Reader’s Links for March 8th, 2025

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  3. The Trump administration has reportedly revoked the visa of a student who protested in favor of Hamas, the Islamic terrorist organization which attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Fox News.

    The outlet said on Thursday the U.S. State Department confirmed the news, but legal constraints did not allow officials to identify the student or the university the individual attended.

    State Department officials said, “Yesterday evening, we revoked the first visa of an alien who was previously cited for criminal behavior in connection with Hamas-supporting disruptions. This individual was a university student. ICE will proceed with removing this person from the country.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/03/07/report-trumps-state-department-revokes-first-visa-of-foreign-pro-hamas-student/

  4. Another non-governmental organization, which contracted with the federal government to resettle refugees across American communities, is having to close its doors after President Donald Trump froze the government’s refugee resettlement program.

    Immediately after taking office, Trump signed an executive order to indefinitely suspend the refugee resettlement program — ensuring that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars flowing to NGOs contracted to resettle refugees would come to a halt.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/07/trump-reforms-force-closure-of-more-ngos-resettling-refugees-across-u-s/

  5. A scandal has erupted within Reform UK in Britain as one of its five MPs has been suspended and referred to police amid alleged threats of violence shortly after challenging the leadership structure of the party and leader Nigel Farage.

    After soaring to the top of the polls as the strongest party in Britain, Reform UK has withdrawn the whip from one of its five MPs, Rupert Lowe of Greater Yarmouth, and claiming, according to The Times of London, that the party has received reports of “threats of physical violence” against chairman Zia Yusuf as well as alleged “targeting of female staff who raised concerns, and evidence of derogatory and discriminatory remarks made about women, including reference to a perceived disability.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/08/row-erupts-within-farages-reform-party-as-mp-rupert-lowe-suspended-and-reported-to-police/

  6. NEW DELHI: The Nationalist Congress Party (SP) leader Rohini Khadse has made a unique demand on the occasion of women’s day – immunity to commit one murder. The demand, however, comes in the context of rising crimes against women across the nation.
    In a letter addressed to President Droupadi Murmu, Khadse begins with an apology and goes on to list out the reasons behind her demand.

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/immunity-to-commit-one-murder-ncp-sp-leaders-womens-day-demand-from-president-over-crime-against-females/articleshow/118803249.cms

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  9. The Artificial Culture
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/artificial-culture/
    Mar. 8, 2025 9:45 am

    This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire

    By Matthew Gasda
    Real Clear Wire

    I’ll start with a simple premise. If we now have direct evidence that the federal government was funneling millions of dollars into supposedly free market press organs (such as Politico, which has received federal subscription payments from agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services), into universities and para-educational organizations (such as the Department of Education’s discretionary grants to universities, which totaled billions in 2023), into influential political activism in think tanks and third-party media (such as USAID grants that have included funding for policy programs), into startups (such as Small Business Administration grants awarded to tech incubators), into lucrative speechwriting gigs (such as high-paying corporate events featuring former Obama speechwriters), and then into lucrative speaking engagements for dutiful progressives, then we must reckon with the implications of this influence.

    Would it not be right rather to say that we have plain evidence that we’ve been living in a propaganda regime, albeit a restrained one (operating through soft censorship, algorithmic suppression, and selective amplification rather than overt bans), that our moral and aesthetic sensibilities have been warped by this (as seen in the ideological homogenization of major cultural institutions and the narrowing of acceptable discourse), that our moral and creative authorities, at least in part, are corrupt or corrupted (by financial incentives, gatekeeping, and revolving-door career paths between media, government, and academia), and that we have to, ought to, rethink why certain people and things are great and famous, at least in part–considering the extent to which institutional backing and controlled distribution shape public perception?

    It is and has been a popular trope of the discourse (especially in dissident media circles and online subcultures) that culture has gotten steadily worse since 2010; I’ve argued so myself, in print, on numerous occasions. And while it is inarguable that this decline has been precipitated by smartphones and accelerated by apps, I’m starting to feel that there hasn’t been sufficient attention paid to the way that emerging platforms have been co-opted and molded, by political forces, to produce certain narratives and cultural victories and defeats–in other words, how they’ve been easily propagandized and influenced. I’m not making any grand claims or assertions; even on the basis of the contracts already uncovered since January by the Trump Administration, we know that at least some things were essentially fake; and at the point where you have meaningful sums of money shaping who teaches or lectures, who conducts investigative journalism, who gets artificially inflated numbers on social media–you can be certain there will be ripple effects across the culture at large. When you accept that aspects of our discourse have been artificially seeded, then you accept that all of our cultural production has been affected, indirectly.

    It is natural and easy to extrapolate from here as a cultural critic; when academics, artists, and journalists are armed with strings-attached capital to shape perceptions, fix opinions, and place social facts and epistemological realities, there’s a net ecological effect; certain ‘truths’ get welded into place–and are very hard to pry out (even by countervailing, evidentiary counter-proposals and potential ‘truths’). Covid is the most obvious of myriad examples of this kind of passive social engineering.

    When trends, ideas, beliefs are created by fiat (and I mean fiat in several senses of the word), you don’t only change how people vote or try to, but also who gets to write books, buy books, who gets to paint, who buys those paintings, who gets into galleries, which foundations grant residencies, which so-called little magazines take off, and which pieces go viral. Everything–even the most well-meaning, independent art–ends up downstream of well-engineered social memes.

    It might be useful to compare post-Obama, smartphone mediated politics and culture-adjacent federal appropriations with the Farm Bill, which, at least since the early ’70s, has fundamentally changed how we eat, what we grow, and, more importantly, made it impossible to grow and eat otherwise—locking farmers into destructive land usage, poisonous pests, dependence on pesticides, and consumers into chronic illness. The scale at which the government or allied corporate actors can act is always going to overwhelm the local, the natural.

    Why did music, film, books, and language change? The answer is the same reason that food changed (around 1971). Due to policy changes implemented during the Nixon administration to combat inflation, the U.S. agricultural system shifted toward increased corn production, leading to a rise in the use of high-fructose corn syrup as a cheaper alternative to cane sugar (among other overnight changes).

    Nixon didn’t make food healthier; Obama and Biden–using government incentives–didn’t make culture more interesting, let alone more moral; literary critics, psychologists, and philosophers didn’t get more truthful; films and music didn’t become more entertaining (Oscar-bait political dramas replaced daring storytelling; algorithm-driven pop music eclipsed raw artistic experimentation); there were no Whitmans or Morrisons (only sensitivity-proofed voices elevated to bestseller lists). We produced artistic corn syrup; massive dark flows of capital from government agencies, filtered through NGOs, gradually but definitively tempered the way we created and interacted with art.

    If you want to ask why certain so-called socialist, left-leaning magazines failed to ever substantially criticize the DNC and Democratic politics in more than a superficial way (despite positioning themselves as independent or even adversarial), it’s because they were functionally part of the DNC (as evidenced by their reliance on grants from foundations tied to Democratic donors, their hiring patterns favoring staff with direct party affiliations, and their editorial alignment with DNC priorities during election cycles), part of DNC patronage networks (with documented financial ties to progressive nonprofits, think tanks, and media funds that coordinate messaging with the party).

    Intellectuals didn’t become more progressive in the last 15 years (as seen in the lack of any substantive challenges to corporate power or militarism from these quarters); they just got greedier (with lucrative fellowships, speaking engagements, and media contracts available to those who stayed within the ideological boundaries set by elite funders) and enthusiastically supported whatever hobgoblins could get funding (from Russiagate hysteria to DEI industry grifts to the constant manufacture of new existential political crises that justify continued patronage).

    Why did newspapers, universities, publishing houses, record labels, and movie studios uniformly fall in line behind Trump Derangement Syndrome, Russiagate, cancel culture, COVID safetyism, dogmatic gender ideology, and other authoritarian ideological certainties? Because key figures in public and private institutions across the globe—literally—were being paid to propagate these narratives; this much we now know.

    Conclusions can and should be drawn. The last decade or two of cultural rock stars? They’re fake and likely don’t even believe what they write or promote. It tells you that book deals and TV deals are, for the most part, fake: predicated on an astroturfed epistemological and semiotic system. Prestige has been misassigned; it’s a good time to start over, from first principles (in this case: pre-2000s aesthetics and pre-2000s common sense).

    And if this system has been operational in its current form for at least 15 years (as evidenced by government grants to media organizations, disclosures of intelligence agency influence in newsrooms, and well-documented funding of activist journalism through NGOs and think tanks), why do we have any reason to believe that our bestsellers (Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility), often promoted through corporate media partnerships and publishing house incentives, our hit records (driven by algorithmic curation and major label payola arrangements), our most important journalists and voices (many of whom have been directly connected to government agencies, nonprofits, and ideological foundations), our influential literary magazines (sustained through foundation grants, preferential ad partnerships, and direct subsidies), are purely organic?

    Matthew Gasda is a writer and director.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/artificial-culture/

  10. India Signals Readiness to Make Deeper Tariff Cuts, Trump Says
    Divya Patil
    Sat, March 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM CST
    1 min read

    US President Donald Trump said India has signaled its readiness to make deeper tariff cuts, after he ramped up pressure on the country to lower trade barriers that he has said unfairly penalize American businesses.

    “They’ve agreed — by the way, they want to cut their tariffs way down now,” Trump said, while delivering remarks on the US economy late on Friday. India charges “massive tariffs” that mean the US does “very little business inside,” he said.

    India’s commerce ministry didn’t immediately respond to a request for a comment on the remarks outside of regular business hours.

    Preserving India’s access to the US market is a priority for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he seeks to shield his country from reciprocal duties Trump has indicated will take effect next month.

    Trade between the two countries grew to $127 billion in 2023, making the US India’s largest trading partner and putting pressure on New Delhi to strike a deal. The two leaders have agreed to boost trade to $500 billion by 2030.

    Modi’s government has already made numerous concessions to the Trump administration in recent weeks in a bid to smooth over relations. Among the efforts was a wide-ranging reduction in tariffs on products including high-end motorcycles and whiskey, and pledges to buy more US energy and weapons.

    Indian officials have also discussed reducing duties on cars, some agricultural products, chemicals, critical pharmaceuticals, as well as certain medical devices and electronics, Bloomberg News reported last month.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/india-signals-readiness-deeper-tariff-080933985.html

    • The PRC has huge influence over the most prominent analysts in Southeast Asia. Elsewhere, too. Here’s a top Indian based in Singapore. (S’pore is an anomaly in the diversity of its power base. It’s tiny, but feisty.)

      Singapore’s Top Diplomat Reveals TRUTH About Ukraine and Future of Europe

      Kishore Mahbubani joins the show to discuss the future of Ukraine, Russia, and how Europe has become completely incompetent in the world of geopolitics. Professor Mahbubani reveals how Europe could have avoided the war and what Europe must do in the future. Will Europe leave NATO, work with Russia, or join China for more trade? Let’s break it all down…

  11. U.S. Judge Finds China Liable for Covid Missteps, Imposes $24 Billion Penalty
    The judgment was issued in a case brought by the Missouri attorney general. The Chinese government did not respond to the claims in court.

    A federal judge in Missouri found the Chinese government responsible for covering up the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and hoarding protective equipment in a ruling on Friday. He entered a judgment of more than $24 billion that Missouri officials vowed to enforce by seizing Chinese assets.
    The lawsuit, filed by the Missouri attorney general’s office in April 2020, during the early months of the pandemic, accused the Chinese government of withholding information about the existence and spread of the virus and then of cutting off the supply of personal protective equipment, or P.P.E., from the rest of the world. Chinese officials said Friday that they did not accept the judge’s decision.
    In his ruling, Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. wrote that “China was misleading the world about the dangers and scope of the Covid-19 pandemic” and had “engaged in monopolistic actions to hoard P.P.E.” Those actions, he said, hampered the early response to the pandemic in the United States and made it impossible to purchase enough equipment for medical providers responding to the virus.
    Judge Limbaugh, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, imposed the judgment against China, its governing Communist Party, local governments in China, as well as a health agency and a laboratory in the country.
    Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey, said in a statement that the ruling held China accountable for its actions.
    “China refused to show up to court, but that doesn’t mean they get away with causing untold suffering and economic devastation,” said Mr. Bailey, a Republican. “We intend to collect every penny by seizing Chinese-owned assets, including Missouri farmland.”
    A spokesman for China’s embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, said his government will not recognize the judgment.
    “The so-called lawsuit has no basis in fact, law or international precedence,” he said in a statement. “China does not and will not accept it. If China’s interests are harmed, we will firmly take reciprocal countermeasures according to international law.”
    It was not immediately clear how or when Missouri officials might move to seize Chinese assets, including land, as they pledged to do. Mr. Bailey’s office said it could seek assistance from the Trump administration in identifying and taking those assets.
    Judge Limbaugh, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, initially dismissed Missouri’s lawsuit. But the case was returned to him by an appellate court, and he held a bench trial in January at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Mo. No one argued on behalf of China at the hearing.
    Foreign governments can be sued in American courts, though the circumstances under which those lawsuits can proceed are sharply limited by a measure known as the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. In his earlier dismissal ruling, Judge Limbaugh said that Missouri’s lawsuit was unable to move forward because of that act. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said one of Missouri’s claims, about the hoarding of P.P.E., was not excluded by that act, and sent that portion of the case back to the district court.
    Such cases have been tested in American courts before. In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a lawsuit filed by New York City against India and Mongolia to move forward, rejecting those countries’ claims of immunity under the foreign sovereign act.
    Judge Limbaugh said Missouri’s lawyers showed that China knew that the virus was spreading — and that it was spreading from person to person — long before it shared that information with the world. He also said Missouri showed that China took steps to nationalize American factories in China to produce protective equipment, which limited the supply available for export and drove up prices in places like Missouri. The judge noted that Covid-19 was the third-leading cause of death in Missouri in 2020 and 2021.
    Senator Eric Schmitt, who was Missouri’s attorney general when the lawsuit was filed, celebrated the judgment on social media on Friday.
    “When I was AG in Missouri,” wrote Mr. Schmitt, a Republican, “I sued China for unleashing Covid on the world.” He added that “Missouri can now seize assets.”

    https://archive.is/PeCUH#selection-875.0-963.112

  12. “There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.” ~ Frances Wright

    “We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.” ~ Ravi Zacharias

    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~ Alice Walker

    “Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.” ~ Ayn Rand

    “The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” ~ William J. Brennan

    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~ George Orwell

    “Not every person is going to understand you and that’s okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.” ~ Joel Osteen

    “To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.” ~ Warren E. Burger

    “the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

  13. “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

    “Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.” ~ James Madison

    “The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.” ~ James Madison

    “Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” ~ Aristotle

    “What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

    “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” ~ Patrick Henry

    “We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.” ~ Vince Vaughn

    “Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic – purely symbolic – move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.” ~ Charles Krauthammer

    “Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what’s happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.” ~ Unknown

    “The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.” ~ James Monroe

    “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” ~ Plato

    “Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.” ~ Thomas Paine

    “I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.” ~ Rudy Giuliani

    “I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.” ~ Johnny Cash

    “One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men.” ~ Joseph Story

    “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.” ~ George Washington

    “My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.” ~ Alex Kozinski

    “Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?” ~ Patrick Henry

    “For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

    • Note from the quotes from Aristotle and Plato that the question of Arms Control was being argued and arms control laws fought against for many millennia, this subject will probably remain a point of contention between those who want to remain free and those who want to be autocrats for as long as mankind exists.

  14. “You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.” ~ Rush Limbaugh

    “The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

    “The balance of power is the scale of peace.” ~ Thomas Paine

    “Gun bans don’t disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.” ~ Walter F. Mondale

    “All power is inherent in the people.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

    “Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws…It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.” ~ Mike Royko

    “The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the comparative ambition or address of the different governments, whether either, or which of them, will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the expense of the other.” ~ James Madison

    “Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms.” ~ Curt Weldon

    “If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.” ~ Alexander Hamilton

    “…that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.” ~ Alexander Hamilton

    “That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.” ~ John Adams

    “It’s part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can’t just remove that right. You’ve got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.” ~ Rudy Giuliani

    “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

    “Yeah, it’s legal in the United States. It’s part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It’s to protect yourself from the police.” ~ Ice T

    “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. – Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein

    “Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, ‘violence never settles anything’ I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein

    “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein

    “In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the “collective” right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of “the people” to keep and bear arms… If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 18th century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.” ~ Stephen Halbrook

    “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.” ~ Joseph Story

    “To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.” ~ John Adams

    “A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.” ~ Noah Webster

  15. Palmer Luckey, Donald Trump’s Original Tech Bro, Gets His Moment
    Once an outcast, the Anduril founder’s vision for modernizing the government seems possible
    Palmer Luckey at the Anduril offices in Costa Mesa, Calif. Philip Cheung for WSJ
    Tim Higgins
    By
    Tim Higgins
    March 8, 2025 5:30 am ET
    Generally, tech bros tend to overestimate their ability to change the world.
    Most don’t. But 32-year-old Palmer Luckey is having a moment.
    His support of Donald Trump in 2016 got him, according to his recounting, booted from liberal Silicon Valley, pushed out of his job at Facebook and made into a pariah. All that, despite the fact he had sold his virtual reality company, Oculus, to Mark Zuckerberg’s social-media company for billions of dollars and was seen as the OG of VR.
    Dejected, he went on to his next big thing: killer AI.
    It’s a helluva origin story for Anduril Industries, whose initials spell AI. Luckey named the company after the hero’s sword in the “Lord of the Rings”—a weapon also known as the “Flame of the West.” In many ways, Luckey wants his weapons-tech company, founded in 2017, to become the flame of America—for fending off the nation’s threats through software and hardware.
    In doing so, Luckey has become one of the brightest examples of a new wave of ascendant entrepreneurs. They eschew what has made Silicon Valley so powerful—personal gadgets and ad-tech—and pour themselves into super hard and sometimes controversial sciences and engineering they say can make America better: Supersonic airplanes. Nuclear energy. Space travel.
    These days, Luckey likes to tell his origin story, especially when it has become cool for Zuckerberg and other tech leaders to be seen cozying up to President Trump. (Zuckerberg told Congress that Luckey’s Facebook departure had nothing to do with politics.)
    “All these people have tidied up all of their inconvenient beliefs,” Luckey told me during the latest episode of our “Bold Names” podcast. “I’m not going to throw it back in their faces and say, `Oh yeah, but what about this thing that you did…eight years ago?’ It’s just not productive.”
    Preparing the battlefield
    Better positioned now, Luckey is clearly trying to take advantage of the moment that Trump’s ascent has created, especially with the Elon Musk-led government efficiency effort. Anduril and other high-tech companies are trying to convince the Pentagon that their technologies are part of the solution for a more efficient and modern government than what’s offered by the lumbering giants in defense.
    “The core thesis of Anduril is that we’re not a defense contractor,” Luckey said. “We’re a defense-product company. We put our own money into building things and we show up not with a PowerPoint, but with a working product. And so the taxpayer isn’t taking on the development risk for these products.”
    The Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle on display at the Anduril showroom in Costa Mesa, Calif.
    When he began Anduril, Luckey was dismissed by tech peers as crude and out of touch. Even now, some in Washington remain unimpressed, but for different reasons: What does the guy known for virtual reality know about the battlefield? A rival last year called Anduril the “Theranos of defense.”
    Luckey responded on the social-media platform X with a photo of his own head superimposed on Elizabeth Holmes’s body. A former journalism major before dropping out to work on Oculus in a camper parked at his parents’ home, Luckey understands the power of narrative.
    Even his name sounds like something out of an Elmore Leonard novel—like he should be a loan shark busting heads in Miami rather than an arms dealer holding court in Mar-a-Lago. He’s known for his Hawaiian shirts, flip-flops and goatee. And a willingness to talk about whatever is on his mind: conspiracy theories, videogames; management theories.
    The first time I met Luckey a few years ago, he talked to me with an incredible enthusiasm about an idea for why people should raise hippos in the swamplands of Louisiana for food. It was something he read about from the 1950s, he said. And, he argued, it was better land management than grazing cattle on prime real estate elsewhere.
    Luckey assured me that hippo meat was tasty (“It’s red meat!”), though after some prodding he admitted that, in fact, he had never tried it.
    U.S. soldiers work with an Anduril drone at the Hohenfels training area in southern Germany.
    Drone swarms
    Anduril was originally backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and co-founded with Palantir Technologies alum, including Democrats. It started out building sensor towers during the first Trump administration to spot people trying to cross the U.S. border illegally. The company evolved to produce robot drones, then robot submarines (called Ghost Sharks).
    The gist is to keep U.S. soldiers out of harm’s way. They all operate with AI, running on a central operating system Anduril developed to run across its hardware.
    His vision is for a human operator with an iPad-like device, or VR headset, to deploy hundreds of combat drones to the battlefield and let them hunt as a swarm. Once the drones have found their targets, the operator would get a message and could authorize attacks. In an ideal world, his sentry towers would spot an intruder, the drones would spring into action to investigate and neutralize the threat—if need be.
    The entrepreneur has proven AI has a place in war. And the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas wars show that futuristic ideas are becoming commonplace, changing the face of war and how it will be fought in the years ahead.
    In January, Anduril announced plans to invest almost $1 billion into a factory in Ohio to build autonomous jet fighters for the U.S. Air Force, a contract it won last year. In February, Anduril said it was taking over Microsoft’s $22 billion contract with the Army to develop augmented-reality headsets for the battlefield—a project that marries Luckey’s past and present.
    He made the announcement with apparent glee. “Whatever you are imagining, however crazy you imagine I am, multiply it by 10 and then do it again,” Luckey wrote on his blog. “I am back, and I am only getting started.”

    https://archive.is/QUtNn#selection-5669.0-6043.216

  16. Elon Musk Reveals The Big-Name Democratic Donors Funding Attacks on Tesla Stores
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/elon-musk-reveals-big-name-democratic-donors-funding/
    Mar. 8, 2025 12:40 pm
    Credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr

    Elon Musk has revealed the big-name Democrat donors behind the protests at Tesla stores.

    Posting on the X platform that he owns, Musk said that he believes five groups are behind the protests, many of which have resorted to violence.

    However, these groups are all funded by ActBlue, the troubled Democratic Party fundraising organization backed by liberal billionaire donors including George Soros and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.

    Musk explained:

    An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla “protests”: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America.

    ActBlue funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman, and Leah Hunt-Hendrix.

    ActBlue is currently under investigation for allowing foreign and illegal donations in criminal violation of campaign finance regulations.

    This week, 7 ActBlue senior officials resigned, including the associate general counsel.

    The Tesla CEO asked followers to share any additional information with him in the post’s replies.

    An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla “protests”: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America.

    ActBlue funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman,…

    — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 8, 2025

    While peaceful protests outside the stores constitute a form of protected speech, many left-wing radicals have resorted to attacking the Tesla facilities and even putting people’s lives in danger.

    Just this week, arsonists in Massachusetts set fire to Tesla charging stations in an incident police confirmed was almost certainly intentional.

    Arsonists Destroy Tesla Charging Stations in Massachusetts as Democrats Incite Violence Against Elon Musk (VIDEO)

    Having once been a popular figure among liberal America for his innovation on the issue of electric vehicles, Musk is now widely despised by Democratic voters triggered by his support for Donald Trump.

    Many are also livid at the work being done by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that he is currently leading, with some commentators and activists directly inciting violence against him.

    Since Trump was inaugurated in January, the department has found potentially trillions in potential savings that could be used to help ordinary Americans or simply pay down the country’s enormous debt burden.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/elon-musk-reveals-big-name-democratic-donors-funding/

  17. Vote-Buying Scheme Exposed: Stacey Abrams Admits on MSNBC Biden EPA Handed Her $2 Billion to Buy New Home Appliances to Reduce Electric Bills Just Months Before the Election
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/vote-buying-scheme-exposed-stacey-abrams-admits-msnbc/
    Mar. 8, 2025 1:40 pm

    In a jaw-dropping admission on MSNBC, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams proudly revealed that the Biden administration’s EPA funneled nearly $2 billion into a program she spearheaded to replace home appliances—just in time for an election year.

    During an interview with left-wing host Chris Hayes, Abrams proudly recounted how the Biden administration greenlit her project, Vitalizing DeSoto, a so-called “climate justice” initiative that handed out free home appliances to a select group of residents in a small Georgia town.

    But the real bombshell? This taxpayer-funded windfall was part of a larger effort to implement the Democrats’ radical climate agenda under the guise of “helping” Americans with their electric bills.

    President Donald Trump, in a fiery rebuke, called out the scheme for what it is—a politically motivated slush fund designed to curry favor with voters using taxpayer dollars.

    “Take a $1.9 billion to recently created Decarbonization of Homes Committee headed up—and we know she’s involved. Just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you ever heard of her?” Trump said during his joint address to Congress.

    Rather than deny her involvement, Abrams openly confirmed it, boasting that her pilot program successfully provided government-funded appliances to 75% of DeSoto’s residents.

    She even shared a specific case where a recipient’s electric bill dropped from $180 to $98, touting it as proof of success. What she failed to mention, however, is how this so-called “investment” was conveniently timed just months before the election, ensuring the Biden administration could claim a “win” on energy costs while buying goodwill in key voting blocs.

    Chris Hayes: One of the ironies of the attack on you—and I’m going to play what he did—was that my understanding is the program at the source of this whole thing is a program to lower costs for people. Do I have that top line correct?

    Stacey Abrams: You have it absolutely right.

    Chris Hayes: Okay, so I’m going to play what he had to say, and then I’m going to ask you to explain what the program is that was such an obvious, ludicrous laugh line for the Republicans there.

    President Trump: Take a $1.9 billion to recently created Decarbonization of Homes Committee headed up—and we know she’s involved. Just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you ever heard of her?

    Chris Hayes: Okay, so what is this organization? What is your relation to it, and what does it do?

    Stacey Abrams: In 2023 and 2024, I led a program called Vitalizing DeSoto. We worked in a tiny town in South Georgia to demonstrate that by replacing energy-inefficient appliances with efficient appliances, you can lower your cost. In fact, we accomplished that. For 75% of the community, they got appliances that are lowering their bills right now. We had one woman who saw her electric bill cut in half—from $180 to $98.

    That’s what we delivered. Based on that program, a coalition of organizations—famous organizations—came together and said to the EPA, “If we can do this here, we can do this for millions more Americans. Let us invest the money of America in lowering the cost for Americans.” And the EPA said, “Okay, great. Go for it.”

    WATCH:

    The EPA-Stacey Abrams grift revealed: @staceyabrams just told MSBNC’s @chrislhayes that the Biden EPA gave her $2 billion to buy people new home appliances to reduce electric bills. So Democrats upgraded vote buying from Obama phones to Biden refrigerators. pic.twitter.com/mO0dEFOXmj

    — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) March 7, 2025

    Earlier this month, Lee Zeldin, the newly appointed EPA Administrator, provided a crucial update on the billions of taxpayer dollars wasted under Biden’s watch.

    This revelation came after Project Veritas released an undercover video in December featuring EPA Advisor Brent Efron, who admitted to an ‘insurance policy’ against a Trump administration and detailed how the agency was funneling billions to climate organizations in a last-minute heist.

    “We’re throwing gold bars off the Titanic,” Efron admitted on an undercover video, exposing the Biden administration’s desperate attempts to lock in wasteful spending before leaving office.

    Zeldin then confirmed that his team at the EPA “found the gold bars.”

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    “Fortunately, my awesome team at the EPA has found the gold bars. Shockingly, roughly $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history and was purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight,” Zeldin said.
    A Massive $20 Billion Money Grab—And Stacey Abrams Got Her Share

    Zeldin further revealed that the $20 billion was awarded to just eight entities, allowing them to distribute taxpayer money to leftist NGOs with little to no transparency. One of the biggest recipients was the Climate United Fund, which received nearly $7 billion.

    Now, it turns out that a staggering $2 billion of that money was funneled to Power Forward Communities, a newly created nonprofit linked to Stacey Abrams, according to a bombshell report from The Free Beacon.

    “DOGE discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams. The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program,” the report states.

    Despite receiving billions in taxpayer funds, Power Forward Communities was only founded months earlier in late 2023 and had never handled anywhere near that amount of money. Its latest tax filings show that it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months.

    This isn’t the first time a Stacey Abrams-affiliated organization has come under fire for financial misconduct. Francys Johnson, the head of Abrams’ nonprofit The New Georgia Project, recently resigned after the firm was hit with a massive $300,000 fine for illegal campaign fundraising.

    The New Georgia Project, which Abrams created in 2013 to increase Democrat voter turnout, was caught raising $4.2 million in dark money and illegally spending $3.2 million on campaign activities.

    Johnson’s resignation is just another sign that the organization has been a financial scandal waiting to happen.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/vote-buying-scheme-exposed-stacey-abrams-admits-msnbc/

  18. Detroit Activist Brings 80 Citizens To DC To Plead With Lawmakers To Help Fix Stolen Elections In Their Crooked City: “The false narrative that only whites think elections are being stolen—that’s a fabrication!” [VIDEO]
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/detroit-activist-brings-80-citizens-dc-plead-lawmakers/
    Mar. 8, 2025 1:20 pm

    Longtime Detroit activist Ramon Jackson, who is currently running for a seat on Detroit’s city council, joined the popular Detroit Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, to bring an estimated 80 Detroit residents by bus to Washington, D.C. on Thursday. Their goal is to shine a bright light on rampant voter fraud in the black-majority city of Detroit. Larry Jasper and Craig Jefferson from Pontiac, MI, which is also a black-majority city, accompanied the Detroit delegation to help bring attention to their city’s broken elections. Election integrity expert and former Trump attorney Cleta Mitchell, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), Rep Mark Miller (R-IN), and Rep.Josh Breechan (R-OK), joined the Detroit contingent to discuss the importance of the SAVE Act to protect our elections by requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship to vote in every state.

    In his speech in front of 3 US lawmakers, none of whom were from Michigan, Mr. Jackson spoke about a lawsuit against Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey and Michigan’s dirty SOS Jocelyn Benson, that is currently pending in the 6th District Court. Jackson said he hopes to get a Republican jury to hear his case, because he believes they will be more fair when it comes to taking voter fraud seriously in Detroit.

    Ramone also told the crowd that the narrative that only White Republicans care about voter fraud is a lie, as he pointed to the 80 + Black Detroit citizens who accompanied him to DC, hoping to get lawmakers to help them stop the ridiculous, unchecked voter fraud in Detroit and the state of Michigan.

    He explained how the names of people who move out of state or to a new address are being used by others to cast illegal votes. Mr. Jackson knows what he’s talking about since he was a victim of identity theft when someone voted in the city of Detroit using his name while he was living in Ohio for a short period. Jackson has discovered dozens of examples of friends or acquaintances who’ve told him they’ve never voted, yet Jackson has found their names on the Detroit voter rolls showing they’ve voted in one or more elections.

    Election Integrity activist Ramone Jackson and Pastor Lorenzo Sewell brought 80 Detroit residents by bus to DC to raise awareness about the stolen elections in their city.

    “The false narrative that only whites think elections are being stolen—that’s a fabrication!” pic.twitter.com/5tIgmO3wQM

    — PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) March 7, 2025

    Sadly, elections in the city of Detroit, managed by crooked Democrats for decades, have become a symbol of how, left unchecked, elections in America are stolen by unelectable people hungry for power. Never was coordinated and blatant voter fraud more evident in America than during the 2020 election. Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, whose first failed campaign was funded by George Soros, has not only provided cover for the crooked elections in Detroit but she’s gaslighted Michigan citizens who dared to call out the fraud, calling them out for being “election deniers,” and attempting to characterize them as “dangerous” or “violent” or even “racist,” for daring to question election results or dirty tactics used by election officials.

    Election Integrity Expert and former Trump lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, who is also the founder of the Election Integrity Network, showed her support for Ramone Jackson and Pastor Sewell by speaking at their rally. “I met Pastor Lorenzo Sewell a week ago and he showed me and told me about voter fraud in Detroit, where there are people registered to vote and voting and other people’s names,” Mitchell told the crowd.

    She continued, “I founded the election integrity network after 2020 when I was one of President Trump’s volunteer lawyers in Georgia and I saw what happened over and over in Georgia. And guess what we saw in Georgia during the post-election of 2020? People calling in and telling us, ‘Oh Mrs. Smith, you’ve already voted!’ I thought that just happened in Georgia, and then as I got involved with people all over the country I found out it didn’t just happen in Georgia—it happened in state after state after state, and what pastor Sewell and Ramone Jackson, who are standing behind me are gonna tell you today is how they’re having votes stolen in their communities.”

    “The reason we need the SAVE Act is because federal law is broken,” the former Trump lawyer said, adding,” Congress broke it! Congress needs to fix it!” Cleta Mitchell explained, “There are 100s of thousands of people registered to vote in this country— probably millions, because it’s 400,000 in my state of North Carolina—people who have no ID listed on their voter registrations!”

    Cleta told the crowd about a lawsuit in Florida, where the case was filed, where individuals voted without providing a driver’s license number or last four digits of their Social Security number. “These people could be complete phantom voters. In fact, I would argue that they are, and then they vote by mail, and there is no way to verify their identity, citizenship, or residency.”

    Before handing the microphone off to Pastor Sewell, Mitchell warned, “What I am telling you is that our elections are broken. They are fraud, fraud ridden. And it has been by design. And the people who have done that, have hidden behind black communities, saying, ‘Oh, we’re just gonna protect the black people!’ No they’re not!” she exclaimed. “They’re just trying to protect their power and they’re using black Americans as the excuse for breaking our elections!” she said.

    Mitchell concluded by demanding action from lawmakers and the DOJ to investigate these election crimes against black communities and all American citizens. “It’s time for Congress to have some hearings on the voter rolls. It’s time for them to change the laws. It’s time for the Department of Justice to investigate this fraud that is going on in Detroit. And we need to fix our elections once and for all. And as representative Roy says we need to save our elections so we can save our country!” Mitchell proclaimed.

    Watch:

    @CletaMitchell defends black voters who traveled from Detroit to DC to demand election officials stop stealing their elections.
    “Our elections are broken. They are fraud ridden & the people who’ve done that, hide behind the black community!”@JocelynBenson Detroit Clerk Winfrey pic.twitter.com/mfpia9JS6x

    — PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) March 8, 2025

    Unfortunately, the city of Detroit charges Ramone Jackson every time he asks for an updated version of the Detroit voter rolls. Ramone’s efforts have been self-funded. Many times, Ramone has paid for the updated voter rolls only to discover they are incomplete. Jackson told us that when asked for the 2020 voter rolls, Detroit Deputy Clerk Darian Bird told him that he could only give Jackson 95% of the voter list from the hotly contested election, claiming he doesn’t have the other 5%. How is this possible? And why are these crooks in the election department in Detroit able to get away with the non-compliance of Michigan election law?

    Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, who became wildly popular when he prayed at President Trump’s inauguration. He is the pastor at the 180 Church. Sewell helped to fund the bus trip to D.C. for the 80+ Detroit residents. Donations to help Pastor Sewell fund his work and help to defray the costs incurred from their trip to DC where they fought against the same type of voter fraud that’s being implemented in every state, can be made HERE.

    Pastor Sewell’s fiery speech ignited the crowd. He asked, “Why would we come all the way here from Detroit?”
    “Because the people of Detroit said, ‘Pastor, we’ve found a political murderer and serial killer that has dead bodies all over the ghettos of Detroit!’” he responded and continued with his empassioned speech, “I said, ‘Who is this murderer?’ and they said ‘Election Fraud!’”

    Watch:

    Pastor Lorenzo Sewell brings 80+ Detroiters to DC to highlight Detroit’s fraudulent elections.

    “Why would we come all the way here from Detroit? Because the people of Detroit said, ‘Pastor, we’ve found a political murderer and serial killer that has dead bodies all over the… pic.twitter.com/oOjGhSKiZa

    — PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) March 8, 2025

    We spoke with Ramone Jackson immediately following his rally in D.C. “People move in and out of Detroit all the time,” Jackson told us. “One of the women on the bus who lives in Texas showed up on the voter rolls in Detroit as having voted in Detroit in 2016, even though she lived in Texas and had a Texas driver’s license,” Ramone told us, adding, “Someone voted for her.”

    Fudail Gibson (pictured in white sweatshirt behind the podium) also spoke at the event. Ramone Jackson explained to us that when Gibson was getting mail sent to his home from people he didn’t know, he reached out to Ramone. Together, they researched the names of the individuals receiving mail at his address and discovered that although the people whose names appeared on the mail he was receiving didn’t live at his residence, they were (somehow) voting from his address.

    Regina Ross, a Democrat who’s run for Detroit City Council several times and lost by a small margin, accompanied the Detroit group on the bus to DC. Ms. Ross lost her most recent race for city council by only 40 votes.

    Ramone Jackson is on a mission to prove how elections have been stolen for years by taking the names (identities) of individuals who have moved to another state and voting for them in Michigan. With the help of a handful of Republican lawmakers in DC and outspoken election integrity advocates like Cleta Mitchell and Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, he may do something no one else in Detroit’s history has been able to accomplish—–fix their broken and crooked elections.

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    Jim Hoft and I interviewed Ramon Jackson on the eve of the 2024 election. The interview can be seen here:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/detroit-activist-brings-80-citizens-dc-plead-lawmakers/