Month: May 2025

Screenshot via Fayette County Sheriff’s Facebook Page

 

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office in Texas has arrested suspected human smugglers who attempted to hide illegal aliens inside modified hay bales.

Fayette County deputies earlier in the week conducted a routine traffic stop of a pickup pulling a hay trailer in Flatonia, Texas.

After noticing something was off about the hay bales, officers searched and discovered that the bales were hollowed out and contained 12 people in dangerously tight spaces.

The accused smugglers were identified as Adanaylo Lambert, 22, and Lency Delgado Fernandez, 25, who now face federal and state human smuggling charges.

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office stated, “This method of concealment is not only deceptive but incredibly dangerous to human life.”

“Smugglers continue to use increasingly creative and hazardous techniques to transport individuals across Texas highways,” added the office

LOOK:

Texas sheriff finds 13 illegal immigrants concealed inside hay bales.pic.twitter.com/9kCBXDrB6F

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 23, 2025

Per Fox News:

Suspected human smugglers were arrested this week while allegedly attempting to hide migrants inside modified hay bales, officials said.

Deputies conducting a routine traffic stop on a pickup pulling a hay trailer Tuesday near Flatonia, Texas, noticed that the bales inside the trailer had been hollowed out to create compartments, the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office said.

After looking more closely, the deputies noticed there were people inside the bales in “dangerously confined spaces” below a metal framework and layers of hay.

“This method of concealment is not only deceptive but incredibly dangerous to human life,” the sheriff’s office said in a release. “Smugglers continue to use increasingly creative and hazardous techniques to transport individuals across Texas highways.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said deputies did a closer inspection after reaching out to the Border Patrol’s Sector Intelligence Unit for assistance when inconsistencies emerged as they questioned the driver and passengers of the pickup.

Two Houston men were caught smuggling illegal immigrants in Flatonia, TX, almost 2 hours west of Houston. The immigrants were being smuggled in what looked like round hay bales that were set up to hide people behind metal framework compartments. pic.twitter.com/fpj0NdMnPr

— Gage Goulding – KPRC 2 (@GageGoulding) May 20, 2025

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Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX) said she hopes to lead the House Oversight Committee if the Democrats take back the House in next year’s midterms.

Crockett appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to discuss Trump’s agenda, his tariff wars, and historical Middle East deals.

Far-left MSNBC teed up Crockett and asked her if the Democrats will investigate Trump if they take back the House and or the Senate in 2026.

Crockett revealed that she will be hoping to take over as Chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee if the Dems take back the House after ranking member Gerry Connolly passed away last week.

“Well, Alex, I’m glad you asked! Listen, so long as we end up taking the House, which I fully anticipate that we will do and we are going to work hard to help our Senate colleagues as well, then as someone who serves on the Oversight Committee and hopes to lead the Oversight Committee, I will guarantee you that we will do what we are supposed to do as Constitutionally sworn members of the House which means we will conduct oversight,” Crockett said.

She continued, “We will look at whether or not this president himself has violated the Emoluments Clause as it relates to… the $400 million plane from the Qataris… and business deals.”

To be clear, Qatar gifted the Defense Department the $400 million plane.

“There is no shortage of things for us to dig into to determine whether or not there have been violations of the law but definitely violations of our Constitution as a whole,” she said.

WATCH:

BREAKING: Jasmine Crockett says she “hopes to lead the Oversight Committee.” pic.twitter.com/pchNN1WEWf

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 25, 2025

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Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Stone Creem (D) introduced a bill this year to create a commission with the goal of reducing the number of miles driven by residents in their cars because of ‘climate change’, with an ultimate goal to “reduce the need for personal vehicles.”

Image via Cynthia Creem/X May 14, 2025.

The 82-year-old Creem wants the state government to promulgate regulations that could fine residents for driving too much and force them into riding public transportation, using bikes paths and walking.

Excerpts from Bill S. 2246:

(b) No metropolitan planning organization shall approve a Regional Transportation Plan or Transportation Improvement Program developed pursuant to 23 CFR Part 450, and the department shall not approve a Statewide Transportation Improvement Program, unless the plan or program, including any mitigation measures interlinked to individual projects within the plan or program, provides a reasonable pathway to compliance with the greenhouse gas emissions sublimits for the transportation set pursuant to section 3A of chapter 21N and to the statewide vehicles miles traveled reduction goals established by the secretary pursuant to section 81 of this chapter.

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(f) The department may promulgate rules or regulations for the implementation of this section.

Section 81. (a) To relieve traffic congestion, improve air quality, and promote compliance with the greenhouse gas emissions limits established pursuant to chapter 21N, the secretary shall, in consultation with the secretary of economic development, the secretary of energy and environmental affairs, and the secretary of housing and livable communities, set a statewide vehicle miles traveled reduction goal for the year 2030 and for every fifth year thereafter. The vehicle miles traveled reduction goals shall be incorporated into: (i) the greenhouse gas emissions sublimits for the transportation sector set pursuant to subsection (b) of section 3A of chapter 21N; and (ii) the roadmap plans published pursuant to subsection (b) of section 3 of said chapter 21N.

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The council shall assess and report on strategies and plans necessary to reduce statewide vehicles miles traveled through the establishment of an equitable, interconnected, accessible and reliable network of non-personal vehicle transportation options and through land use policies that reduce the need for personal vehicles. The plan shall facilitate: (i) compliance with the greenhouse gas emissions limits and sublimits set pursuant to chapter 21N of the General Laws, with emphasis on compliance with the emissions limits and sublimits set for 2030; (ii) attainment of the numerical benchmarks for vehicle miles traveled set pursuant to section 81 of chapter 6C; (iii) the development of compact, walkable neighborhoods; and (iv) advancement of access to, and affordability of, non-personal vehicle transportation options.

The assessment shall include, but not be limited to: (i) the present condition of, and future needs for, non-personal vehicle transportation infrastructure and services, including, but not limited to, bicycle paths and lanes; bicycle sharing stations; pedestrian paths; bus, ferry, subway, and train services; transportation demand management programs; and microtransit programs ; (ii) the present status of, and future needs for, land use policies that reduce the need for personal vehicles; (iii) suggestions for optimal locations for new, expanded or improved non-personal vehicle transportation options in urban, suburban and rural areas including, but not limited to, low-income and moderate-income communities; (iv) discussion of programs and policies that may incentivize residents to adopt non-personal vehicle transportation options; (v) discussion of present and projected future costs and methods of financing those costs; (viii) recommendations to assist local governmental and private sector officials in expanding access to non-personal vehicle transportation options and in planning and developing compact, walkable neighborhoods; and (ix) identification and discussion of current policies and recommendations for policies, laws and regulatory actions that may facilitate reductions in vehicle miles traveled.

Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance posted a video Friday criticizing Creem’s proposal:

WATCH: Sen. Cynthia Creem says EVs aren’t enough—Massachusetts must limit how far you can drive, too. Her bill creates a panel to track your mileage and fine you if you go too far.

She says just walk or bike instead.

Textbook extreme, out-of-touch policymaking. #mapoli pic.twitter.com/RgI3OqMTL0

— Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance (@MassFiscal) May 23, 2025

State House News Service reported that at a hearing a week ago Wednesday, there was some skepticism of Creem’s bill (excerpt):

Sen. Michael Barrett, the Senate co-chair of the TUE (Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy) Committee, raised with supporters of Creem’s bill the question of “whether we’re layering too many slightly disparate initiatives, one on top of another, in a way that is, in fact, going to complicate rather than clarify steps that need to be taken.”

Barrett pointed to transportation sector emission sublimits that are supposed to ratchet down over the coming decade and requirements for the MBTA to transition its bus fleet to be zero-emitting as examples that “we do have a lot of provisions right now, enacted in either 2021-2022 or 2024, that correlate transportation spending and climate goals.”

The Lexington Democrat also noted what he called “an unintended and subtle bias against rural Massachusetts,” where transit options are far more limited and people often live further from their workplaces.

“I understand that one can easily imagine that EVs, over time, will reduce the number of polluting vehicle miles traveled. But why we would want to start to pressure Massachusetts to reduce all miles traveled, polluting and non-polluting alike, does raise the question of what someone is to do in a place where one has to travel a long distance to a construction job or to any other source of employment,” Barrett said.

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Speaker Johnson on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream 5/25/25

Speaker Mike Johnson was on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to discuss President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ and Senator Ron Johnson’s vow to stop it from passing the Senate.

“Let me start with what the Senator had to say there. He said the cuts are wimpy and anemic and that the national debt is actually one of our greatest issues of national security,” Bream said of comments by Senator Rand Paul.

“I agree wholeheartedly with what my dear friend Rand Paul Said. I love his conviction, and I share it,” Johnson said.

“What I think Rand is missing on this one is the fact that we are quite serious about this. This is the biggest spending cut Shannon, in more than 30 years,” Johnson continued.

“This is the biggest spending cut I think in the history of government on planet Earth. Now is it enough? Of course not, but we have a very delicate balance, and we have to start the process,” Johnson said.

“It took us decades to get into this situation. This is a big step to begin to turn that aircraft carrier,” Johnson said.

Speaker Johnson also explained that including the extension of the debt ceiling was a critical part of the bill because of the lack of support of the Democrat Party otherwise.

“We are not gonna get any Democrats to assist on that, so to get it through the Senate and make sure we don’t crash the US economy, default on our debts for the first time in history, it has to be part of the reconciliation package,” Johnson explained.

“Real quick important point here, it does not mean that we are going to spend more money. We are extending the debt ceiling to show to creditors, the bond markets, the stock market that the Congress is serious about this,” Johnson said.

Speaker Johnson also explained that President Trump was serious about the national debt and cutting spending.

“President Trump is dialed in 100 percent. He is a visionary leader. He does not want to spend more money, and he has the same concern about the national debt that Rand Paul and I do,” Johnson continued.

Watch:

WATCH: @SpeakerJohnson reacts to changes Senate Republicans are eyeing for Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’. pic.twitter.com/UQr0Bt9Zu9

— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) May 25, 2025

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The Women’s National Basketball Association’s Minnesota Lynx held a moment of silence for George Floyd at the start of their game against the Connecticut Sun on Friday.

Minnesota forward Napheesa Collier grabbed a microphone and took to the center of the court to speak about the fifth anniversary of his death.

“George was a father, a brother, and a son, and his life, like every life, held meaning,” Collier said.

The player continued, “His death exposed the holes that are still in our justice and criminal institutions today. His five-year anniversary reminds us that we want to continue the fight against criminal, racial, and social injustices. We can not stay silent.”

LMAOO.. the @WNBA had a moment of silence to honor George Floyd.

Thoughts?? pic.twitter.com/fhGD2gSzVV

— American AF (@iAnonPatriot) May 25, 2025

Floyd died in police custody while on drugs and resisting arrest on May 25, 2020. His death caused massive, deadly riots across the nation.

Outkick noted:

Collier did not mention the eight jail terms Floyd previously served, nor the fentanyl and methamphetamine an autopsy found in his system at the time of his death. She, nor the Lynx or WNBA for that matter, did not address the hundreds of businesses and lives that were ruined during the riots that took place across Minneapolis and the nation in the days that followed Floyd’s death, either.

The Lynx moment of silence and Collier’s speech are just the latest examples of the WNBA not being a legitimate sports organization. Social justice trumps all, including basketball and entertainment, which is all the overwhelming majority of the WNBA’s fanbase wants to focus on.

Fans pay for tickets to go enjoy a basketball game and escape from real-life issues for a couple of hours, not to be reminded about George Floyd’s death, be lectured about how great a person he was, and how racist our social and criminal justice systems are.

Cities including Houston and Minneapolis are holding “commemorative events” to mark the fifth anniversary of his death.

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A US Citizen was arrested for attempting to firebomb the US Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv and for threatening to assassinate President Trump.

According to the Justice Department: Joseph Neumayer, a dual U.S. and German citizen was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport by FBI special agents and a complaint was unsealed in the Eastern District of New York charging Neumayer with attempting to destroy, by means of fire or explosive, the Branch Office of the United States Embassy located in Tel Aviv, Israel.

“As alleged in the complaint, Neumayer arrived in Israel in April 2025. On May 19, Neumeyer, 28, arrived outside of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv carrying a dark-colored backpack. Without provocation Neumeyer spit on an Embassy guard as he walked past. Neumeyer managed to break free as the guard attempted to detain him, leaving behind his backpack. A search of Neumeyer’s backpack revealed three rudimentary improvised incendiary devices commonly known as Molotov cocktails. Law enforcement tracked Neumeyer to his hotel, where he was arrested. Neumeyer’s social media revealed that earlier in the day on May 19, he posted, “join me as I burn down the embassy in Tel Aviv. Death to America, death to Americans, and f—k the west.” Law enforcement authorities confirmed the presence of flammable fluid in the devices. Other social media posts from an account believed to be used by Neumeyer revealed his threats to assassinate President Trump. On May 25, Israeli authorities returned Neumeyer to the United States,” the DOJ said.

United States Citizen Arrested for Attempted Firebombing of U.S. Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, Israel

: https://t.co/Gwc67wrtj4 pic.twitter.com/K0nwFHFks2

— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) May 25, 2025

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “This Department of Justice will not tolerate those who stoke hate, perpetrate violence, or threaten the President of the Unites States.”

An American citizen has been arrested for attempting to firebomb the U.S. Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv.
⁰My official statement below: https://t.co/U77Kn6DBjr pic.twitter.com/Q5AtV73GUu

— Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) May 25, 2025

The arrest comes a few days after a far-left terrorist opened fire and killed two Israeli Embassy staffers in DC.

Pro-Palestinian activist Elias Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago, ruthlessly gunned down Yaron Lischinesky and Sarah Milgrim as they left an American Jewish Committee event at the Capital Jewish Museum last week.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) offered sharply differing views on the GOP-backed budget bill making its way through Congress during separate interviews on Fox News Sunday.

Paul criticized the bill’s spending cuts as “wimpy and anemic,” warning that the legislation would “explode the debt.” A longtime fiscal hawk, Paul said he’ll vote against the measure, which narrowly passed the House last week. “The deficit is a threat to our country,” he said. “I think it’s the greatest threat to national security.” 

Appearing later on the program, Johnson defended the bill while acknowledging its imperfections. “This is the biggest spending cut, I think, in the history of government on planet Earth,” the speaker said. “Now is it enough? Of course not. But we have a very delicate balance, and we have to start the process.” 

The House version of the bill raises the debt ceiling by $4 trillion. Paul objected to the hike, while Johnson defended it as necessary to avoid a government default. “We’re extending the debt ceiling to show to creditors, the bond markets, the stock market that the Congress is serious about this,” Johnson said.

President Donald Trump has urged Republican lawmakers to support the legislation, calling it the “big, beautiful bill.”

The post Mike Johnson and Rand Paul Clash Over Budget Bill appeared first on The American Conservative.

President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill could face significant hurdles in the Senate after barely passing in the House last week, as GOP Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) says he has the votes to stop the bill. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the House passed the budget reconciliation bill by only one vote on Thursday after months of debate.

President Trump has said he needs the budget reconciliation bill to pass in order to cut taxes for the working class, fund his secure border and mass deportation agenda, and follow through on  creating the “Golden Age of America.” On Tuesday, President Trump delivered remarks to House Republicans on Capitol Hill, where he reportedly asked lawmakers to stop haggling over the bill and move it forward to his desk.

Now it heads to the Senate, where the Republicans hold a 53-47 majority.

Johnson told reporters last week that “there is no way I’m going to vote for this bill in its current form.”

“I couldn’t care less if he’s upset,” he added with regard to the President, who has called on Congress to pass the bill in its current form. Claiming the bill will increase the national deficit, he decried Republicans for “stealing from our children and grandchildren.”

WATCH:

I couldn’t care less if he’s upset. I’m concerned about my children and my grandchildren and the fact that we are stealing from them. We are stealing from our children and grandchildren. $37 trillion in debt and we’re going to add to it as Republicans? That is unacceptable, and that’s why there is no way I’m going to vote for this bill in its current form.

On Sunday, Johnson made an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union and told Jake Tapper that there are enough Republicans in the Senate to “stop the process until the President gets serious about the spending reduction and reducing the deficit.”

WATCH:

How many other Republican Senators do you think share your concerns and are willing to work to make major changes to this bill?

I think we have enough to stop the process until the President gets serious about the spending reduction and reducing the deficit.

The more 1,000 page bill extends the 2017 tax cuts, eliminates taxes on tips and overtime, and introduces new tax deductions. It also proposes significant spending on defense and immigration enforcement, including funding for a continental missile defense system.

The Gateway Pundit will continue to follow this bill and provide updates. 

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“Fly the friendly skies”

An international flight en route to Houston was diverted to Seattle on Saturday after an unruly passenger tried to open the exit door.

An All Nippon Airways traveling from Tokyo to Houston made an emergency landing at Sea-Tac at around 4:15 am after a passenger “having a medical crisis” attempted to open the exit door midflight.

The person was not identified. No other information about the incident was immediately available.

Oddly, a second person, unrelated to the first incident, was removed from the flight for “unruly behavior” on the tarmac at Sea-Tac before the plane departed for Houston.

NBC News reported:

A flight was diverted to Seattle after a passenger allegedly attempted to open exit doors midflight, according to Port of Seattle Police.

The All Nippon Airways flight was traveling from Japan’s Haneda Airport in Tokyo to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Saturday when a passenger became “unruly,” according to the airline, which did not provide any details. Online records show that Flight 114 departed from Tokyo at around 10:33 a.m. local time.

The flight was diverted to Seattle as a result, and landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at around 4:19 a.m. PT, police said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the flight was diverted “due to a passenger disturbance,” but did not provide any additional details. The flight was almost 10 hours into its journey when it landed in Seattle, according to FlightAware.com.

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Failing Starmer pivots right, loses the left.

After Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour got trounced by Reform UK in the recent Local Elections, he has scrambled to turn sharply right in his immigration policy in order to come closer to voters on the right side of the political spectrum.

But in doing so, it appears that he is leaking voters profusely in his leftwing camp, as we can learn from the interesting article by Fonie Mitsopoulou on City AM:

“Recent polls indicate that of those that voted Labour in the 2024 election, only 46 per cent would do so again were an election to happen tomorrow. In Labour’s leftist flanks, there is a persistent feeling that Starmer has deserted his traditional base by shifting to the right by an unwelcome degree, cutting down on welfare and legal migration.”

Farage’s Reform UK is a real threat both to Tories and to Starmer’s Labour.

No less than 43 per cent of Labour voters have two eyes that see, and noticed that that their party is trying too hard to appeal to Reform UK voters.

Starmer’s speech announcing plans to curb the migrant influx came just two weeks after Labour lost 187 councilors at the Local Elections, and Reform swelled to 677 seats.

This is Huge.
Labour is losing far more voters to the Left than to the Right.
Labour’s strategy is all wrong.
Labour needs to Turn Left. pic.twitter.com/9gJLX3ruIa

— Sam Disabled Man Welfare Not Warfare (@CounsellingSam) May 21, 2025

“But while the Starmer administration try to stop a bleed from the right, there is also a vacuum for disenchanted Labour voters who remain impervious to Reform’s temptations. In fact, largest portion of Labour’s supporters are now undecided voters – up for grabs.

While the government recently reversed the wildly unpopular winter fuel payment cuts, they incurred opprobrium for delaying it by ten months from when the policy change was announced. “

The incredible shrinking Premier.

Younger Labour are going to the Green Party, and older ones are heading to the Liberal Democrats.

“The Lib Dems gained 163 local councillors in the recent elections, bringing them up to 370. A Liberal Democrat source told City AM that at the 2026 local elections, ‘you will see in key areas in London that we are the real challengers to Labour’.”

The Greens so far have gotten nine per cent of Labour’s 2024 voters, and they want to gain even more.

Read more:

Starmer Pivots Right on Immigration, Plans for ‘Return Hubs’ to Stash Illegal Migrants Outside of the UK – Update: PM Snubbed as Albania Rejects Taking Asylum Seekers

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