U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may have dropped off the radar a little bit after things settled down in Minneapolis, but a flurry of arrests just outside Pittsburgh suggests that ICE is as active as ever and addressing a problem that’s been a long time coming.
ICE arrested a reported 13 people at a driver’s license center in a quiet, rural location 40 miles north of downtown Pittsburgh on April 3.
According to WPXI-TV, the local East Franklin Police Department placed calls to ICE “after concerned citizens reported an abnormally large amount of individuals outside the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) driver licensing center in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.”
The center, which is normally only open two days a week, was “overrun” by fighting-age young men from other countries applying for driver’s licenses and seeking other services. Witnesses said the center was filled with long lines.
EPIC!🔥🔥🔥
ICE carried out a major operation in Kittanning, PA. They sent letters to truck drivers about renewing their CDLs, prompting them to show up at the DMV. Agents then moved in and detained dozens of undocumented migrants.
When ICE arrived, federal agents were able to arrest 13 illegal aliens from countries including Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. At least one person allegedly resisted arrest and reportedly assaulted a law enforcement officer.
Local residents praised ICE for its quick response to the situation and for taking their calls seriously.
“FIGHTING US TROOPS ISN’T LIKE BEATING TEENAGE GIRLS:”
Hearing a bunch of dumb regime loyalists also got killed last night because they wanted the $60k bounty and climbed up the mountain only to realise fighting US troops isn't like beating teenage girls.
It seems that one can best explain America’s immigration policies with the supposition that they were crafted by our enemies to do as much harm as possible. That thought is prompted by news that the niece and grand-niece of Iran’s arch terrorist, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, killed by an American missile during the first Trump administration, are to be deported[.]
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Afshar may have reviled the U.S. as the Great Satan, but she herself reveled in a luxurious Los Angeles lifestyle, presumably courtesy of the oppressed people of Iran[.]
If she appeared in public looking like that in Soleimani’s Iran–no head scarf, not to mention being scantily clad–she would be in danger of having her eyes gouged out. No such worries here in “Satanic” America.
Imagine how those photos are playing in Iran — and the rest of the Middle East — right now:
I was considering this from the American perspective, but from the Arabic, Iranian, and Muslim perspective this is a huge propaganda coup for the American government. These photos completely discredit Iran, at a moment when Iranian soldiers are deserting and demoralized. https://t.co/oGsNeTh97opic.twitter.com/3zRcJ1eIMB
GIVE BARI WEISS CREDIT FOR 60 MINUTES REPORTING ON CALIFORNIA’S HIGH-SPEED RAIL BOONDOGGLE:
glad we're mainstreaming a conversation on california's rail disaster, as it's the gateway to understanding why america can't build anymore. but the msm is still afraid to spell it out: the purpose was never to build rail, but to buy union votes. in this, the dems succeeded. https://t.co/oh6Gtp55gR
LBJ had a similar “desire named streetcar” after the world witnessed the Japanese Bullet Train at the 1964 Olympics, but then Johnson’s Great Society attempted to do pretty much everything, simultaneously, with often disastrous results. Buying union votes was likely a key motivator for his own goal to bring a form of high speed rail to America — or at least the Northeast Corridor — in the form of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Metroliner cars. And while those cars had numerous mechanical issues, at least they (usually) ran, which is far more than Newsom can say about his efforts:
BEN STEIN ON TELEVISION AS AN ENGINE OF CULTURAL DEMORALIZATION:
Here’s Ben Stein in 1979 describing television as an engine of cultural demoralization. He argues that a small clique of producers and writers pushed a left-coded inversion of reality onto the public. They despised traditional power centers and hated figures like Buckley. They… https://t.co/yeBN8o52espic.twitter.com/ntfjdJyAHc
— Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost (@Ne_pas_couvrir) April 4, 2026
OH TO BE IN ENGLAND:
Once again, little boys are being targeted while the British State ignores the obvious problem.
British boys aren’t gang-raping little white girls above kebab shops.
British boys aren’t forcing 6 year old girls to marry them.
Tweet continues, “The implied argument is that their obligations within our alliance depend on whether they like the guy we chose as our president. ‘Sure, we’re allies…if we approve of who you elected.’ Nope. We are not going to forget, and we’re not going to forgive. I’m indifferent to their excuses or their rationalizations. The United States of America needed their help and not very much help. They turned us down. That changes everything. And they aren’t going to like how it changes everything.”
BURIED LEDE: Local CBS station reports actual news!
Hahaha. CBS did a 6 month investigation and concluded that high California gas prices are entirely the fault of Gavin Newsom & CA leadership. “55% of each gallon of gas includes California-specific costs.” https://t.co/hBc5eYTDnd
The far-Left comic had the great Meryl Streep on his couch, but their interview time had nearly run out. So Colbert teed Streep up to share anything that was still on her mind, from the world of entertainment to beyond Hollywood’s gates.
If you know something about late-night TV, these kinds of unscripted moments are nothing of the kind. Pre-interviews establish the basics behind the upcoming chat, from personal anecdotes to promoting the project du jour.
Stephen Colbert concluded his interview with Meryl Streep by inviting her to talk about whatever she wants and she went for the voter suppression fearmongering, "the SAVE America Act, if that passes, all the married women that have changed their names are going to have to go to… pic.twitter.com/i9ax1nlBQu
“A COMPETENT LEADER USES GENERALS LIKE A BASKETBALL COACH USES PLAYERS. Bench them, swap them out, shift them to different positions based on how they stack up against the opposing team:”
General Douglas MacArthur was fired by a hat salesman. General George B. McClellan was fired by a small town lawyer. And during WW-II, US generals were replaced constantly.
You see, a competent leader uses generals like a basketball coach uses players. Bench them, swap…
David Letterman: "[Trump's] our dictator. His appearance is fraudulent as is everything about the regime… Think of the worst thing that you’ve ever seen humans accomplish."
Trump’s such an all-powerful dictator that there will be no repercussions whatsoever for Dave saying this. Incidentally, will anyone ask him who he wants to win this time around, Iran or the US?
“ELIMINATING CONSIDERABLE ARTERIOSCLEROSIS,” THEN AND NOW:
Poor General George C. Marshall. If you think the SECWAR criticism is unique, it's not. Marshall had to defend his actions powerfully and without apology:
“Most of our senior officers on such duty are deadwood and should be eliminated from the service as rapidly as possible.”… pic.twitter.com/Zv3lxEiCBc
Related: “The US Army’s ‘Spiritual Fitness Guide’ reads like it was written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on a bender—not a word of encouragement for a soldier’s faith, but pages upon pages of New Age nonsense that makes Universalism sound like rational thought and really does imagine no religion:”
So SecWar Pete Hegseth just fired Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the US Army’s (now former) Chief of Chaplains.
I have zero insider information on this, but I have my own theories as to why it happened.
Green’s most important event as the Chief of Chaplains was to produce the…
TRUMP HAS BROKEN THE MAN WHO HAS PLAYED THE GODFATHER, JAKE LA MOTTA, AND AL CAPONE:
This is such a perfect example of how Trump broke the brains of so many on the Left. In the name of opposing "totalitarianism" and "defending democracy," DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win… https://t.co/H2eKWF5rv1
Tweet continues, “DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win the popular vote. What’s sad is that DeNiro is obviously experiencing immense, totalizing pain, genuine psychic distress at the outcome of an election. So much of their hatred of Trump is just an attempt to evade recognizing that democracy—their neighbors getting what they want when they vote in greater numbers—causes them searing psychic pain.”
THE NOT SO FINAL COUNTDOWN:
Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added.
The Biden Administration did not let Elon use SpaceX to save astronauts who had been stranded for 9 months before the 2024 election because it could possibly help Trump politically.
A Good Friday service in south London was broken up by police over apparent breaches of Covid-19 regulations.
Footage uploaded on YouTube showed Metropolitan police officers addressing worshippers at the Christ the King Polish Catholic church in Balham, south London, late on Friday afternoon.
The video shows an officer telling the congregation that they could be fined £200 or arrested for the potential rule-breaking. He said: “This gathering is unfortunately unlawful under the coronavirus regulations we have currently. I suggest, ladies and gentlemen, that though it is Good Friday, and I appreciate you would like to worship, that this gathering is unlawful, so please may you leave the building now. Thank you.”
A statement posted on the church’s website on Saturday said that they complied with the order to close the service and for people to go home, but insisted it had met all government requirements. It claimed the Met officers had misunderstood regulations on church services during the pandemic.
They said: “We believe, however, that the police brutally exceeded their powers by issuing their warrant for no good reason.”
Heh. Flashback to the infamous 2018 train wreck “interview” that instantly made Peterson a superstar by easily swatting back all of Newman’s hectoring interviewing techniques: Jordan Peterson, Hero. Clinical psychologist triumphs over ideologically-driven journalistic idiocy.
As Rod Dreher wrote at the time, “The interview ought to be shown in journalism classes as an example of what happens when a journalist believes that ideological ardor substitutes for reason, and that contempt for her interview subject should rightly override professionalism.”
Similarly, the London Spectator responded, “If I was Channel 4 I would take it down. If I was Cathy Newman I would sue or seek a super-injunction. I don’t think I have ever witnessed an interview that is more catastrophic for the interviewer.” In response, Newman initially tried to shrug off the debacle, before descending full-on into victimhood:
Recent stats show that as of March 2026, jobs in the motion picture and sound recording industries have dropped from where they were at their peak in July 2022 of more than 455 thousand jobs to 344,000.
Ann Coulter and Mickey Kaus wonder how much Hollywood getting woke has caused them to go broke:
I don't think Hollywood has really confronted the possibility that "Go Woke, Go Broke" was one major cause of its apparent decline. (When it didn't go Woke–eg "Top Gun: Maverick" it didn't go broke!) A… what do they call it … a *reckoning* seems in order. I'm sure various… https://t.co/KcOOdbuTEF
In 2007, private jet enthusiast Leonardo DiCaprio told Vanity Fair, “We are in the environmental age whether we like it or not. So, what does the future look like? We know the United States, the greatest consumer and source of waste, needs to make a transition to a greener future, but will our pivotal generation create a sustainable world in time?”
Wouldn’t banning movie production be a way to save resources? Films involve miles of celluloid, a petroleum-based resource. Plus the fuel involved in transporting the celebrities, crew, and equipment. They involve thousands of watts of electricity for their lighting. Imagine what the lights themselves are doing to the ozone. Then more reels of celluloid when the finished product is shipped to theaters. What about the chemicals involved in processing the film? Then all of the DVDs, which are made of plastic. Then there are the forests cut down to produce magazines to promote them, such as Vanity Fair. And what about the obesity issues caused by theater concession stands? Is the popcorn grown organically? Is the CO2 in the Coke machines harming the atmosphere?
I call on Leonardo DiCaprio to put his money where his mouth is. He’s made enough. It’s time to (a) quit the film industry and (b) call on studio executives to voluntarily cease production of all movies and television shows.
I challenge James Cameron to lead the charge with Big Hollywood to stop eco-unfriendly Hollywood film and television production. We’ll call our initiative: “Lights Off, Camera Off, Action Now!” We can start with an immediate moratorium on wasteful and redundant sequels. Then we’ll create a government bureaucracy to decide what can and cannot be made, with a heavy entertainment surtax for the producers to incur. Our delicate and depleting ecosystem cannot handle more energy-sucking television and film production, especially the size and scope of the average James Cameron production. And anyone that disagrees with me is swine and an effin’ demagogue.
At the first link above, the New York Post noted that tax cuts are being suggested by the establishment left as a solution to revitalize the increasingly beleaguered film industry:
At a March congressional hearing, California Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff met with others who work in the industry to gain support for a bill that would create a federal film tax incentive for movies to be made in the U.S.
During the hearing, Schiff noted that LA County has lost 42,000 entertainment jobs in the last two years.
“These are great jobs and we want to keep them here at home,” Schiff said. “It’s not rocket science how we do that. It’s largely drafted. It needs to be bipartisan. We are working to gather bipartisan support for this.”
As Conquest’s First Law of Politics posits, “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.” But why would Hollywood and its shills turn to tax breaks now to salvage the industry, when for decades, it’s been propped up by Eisenhower-era tax cuts. In 2012, Glenn was demanding: Repeal the Hollywood Tax Cuts!
It’s no coincidence that much of the Democrats’ base doesn’t have to worry about taxes much, either because they work for nonprofits and public entities that don’t pay taxes, or because they live off government benefits, or because they work in industries — like the motion picture and recording industries — with a long history of shady accounting and favorable tax treatment. Republicans, if they’re smart, can nonetheless teach them that tax increases do, in fact, hurt.
They should head into the next budget battle with a list of proposals for tax increases that will sting Democratic constituency groups, but which will seem eminently fair to voters.
The first such proposal would be to restore the 20 percent excise tax on motion picture theater gross revenues that existed between the end of World War II and its repeal in the mid-1950s. The campaign to end the excise tax had studio executives and movie stars talking like Art Laffer, as they noted that high taxes reduced business income, hurt investment and cost jobs.
The movie excise tax was imposed in response to the high deficits after World War Two. Deficits are high again, and there’s already historical precedent. Of course, to keep up with technology, the tax should now apply to DVDs, downloadable movies, pay-per-view and the like. But in these financially perilous times, why should movie stars and studio moguls, with their yachts, swimming pools and private jets, not at least shoulder the burden they carried back in Harry Truman’s day — when, to be honest, movies were better anyway.
For extra fun, they could show pictures of David Geffen’s yacht and John Travolta’s personal Boeing 707 on the Senate floor. You want to tax fat cats? I gotcher “fat cats” right here! Repeal the Hollywood Tax Cuts!
Raising taxes inevitably results in a painful economic slowdown, which of course “unexpectedly” decreases tax revenues. Hollywood heavyweights have been calling for higher taxes and a worse economy for the rest of us — but their blue state economic worldview is now making life painful for the below the line technicians in their own industry:
Exit quote:
If you’ve even flown into Los Angeles, you understand how gorgeous and perfect Southern California is.
It’s takes a superhuman effort to make that paradise a place where nobody wants to live or do business.
Los Angeles County sheriff deputies arrested a man who was by himself in the ocean, in the name of stopping the spread of covid. The deputies were unmasked. It was a crazy time in which authorities erred on the side of authoritarianism to stop the spread of a virus.
The experts sided with closing down the world.
[On April 2nd, 2020], The LA Times reported, “Kim Prather, a leading atmospheric chemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, wants to yell out her window at every surfer, runner, and biker she spots along the San Diego coast.”
She told the paper, “I wouldn’t go in the water if you paid me $1 million right now.”
Why?
Covid is a virus. Viruses spread from person to person — or according to those covering up for Red China, from bat to person. And yet the government ordered everyone inside.
That was dumb. But it is worse. We now know by staying indoors and vegetating, people made themselves weaker.
NPR reported two days before Christmas, “A regular exercise routine may significantly lower the chances of being hospitalized or even dying from COVID-19, recently published research shows.
Even if social media content is not protected by the First Amendment, and even if Twitter, as a private company, can create its own “terms of service” and just decide to banish whomever they want, a key question posed by the Twitter Files is: what if the government is telling this private company to do so?
Isn’t that just an end run around the First Amendment’s protections of our right to free speech? I’m no lawyer but it sure seems so.
And, even worse, what if the cozy relationship between government and social media evolves to the point that platforms censor users without needing to be specifically asked to do so by the government? Like a Mafia don ordering a hit with a sideways glance, no words are ever spoken, but the order is made clear.
Just like that, an unholy alliance has been created, with government and private companies working in lockstep to censor our guaranteed right to free speech.
There’s a name for when private companies and the government work hand in hand: fascism. Benito Mussolini said that “fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
As indicated in the Twitter Files, access to Twitter’s bureaucratic censors, de-boosters and outright platform banners was equal opportunity — Republicans could make a call just as easily as Democrats. But what is also made clear is that the Democratic Party loyalties of Twitter employees are close to 100 percent.
So who was being censored? Anyone who challenged Democrats. Which goes a long way towards explaining why those 11,000 people who questioned Covid lockdowns, masks, vaccine mandates and vaccine effectiveness were given the boot.
She spoke in the video about the action against Iran, but she didn’t talk about how the Biden-Harris administration has helped toprop up the terrorist regime by relaxing enforcement on sanctions, and even released billions of dollars to Iran in frozen assets at the same time as a prisoner exchange.
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly just flattened her, using Harris’ own comments about coconut trees to do her in.
“Kamala Harris oversaw the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and ushered in an invasion of migrant criminals into our homeland. She should listen to the overwhelming majority of Americans who want her to crawl under a coconut tree and go away.”
Thirteen service members were killed directly because of the Biden-Harris failures.
This is what it looked like under Biden-Harris. We do well never to forget how out of control it was, from the border to the rampant high prices/inflation.
To be fair, I can understand why a cabinet member from Obama’s third term would be angry about how Trump is cleaning up Barry’s messes. It’s a far cry from giving the mullahs $400 million in cash, and the Taliban seven (cue the Dr. Evil voice) billion dollars worth of American weapons, vehicles, and aircraft:
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