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During Trump's First 100 Days, Veterans Come First By Chase Jennings You can judge a nation by how it takes care of its veterans. During the Biden administration, and frankly, going back to the Obama administration, veterans have been an afterthought. President Trump worked to change that during his first term as president. He understands how important it is that we take care of the men and women who bravely served this country. Well, during his first 100 days, we’re now seeing that veterans have been a top priority for this White House. I worked in my local congressional office in Louisiana after we decided to move out of D.C. I can tell you firsthand that these veterans were not receiving the proper care and attention. Our office would get calls from veterans who were not receiving their benefits, were struggling to get an appointment or the care they needed from the VA hospital. Hearing their stories was devastating—and it was a consistent trend. The Biden administration and the VA leadership had ignored the very responsibility they had sworn to uphold. On Monday, Veterans Affairs Secretary under President Trump, Doug Collins, announced the ways the VA has changed during Trump’s first 100 days, and it’s all for the better. In an op-ed for the D.C. Journal, Secretary Collins highlights both the problem and the action that’s been taken to make changes: “About 100 days ago, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was led by Biden administration officials who had lost sight of what matters most to veterans. VA was dabbling in DEI and gender ideology, abusing telework and remote work privileges to the detriment of veterans, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on duplicative and unnecessary contracts, and slow-walking critical programs like electronic health record modernization. The results of that experiment in poor management were clear. Wait times for VA health care got worse under the Biden administration, as did the department’s disability benefits claims backlog.” Secretary Collins also laid out the changes that have been made at the VA: “One hundred days into the second Trump administration, and VA is no longer content with poor results. Under President Trump’s leadership, we have already stripped away many of the costly distractions that were coming between VA beneficiaries and the benefits they have earned. And we’re looking to make even more historic reforms to better serve veterans. President Trump’s mandate to shake up Washington and make it work better for the American people is guiding our efforts to put veterans first at the department. In the first week of the second Trump administration, we stopped VA’s wasteful spending on DEI initiatives, which only divided veterans and staff. The most important identity to us is “veteran,” and by ending DEI programs, we now have $14 million more to spend on our core constituency.” This is what we voted for—the complete dismantling of the costly DEI programs that have absolutely nothing to do with the mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs. This has been one of the major problems. The focus has not been on caring for our veterans, but lining the pockets of these insane DEI contracts that only benefit the bureaucracy. I’m grateful this $14 million will now be spent helping veterans. Secretary Collins also announced that veterans: Will receive the health care choices they were promised under the MISSION Act. They are processing a record number of disability claims. Accelerating the deployment of the VA’s electronic health records system, after the program was nearly dormant for two years under the Biden administration. Taking thousands of employees off of remote work and bringing them back to the office, where they can work as a team to better serve veterans. https://redstate.com/chase-jennings/2025/04/29/during-trumps-first-100-days-veterans-come-first-n2188460

Report: What the Four MS-13 Caucus Dems Hid About Their El Salvador Trip Should Infuriate Everyone Though the mainstream media appears to have moved on, at least for the moment, from the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, many Americans are still fuming over the actions of the MS-13 Caucus, where five Democrats flew to the illegal immigrant's home country of El Salvador to plead for his return to the United States. Abrego Garcia, as we've reported, is an alleged MS-13 gang member, an accused domestic abuser, and suspected human smuggler who was deported back to El Salvador by the Trump administration in mid-March. Because he has been incorrectly described by the press as a "wrongly deported Maryland man," Democrats have made him their poster child for opposition to President Trump's deportation policies. Reps. Robert Garcia (CA), Maxwell Frost (FL), Yassamin Ansari (AZ), and Maxine Dexter (OR) traveled to the country a week ago, hot on the heels of Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) concluding his own margarita-sipping taxpayer-funded trip without success. For the record, the House Democrats' trip wasn't funded by taxpayer money thanks to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY). Though the House Dems, too, were unsuccessful in their mission, it wasn't without much virtue-signaling on their part, with various videos and photos posted from the trip. But as first revealed by The Daily Caller, it appears that some of the imagery those House Democrats used for backdrops in their postings was deliberate, perhaps to conceal the fact that they were staying at a luxury Hilton hotel the entire time they were there https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/04/29/report-four-house-dems-who-traveled-to-el-salvador-n2188475

'Take It Down': Melania Trump-Backed Cyber Bill Passes House, Heads to President's Desk By Bob Hoge Melania Trump has been lobbying for months for the TAKE IT DOWN Act (Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks), a measure that would crack down on “deep fake” porn—explicit AI-generated images depicting real people—and other nonconsensual posting of intimate pictures. On Monday, her work paid off as the House of Representatives passed the bill by a whopping 409-2 margin. It now heads to the president’s desk for his signature (and I’m betting he won’t use an autopen): A quick summary of the Take it Down Act: Defines Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery (NCII). Gives the FTC the authority to govern social media sites via the courts and fines in regards to NCII. If the FTC finds an issue or a complaint is filed the FTC can, via the courts, enforce fees or compliance with their decision. It does insert “reasonable person” verbiage as a way to protect 1A rights. It doesn’t define or explicitly protect “encrypted” conversations. https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/04/29/take-it-down-melania-trump-backed-cyber-bill-passes-house-heads-to-presidents-desk-n2188481

Well, you're a good guy. At my age I don't suffer fools as easily as I used to. .

Once again the thread title is proven.

Were they ever ?

The leftish media is crazy

Sit-ins .

Health Secretary Kennedy Is Right to Focus the Conversation on Autism Lynne White (the CEO of Team Awesomism.) Autism isn’t a red or blue issue, it’s a human issue. The sad part, though, about much of this is that too many people are either making it about a political agenda or are making it about money. When now-HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. came out a couple of years ago, prior to being put in as Secretary, and said we need to look into Autism, I was thrilled. I’ve had my own opinions on why I think some of the rise in Autism has happened. We all have our opinions, and we’re all entitled to them. The actual reasons for the rise are above my pay grade, and unlike many others, I’m not willing to continuously push one theory or another. I will leave it at this—I believe it is a lot more complicated than people want to admit. As the mother of a 25-year-old, soon-to-be 26-year-old autistic son, I am deeply interested in changing the perception and the agenda towards Autism. I don’t just use my words. I actually am a full-time Autism Activist. I have watched too many people struggle in the autism community, and it isn’t always the physical side of it. Sometimes it’s the loneliness of autistic adults or autistic teenagers. Sometimes it’s a family member who is struggling to do what is right, all while trying to keep food on the table. The incredibly high unemployment rate. I could go on for hours about different things I’ve seen happen. I saw people on both sides of the conversation debating and analyzing every word of the Secretary’s Press Conference. It was startling to me how people will get so upset about certain words, instead of focusing on the fact that he wants to help. This shows how important this issue is. https://redstate.com/redstate-guest-editorial/2025/04/29/health-secretary-kennedy-is-right-to-focus-the-conversation-on-autism-n2188453

Common sense.

Trump changed DC this time. Trump’s second presidency is very different from his first. DON SURBER The second Trump presidency is better than the first because he has more supporters—77 million voted for him instead of 62 million—and he took over from another failed president who squandered American military might and opened the border to drugs and thugs. President Trump has the illegal aliens on the run, Democrats in disarray as DOGE shuts down their federal ATMs, and Republicans united because no one wants to be the next Liz Cheney. But Trump also brought cultural change to the nation’s capital. He took over the Kennedy Center. Gay Pride nights are out. Patriotic music and fireworks are in. https://donsurber.substack.com/p/trump-changed-dc-this-time?

The media must admit to covering up Biden’s decline. STEPHEN L. MILLER A number of reporters are releasing volumes about Biden’s conspicuous cognitive decline, that many of them supposedly only became aware of on the debate stage last June. Many of these journalists actively worked to smear anyone who had noticed the former president’s state of mind, including right-leaning commentators and Republicans, as far back as 2021. But Biden’s cognitive and physical deterioration were not first apparent on the debate stage. They didn’t even start in January of that year, when Axios’s Alex Thompson began to take notice. That would be the same Alex Thompson honored at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner for his reporting. “President Biden’s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House regardless of party is capable of deception,” Thompson told the 2,500 journalists present. “We, myself included, missed a lot of this story and some people trust us less because of it.” But throughout most of his term, any mention of Biden’s age and physical decline was met with attacks by parts of the media, including CNN, the AP, the Washington Post, the New York Times and NBC News. The Biden campaign and White House labeled incidents of him wandering off or losing his train of thought as “cheap-fakes” and the media echoed the same terminology, right up until the moment when the real Joe Biden fully revealed himself on June 27. It was a lie — one that the media used its considerable (but waning) influence to sell. https://archive.is/0C57h

This is beyond the pale. Pedophile Party. YOU REALLY HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF WHY:

IBM announces $150B investment in US by Pilar Arias International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), one of the nation's largest technology employers, is planning to invest $150 billion in the U.S. "over the next five years to fuel the economy and to accelerate its role as the global leader in computing," according to a media release. "Technology doesn’t just build the future — it defines it," Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. "We have been focused on American jobs and manufacturing since our founding 114 years ago, and with this investment and manufacturing commitment we are ensuring that IBM remains the epicenter of the world’s most advanced computing and AI capabilities." https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/ibm-announces-150b-investment-us .

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Ugh.

Yeah, that "the Biden administration tricked us" lie aint gonna fly. Americans know that you were partners in this coverup. .

Watts up over in Europe ?

Meanwhile at Frank's house.