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Hello Senator Thune, At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP. Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept. You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to. You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to. You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to. Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats. Let's be precise about what you did: 1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer. 2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM. 3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding. The precedent you set: You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins. But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered: • Voice vote to avoid accountability • Empty chamber to avoid debate • Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny • Immediate recess to avoid questions You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one. What you've actually accomplished: Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded. Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded. And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning. The question you should answer: Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM? Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record? You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like. Here's my message: We saw it anyway. Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome. Own it.

@OC_Scanner @AlertsSocal Also Carlsbad in Escondido, California. North County San Diego we are out. Oceanside is still on, but we’re next to Camp Pendleton.

NEW VIDEO ‼️‼️ #OrangeCounty / #California Drone video from @AlertsSocal shows a massive blackout in Southern Orange County tonight

California drivers pay the highest gas taxes for the worst roads. Rankings: Rural Interstate: 47th Urban Interstate: 48th Rural Arterial: 39th Urban Arterial: 50th Great job, @gavinnewsom! Cc: @ReasonFdn

Hello Senator Thune, Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation." You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process. Here's how we know: Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you. Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work: Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill. Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results. Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess. Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate. You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months. Now let's talk donors: • Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user • Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify • Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration • Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail." Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable. We see the loop. You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed. What we want: 1. Force a real talking filibuster. 2. Stop hiding behind process. 3. Pass the SAVE America Act. YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents. You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time. Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

CA's 2018 election was the test run for 2020... As seen in this video Ballot harvester: "We’re offering this new service, but only to, like, people who are supporting the Democratic party. It’s a service; I’m just trying to pick up your ballot and show you how to do it if you don’t know." Woman wonders if i's legal. Ballot harvester: "Yeah, the bill just passed last year, but at the end. So there’s been a problem with like people — like half the ballots that were mailed last year didn’t get back. A lot of people weren’t signing the envelope on the back and stuff." She's definitely not going to tamper with it, she says. "It’s not like I’m going to fabricate it…But it has to be sealed and it has to be signed for me to even touch it." When the woman asks how she’ll know that everything was handled properly, Lulu decides to walk away. "That’s okay." If it was that important, why walk away? This was in October 2018 in Santa Clarita, CA, where Katie Hill upset GOP incumbent Steve Knight. CAGOP lost SEVEN seats that night. There's no Skid Row in that district so a different approach had to be taken. It continues to this day in many forms - in nursing homes, homeless shelters, at CHIRLA, and more. @camhigby @LoriMills4CA42

DOJ meeting with Judge Howell Notes: “She liked our approach of pursuing the executive privilege litigation in an omnibus fashion,” “She knows it’s coming and loves the idea.” Just the FBI and DOJ conspiring with Judges on how to make legal arguments to charge Trump more palatable and get around executive privilege? Am I reading this right?

FULL Documents 👇 grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

We sent a letter to the California DOJ with a simple question: "If a child in our city is being sex-trafficked by an illegal alien, can we at least do a welfare check on that child?" The answer? No. That would violate SB-54. No workaround. No alternative. No explanation for how you're supposed to save that child. That's what California's sanctuary law protects. Not the child. The trafficker.

Let me get this straight. There's SNAP fraud, EBT fraud, Medicaid and Medicare fraud, home healthcare fraud, daycare fraud, medical transportation fraud, and hospice fraud, but definitely, absolutely no election fraud?

The absolute funniest thing about politics and politicians is when they realize 2 seconds after they shouldn't have said something that they just said.

BREAKING: New Arctic Frost Records via @ChuckGrassley @SenRonJohnson @tedcruz Includes Subpoena for @FBIDirectorKash phone records when he was a private citizen. Biden-FBI-DOJ Collection of phone records for members of congress and staff MORE extensive than previously reported.

I knew California was going to cheat in that prop 50 vote for redistricting. I’m pretty sure we all knew, as it turns out that vote might not be valid. Democrats are totally freaking out now trying to stop the counting of 650k seized ballots. Prayers needed 🙏

I built a free live TSA wait time tracker that shows live wait times by checkpoint, including Precheck, Clear, and priority (where available). I did it because: - TSA lines are insane - Existing tools offer estimated waits - Test the power of AI tools tsa.fromthetraytable.com

@RobertKennedyJc Over Oceanside/Camp Pendleton/San Clemente CA over the weekend. Tic-tac-toe in the sky! It was discussed on Neighbor platform with photos/concern and all was deleted by admins. Record heat all week, they played a game in the sky and very next morning our skies were gray.

Serious Question🚨: Are you seeing chemtrails or geoengineering activity in your skies? Drop your city below. Let's compare notes! MAHA

INVESTIGATION: we found hundreds of NY nonprofits that are banned from engaging in elections have made donations to candidates in the last decade. timesunion.com/capitol/articl…

With Texas Governor, Greg Abbott, in attendance, Elon Musk unveiled the most advanced chip-building facility on the planet that Gavin Newsom and the Democratic supermajority worked overtime to chase out of California.

RIGHT NOW: San Diego International Airport is “organized chaos” this morning. @TSA line stretched out with a 70 minute wait just to reach screening. DHS canines on site. @ICEgov expected to arrive today. And this Friday marks the 6th missed paycheck for federal TSA workers.

This YouTuber, Benn Jordan discovered that a surveillance company named Flock Safety who currently has over 90K camera deployed throughout the US, is severely compromised. He found that many cameras are live-streaming directly to the open internet.

WOW 🚨 San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond says California Democrats just advanced a bill to IMPLEMENT a mileage tax “California politicians just moved AB 1421 through the Assembly — a bill that orders the state to build a mileage tax system by 2027. Not study. Not explore. Implement” “That means tracking every mile you drive, then taxing you for it” “Politicians want to track and tax you. It's called AB Assembly bill 1421, and it's just moved through the California Assembly. Don't let the language fool you. They say it's planning its study options, but here's what it actually does. It orders the state to design a mileage tax system and report back by January 1st, 2027 with a plan to implement it. Not theory, not discussion, but implementation” “Our transportation agency here in San Diego County tried this exact same thing right here. They quietly slipped a mileage tax into their regional plan, and when residents found out, when commuters spoke up, when small businesses pushed back, they backed down it. We stopped it once. We can stop it again” “Let's call this what it is. It's a commuter punishment, a tax aimed squarely at working families who don't have the luxury of public transit, who drive to work, who drive their kids to schools who drive and pick up groceries. A mileage tax would mean tracking how far you drive, tracking you, and then taxing you per mile on top of the gas taxes on top of the vehicle. Registration fees on top of the sales taxes on top of the local transportation taxes. Families are already paying thousands of dollars a year just to get to work would be hit. Again, this is an insult.”