What’s going on here?
Americans are reporting they’ve found boxes a certain species of ticks on their land whose bite causes a disease that makes people allergic to red meat.
The Lone Star Tick causes alpha-gal syndrome - an allergy that makes red meat taste and smell like rotting carcass to victims and sparks an allergic response.
The CDC reckons 450,000 people have been affected over the years.
It comes as Bill Gates funded $7million in another species of ticks that are released onto farmland to control livestock.
People are now putting two and two together and suggesting Gates - who of course has massive investments in fake meat firms - is behind the Lone Star Tick wave.
John Thune has become a punching bag for good reason but there is a more insidious force at play nobody can talk about. Let me explain…
The staffers in Thune’s office have been asking Trump Naval and Maritime appointees questions about me before confirmation hearings.
I doubt John Thune knows who I am. His staff absolutely does. They track me. They hate me. And they will quietly bleed pushing out any appointee I’m friends with.
Someone close to PPO told me a Trump staffer commented that “Konrad should be a HBS case study on someone every in the administration respects but has zero chance of any appointment.”
It’s probably because I’ve called out congressional staffers numerous times before.
This is how Congress actually works.
It’s always the staffers. When we first floated the SHIPS Act, Mike Johnson’s hometown delegation were strong supporters.
The minute he became Speaker, his hometown people got bulldozed by the Speaker of the House staff he inherited.
Same man, different staff, different priorities.
Why do you think they wanted Mitch McConnell propped up after the freezing episodes? It wasn’t McConnell.
It was the cartel of people on his staff who needed his chair filled by someone they already controlled.
Members can’t read their own bills anymore. Thirty years of capped staff, frozen pay, and brain drain to K Street has left rank and file senators functionally illiterate on the legislation they vote on.
Leadership staff fill the vacuum. They are not entrenched because they are corrupt. They are entrenched because nobody else in the building can move a 1,500-page must-pass bill through conference.
That is the cartel. And it has rules. If you want anything in the NDAA, the omnibus, the CR, or any vehicle that actually moves, you do not piss them off. You do not name them. Break either rule and you do not get a second omnibus.
I’m not even willing to name individual staff.
John Phelan is the case study nobody is reading correctly. Phelan was not fired because he was a bad secretary. Phelan was fired because his chief of staff Jon Harrison had deep knowledge of the pentagon that Phelan lacked. Without him, Phelan was walking around the Pentagon naked and he knew it. He pulled back from media events and became too cautious.
Then there is Susie Wiles. I don’t know her. Never met her. From everything I can piece together she is doing a great job. The point is not Susie. The point is the Vanity Fair article.
It’s not even the article itself, that article contained a lot of BS, it was the reaction that came after. Every single republican & a few democrats stood behind her.
Now contrast that with the flood of negative articles about Mike Waltz, Kristi Noem or Pam Bondi.
When a politician is the subject of a hut piece is dragged over the coals, the system shrugs. But when it’s a senior staffer, the system closes rank. It is safer to trash Trump in print than to be perceived as trashing Susie. Trump is used to it. Susie controls the schedule, the access, and the door.
Multiply Susie by every leadership chief of staff, every NDAA conference staffer, & you have the machine. It is not partisan. Schumer’s staff & Thune’s staff protect each other from outside critics more reliably than they protect their own bosses from each other.
Leaders come and go but leadership staff is entrenched.
Congress is broken because leadership staff on both sides want it to remain broken. A Congress that can only legislate through 2,000-page must-pass bill is a Congress where the staff who draft the bill run the country. Regular order is their extinction event. They will never let it come back voluntarily.
You can call out politicians all day. They are used to it. Call out the staff and you don’t get frozen out of one bill. You get frozen out of every bill, by every office, on both sides, for as long as the cartel decides to remember your name.
They remember mine. Now you know why. even Luna can’t vall them out.
On the morning of February 27th, 2025, Dorian Pace was doing what he'd done for eleven years — driving students to school in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Around his second or third stop, something felt wrong. The accelerator was sluggish. He kept driving toward Monticello Middle School anyway, fifteen kids chattering behind him.
Then came the first boom.
Pace radioed the mechanic. They said they'd send another bus. He pulled over to wait.
Then came the second boom.
When he looked in his right-side mirror, he saw smoke rising from the rear tire. Then flames.
"I actually felt like the bus was about to blow up," he said later.
Pace didn't panic. Eleven years of driving and annual evacuation drills took over. He went into what he called "bus evacuation mode."
"Everybody off the bus!"
The students didn't fully understand how serious it was. Some thought it was a drill. But they followed his voice. One by one, they filed through the front door — away from the fire now spreading up the side of the vehicle.
Within moments of the last child stepping off, the bus was engulfed in flames.
Not a single student was injured.
"What was going through my mind was, 'I can't lose any kids,'" Pace recalled. "I pray on the bus every day. I try to pray before I pick up the kids. And God just answered my prayers."
On Monday night, Pace was honored by the City of Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, and Governor Mike DeWine. The Ohio Department of Public Safety presented him with a special coin for heroism.
Andy Wilson, the department's director, said what every parent was thinking: "I would feel such a level of comfort putting my kids on one of your school buses, knowing that there are men and women of this character."
Pace, ever humble, pushed back on the word "hero."
"I would say I'm not really a hero," he said. "I'm a good worker. I just thank God for my life and theirs."
By Friday — just two days after the fire — Dorian Pace was back behind the wheel.
Because that's what good workers do. They show up.
This is how gay, lesbian & bisexual people reacted to the presence of NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love Association ie paedoph*les) attempting to attach themselves to Gay Pride in 1992.
With that in mind, it does demand serious questions about the deliberately vague ‘+’.
WHO EXACTLY ARE THE “+” & WHY ISN’T THIS CURRENT “2SLGBTQIA+ MOVEMENT” INTERESTED IN CLARIFICATION?
And some WONDER WHY SO MANY LGB people want nothing to do with this current bunch… we were VERY CLEAR.
Why aren’t they???
Judge Marie E. Mato has just OVERTURNED the firearms prohibition placed upon me in the state of Florida.
Order forthcoming. At a hearing in Miami this morning, the Judge Mato stated:
“Mr. O’Keefe you are free to pickup your firearms in West Palm Beach at the Sheriff’s Office.”
The Judge said, “I appreciate your compliance Mr. O’Keefe with this courts order despite your objection.”
“But I’m deleting those provisions.”[prohibitions on your second amendment rights].
It’s hard to believe this is real, but it is.
John Cornyn released an ad in Spanish promising his support for amnesty.
Apparently he forgot that we represent American citizens, not illegal aliens.
This is absolutely disqualifying.
I want my country back, and I’m sick of swampy politicians in Washington who are dying to give it away.
One of many reasons for Texans to vote for @KenPaxtonTX in the runoffs next month.
Maybe not a popular take but I am calling for this guy to be pardoned. Unless the DOJ plans on going after all the crooks in congress currently insider trading, this is simply skewed justice. There is no “justice” when guys like this get the book thrown at him yet members are illegally profiting every day.
I don’t agree with what he did and he should be required to disgorge all the profits however, unless the DOJ plans on doing Congress next, this is not justice.
California is trying to pass a bill that would criminalize investigative journalism with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown.
The proposed bill is titled AB 2624 and was made after I exposed mass fraud by immigrant groups in America.
Under AB 2624, government-funded entities like the Somali “Learing” Daycare centers would be protected from being exposed if they operated inside California.
The enemy truly is within. When our politicians would rather protect fraudsters and illegal migrants, it’s time for us to stand up or face mass oppression from the traitors who “rule” over us.
@RepJeffries Notice how he says he should drop out of the governors race and this is unacceptable for an elected official, but he DOES NOT say he should resign from Congress.
Not very principled in my opinion. Again this likely just about political power.
So, I did exactly what you asked and I sat down and read ALL 261 pages of your bill.
It does support mass amnesty and I'll tell you exactly where:
Pages 162-170... The Dream Act:
You grant conditional lawful permanent resident status to ILLEGAL ALIENS who:
>Have been continuously present in the U.S. since January 1, 2021
>Entered before age 18
>Meet education, employment, or military service requirements
>Pass criminal background checks
On top of this, in Sec. 2102(b)(3)(B), DACA recipients get fast-tracked to conditional green card status.
...which is literally mass amnesty
BUT THE BILL GOES EVEN FURTHER!!!
On pages 204-217, you present the Dignity Program:
This is a separate track for illegal aliens who don't qualify for the Dream Act.
If you are an illegal aliens who:
> Was continuously present since December 31, 2020
>Pay a $1,000 upfront "restitution" fee
>Submit biometrics, pass a background check
>No felony convictions
You get work authorization + travel authorization + deferred removal for 7 years
After completing the 7-year program (paying $7,000 total in fees, staying employed, obeying laws, paying back taxes):
We grant you:
> "Dignity Status" which is essentially a lawful nonimmigrant status, which is renewable any number of times
>Work and travel authorization
But the most important bit that you're hiding here is that it totally suspends deportation of anyone who qualifies for this.
This would effective end ALL MASS DEPORTATIONS in the United States immediately.
You are a liar, you are a fraud, everything you stand for is fake... did YOU read your own bill?
Because I just did, and you are a damned LIAR!!!!!
🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Brandon Gill is pushing to DEFEAT an amnesty bill backed by some Republicans, which is literally called the "DIGNIDAD Act"
They actually named it in Spanish, and are lying that it's not "amnesty." IT IS AMNESTY.
GILL: "It’s in a foreign language for added insult."
"The clearest way for Republicans to tell our voters we viscerally hate them is passing the ‘Dignity Act’ or any other amnesty bill."