Month: April 2024

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ( D-TX) once sat on the House Science Committee and the House Space Committee.  But understanding astronomy seems to elude her.

Jackson Lee attended an event at Booker T. Washington High School where the “Trust the Science” party member clearly does not understand the science.

Today, I created the opportunity to see a unique science and solar experience for the students at Booker T. Washington High School.

As a former member of the Science Committee and former Ranking Member of the Space and Aeronautics Committee, this was an irreplaceable moment… pic.twitter.com/DhlorZthW7

— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) April 8, 2024

Jackson Lee explained to the crowd, “You have the energy of the moon at night.”

What?

“And sometimes you’ve heard the word ‘full moon,’…Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon,” which she then explained is a “complete rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases.”

Is this what they teach at her Alma Mater, Yale University?

She continued, “That’s why the question is why — or how — could we as humans live on the moon. The gas is such that we can do that.”

As NASA explains, the moon’s “weak atmosphere and its lack of liquid water cannot support life as we know it.”

Undeterred by facts, Jackson Lee added that the “sun is a mighty powerful heat and it’s almost impossible to go near the sun” while the “moon is more manageable.”

Watch:

Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: It’s “almost impossible to go near the sun,” but the “moon is more manageable” because it’s “made up mostly of gases” (it isn’t)pic.twitter.com/0t8CPI4QzW

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 9, 2024

Jackson Lee hopes students will “hold this with them forever.”  Those who embrace education hope their teachers are more capable than the Congresswoman.

These students will hold this with them forever; I am glad we were able to bring everyone together for such a historic moment. pic.twitter.com/7ldL8w0uql

— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) April 8, 2024

This is not the first time she has struggled with concepts surrounding astronomy.

Texas Monthly reported, “Jackson Lee, whose district neighbors the Johnson Space Center, is a member of the House Committee on Science, and so it was that she spent part of her summer recess visiting the Mars Pathfinder Operations Center in Pasadena, California. While there, according to an article by Sandy Hume in The Hill, a weekly newspaper that covers Congress, Jackson Lee asked if the Pathfinder succeeded in taking pictures of the American flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong in 1969. Of course, Armstrong planted the flag on the Moon, as any high schooler should be able to tell you, let alone a 47-year-old Yale graduate.”

Watch as Jackson Lee struggles with the challenges of trying to navigate how to use the special eclipse glasses.

This video of Congresswoman Jackson-Lee trying to figure out how to wear her eclipse glasses will literally have you in tears: pic.twitter.com/zqLVbup1Qq

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 9, 2024

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Wayne and President Trump discuss abortion, open borders, jobs, fraud of Biden administration and why Jews vote Democrat.

Watch Wayne’s new nightly TV show, “The Root Reaction” at 10 PM ET / 7 PM Pacific Mondays-Thursdays on Real America’s Voice TV Network.

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We know Joe Biden has a reputation for not being able to keep his footing — on matters of foreign policy, on understanding the American people — and more tangibly, on the staircase leading up to Air Force One. While this may seem to be a funny thing to point out, is it a bigger sign of his health and mental state at large?

Elijah Schaffer discusses all this and MORE on today’s episode of Beyond the Headlines!

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In a recent turn of events, an appellate judge in New York has decisively rejected former President Donald Trump’s last-minute request to delay the upcoming trial concerning the alleged “hush money” payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. This decision marks a significant moment in the legal saga that has captured national attention, underscoring the judiciary’s firm stance on proceeding with the trial set to begin on April 15.

Trump’s legal team had launched an eleventh-hour bid to push back the trial date, citing concerns over the trial’s venue and a gag order that restricts public commentary on the case.

BREAKING: A New York state appeals judge denied Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 trial on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to Stormy Daniels while the former US president appeals a gag order in the case https://t.co/qkUXQnXUxo pic.twitter.com/XH1LYbyWEo

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 9, 2024

Specifically, Trump sought a change of venue and requested relief from a gag order that limits his ability to speak publicly about the case, including comments on the judge’s daughter, who is employed by a Democrat-aligned consulting firm. However, the appellate judge’s ruling did not address these requests, leaving Trump to face the broader implications of the gag order, which is slated for review on Tuesday.

The lawsuit filed by Trump against Judge Juan Merchan, which remains under seal, represents the latest in a series of attempts by the former president to delay the trial. The case at the heart of this legal battle revolves around a $130,000 payment made to Daniels, allegedly to prevent her from disclosing details of an extramarital encounter with Trump prior to the 2016 presidential campaign—a claim Trump has vehemently denied.

Who’s tuning in?
I predict this will be of epic proportions with phenomenal ratings!

Donald Trump allies to release documentary accusing prosecutors in the Stormy Daniels case of CORRUPTION as the hush money trial begins in New York!

‘Chasing Trump’ is due to be… pic.twitter.com/8dSXktmA4C

— Just Jodie (@Just_Jodie7) April 9, 2024

As the trial date looms, Judge Merchan has issued a letter outlining the procedures for conducting jury selection, indicating the court’s readiness to move forward with the trial. This development adds another layer to the complex legal challenges facing Trump, who has consistently contested the allegations and sought various avenues to delay the proceedings.

The refusal to delay the trial underscores the judiciary’s commitment to upholding the legal process, despite the high-profile nature of the case and the defendant involved. As the trial progresses, it will undoubtedly continue to garner significant media attention, reflecting the ongoing public interest in the legal controversies surrounding the former president.

As Trump prepares to face the trial, the outcome of this legal battle could have far-reaching implications, not only for the former president but also for the broader political landscape. With the trial set to begin shortly, all eyes will be on the New York courtroom as this pivotal chapter in Trump’s post-presidency unfolds.

Let us know how you feel about Stormy Daniels and Trump’s legal team.

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A CIA Officer/former FBI official is on an undercover video boasting about using the might of the federal government to ‘jail anyone’ by ‘setting them up.’

Gavin O’Blennis, a Contracting Officer for the CIA told an undercover journalist with Sound Investigations that the FBI “can put anyone in jail…set ’em up!”

“We call it a nudge,” O’Blennis said, adding the FBI can put “problematic” right-wing journalists like Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones in jail.

O’Blennis said of Infowars founder Alex Jones: The FBI “took his money away,” and ‘chopped his legs off.’

Gavin O’Blennis said at least 20 undercover FBI agents were at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“I thought you said that there were FBI agents in the crowd at January 6?” the undercover journalist asked O’Blennis.

He replied, “There are. There always are when there’s a big protest in DC. Just in case it gets out of hand like that…I mean, I’m talking they maybe had 20. You needed 1,000 to get rid of that crowd.”

He also said the FBI uses “embellished” news and “fake social media” to “really get people mad.”

WATCH:

BREAKING: CIA Officer/Former FBI Boasts “Can Put Anyone in Jail…Set ’Em Up!” “We Call It a Nudge”

FBI “Did What We Wanted” with Alex Jones @RealAlexJones “Took His Money Away” “Chop His Legs Off”

Estimates 20 Undercover FBI Agents at J6, Works with Some of Them Now at CIA

FBI… pic.twitter.com/QxP20emKB5

— Sound Investigations (@SoundInvestig) April 9, 2024

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While he has always been a fierce critic of Donald Trump, British Foreign Minister (and former Prime Minister) David Cameron, in his trip to the US, plans to meet the Republican nominee that’s leading in all the polls.

Cameron will meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken today, as well as with lawmakers in Congress to press for an aid package for Ukraine while also discussing the Israel-Gaza war.

But before he does so, Cameron will meet former President Donald Trump in Florida, a spokesperson for the British government’s Foreign Office said.

It is described as a ‘standard practice’ engagement with an opposition candidate.

Reuters reported:

“Cameron last week said he would see Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and urge him to pass a $60 billion package of military aid for Ukraine, which he has held up for months.

‘Success for Ukraine and failure for Putin are vital for American and European security,” Cameron said in a statement, saying it was important to demonstrate to Russian President Vladimir Putin that “aggression doesn’t pay’.

‘The alternative would only encourage Putin in further attempts to re-draw European borders by force, and would be heard clearly in Beijing, Tehran and North Korea’.”

Cameron is expected to meet congressional leaders from both the Republican and Democrat parties.

At this point, what Cameron and Trump would discuss is unclear.

“‘It is standard practice for ministers to meet with opposition candidates as part of their routine international engagement’, the spokesperson said.

Britain has been a staunch ally of Ukraine since Russia invaded in 2022, but Cameron will stress it is the United States that is the ‘key stone in the arch’ as its pace and scale of support for Ukraine is unmatched.”

Cameron wants to increase economic pressure on Russia and give Ukraine the military and humanitarian support it needs.

BBC reported:

“Mr. Trump, and his supporters within the party, oppose the US package providing aid to Ukraine. Those in the House of Representatives have vowed to vote against the package without additional funding for US border security being agreed to first.

Lord Cameron has been urging Republicans for some time to approve the aid package, particularly angering Republican congresswoman and Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor-Greene, who told the foreign secretary to “kiss my ass”.

She was responding to an article written by Lord Cameron, in which he warned the US against showing ‘the weakness displayed against Hitler in the 1930s’.”

Back in 2015, during his tenure as prime minister, Lord Cameron labeled Mr. Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the US ‘divisive, stupid and wrong.’

“In his memoirs published in 2019, Lord Cameron further said that he found it ‘depressing’ that Mr. Trump could win an election, and that it was due to his ‘protectionist, xenophobic, misogynistic interventions’.”

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It is becoming clear to me that neither Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or Donald J. Trump are going to speak ill of each other. In fact, they seem to be praising each other at times. This is because RFK Jr’s run for the White House hurts Joe Biden. My belief is there may be a deal in place between President Trump and RFK, Jr. Why else would Kennedy pick a radical to be his running mate? Nicole Shanahan is a leftist who will only help pick off votes from Joe Biden.

I am making the prediction now that President Trump will have a spot for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inside the Trump Administration. RFK Jr. knows he has no shot of winning the Presidency, so if he wants a voice in the future, the best way is to help President Trump.

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One of the worst kept secrets in Washington is no one actually knows just how much money the United States has spent in support of Ukraine. Over the past year, however, conservatives in Congress have been pushing President Joe Biden and his administration for the real number, and they’re finally getting some answers.

In a letter sent to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young on Tuesday, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, along with Sens. Roger Marshall, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and twelve other members of Congress, chronicled the immense difficulty Congress has had in getting what should be readily available information from the Biden administration. 

When Vance and other conservatives in Congress started pressing the Biden administration to provide the real cost of the Ukraine war in January 2023, the lawmakers estimated the U.S. had spent “a minimum of $114 billion.” Now, with added information from the OMB, Vance and company estimate the current total of aid to Ukraine amounts to at least $125 billion—$14 billion over what the OMB had previously claimed.

That’s not all. Conservatives believe the Biden administration could give Ukraine around another $4 billion in the form of weapons transfers from U.S. stockpiles under the presidential drawdown authority. This would bring the total amount the U.S. could give to Ukraine to $129 billion.

When OMB got to responding to lawmakers’ January 2023 letter almost eight months later, the OMB claimed, through an opaque and admittedly incomplete data sheet, that Ukraine aid totaled $111 billion. 

“The deficiencies in OMB’s response were numerous,” the Tuesday letter to Young said of the OMB’s September 2023 response. “It did not account for hundreds of millions of dollars in base appropriations for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. It omitted the administration’s ‘$6.2 billion in ‘freed-up’ authority’ to send weapons to Ukraine, which meant that ‘certain numbers in OMB’s spreadsheet, as well as dollar figures the administration provided for at least some previous Ukraine-related drawdowns, are outdated.’ It did not allow us to determine ‘what obligations, apportionments, and outlays the administration has undertaken for other countries in response to the Ukraine conflict.’”

Vance and company concluded OMB’s September 2023 response was “nonresponsive to our inquiry,” and in a follow-up letter sent September 28, 2023, added that “If OMB’s spreadsheet is to be relied on to produce such a figure—and we believe it cannot be—it is around $111 billion. It would appear likely that the data you have yet to provide would raise this figure by an indeterminate magnitude.”

“Every one of these assertions has been validated,” the Tuesday letter claims. On March 8, 2024, “nearly six months after we again requested a full accounting of Ukraine spending, more than a year after our original request, and one business day before the OMB director was scheduled to testify before the Senate Budget Committee,” the letter notes, OMB finally decided to hand over “another tranche of information.” What it included was shocking.

The latest OMB data dump to Congress revealed, according to the lawmakers’ letter, that the administration had failed to report at least another $684 million in appropriated Ukraine spending, left out another $900 million in DOD assistance connected to the Ukraine war, and a number of other pitfalls that has undercounted the total amount of Ukraine aid by a magnitude of billions.

There could be more, too, as lawmakers included a list of 14 probing questions and information requests in their latest correspondence with the OMB director. No surprise—it’s not Shalanda Young or Joe Biden’s money at stake, just the American people’s.

The post EXCLUSIVE: The Biden Administration Just Admitted It Has Massively Undercounted Ukraine Aid appeared first on The American Conservative.

Credit: Fox Business

Over three dozen lots of hand sanitizer and aloe gel are reportedly being recalled because they contain a highly poisonous substance that can cause severe health issues, including blindness and coma.

The FDA said Friday that Aruba Aloe Balm N.V., which is based in Oranjestad, Aruba, is “voluntarily” recalling 40 lots of Aruba Aloe Hand Sanitizer Gel Alcohol 80% and Aruba Aloe Alcoholada Gel. These products contain alcohol modified with methanol.

As the FDA notes, exposure to methanol can lead to nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, coma, seizures, permanent blindness, permanent damage to the central nervous system, or death. The people most at risk for methanol poisoning are children who accidentally ingest these products and adolescents and adults who drink these products as an alcohol (ethanol) substitute.

Aruba Aloe Balm N.V. claims it has not received any reports of adverse events connected to the use of its products.

Aruba Aloe Hand Sanitizer Gel is used as a sanitizer to help reduce bacteria that can potentially cause disease. It is packaged in 12 fl oz green plastic bottles with white labels reading in part “ARUBA ALOE Hand Sanitizer GEL 80% Alcohol Made in Aruba World’s Finest Aloe.”

Aruba Aloe Alcoholada Gel is designed to provide temporary relief of pain and itching associated with minor burns, sunburn, insect bites, or minor skin irritations. It comes in 2.2 and 8.5 fl. oz clear bottles.

The affected Aruba Aloe Hand Sanitizer GEL product lots are the following:

Credit: FDA

The affected Aruba Aloe Alcoholada Gel product lots are as follows:

Credit: FDA

According to the FDA, the products were distributed between 5/1/2021 and 10/27/2023 and sold in the US online via the Aruba Aloe Balm N.V. website. The Aruba-based company is notifying the customers who bought the products via email and offering a discount coupon for a future purchase.

The FDA is urging customers to discontinue using the products and to throw them away. The agency also says customers affected by the product should contact their doctor or healthcare provider.

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WARNING: This article contains descriptions of violent physical abuse that may be disturbing to some readers.

Screenshot: Fed-up man pulled Elisa Jordana’s hair after she hit him in the face multiple times. (Elisa Jordana/Youtube)

Elisa Jordana, a former writer for the Howard Stern show, has been reportedly arrested following a violent live-streamed altercation with her boyfriend, known only as “ZScorro.”

The distressing footage, which went viral late Monday, shows Jordana engaged in a heated exchange that escalates to physical violence.

The live stream initially intended to be a personal vlog, took an alarming turn as viewers witnessed the former Stern staffer hitting the man several times in the face while driving. The man eventually forced Jordana out of the vehicle just moments before the live stream was abruptly cut off.

The 2-hour livestream started with Jordana revealing that she had discovered ZScorro was cheating on her with a woman named Sara. Jordana claimed that she learned of the infidelity during a couples therapy session after gaining access to ZScorro’s phone.

The situation had escalated to the point that the man had contacted the police. Upon their arrival, Jordana reportedly returned ZScorro’s phone and keys.

Despite witnessing Jordana attempt to hit ZScorro, officers on the scene permitted the couple to leave together in their vehicle.

Jordana continued to live stream while driving with ZScorro, taking calls from viewers. During this time, she made a shocking admission to a caller, indicating that she plans to kill her boyfriend.

The live stream further captured Jordana hitting ZScorro multiple times. Jordana also threatened to leak nude photos and personal information of Sara to her Discord channel.

Sara herself called into the livestream, which led to Jordana assaulting ZScorro multiple times.

Screenshot: Elisa Jordana/Youtube

More from Sports Skeeda:

Jordana is a relatively small IRL streamer on YouTube and was formerly known as Elisa Schwartz. She appeared on The Howard Stern Show and Kermit and Friends. As for her recent foray into the world of livestreaming, according to the bio on her official account on X, she is the self-styled “Queen Of IRL Livestreaming.”

Her YouTube account has just over 13K subscribers, and the livestream where the incident went down occurred today April 8, 2024. It appears the two were having some sort of disagreement while Elisa Jordana was driving her car after the two-hour streaming mark and then started threatening the man in the passenger seat.

The streamer then slapped him on the nose and followed it by pulling his ears. This seemingly tipped the man over the edge and he began pulling Jordana’s hair and told her to pull over the car.

What followed was a violent altercation where he kept shouting curses at the YouTuber while putting her in a headlock till she exited the vehicle and seemingly walked away.

At this point, the man ran out and promptly came over from the driver’s side and stopped the camera, ending the stream. It is unclear whether both people are safe, as neither Elisa Jordana nor the man has given any public updates.

WATCH:

NEW: Former Howard Stern employee Elisa Jordana goes viral for a wild fight with a man on live-stream while driving pic.twitter.com/CGZmJE3HKG

— Unlimited L’s (@unlimited_ls) April 9, 2024

The aftermath of the incident has reportedly resulted in Jordana’s arrest. She was arrested by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office and charged with felony battery. Her mugshot has since gone viral.

Elisa Jordana has been charged with Battery. pic.twitter.com/xnaVIWSwih

— Breaking GNN (@GuntNews) April 9, 2024

You can watch the full video here.

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