Day: March 28, 2025

State Rep. Justin Pearson Blames Republican He Lunged At for Altercation in Tennessee House

Tom Pappert
Justin Pearson

State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) on Thursday appeared on Fox 13 to discuss the physical incident on the Tennessee State House floor that saw him physically restrained by colleagues and staff members during a disagreement over gun control legislation, and seemed to suggest State Representative Andrew Farmer (R-Sevierville) was responsible.

The interaction began on Wednesday when Pearson suggested lawmakers did not take public safety seriously as they debated his gun control legislation, prompting Farmer to question the appropriateness of the remarks after Pearson was absent for most of the legislative session following the December suicide of his brother.

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Trump Fires TVA Board Member Days After Sens. Bill Hagerty, Marsha Blackburn Condemn Directors’ ‘Atrophy’ on Nuclear Policy

Tom Pappert
Moore TVA

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) confirmed on Friday the departure of one of its board members at the behest of President Donald Trump in an announcement made only days after U.S. Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) argued that the TVA Board of Directors was unfit to oversee a critical part of the nation’s nuclear energy program.

In a brief announcement, the TVA on Friday confirmed the appointment of L. Michelle Moore to its Board of Directors “ended March 27, 2025, at the direction of the President of the United States.”

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Left-Wing Programming Alive and Well Inside Massive US Food Conglomerate, Report Says

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Mini wheats

Kellanova, formerly known as Kellogg Company, has spent years championing various left-wing initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and climate change, according to a Consumer’s Research report released Friday.

Kellanova — which owns several popular snack and food brands including Cheez-It, Pringles, Pop-Tarts and Eggo — introduced a host of “woke” policies in recent years, including efforts to combat climate change and Business Employee Resource Groups which divide individuals into subcategories based on race, gender, and sexual preference, according to a report from Consumer’s Research first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Notably, the Consumer’s Research report comes amid the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to curtail DEI policies.

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Trump Orders Return of Removed Monuments Dismantled During Biden Era

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Confederate Monument

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing federal agencies to restore U.S. monuments removed during former President Joe Biden’s term and scrub “anti-American ideology” from national museums, parks and memorials.

The order instructs the interior secretary to reinstate historical markers and statues taken down after January 1, 2020, and tasks Vice President JD Vance with reviewing and reversing “divisive” DEI initiatives at the Smithsonian Institution. It further bars taxpayer funding for exhibitions that “degrade shared American values” or promote race-based narratives inconsistent with federal law.

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FBI Whistleblowers, Including One with Info on Strzok, Want Bureau to Review Their Cases

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FBI agents who blew the whistle on “wrongdoing” within the bureau — including one agent saying he wants to share further information about working under disgraced FBI official Peter Strzok — are calling upon the bureau, now led by Kash Patel, to review and resolve their claims of retaliation by Biden’s FBI.

Empower Oversight sent an early March letter to FBI general counsel Samuel Ramer, asking the bureau for help related to the improper treatment of FBI agents and employees Garret O’Boyle, Marcus Allen, Stephen Friend, Zach Schofftsall, Monica Shillingburg, and Michael Zummer. The letter also includes new details on four clients whose names were redacted, at least one one of whom wants to share FBI abuses from his time working under Strzok, the fired FBI supervisory special agent deeply involved in Crossfire Hurricane.

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Egg Prices Plunging as Bird Flu Subsides and Shortages Dissipate

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Axios   Egg prices are suddenly plunging as the bird flu begins to wane and imports surge to fill the gap. A massive outbreak of avian influenza has wiped out more than 166 million chickens since 2022, leading to sporadic egg shortages and price hikes. It’s also turned into a political issue with Republicans and Democrats arguing about who’s to blame — and President Trump taking credit for the decline in prices in recent weeks. READ THE FULL STORY               

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Utah Governor Signs Bill Making State First to Ban Fluoride in Water Systems

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Breitbart   The state of Utah is now the first in the nation to ban fluoride in its public water systems after Gov. Spencer Cox (R) made it the law on Thursday. The bill he signed, which prohibits any person or government entity from adding the mineral to his state’s water systems, will go into effect on May 7, NBC News reported Friday. However, some medical associations and public health groups support adding fluoride to drinking water, claiming it helps protect people against cavities. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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University of Michigan Announces End of DEI Programs, Closes Offices

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University of Michigan Students

The University of Michigan announced Thursday it will end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, immediately closing both the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion.

School administration said the programs are being ended in response to recent executive orders and federal guidance from the Trump administration that are beginning “to reshape higher education.”

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Neil W. McCabe: Signal Chat Example of a ‘War Against the Trump Administration Being Fought from the Inside’

Kaitlin Housler
Jeff Goldberg

National political reporter Neil W. McCabe said he believes the journalist from The Atlantic who was mistakenly included in a group chat among top Trump administration officials is an example of “a war against the Trump administration being fought from the inside.”

On Monday, The Atlantic magazine Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg said he was invited to join the chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal and did so when it later convened about a conversation among officials about U.S. plans to launch airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.

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Feds Lost Track of Tens of Thousands of Unaccompanied Border Kids, Homeland Watchdog Confirms

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Border Surge

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General’s office confirmed the government failed to properly monitor tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors who crossed the border without parents  

“Without an ability to monitor the location and status of UACs, ICE is unable to facilitate court appearances and has no assurance UACs are safe from trafficking, exploitation, forced labor, or involvement in criminal activities that may pose a risk to local communities,” the DHS inspector general said.

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Commentary: Supreme Court Reconsiders Constitutionality of Agency Policymaking

The Daily Signal

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case testing the limits of the nondelegation doctrine, an issue that may sound lawyerly, but which is of the utmost importance in ensuring separation among the federal branches and accountability for the important decisions that affect us all.

Nondelegation is the principle that one branch of government may not give away its power to another. Thus, Congress, vested by the Constitution with the “legislative powers,” cannot give those powers to the executive branch. And yet it appears to do so routinely with broadly-written laws that invite bureaucrats to make the decisions and set the rules that will bind the public.

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Public Records Reveal Extent of Previous Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s Collusion with County Supervisors on Elections Power Grab

Rachel Alexander
Stephen Richer

Two grassroots organizations in Arizona that investigate election corruption examined recent public records from the Maricopa County Recorder and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) in an attempt to get to the bottom of a Shared Services Agreement (SSA) the previous recorder Stephen Richer made with the MCBOS in October turning over control of much of his office to them. The new recorder, conservative Justin Heap, demanded control of his office back, pointing out that the agreement was made at the last minute at the end of the year with lame-duck supervisors. However, one of two remaining supervisors on the board, Thomas Galvin, who is the chair, refuses to relinquish control. 

Merissa Hamilton, co-founder of EZAZ, asked the other four supervisors on X to challenge Galvin, “I urge @KateMcGeeAZ @DebbieLesko @MarkStewart_AZ @Steve_Gallardo to take back control of the Board and direct the County Manager to stop the chaos in election administration!”

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Report: Medicaid Misspent $4.3 Billion in Duplicate Payments

The Daily Signal
Doctor Patient

Taxpayers spent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period covering the same Medicaid patients twice, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Medicaid paid health insurance companies for hundreds of thousands of patients who signed up for the program in two or more separate states. This happened when a patient moved to a different state but Medicaid continued paying the insurance company in the state where the resident previously lived.

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