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CHANGE: Miners Cheer As Trump Signs Orders to Bring Back Energy Dominance According to the Trump team, the orders will: — Reinvigorate America’s beautiful clean coal industry — Lift Biden-era restrictions on coal plants — Strengthen the reliability and security of the electric grid — Protect American energy from overreach by radical leftists in the states It will also expedite leases for coal mining on federal lands. What a stark contrast with the clueless Biden. https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/04/08/trump-signs-executive-order-on-coal-n2187634

'There's a New Sheriff in Town!' Linda McMahon Lays the Smack Down on Men in Women's Spaces The left in America is surely picking some strange hills to die on. When they are not protesting and conducting lawfare to keep illegal immigrant criminals from being deported, they are still defending terrorism, both abroad and here in the United States. But of all of these hills, perhaps none is more baffling than the left's insistence that men belong in women's sports and private spaces. One day in the future, we're certain that historians will look back on the left's obsession with gender ideology in the early 21st century and simply say, 'WTF?' Fortunately, the forces of sanity are slowly but surely winning the ideological battle over 'gender,' which is now an 80/20 issue in America, on the side of normalcy. Even worse news for the left is that the Trump administration 2.0 is done messing around with this nonsense and is putting the full force of the federal government behind the President's executive order mandating that men stay out of women's spaces. This morning, Education Secretary Linda McMahon laid down the law on X with a short but VERY direct post. https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/04/08/theres-a-new-sheriff-in-town-linda-mcmahon-lays-the-smack-down-on-men-in-womens-spaces-n2411101

Hooked on Phonics: Mississippi's Education Reform Pays Off As It Leads Nation In NAEP Test Scores The Left likes to pretend red states are backward, uneducated enclaves of MAGA-hat wearing Nazis. They'll tell you all day long how they are smarter, morally superior, and just plain better people than folks in flyover country. (often voiced by the lowlives here on PPP) Except we've seen what happens in blue cities and blue states, and it's not superior to anyone or anything. So it's going to really tick off the Left when they see that Mississippi is leading the way when it comes to test scores: And Oregon is dead last. Oregon did away with testing and graduation requirements in the name of 'equity', which just means every kid who comes out of Oregon's public schools is equally illiterate. https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/04/08/mississippi-school-test-scores-soar-n2411110

Sad Trombone: Cory Booker Gets Some Bad News on Multiple Fronts After 'Marathon Speech' Stunt It's been a mere week since Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) staged a filibuster-like stunt with a speech that had the media swooning and salivating, especially once it was confirmed that Booker officially broke the record for the longest speech ever given in the Senate. For instance, the AP gushed that he "was holding the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and well into Tuesday morning in a feat of endurance to show Democrats’ objections" to President Trump and his DOGE agenda. As GOP strategist Scott Jennings pointed out, however, it was unclear what the "point" of Booker's speech was since he wasn't stopping any proposed legislation nor any Trump nominees. The speech did impress pollster/author Frank Luntz, who bizarrely proclaimed it "may have changed the course of political history" and "puts Cory Booker as one of the leaders for the Democratic Party for 2028." But recent polling on possible Democrat 2028 contenders taken just before he gave the speech shows that Booker's got a major uphill climb if he wants to have any chance of making that happen: Also https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/04/08/bad-news-for-cory-booker-n2187639

Homelander / Billsy doing his nightly bump of all his threads early today. Must be busy tonight. Don't forget your "Trump's lips are moving" thread . ,

THANK YOU. And you won't hear one.

You are right O.B., but don't forget the rich rowing history of Rollins College Right there in Winter Park.

Trump Scores Major Win as Supreme Court Allows Mass Firings of Federal Employees to Stand The Supreme Court has halted an order by a superannuated, Clinton-appointed San Francisco judge that would have required the Trump administration to reinstate some 16,000 probationary employees it had fired from the Pentagon, the Treasury, and the Agriculture, Energy, Veterans Affairs, and Interior Departments. The order places the reinstatement on hiatus until the Supreme Court has a chance to rule on the issue, but things look grim for the Resistance. The vote was 6-2, with only hardened anti-Trumpers Sotomayor and Jackson voting to sustain the judge's order. The court also noted that it didn't think the plaintiffs in the case, the American Federation of Government Employees and the AFL-CIO, had standing. "The District Court’s injunction was based solely on the allegations of the nine non-profit-organization plaintiffs in this case," said the unsigned order, "But under established law, those allegations are presently insufficient to support the organizations’ standing." This case originated in March when the Office of Personnel Management issued an order directing agencies to terminate workers in term or probationary status. Somehow, this case ended up in San Francisco, which only has the most tenuous connection to any of the agencies named in the suit. One might suspect that judge shopping was going on. https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/04/08/trump-scores-major-win-as-supreme-court-allows-mass-firings-of-federal-employees-to-stand-n2187616

MICHAEL WALSH: Tariffs Aren’t the Issue. All the fuss and geschrei over Donald Trump’s Great Tariff War really is much ado about nothing — but it’s also about everything. To begin, what it’s not about is tariffs. What it is about is repatriating American manufacturing and thereby restoring Great Power status to the U.S.A. Tariffs are merely the mechanism by which to get the ball rolling. Adam Smith’s hidden hand is about to come roaring back into play. The naysaying Left — which never met a tax hike it didn’t love — has jumped on tariffs as a “tax,” which of course they are. A tax on foreign-made goods coming into the country. A tax that — unlike most taxes — you can avoid by not buying the product. The U.S. managed to get along perfectly well from the presidencies of George Washington to that of William Howard Taft (a “progressive,” along with Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson) financed by tariffs and excise taxes, with only occasional, and temporary, taxes on income. It was not until the passage of the 16th amendment in 1913, during the Wilson administration — the first of the “progressive era” amendments that also included the 17th, 18th, and 19th, all of which need to be repealed; one down three to go — that the notion of taxing labor, previously and correctly deemed unconstitutional, reared its inhuman, statist head. And practically from that day on, America plunged into a debt spiral from which it has never recovered. https://the-pipeline.org/the-column-tariffs-arent-the-issue/ Read the whole thing. .

NOTHING SAYS “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE” LIKE COVERING UP THE SCIENCE:

I dislike bumping older threads but this was the only Space Force one that came up. Space Force missile-tracking “Foo Fighter” satellites clear design milestone. Eight satellites designed by Millennium Space Systems with sensor payloads from L3Harris Technologies have cleared a key design review, paving the way for production and a planned late 2027 launch, the companies announced April 7. Millennium Space, based in El Segundo, California, is building the satellites under a $414 million contract awarded last year by the Space Development Agency for a constellation known as “Foo Fighter” — short for Fire-control On Orbit-support to the Warfighter. The satellites will form part of the SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, an extensive constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites designed to provide continuous tracking, targeting and communications support for U.S. military operations. https://spacenews.com/space-force-missile-tracking-foo-fighter-satellites-clear-design-milestone/

What a surprise. 3 Pennsylvania Officials Plead Guilty To Election Fraud – And 2 Are Still In Office by Beth Brelje In the dumpy little borough of Millbourne, Pennsylvania, three elected Democrats cheated in the 2021 election in almost every imaginable way. Their candidate, one of the three cheaters, still lost his bid for mayor by some 30 votes. Two are still in office as of April 4, according to a phone call to the borough hall. The three pleaded guilty April 1 to a host of election fraud offenses at separate hearings before United States District Judge Harvey Bartle III. To examine their scheme is to see in play many of the red flags election integrity experts have warned about. It is a textbook for cheaters to study https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/07/3-pennsylvania-officials-plead-guilty-to-election-fraud-and-2-are-still-in-office/

European Union offers to remove industrial tariffs on US goods: ‘Ready for a good deal’ https://nypost.com/2025/04/07/us-news/eu-offers-to-remove-industrial-tariffs-on-us-goods-ready-for-a-good-deal/ Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs Prompt Japan Trade Negotiations with U.S. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/07/trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-prompt-japan-trade-negotiations-u-s/ Trump and Netanyahu Agree on Trade Barriers https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/04/07/art-of-the-deal-trump-and-netanyahu-agree-to-drop-trade-barriers-n2187595#google_vignette Taiwan Offers Zero Tariffs and More Investment in U.S. https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/04/07/taiwan-offers-zero-tariffs-more-investment-u-s/

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