The transformer explosion that crippled Brooklyn subway service for thousands of passengers in 2024 came after workers failed to complete more than half of required safety checks at an electrical substation, according to the MTA inspector general.
The finding was part of a wider audit of New York City Transit’s substation maintenance program that found 19% of required maintenance assignments went unfinished systemwide in 2024, fire alarm “trouble” signals were routinely ignored, required safety protocols were not consistently followed and the agency didn’t have a centralized system for tracking equipment defects.
The inspector general found that 52% of required maintenance assignments at the State Street facility in downtown Brooklyn had not been completed between April 2024 and the December blast.
The visits are to have workers inspect and maintain the sometimes decades-old equipment that sends electricity to the third rail.
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🚨 NEW: President Trump met with JEWISH LEADERS in the Oval Office today
One of the Hasidic Jews just spoke to the media on his way out:
“Today was an opportunity for the first time in over over 50 years for the President of the United States to meet with the Grand Rabbis of the largest Hasidic sect, the visibly Hasidic community, visibly Jewish people such as myself.
We had the opportunity to thank the President for everything that he does for the United States.”
EXCLUSIVE: New York Democrats are trying to create a Sharia-compliant state bond—and explore letting cities issue their own.
S3901 would force five state bodies to build a sukuk, an Islamic financial instrument designed to generate returns without paying interest.
@dom_lucre@Kaepernick7 HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW. FAFO MAYBE IF YOU CHANGE YOUR WAYS. TRY YO BECOME A BETTER PERSON MAYBE YOU'LL HAVE BETTER LUCK. YOU MADE IT TO THE NFL AND INSTEAD OF BRACING IT AND DOING YOUR JOB MAYBE YOU STILL BE THERE. YOU GUYS ARE PAID TO PLAY. NOTHING ELSE.
If you thought it was just Lindsay Clancy, think again...
These are all from the last few months.
There’s an epidemic of mothers m*rdering their children.
Very dark times
@BreitbartNews@MaxwellFrostFL ANOTHER DUMB ASS DEM. YOU ADVOCATE FOR AFFORDABILITY. WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK THE MONEY COMES FROM FOR THESE PROGRAMS. NOTHING IS FREE SOMEONE ALWAYS HAS TO PAY. THIS IS WHY YOUR VIEWS AND THE VIEWS OF THE DEM DONT WORK AND WHY YOU GUYS LOST.
EXCLUSIVE: Minnesota taxpayers are subsidizing homebuyers using Islamic-finance companies.
The program exploded 2,317% in just six months.
It has already issued $7.25 MILLION, all approved providers offer Islamic finance, and eligibility is statewide.
OMG caught criminal sex offender noncitizens from Iran on the @DHSgov “Worst of the Worst” list who not only VOTED in previous elections but were ELIGIBLE to vote in the 2026 primary in Michigan!
@HarmeetKDhillon@TheJusticeDept@AAGDhillon
EXCLUSIVE:
🚨Lobbyist for China-Owned Smithfield Foods Omitted Foreign Ownership On Disclosure Forms While Lobbying Congress On the Farm Bill 🚨
Following a federal complaint, Smithfield’s @SmithfieldFoods lobbyist from Greenberg Traurig LLP @GT_Law has just been forced to disclose that their lobbying in U.S. Congress and the Treasury Dept. @USTreasury benefits the company’s Chinese owner, 万洲国际 (WH Group).
See the before and after lobbying receipts below. 👇🏻
A complaint filed in early August detailed how Smithfield’s firm violated federal lobbying rules in July when it checked “None” on a required disclosure form asking whether any foreign entity had an interest in its second-quarter lobbying for China-owned Smithfield on “animal welfare standards; Farm Bill reauthorization; issues related to foreign ownership of agricultural land.”
Smithfield’s lobbyist has hidden the company’s ties to China for the last 3 years.
But, records show Smithfield is 86.9% owned by China’s 万洲国际, whose leadership is stacked with members of the CCP. The company’s chairman was a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army.
万洲国际-owned Smithfield is the largest pork producer operating in the U.S. and owns 85,000 acres of U.S. farmland.
The Chinese pork company has partnered with Rep. Ashley Hinson @hinsonashley and Sen. Joni Ernst’s @joniernst on legislation called “Save Our Bacon” (it should be called “Save CHINA’S Bacon”) that would overturn voter-approved state laws preventing extreme confinement and abuse of farm animals, prohibit U.S. voters from enacting similar state laws in the future, and continue allowing China to own US farmland.
It should be no surprise that Hinson and Ernst, as members of Congress, have willfully taken and received campaign funding from Smithfield.
Communist China wants to destroy America. It is officially classified as a “foreign adversary” by the Trump Administration. Chinese-owned, CCP-tied Smithfield shouldn’t be allowed to further infiltrate U.S. policymaking and food production by lobbying Congress or donating cash to lawmakers and candidates.
Smithfield’s long-time lobbyist should be prohibited from lobbying Congress. Ashley Hinson and Joni Ernst should give back the campaign cash from this Chinese company (like Rep. Dan Newhouse @RepNewHouse did). Any lawmakers who took campaign contributions from this Chinese company should give them back. I’m sure Smithfield will be happy to take it in dollar or yuan form. I’m not going to stand by while China (which loves the Save Our Bacon Act) and its political allies undermine U.S. democracy and get their way in the Farm Bill. Additionally, any Republican who helps China do this should expect to be aggressively held accountable by me and other real America First conservatives now and in the future.
We won’t forget who sold our country out to Communist China.
@SecScottBessent@ScottforFlorida@MarcoRubio@SenateAgGOP@TomCottonAR
RECEIPTS 👇🏻
@ABC7NY WHAT A CROC OF SHIT. SHOOTING AND STABBINGS WERE OCCURRING ALMOST DAILY THOUGH OUT THE SUMMER. FACT. DO YOUR OWN REPORTING DONT COUNT ON YHE DATA FROM NYPD THATS FUDGED EVEY YEAR.
@Variety WTF IS HE TALKING ABOUT. THESE ACTORS SHOULD JUST KEEP THERE MOUTH SHUT SOMETIMES. HE SOUNDS LIKE AN IDIOT. 80S WAS ONE OF THE BEST DECADES IN THE LAST 70 YEARS.