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Isn’t it ironic that the Democratic Party, which is largely built on a platform of “anti-racism,” has so many racists in it?

Take Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), for example.

On a recent episode of “The Breakfast Club” with Charlamagne tha God, Crockett insinuated that Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) made a mistake when he married his white wife, Erika Donalds.

Jason Whitlock and “Fearless” contributor Shemeka Michelle dive into the scandal.

“If we continue to put people into office — and that even means some of our skin folk who definitely are not our kinfolk, such as Byron Donalds — who are going to continue to say that, like, I mean the fact that you sitting around talking about life was better under Jim Crow,” Crockett began.

“Is this because you don’t understand history or literally it’s because you married a white woman and so you think that that whitewashed you?” she continued.

“You couldn’t even be married to a white woman under Jim Crow,” Charlamagne added.

“Correct! … So I’m like bruh, what is it you talking about? Like what are you saying? Like he just out here, you know, I feel like they give him his talking points and he’s like, ‘Yes, master, I got it,”’ Crockett retorted.

“This is a leftist who’s expressing some racial animus, which seems to go against what leftists say they stand for,” says Whitlock.

However, her jab at interracial relationships is doubly hypocritical. Crockett was a loud Kamala Harris supporter, but Harris’ white Jewish husband was never a sore point.

“Ketanji Brown Jackson, I believe she’s married to a white Jewish man. Haven’t heard Jasmine Crockett talk about that,” adds Whitlock.

“Is Jasmine Crockett holding Byron Donalds to a standard that she doesn’t hold leftist politicians to?” he asks.

“Absolutely, and it shows that she’s so illogical and just irrational. … This is what they do; they just spew trash talking points that make absolutely no sense because if this was the case, then as you just stated, she would have to hold Kamala and Ketanji Brown [and] Don Lemon … to the same standard, and she doesn’t,” says Shemeka.

Crockett’s attack on Donalds, she says, is “because Byron Donalds is not going along with the everyday okie-doke black talking points that they like to push on black people.”

She also condemns Crockett for claiming that Donalds lauded the Jim Crow era as better times.

“That whole Jim Crow is taken completely out of context. … If you listen to the entire thing, that’s not what he was saying,” says Shemeka.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Two special elections held on Tuesday were decided by Florida voters in favor of Republicans, maintaining their tenuous control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The elections were in two Republican-leaning districts, and either loss would have meant a weakening of the narrow lead Republicans have in the House, which is currently only five seats.

‘If the president were on the ballot, I think he’d win by 30 again.’

Republicans Randy Fine and Jimmy Patronis held off Josh Weil and Gay Valimont, respectively, in what turned out to be a far closer race than expected. Fine was declared the victor against Weil in the 6th Congressional District at about 7:40 p.m. ET, while Patronis was projected the winner over Valimont about 20 minutes later.

Fine responded to a message of victory from President Donald Trump on social media.

“Because of you, Mr. President. I won’t let you down,” wrote Fine.

Prior to the election results coming in, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, rejected the idea that the election was a referendum on the president.

“I think it’s going to be more of a candidate-specific reason,” DeSantis said. “If there’s any underperformance, I don’t think it’s a referendum on the president. If the president were on the ballot, I think he’d win by 30 again.”

While Democrats lost an opportunity to make up the gap with Republicans in the House, they saw a silver lining in the fact that they were able to significantly cut into the margin in the 6th District.

Also on Tuesday, voters in Wisconsin headed to the ballot box to vote for a seat on the state supreme court. The election will likely determine if the state’s districts will be realigned, and many believe President Donald Trump will be impeached if Democrats regain control of the House because of the result.

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On Monday, the Department of Labor announced that it had identified $1.4 billion in unused COVID-era funding.

A press release from the DOL noted that the agency is working to recover another $2.9 billion.

‘Government waste hates to see us coming.’

“The roughly $4.3 billion was intended for states to use for temporary unemployment insurance during the pandemic. Instead, several states continued spending millions of dollars despite no longer meeting necessary requirements, which was uncovered in a 2023 audit conducted by the department’s Office of Inspector General,” it read.

The unused funding was turned over to the Department of Treasury’s General Fund, the DOL reported.

DOL Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer stated, “Any money still sitting around for pandemic-era unemployment funds is a clear misuse of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars.”

“I’m keeping my promise to be a good steward of your money by rooting out waste to ensure American Workers always come First,” she added.

Chavez-DeRemer told Fox News Digital, “There’s no reason leftover COVID unemployment funds should still be collecting dust.”

DOL Deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling called it “unacceptable” that the taxpayer funds “went unchecked” for several years.

“In a huge win for the American taxpayer, we’ve clawed back these unused funds and will keep working to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse,” Sonderling vowed.

The funds were a part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in 2020, which created a program to provide “expanded unemployment insurance.”

The 45-page IG report found that, although the program ended in 2021, four states were allowed to access the reimbursement money “despite not meeting program requirements.” According to the report, the four states collected $105.1 million in reimbursements they were not eligible to receive.

The report claimed the issues occurred because there were not “sufficient controls” to ensure states were eligible or that unused funds were returned to the federal government.

Last week, the Department of Government Efficiency applauded Chavez-DeRemer and Sonderling for canceling $577 million in “America Last” grants, saving taxpayers $237 million.

“Government waste hates to see us coming,” the DOL wrote in a post on X.

On Monday evening, the White House announced that President Donald Trump has tapped former Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) to serve as the DOL’s inspector general.

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President Donald Trump hinted on Tuesday that Elon Musk may leave the DOGE sometime soon and return to running his companies.

The tech billionaire enthusiastically backed the Trump 2024 campaign and was then named the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, an effort to root out government waste, fraud, and abuse. His companies have suffered as a result of protests from the left, including some political vandalism and violence.

‘At some point he’s going to be going back.’

After 71 days in office, Trump suggested that Musk may leave the DOGE effort.

“I think he’s amazing, but I also think he’s got a big company to run, and so at some point he’s going to be going back,” Trump said to reporters of Musk. “He wants to. I’d keep him as long as I could keep him.”

Speaking at a signing ceremony at the White House, Trump added that other agency leaders had received a “big education” from Musk and his cuts to government spending.

“There will be a point at which the secretaries will be able to do this work,” the president said.

Musk also appeared to hint that his work would be completed by the 130-day mark that limits his involvement as a temporary government employee.

“I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars within that time frame,” Musk said in an interview with Fox News last week.

Liberal politicians and media commentators have transparently attempted to drive a wedge between the president and the tech entrepreneur by suggesting that Musk was actually running the White House.

“And you know what? They got scared because President Musk told them, President Musk said, ‘Don’t do it! Don’t do it! Shut the government down!’” screamed Democrat U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut on the House floor in December.

On Tuesday, Musk was campaigning in Wisconsin for a pivotal election for the state supreme court that might determine the congressional district maps for the next election.

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A Federal Aviation Administration employee at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., was arrested for an alleged physical altercation inside the air traffic control tower, according to reports.

Damon Marsalis Gaines, 38, has reportedly been placed on administrative leave. Gaines faces assault and battery charges in connection with the alleged incident inside the air traffic control tower at the D.C. airport.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has been in the headlines for multiple air traffic emergencies.

Politico reported that officers with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority responded to an incident on March 27.

Citing a source, the Daily Mail reported that a couple of on-duty air tower controllers got into a “blazing argument before one threw a punch at the other.”

“By the time the brawling colleagues were separated, there was blood spattered over a control console, according to our insider,” the outlet reported.

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority confirmed the incident to Fox News.

Details about what triggered the altercation remain unclear.

“The employee is on administrative leave while we investigate the matter,” an FAA spokesperson said.

The union representing air traffic controllers declined to comment.

Gaines did not immediately respond to a request for comment by CNN.

It is not immediately clear if Gaines has an attorney.

You can watch a “CBS Mornings” newscast video of the alleged air traffic control fight at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport here.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has been in the headlines for multiple air traffic emergencies.

On Saturday, a kite reportedly struck a United Airlines plane while it was approaching the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Last week, a Delta Air Lines plane nearly collided with an Air Force jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

In January, there was a mid-air collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines plane just south of Reagan National that killed 67 people — the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster since 2001.

A recent National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report revealed there were 15,240 “close proximity events” between commercial planes and helicopters near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport between October 2021 and December 2024.

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When he died in 1883, Karl Marx was “relatively unknown,” says Mark Levin. Many knew about his predecessors Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who were considered great philosophers, but Marx himself “was not widely cited.”

It wasn’t until Woodrow Wilson and the birth of the progressive movement of “American Marxists” that Marx’s name began circulating in intellectual circles. Fast-forward to today, and he’s practically a household name — especially among conservatives, who see that his nefarious ideas form the bedrock of the progressive ideology that’s destroying this country.

How is it that someone who died nearly a century and half ago (and wasn’t even that popular) still has this much influence in the United States?

Levin has the answer.

“Marx has had the greatest influence of almost any philosopher in the entire world. Why? Because you’re able to reduce Marxism to slogans,” he says.

“The oppressed and the oppressor; the victim and the victimizer; redistribution of wealth; unequal wealth; everybody has a right to eat” are some of the examples he gives of the Marxist-generated “sloganeering” that’s taken root in this country.

At his funeral, Marx’s notorious sidekick Friedrich Engels captured this concept when he said that Marx “reduced everything to its basics” — the most basic principle being “people need to eat.”

“That sounds like you’re dealing with animals,” says Levin, noting that humans, unlike animals, have the ability to reason.

And while these American Marxists may “say they’re for reason,” the truth is they “reject the Enlightenment” reasoning that birthed our Constitution and the rights protected in it. What they’re really for is “scientific mechanicism,” says Levin.

Scientific mechanicism, he explains, is the idea that “we can reason to the point of creating this fantastic society.” “Forget about this talk about nature and eternal truths; it’s a distraction. … We can reason as human beings and create a society that’s almost scientific in its exactitude.”

To create such a utopia, however, requires one thing: erasing human nature.

This is why Marxist, fascist, and other autocratic regimes control speech, language, and thought processes, says Levin.

To hear more of his commentary, watch the clip above.

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While 33 weeks pregnant with her second child, Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” began experiencing what she calls a “strange symptom” — when she’d lie down to take a nap, her heart would start racing.

When she reached out for medical help, none of the midwives she’d been working with were on call — so she had to seek help from a midwife who was “not particularly natural-minded.”

“As you know, medical providers look at things through a lens of liability. Again, you can blame them as individuals or you can blame the system, because how else are they supposed to operate when we have such a litigious society,” Wheeler tells Dr. Stu and midwife Blyss on the “Birthing Instincts” podcast.

This midwife began insisting that Wheeler had a blood clot, which Wheeler and her husband, who’s a medical provider, had already ruled out.

“She wouldn’t see me until I went to the emergency room to make sure that I didn’t have a blood clot before she would listen to my baby’s heartbeat, and it turned out to be a six-hour experience,” she explains, adding, “Of course, I didn’t have a blood clot.”

However, during the six-hour workup, it was discovered that Wheeler had some form of infection, which she had no symptoms for.

“I was just looking to get home, but they had me hooked up to the straps and they were like, ‘You’re having contractions every two minutes,’” she says, recalling that this is when they said they needed to do a cervical check on her.

“This is the moment that if I could redo everything about this situation, I should have been like, ‘Trust yourself Liz, trust your body, trust your intuition, trust your knowledge, decline it and go home and go to bed.’ That’s what I should have done,” she continues.

“It was the most painful, most excruciating, most brutal cervical check I’ve ever experienced,” she says. “Within 90 seconds of that cervical check I had a real contraction, it put me into labor, and I started having active labor contractions coming every 90 seconds where I couldn’t speak.”

This is when the hospital, because it doesn’t have an advanced NICU for babies born before 36 weeks, called an ambulance to haul her off to another hospital.

When Wheeler’s doula showed up, she began rubbing Wheeler’s back.

“I ended up falling asleep while she was rubbing me, and the contractions stopped. They completely stopped,” Wheeler explains. “I spent the next three days in the hospital, them monitoring me. They gave me another shot of that steroid, which, by the way, totally tweaked me out for like a week.”

Wheeler ended up carrying the baby for several more weeks and was able to give birth without needing the NICU.

“Here’s the thing that really triggered me. They were blaming the pre-term labor on this [infection], and I was like, ‘No, this preterm labor was because of this really, yes, really vigorous, really invasive, cervical check,’” she says.

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Planned Parenthood admittedly did everything in its “power to keep Donald Trump from the White House” in the lead-up to the 2024 election. Having failed miserably, the organization — not only the single largest provider of abortions nationwide but also a top provider of sex-change services — may now lose some of its federal funding.

Last week, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesman told the Wall Street Journal that the agency was considering an immediate freeze of $27.5 million in grants to Planned Parenthood. On Monday, the abortion conglomerate announced that nine of its affiliates received notice of the Trump administration’s plans to withhold Title X funding effective April 1.

Title X, the national family-planning program funded through the HHS Office of Population Affairs, is intended to support “a broad range of services related to achieving pregnancy, preventing pregnancy, and assisting women, men, and couples with achieving their desired number and spacing of children.”

Roughly $286 million was awarded in fiscal year 2024 through the program, with many millions of taxpayer dollars going to regional Planned Parenthood outfits.

Over three-quarters of Planned Parenthood affiliates — around 300 facilities — presently receive funds through the Title X program. They have demonstrated, however, that they can go without federal funds.

Planned Parenthood pulled out of the program during the first Trump administration because it refused to comply with the administration’s requirement that Title X-funded clinics refrain from referring women for abortions.

Planned Parenthood ‘overtly encourages illegal aliens to receive care.’

Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson stated at the time of the withdrawal, “We refuse to let the Trump administration bully us into withholding abortion information from our patients.”

The Washington Post noted that the abortion conglomerate latched back on to the taxpayer-funded program in 2021 after the Biden administration let recipients once again refer women for abortions.

Politico reported that the notices sent to the Planned Parenthood affiliates on Monday indicated their funding was being “temporarily withheld” on account of “possible violations” of federal civil rights law and Trump’s executive orders, including his prohibitions on promoting DEI and “taxpayer subsidization of open borders.”

In the notices, Amy Margolis, deputy director of the Office of Population Affairs, reportedly cited race-based commitments and comments on the clinics’ websites and in their public documents as evidence of their noncompliance, suggesting the writings “paint a picture of Planned Parenthood that suggests it is engaged, across its affiliates, in widespread practices across hiring, operations, and patient treatment that unavoidably employ race in a negative manner.”

Margolis also indicated that the abortion outfits’ funding is being withheld because Planned Parenthood “overtly encourages illegal aliens to receive care.”

It is unclear whether the clinics’ active promotion of abortion may also constitute noncompliance, given Trump’s executive order prohibiting “the use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.”

The Washington Post indicated that the White House did not respond to a request for comment.

‘Stop funding abortion and “gender transition” industries that gravely violate human dignity.’

While the Title X family planning program was explicitly written to exclude abortion, the Charlotte Lozier Institute indicated that “today, Planned Parenthood and other abortion centers use these funds to support their abortion businesses.”

HHS has reportedly given Planned Parenthood 10 days to fall in line with Trump’s executive orders.

HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon told Politico that the department has temporarily withheld payments from 16 Title X providers “to ensure these entities are in full compliance with Federal law and applicable grant terms, and to ensure responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.”

“President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping health care access from people nationwide, and not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” McGill Johnson said in a statement. “Planned Parenthood Action Fund will fight to get this funding restored and to keep politicians out of health care.”

Prior to the clinics learning that they might soon lose some of their federal funding, over 150 groups united under an initiative called Defund Planned Parenthood urged Congress to cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood through the budget reconciliation process, reported the Daily Signal.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops similarly implored House and Senate lawmakers to defund Planned Parenthood in a March 27 letter.

“We call upon you to stop funding abortion and ‘gender transition’ industries that gravely violate human dignity,” wrote Bishops Robert Barron and Daniel Thomas. “Instead, we urge you to prioritize the needs of struggling families so they can flourish.”

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What would happen if the supply of the world’s most advanced chips was suddenly cut off? Supply chains would be devastated, prices of goods would surge, and innovation would come to a screeching halt. This isn’t science fiction; it’s a potential reality with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company at its center. Based in Taiwan, TSMC currently manufactures 92% of the world’s most advanced chips, powering devices from smartphones to automobiles, from health care devices to military equipment. Geopolitically, it’s not an exaggeration to say that TSMC is the single most important piece on the global chessboard. The question then becomes: What does this mean for America?

Believe it or not, America was once the leading nation in semiconductor manufacturing and technology up until the 1980s. Then, poor leadership led to a significant decline that resulted in, among other things, manufacturing being moved overseas. This hollowed out America’s manufacturing capability. In short, we lost control of the semiconductor manufacturing life cycle to foreign nations. As a result, America has become dangerously dependent on others for what is undoubtedly one of the most critical technologies for any civilization. After 40 years, America has made a move to regain control of its own future.

In May of 2020, TSMC announced its intention to build and operate an advanced semiconductor fabrication facility in America, specifically in Phoenix, Arizona. As of early 2025, TSMC Arizona has begun volume production of its 4-nanometer chip technology in the first constructed fabrication building. Construction of the second fabrication building is well under way. Ultimately, six fabrication buildings will stand in the dry landscape of northern Phoenix. This more than $65 billion project is a massive win for America.

To understand the significance better, let’s review the benefits related to the economy, technology, and national security. Starting with the economy, TSMC’s investment is projected to generate thousands of direct manufacturing jobs, with estimates ranging from around 6,000 to 7,000. Additionally, it is expected to create tens of thousands more indirect jobs through construction and related industries. Moreover, establishing a major semiconductor manufacturing base in America can catalyze the development of a local supply chain, potentially enticing other technology companies and suppliers to establish operations in the vicinity, thereby fostering a thriving tech manufacturing ecosystem.

The technological and innovation benefits include regaining technological leadership, boosting research and development, and diversifying manufacturing. By manufacturing the most cutting-edge chips in America, the country can reclaim some of its lost ground in semiconductor technology, thereby elevating its standing in global tech innovation. With such close proximity between TSMC and other high-tech companies and research institutions, we can expect increased collaboration, which will likely boost innovation in American semiconductor technology. Perhaps most importantly, with TSMC building advanced chips domestically, supply chain disruptions that start elsewhere in the world can be mitigated or even unfelt.

Last but certainly not least is national security. By reducing reliance on overseas manufacturing for critical technology components, national security is enhanced by mitigating vulnerabilities stemming from Taiwan’s geopolitical situation. If you didn’t know, China and Taiwan have ongoing political disputes that, if escalated, would be devastating to the entire world, including China. Therefore, domestic production of advanced chips fortifies military technology capabilities, ensures that sensitive technologies are more securely managed, and affords America the luxury of not being so “hands-on” with the geopolitical goings-on between foreign nations.

TSMC’s decision to invest heavily in semiconductor manufacturing in America isn’t just about business; it’s a strategic move with profound implications for economic prosperity, technological sovereignty, and national security. The establishment of these facilities in Arizona marks a significant step toward rekindling America’s once-dominant role in the tech industry. The economic benefits are clear, with thousands of jobs and the potential for a vibrant tech ecosystem. Technologically, this move could catapult America back into the forefront of innovation, particularly in semiconductor technology. From a security perspective, it reduces the risks associated with geopolitical tensions, ensuring that the backbone of modern technology isn’t held hostage by international disputes. As we move forward, the TSMC project in Arizona not only promises to reshape America’s manufacturing landscape but also reasserts America’s commitment to being at the cutting edge of global technology. The future, powered by chips made in America, looks not only brighter but also more secure.

Imagine joining a protest and not being able to articulate what exactly it is you’re protesting.

That’s always the case for the liberals (or “libtards” if you’re Alex Stein) who continue to gather outside the Department of Education. They keep showing up; they keep holding signs that say, “DOGE is stealing our future,” and, “Our schools are not for sale,” but ask them to make a semi-intelligent argument about why they’re so bent on preserving the bloated, corrupt entity that is the Department of Education and … crickets. That or angry, nonsensical whining.

Alex Stein, BlazeTV host of “Prime Time with Alex Stein,” recently paid a visit to one of these silly events and tried to engage in a dialogue with some of the protesters.

It ended with a score of Alex: 100 | Protesters: 0.

“So how’s Elon stealing from kids?” Alex asked one attendee (we’ll give this guy half a point for at least trying to answer the question).

“Well, through the act of funding these different departments, it’s taking resources away from their tenants,” he said.

He tried to add on to this drivel, but an androgynous individual angrily approached Alex and put a stop to the conversation.

“We’re not gonna do that right now,” he (or she?) interjected.

“Why not? Are you afraid to defend your position? How much responsibility does the federal government bear for such low standardized test scores?” Alex asked in earnest, but the protester just stormed away.

When it became clear that not a single protester would answer a genuine question, Alex the curious became Alex the merciless troll.

Between his chicken noises and ruthless name-calling, even some of the protesters couldn’t help but laugh.

“So guys, this is what it looks like with libtards in the wild. They draw with their chalk that they get at their arts and crafts store, and they sit here and they pretend to larp as some sort of political activist trying to save children,” he said to the camera while standing in front of sidewalk chalk art that read, “Elon stop stealing from kids.”

“These people are so dumb they think the federal government is actually doing a good job in teaching kids when if you look at the scores of these children, they’re the lowest they’ve ever been. … We need to give the states more responsibility and take it away from the federal government, but these people here aren’t smart enough to have that conversation. They just want to sit here, and they want to draw all day because they have a very infantile mind,” he added.

To hear the best of Alex’s roasting, watch the clip above.

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