Brazil Quietly Shifts Away from the Dollar to Gold

The Banco Central do Brasil has raised gold’s share of reserves from 3.55% to 7.19% in just one year, effectively doubling its exposure and making gold the second-largest reserve asset after the US dollar, while total reserves stand at approximately $358.23 billion and the dollar’s share has declined to about 72%, marking a record low. This is not a marginal adjustment or routine diversification, it is a structural repositioning that reflects a growing unease with sovereign debt markets.

When a central bank reduces dollar exposure while increasing gold holdings, it is not acting randomly but responding to a shift in confidence, and this aligns directly with the broader trend we are witnessing globally as central banks collectively purchased roughly 863 tonnes of gold in 2025 and are expected to remain strong buyers into 2026. The driving forces behind this are not inflation in the traditional sense, but geopolitical fragmentation, the weaponization of reserves, and the realization that sovereign debt levels are no longer sustainable without continued central bank intervention.

Brazil’s move mirrors what we have been warning about for years, which is that capital flows, not trade balances, dictate the strength of currencies, and once confidence begins to erode in government debt, that capital begins to migrate into assets that are not someone else’s liability. Gold fulfills that role because it cannot be printed, defaulted on, or frozen by a foreign government, and this becomes critical in a world where sanctions and financial restrictions are increasingly used as political tools.

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Michigan State University Forced to Close Academic Building After Discovery of a METH LAB

Police were forced to shut down the largest academic building at Michigan State University this week after it was discovered that it was housing a meth lab.

This sounds like something out of the TV series ‘Breaking Bad.’

It’s another embarrassing black eye for higher education but on the bright side, at least the lab didn’t blow up first.

NBC News reports:

Man arrested and charged in meth incident at Michigan State University

A 31-year-old man has been arrested and charged in an incident involving methamphetamines at Michigan State University, prompting the closure of Wells Hall, the largest academic building on campus, this week.

Xin Tong faces charges of malicious destruction of property over $20,000 and operating or maintaining a methamphetamine lab, state police said in a news release. He is being held at the Ingham County Jail on a $500,000 cash surety bond. It is not clear whether Tong has an attorney.

Campus Public Safety Chief Mike Yankowski said at a news conference Wednesday that the incident involved an unknown substance found on flooring and doors throughout the building in East Lansing.

At around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, campus police responded to a report of possible trespassing. Officers found Tong on the fifth floor with four or five backpacks and duffel bags, Yankowski said.

Police obtained a search warrant and found “several labeled and unlabeled containers of an unknown liquid substance inside,” the safety chief said.

The news release identified the substances as sodium hydroxide pellets, hydrochloric acid, methanol, isopropyl alcohol, acetone and butane. Police said the substances can be purchased legally online and in stores.

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She Refused A Smart Meter For Health Reasons — So New Jersey Water Company Shut Off Her Water

A New Jersey water company shut off a woman’s water for six days after she refused a smart meter due to health concerns, even though the state has no regulation requiring residents to accept smart meters.

In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Alla Goldman described how New Jersey American Water (NJAW) employees “harassed” her and her husband for over a year, threatening to shut off her water if she refused to let them install a smart water meter.

On March 5, the water company made good on its threats by sending a technician — escorted by two police officers — to her home to shut off her water.

For six days, Goldman, who was sick with the flu, and her husband went without water at their home. Goldman took shelter in a hotel and bought gallons of drinking water.

“I want to sue them for their literal threats,” Goldman said.

While staying at a hotel, Goldman filed a complaint with the state’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU) about the water company’s action.

The BPU informed her that the water company had no legal basis for shutting off her water because there is no BPU regulation requiring people to accept smart meter upgrades.

Goldman said, “A BPU supervisor told me that if we do not want a smart meter, we do not have to have one.”

When the BPU informed the water company of Goldman’s complaint, the company changed its tune by offering to restore services and install an analog meter that would not emit wireless radiation.

‘Few people know that water companies do the same thing’

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An Investigation That Georgia Authorities Must Make

“Homicide, premeditated murder” is how two highly respected officials, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy, Jr, and Dr David Martin, publicly characterize the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, including upwards of 32,000 Georgians,* who perished in hospitals while being treated for the COVID-19 virus. The public statements of Kennedy and Martin about the tragic use of the highly toxic drug Remdesivir to treat Covid patients have never been challenged or refuted and thus, can be assumed to be highly creditable.

In the words of Dr Ben Carson, “What happened during COVID must not be quietly erased from history—we must have accountability, transparency, and honest answers because forgetting what happened only guarantees it will happen again.” #BenCarson, #COVIDTruth

Given the above, this article is a CALL TO ACTION for Georgia authorities, including state legislators, the Attorney General, the Governor, and Georgia citizens in general. The alleged horrific crimes committed against so many Georgians must not “be swept under the rug” and not fully investigated. Failure to fully investigate these alleged crimes will truly be a travesty of justice.

Secretary Kennedy states that Remdesivir causes kidney failure, heart failure, and/or all-organ collapse causing eventual death—that the deaths of so many Covid patients were caused by one or more doses of Remdesivir and not the Covid virus. Dr Martin states that any hospital or public health official who knew or should have known about the drug’s deadly effects and failed to stop giving this highly toxic drug to patients has committed “reckless homicide at best or premediated murder at worst”.

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