[FoxNews] Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy toured New York City's subway system with Mayor Eric Adams on Friday.
Hizzoner has totally reversed polarity since Harris-Biden Administration reality threatened him with prosecution and serious jail time, just for disagreeing with them.
Days after U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called on New York City’s leadership to clean up the city’s subway system, Mayor Eric Adams extended an invitation asking Duffy to experience firsthand the issues plaguing the crime-ridden transit hub.
On Friday, Adams and Duffy went underground, boarding the BQE line in Brooklyn and riding the subway into Manhattan alongside NYPD Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta as the federal government vows to aid the city with its crime prevention.
"The mayor has been working on a bipartisan effort to get more law enforcement officers into the system to make people feel safe," Duffy told reporters inside lower Manhattan’s Broadway-Lafayette station.
The high-profile visit comes two weeks after Duffy penned a letter to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), saying the Trump administration is here to "restore order" and requesting the department hand over data on rider assaults, police patrols and fare evasion.
"I appreciate your prompt attention to this matter to avoid further consequences, up to and including redirecting or withholding funding," Duffy wrote.
But standing in a busy subway station, Duffy vowed to continue providing the city with federal support and confirmed the administration has not withheld funding.
"You'll find the Trump administration and the Department of Transportation are great partners with New York," Duffy said. "Let's make it beautiful for the riders of the subway system."
During his trip uptown, Duffy witnessed firsthand the woes plaguing the city’s subway system.
"We just saw someone who was laying at the top of the stairs," Duffy told reporters. "I don't know if [the man] urinated on himself or defecated, but the mayor needs the tools with law enforcement to take care of people – this is not humane."
While New York City’s subway system has seen a statistical drop in crime throughout the first few months of 2025, stories of random violence continue to rattle commuters.
In January, surveillance footage captured the horrifying moment a man was shoved in front of an oncoming train while standing on the platform in Manhattan’s 18th Street station. While the victim survived, authorities later charged Kamel Hawkins, 23, with attempted murder.
One month earlier, a woman was killed after an illegal immigrant allegedly set her on fire while riding the subway in Brooklyn.
Some commuters have been left to defend themselves in the subways.
Adams praised the federal government for its help in cracking down on subway crime, but condemned Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration’s apparent hesitation to roll out new initiatives aimed at the MTA.
"I was sharing with the Secretary [that] the cause we're having in Albany [is] involuntary movement," said Adams, a Democrat who announced his intention this week to seek re-election as an independent. "Homeless individuals who need care, or the support we need from our state lawmakers to see [police] carry out on the ground."
The Hochul administration and the MTA did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Duffy and Adams signaled their administrations would continue to work together to combat crime within the city, essentially removing the governor as the middleman between the city and federal government.
"I think Albany has to think deeply about how far we have to go in order to stop [crime]," Duffy said. "That's more resources, that's more tools that Albany has to give [the NYPD] to arrest people. [The federal government] gives a lot of money, and for us, we're partners in the process."
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Commercial real estate drops in value by half or more if business people are exposed to crime and filth. That a lot less money for politicians to steal.
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[GatewayPundit] By now, it surprises absolutely no one to learn that the European Union Globalists and her powerful Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen are guilty of weaponizing the continent’s powers against their political enemies and the patriotic forces that oppose their suicidal policies.
After years of heavy criticism and scrutiny, the EU Commission has officially admitted a huge scandal: Brussels paid millions to environmental associations – but not only, mind you, for the nonsense ‘climate work’. What the EU was actually financing were targeted campaigns against political opponents and dissenting voices.
Austrian News Site Exxpress reported (translated from the German):
“The suspicion has been around for years, but now it is official: The EU Commission under Ursula von der Leyen has supported environmental organizations with taxpayers’ money – not only for climate and environmental protection, but also for political smear campaigns. The aim of the funded NGOs was to specifically attack critics of Brussels’ climate policy.
The explosive admission: In an official statement, the Commission admits that there have been “inappropriate lobbying activities” in funded NGO programs. This apparently refers to targeted attacks on political opponents who opposed individual EU plans.”
A Commission Statement on the ‘LIFE’ Programs from April 1st contains the stunning admission: ‘The Commission notes that the work programs submitted by the NGOs […] contained specific advocacy actions and undue lobbying activities’.
Below the euphemistic and normalizing language, what it says is that von der Leyen spent millions of Euros subsidizing propaganda.
The ‘LIFE’ funding program is intended to ‘promote environmental projects and climate measures’ (a.k.a. ‘Global warming’ nonsense).
“But as it turns out, organizations that used these funds to mobilize against conservative politicians and critical voices were also paid.
Internal documents had previously spoken of ‘cooperations’ with NGOs, in which it was agreed against whom to lobby. Now Brussels admits for the first time: Yes, there were such cases – and yes, they were problematic.”
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The European Commission admits it has used EU funds that were supposed to "fight climate change" for financing left-wing NGOs and climate organizations with the aim of silencing the voices of European conservatives in a secretive influence operation.
The funds came from the LIFE Program, which is supposed to fund environmental initiatives and has had a total budget of EUR 9 billion since 2014.
The LIFE program is a funding instrument dedicated to environmental, nature conservation, and climate action projects but some of the funds were instead used to attack conservative and eurosceptic voices according to the Austrian newspaper eXXpress.
The European Commission has issued a short statement on the matter:
"The Commission finds that the work programmes presented by the activist organizations (...) contained inappropriate lobbying activities"
According to internal documents, the targeted campaigns were designed in cooperation between EU agencies and climate NGOs, including planning which critics would be targeted.
- "We see this as a clear misstep by both individual EU officials and organizations," Peter Liese (CDU/Germany), environment policy spokesperson for the conservative EPP group, told eXXpress and added "the misuse of EU funds must stop"
According to the European Commission, changes are now to be introduced to the LIFE program to prevent future excesses.
Guidelines banning subsidized lobbying by EU institutions were already introduced in autumn 2024 - but it is only now that the abuses are being publicly confirmed.
Only a third of organizations and NGOs that received money from the LIFE Program openly disclose their income and how the funds are used, which has led to criticism of lack of transparency.
The former EU Climate Commissioner Frans Timmermans orchestrated the secret contracts with environmental NGOs.
These contracts reportedly included detailed lobbying plans specifying targets and goals. It means that the European Commission provided not just funding but also strategic direction on whom to oppose in a coordinated effort to attack political opponents of the European Commission's climate agenda.
NGOs were instructed to focus on critics of the Green Deal, such as conservative MEPs, national politicians, or parties (Austria’s FPÖ and ÖVP parties are likely among the targets) who resisted stringent climate regulations.
For example, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), a major NGO network, is accused of being tasked with influencing EU Parliament decisions by targeting lawmakers who opposed ambitious environmental laws, like the Renaturierungsgesetz (Nature Restoration Law).
Practically all the opponents targeted are conservatives skeptical of centralized EU policies, often from populist or nationalist factions of the European Parliament as well as national parliaments.
LIFE Program funds in the order of EUR 15.5 million were sent annually to NGOs—as a tool to enforce this coordination.
It seems that the European Commissions's funding of many of these NGOs came with strings attached: NGOs had to align their campaigns with the Commission’s political goals, including neutralizing opposition by running “shadow lobbying” operations, crafting campaigns to sway public opinion and pressure decision-makers against Green Deal critics.
This included pushing narratives that framed opponents as anti-environment or anti-progress, effectively sidelining their influence.
The EEB, for instance, reportedly had to provide “at least 16 examples” of how their lobbying made EU laws tougher, implying a deliberate effort to counter resistance from conservative lawmakers.
The NGOs leveraged media partnerships and public advocacy to amplify their attacks. By framing critics as obstacles to climate action, they aimed to discredit them politically.
The work was outsourced by the European Commission and major NGOs like the EEB that were responsible for setting priorities, which smaller groups then executed.
Three of the EU's largest conservative party groups, the EPP, ECR, and PfE have called for a pushback against the Commission’s funding practices.
In early 2025, EPP MEPs, alongside ECR and PfE MEPs, threatened to freeze €15.6 million in annual LIFE funding to around 30 environmental NGOs.
The MEPs demanded accountability and alleged that the Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV) secretly paid NGOs to lobby for stricter climate policies and thus undermined the legislative independence of the European Parliament and national parliaments.
EPP figures like Monika Hohlmeier, vice-chair of the Parliament’s budgetary committee, criticized the Commission for what she called “scandalous one-sided methods,” insisting on repayment of misused funds dating back a decade
The EPP MEP @TomasZdechovsky
has said there is whistleblower evidence of “secret contracts” directing NGOs to lobby MEPs.
A few weeks ago, the EPP softened its stance slightly with a last-minute shift: they would drop the funding freeze if the Commission provided a transparency statement.
However, after a narrow defeat in the environment committee (41-40 vote on March 31, 2025), the Dutch EPP MEP @sandersmitwzn
accused the Commission of reneging on a deal to admit abuses, showing lingering frustration in the EPP.
The ECR, a Eurosceptic and right-wing group, has aligned with the EPP in this controversy, amplifying the narrative of overreach by Brussels:
Several ECR MEPs, including @FiocchiPietro
of Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d’Italia party , co-tabled the objection to LIFE funding with the EPP, arguing that the Commission allowed “targeted lobbying” that disrupted institutional balance.
The ECR's broader agenda of halting EU federalism is closely connected to what it perceives as constant overreach by the European Commission.
EPP, ECR and PfE frame the NGOs’ efforts as targeting “critics of the Green Deal,” which implicitly includes their own members—conservatives and populists who resist aggressive climate policies. Parties like Austria’s ÖVP (EPP) and FPÖ (PfE), Italy’s Fratelli d’Italia (ECR), and Poland’s Law and Justice (ECR) are likely inferred targets, given their vocal skepticism of EU environmental mandates.
Many of the NGOs were focused on issues concerning farming, migration, and climate regulations, making it likely that figures such as the Dutch BBB MEP Sander Smit (EPP), who represents farmer interests, or ECR’s Fiocchi, tied to Italy’s rural and industrial base, were either direct or indirect targets of the NGOs.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, increased Russian aggression against the EU itself (such as sabotage of undersea infrastructure) and the foreign policy changes in the U.S. under President Trump, the debate on the EU abandoning the Green Deal has reignited.
As the Trump administration has stated that all NATO allies should be required to increase military spending to 5% of GDP, many European politicians now realize the Green Deal isn't just making European economies uncompetitive, but also erodes European capabilities to rearm their militaries to the degree needed for Europe to be able to protect EU member states such as Finland, Sweden, the Baltic States and Poland from potential Russian invasions without massive American military support.
The debate in Europe on withdrawing from the Green Deal is just getting started.
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As is Ukraine funding.
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[RedState] Oh, now Barack Obama is concerned. He wasn't concerned when Joe Biden was throwing the borders open to who-knows-who from who-knows-where, a mess that the Trump administration is trying to clean up. He wasn't concerned when our federal government was turning the money printers on High and cranking out trillions in fiat dollars that caused inflation to spike, a mess that the Trump administration is trying to clean up. And he wasn't concerned with Iran's resurgence as the number-one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism after Joe Biden relaxed sanctions on the rogue nation, a mess that the Trump administration is trying to clean up.
No, now the former president is concerned about the Trump administration trying to clean all this up.
Obama rebuked Trump without explicitly naming him over the federal government's threats against universities and students who exercise free speech, its targeting of law firms, and the new tariffs imposed on foreign countries.
"I don’t think what we just witnessed in terms of economic policy and tariffs is going to be good for America, but that’s a specific policy," Obama said in his remarks at Hamilton College in New York. "I’m more deeply concerned with a federal government that threatens universities if they don’t give up students who are exercising their right to free speech," he said.
Note how all this is framed. Barack Obama is, to put it very bluntly, lying through his teeth.
The federal government is not making "threats against universities." Nor are they targeting "students who exercise free speech." The Trump administration is putting pressure on universities who look the other way or take meaningless, symbolic actions when campuses are taken over by radicals who support Islamic terror groups like Hamas, radicals who conceal their identities with masks, who call for the destruction of Israel, who attack Jewish students, who take over and occupy campus buildings. That is well beyond the bounds of free speech. That is domestic terrorism, using violence or the threat of violence to push a political agenda.
Furthermore, many of these "students" are here on student visas, many from the very countries who have the destruction of Israel - the United States' best ally in the Middle East - as a matter of national policy. There's no reason why we, as a nation, should tolerate this, and the Trump administration is correct in identifying these people and sending them home. A visa is not a guarantee; these people are guests in the United States and are here only as long as they behave.
Worse, Barack Obama is no one to be running his mouth on this. As my Townhall colleague Matt Vespa points out, Obama's own hands are far from clean.
The former president did the ‘could you imagine’ game, where he lists what the Trump administration has done that he finds disagreeable regarding pro-terrorist students in our colleges—we’re deporting them—or yanking press access to media outlets—which isn’t new.
“Imagine if I had done any of this,” said Obama.
The issue here Barry is that you did: You spied on former Fox News reporter James Rosen, even naming his as a spy in court affidavits, you seized the phone records of a dozen Associated Press reporters, there’s palace intrigue regarding meetings with the brass of the Internal Revenue Service which led to the reported targeting of conservative non-profit groups. Mr. President, you were quite Nixonian when it came to leakers and whistleblowers, turned down more FOIA requests than any other administration in history, and your Department of Justice engaged in a prolonged and illegal spy operation against the candidate of the rival party on trumped-up and now thoroughly debunked charges of Russian collusion.
Interestingly, Democrats will still listen to Barack Obama, who was only a mediocre president on the best day he ever had. When he was elected, his resume wasn't even a mile wide and an inch deep; it was an inch wide and an inch deep. He was lauded as an orator, but when speaking extemporaneously, he is awful. One really good measure of intelligence, in fact, is the ability to speak extemporaneously. Ronald Reagan was good at that, Donald Trump is good at that, and to be fair, Bill Clinton was as well. Barack Obama is terrible; listening to him speak off-prompter is about as much fun as having a prostate biopsy.
So, why do Democrats still put Barack Obama on a pedestal? Simple: He's all they've got. Bill Clinton is pretty old now and not in the best of health. Joe Biden has disappeared from view and is likely drooling into a bib somewhere. The less said about Kamala Harris, the better. And there are still a few Democrats who realize that AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and their ilk are barking nuts.
That's why, when we read that Barack Obama is "concerned" about the Trump administration, we should ask, "Who cares?"
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Barry understands from his time as a 'community organizer', that you have to keep feeding new people into the activist machine at the bottom. The vast majority quit or drift away at some point.
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Free speech is not the same as no accountability.
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Of course he is, our schools are the breeding ground of socialism and the far left ideology. Why is it that Islamic states send billions to our universities? Same for the Chinese. Hussan is worried about the long game of destroying our constitution and turning us into a 3rd world state.
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[FoxNews] Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., refused to label the attacks as even violent, saying, '"Violence" is against human beings'
Some of the attacks have been against human beings. Deliberately, and recorded by the vehicles in question. Do you now admit to pushing terrorism, O honourable Congresscritter?
After taking to social media to announce he was ditching his Tesla because it was made by an "a--hole" he claimed is damaging the country, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., refused to say whether Democrats’ inflammatory rhetoric against Elon Musk is to blame for the ongoing spate of attacks against Tesla owners and dealers across the country.
Kelly also refused to say whether the attacks — some of which have involved shooting at and throwing Molotov cocktails into dealerships — qualify as "domestic terrorism."
The Arizona senator admitted that "it’s certainly vandalism and it’s a crime, a significant crime, especially if you firebomb a car or vandalize somebody’s vehicle, or even key somebody’s vehicle, you shouldn’t be doing it."
From the same party that once upon a time winked at the boyish shenanigans of the KKK.
While Kelly said those responsible should be tried and prosecuted, pressed by Fox News Digital on whether the attacks qualify as terrorism, he responded, "I think we've got to tread lightly on the whole ‘terrorist’ word."
"Sometimes trying to expand this thing, it kind of loses its focus," he said. "But when folks are vandalizing people’s vehicles or dealerships, it is wrong and it is dangerous. Somebody’s going to get hurt. For that reason, we should let the full force of law enforcement get to this problem and prosecute it."
There have been at least 80 acts of vandalism against Tesla vehicles in the U.S. and Canada, and at least 10 incidents of vandalism and arson against Tesla dealerships, charging stations and properties.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has said the Justice Department is investigating the incidents as "domestic terrorism."
Leading Democrats, however, have been largely silent on the issue, with few being willing to condemn the attacks as acts of terrorism.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who, in a 2023 CNN interview, accused Republicans who criticized her of engaging in "stochastic terrorism" — that is, incitement of violent political action — also refused to say whether Democrats’ anti-Musk rhetoric should be held responsible for the attacks.
Fox News Digital asked Ocasio-Cortez whether she sees a connection between language against Musk and the violent incidents across the nation.
Cortez began to answer, saying, "Yeah, I mean, again, I’ve seen Republicans call me ‘communist’ and that I ‘hate this country,’" before trailing off.
Meanwhile, Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., refused to label the attacks as even violent, saying, "While I have no opinion on what’s been going on, I actually haven’t been following that much, but let’s be precise about our language — ‘violence’ is against human beings."
Asked about Democrats’ rhetoric, Lee said it is important to "recognize the difference between the frustration of people that is maybe organic, but also the language that is coming from people who are in power."
"Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... is in power and he’s abusing that and it’s going to harm people and has already," she said. "Because of the rhetoric from the administration, because of the rhetoric from the right, we’re seeing American citizens being picked up, we’re seeing a lot of profiling that’s happening, I think that that’s incredibly dangerous and again those are being perpetrated against people."
Rep. the mealy-mouthed Steny StinkyHoyer ...Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi's second banana, or plaintain, or mango, or whatever he is. Number Two, anyway... , D-Md., also attempted to turn the question around, saying President Donald Trump "in effect… told people to resort to violence" at his rally on Jan. 6, 2021.
Hoyer said he discourages anyone from resorting to violence but advocated for peaceful ways of telling Trump and Musk "how angry we are."
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who has been warned by Bondi to "tread lightly" after seeming to threaten Musk by calling for him to be "taken down," refused to answer the question, while her security got into the face of the Fox News Digital reporter.
Republicans, in the meantime, hammered that the attacks are obvious examples of terrorism.
Rep. Addison McDowell, R-N.C., pointed out that "when we boycotted Bud Light over their support over these radical issues, we didn’t just say, ‘We’re going to burn down Bud Light manufacturers.’ We just didn’t buy it."
"What you see these woke, radical liberals doing to a car they used to want championed, is lighting them on fire, destroying property, that’s not how adults behave," McDowell said, adding, "they’re behaving like criminals."
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UPDATE
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has announced its plans to launch a group called The People’s Cabinet .
Given the presented details of its mission and agenda. It seems "The People’s Cabinet" mission is to circumvent actual FACTS presented by the Trump Admin, & MAGA's "America First agenda".
Is it just me, but doesn't "The People’s Cabinet" sound like some Socialist geared counter-government coup idea?
[THEEPOCHTIMES] The U.S. Senate in the early morning hours of April 5 approved the budget blueprint to advance President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... 's agenda after a marathon voting session.
Under the rules of the reconciliation process, which is being used to pass the sweeping package, all amendments must be considered—leading to voting sessions that last well into the night, known as a ''vote-a-rama.''
This time was no different, as the long vote series began in the evening on April 4 and continued into the early hours of Saturday. Lawmakers finally advanced the resolution in a 51-48 vote, which fell mostly party lines, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky both voting against.
The all-night session included votes on Democratic amendments that targeted Trump's tariffs, the potential impact of the budget bill on the federal deficit, and seeking to limit tax cuts for the wealthy in the bill. They all failed.
With its passage by the Senate, the budget resolution—which resulted from weeks of bicameral negotiations—heads to the House.
Both chambers will need to pass the measure to move on to the next stage of the reconciliation process.
There are already warning signs in the lower chamber, where House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) oversees a slim and ideologically diverse Republican conference, that the Senate blueprint could face hurdles.
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The American people are watching close as our reps and senators play Chiken Limbo with their political futures.
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[FoxNews] A cohort of Democratic representatives and senators are proposing legislation aimed at stalling President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... 's efforts to relocate federal agencies outside of Washington, D.C., something the president has taken steps to start doing.
Guidance issued in February from the Trump administration instructed federal agencies to submit any proposed relocation of agency bureaus and offices by April 14, instructions that were tied to the president's broader efforts to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government.
The pair of companion bills from Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... in the House and Senate seeks to require agencies to conduct and share a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis with Congress and the public prior to any relocations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
...every time you hear the phrase 
