The Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Homeland Security freed an illegal alien who was wanted of child rape in his home country into the United States. The illegal alien, a 25-year-old Ecuadorean national named Adrian Patricio Huerta-Nivelo, crossed the border into the United States on June 4th, 2021 before being apprehended by Border Patrol. Huerta-Nivelo was given a notice to appear in front of an immigration judge before being released into the interior of the United States. Just days after his release, however, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discovered that the illegal alien was wanted in Ecuador in connection to the rape of a child. ICE arrested Huerta-Nivelo days after he was released into the United States on June 12th, 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts. The federal law enforcement agency held the illegal alien in their custody until an immigration judge ordered him to be deported from the country. He was then returned to Ecuador and handed over to law enforcement agents in his home country. Though Huerta-Nivelo is not believed to have committed any violent crimes during his brief time in the United States, numerous other illegal aliens have committed violent crimes after illegally crossing the border. One illegal alien, 20-year-old Venezuelan national, Jesus Alberto Pereira Castillo, was arrested in Denver, Colorado for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl. The arrest came as the city’s Democrat mayor, Mike Johnston, indicated that he would resist attempts from the Trump administration to enforce federal immigration law in Denver. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Massachusett’s Democrat Governor similarly said that she would refuse to assist federal immigration enforcement operations, even as ICE operations in the state resulted in the capture of three illegal aliens, each of which had been charged or convicted with raping children. One of those illegal aliens, Alexandre Romao De Oliveira, entered the United States in 2022 and had previously been convicted in Brazil of raping a child. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the “largest mass deportation operation” in American history, with recent polling indicating that a majority of Americans are in favor of the plan.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour was the most lucrative concert tour ever. It wrapped on December 8 in Vancouver after 149 concerts in 51 cities around the globe. People reported the three-hour concert highlighted Swift’s impressive career and sold an unprecedented $2,077,618,725 in tickets. To put on a tour of that magnitude and success takes more than just Taylor. She has a dedicated team of staff members who worked tirelessly to ensure this would be her most influential era yet. Taylor Swift understood the importance of her team, and she doled out handsome bonuses as a thank-you. The amount of money is positively staggering. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) Taylor Swift Awarded Nearly $200 Million In Bonuses That’s correct. People reported that she presented her team with $197 million in bonus money for their efforts. That money was spread out among her entire staff, from truck drivers to caterers, dancers, security, and beyond. Her production company, Taylor Swift Touring, reported that more than 10,000,000 people attended the Eras Tour since 2023. There has never been anything like it in the music business. People reported during Taylor’s final show she told the crowd, “We have toured the entire world. We have had so many adventures. It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.” It’s the end of an era, for sure, but it’s not the last we’ll see of Taylor, that’s for sure. She’s now a best-selling author, selling more than 800,000 copies of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book in just two days, People reported. She’s also nominated for six Grammy awards, including Album of the Year for The Tortured Poets Department. We don’t know what’s next for Tay, but we know it will be huge. An engagement ring could be one heck of a bonus for Taylor Swift. Don’t you think, Travis? This story’s featured image is by Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management. The post Taylor Swift Gave Her Eras Performers An Earth-Shattering Amount In Bonuses appeared first on InspireMore.

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome called for “black vigilantes” to descend into major cities Monday to retaliate against 26-year-old former Marine Daniel Penny’s acquittal over the death of Jordan Neely. A Manhattan jury found Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide after he held 30-year-old homeless man Neely in a chokehold to protect surrounding passengers on a New York City subway train in May 2023. Newsome called on “black vigilantes” to avenge Neely’s death and fight against white people who allegedly want to “choke” and “kill” black people for “being loud.” “Like everybody else has vigilantes, we need some black vigilantes,” Newsome said. “People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud, how about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us? I’m tired. I know you’re looking for us to be like, ‘Oh, go and march. Go and march.’ No, this weekend, I want you to hold a community event, everywhere from the Bronx, to Houston, to Seattle, to Florida. Black people hold community events and talk about what you need.” Passengers who witnessed the incident said Neely behaved in an erratic and threatening manner by screaming at commuters, throwing his jacket on the ground, and saying that he did not care if he went to jail. Penny then came up from behind Neely and held him in a chokehold for about 15 minutes, where Neely eventually lost consciousness and was pronounced dead. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Penny after a medical examiner ruled Neely’s death a homicide in May 2023. The manslaughter charge, which was dismissed prior to the jury’s verdict, came with a potential 15-year prison sentence, while the negligent homicide charge comes with a maximum four-year sentence. Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy said during a Monday Fox News segment that the jury was in a “deadlock,” likely due to many jurors buying into Bragg’s alleged “racialized” narrative of the incident. Protesters supporting Neely gathered outside the courtroom prior to and following the verdict, chanting, “No justice, no peace,” and warning that the public “will hear [them] tonight.” BLM executives have publicly identified themselves as “trained Marxist[s],” including co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who confirmed in 2020 that she and her fellow organizers are Marxist ideologues focused on building a movement “that could be utilized by many, many black folk.” Activists sued BLM in September 2022 over allegations that its leader, Shalomyah Bowers, siphoned more than $10 million from the organization for her “personal piggy bank.” In 2020, Cullors further used donations raked in by BLM following the death of George Floyd to purchase a $6 million home for personal use, a flight on a private jet, and to fund a $4 million operating budget for two employees, according to National Review. Originally published by Daily Caller News Foundation The post BLM Leader Calls for ‘Black Vigilantes’ to Descend on Cities Following Daniel Penny Acquittal appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President-elect Donald Trump poses a serious threat to the woke bureaucrats and their left-wing allies who have injected their ideology into the administrative state, but these activists won’t be giving up easily. As Trump staffs up for a second term, the bureaucrats have hatched at least three strategies to oppose him: returning to the left-wing nonprofit sphere to act as a government-in-waiting; passing new regulations to cement their ideology into the rules before Trump can reverse them; and burrowing into the bureaucracy to oppose him from within, the same way they did during his first term. Trump will enter office Jan. 20 with a mandate to drain the swamp, but the swamp is working overtime to clog up the drains while it still can. Here’s how the swamp is fighting back to defend its bureaucracy. 1. The Revolving Door Trump has vowed to carry out a mass deportation of illegal aliens, but it is often better for aliens to “deport” themselves by leaving the country on their own terms. Similarly, some woke bureaucrats in the administrative state have begun the process of self-deportation, electing to depart the Biden-Harris administration on their own terms before Trump forces them out of government. Tracy Stone-Manning, director of the Bureau of Land Management, is getting the heck out of Dodge. She’ll be taking over as president of The Wilderness Society in February. The Wilderness Society, like so many other environmentalist groups, began with the noble goal of conservation, but has since become a woke activist group that opposes fossil fuels and supports “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI. As I explain in my forthcoming book “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” Stone-Manning is already well familiar with the environmental activism sphere. She spent four years at the National Wildlife Federation before joining the Biden-Harris administration. The National Wildlife Federation has worked hand in glove with the federal bureaucracy. In 2009, the Interior Department (which includes the Bureau of Land Management) found that the Bureau of Land Management was consulting with National Wildlife Federation staff on budgeting and that the staff were writing and editing official BLM materials to promote the federation’s priorities. “We’re honored that some of our team members have served in and gone on to serve in essential state, local, and federal roles, including in Democratic and Republican administrations,” Mike Saccone, the federation’s vice president of communications, told me in remarks for the book. Of course, The Wilderness Society also wanted a cut of the action. The Functional Government Initiative revealed in 2023 that Wilderness Society lobbyists brainstormed “legal and policy pathways” with Interior Department lawyers regarding the Twin Metals project in Minnesota. Interior later canceled leases owned by Twin Metals Minnesota, terminating a critical minerals project, as The Wilderness Society had demanded. Stone-Manning, who notoriously wrote a threatening letter on behalf of tree-striking eco-terrorists, represents the first Biden-Harris administration official to leave in the lead-up to Jan. 20, but she won’t be the last. 2. ‘Trump-Proofing’ the Bureaucracy Even before Trump won the 2024 presidential election, bureaucrats had been gearing up to “Trump-proof” the administrative state. In April, the Office of Personnel Management finalized a rule that will make it harder for Trump to reinstate his “Schedule F” executive order—an order that would have made it easier for the president to fire certain bureaucrats. Public sector unions have also schemed with bureaucrats to tie Trump’s hands ahead of time. The Environmental Protection Agency and its employees’ unions signed a collective bargaining agreement in May that created mechanisms for employees to report any other employee whom they deem to have had “improper influence” on a scientific study. Public sector unions may also be working to extend collective bargaining agreements to preserve certain perks, like working remotely. I’m hearing via allies that federal government unions are scrambling to update their collective bargaining agreements to avoid getting fired. The prospect of being asked to return to the office 5 days per week like most working Americans apparently has them “in tears.”— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 18, 2024 Similarly, the National Institutes of Health has designated an official to identify political meddling in the agency’s work, creating a scientific integrity council to review any such cases, Politico reported. Of course, “political meddling” is in the eye of the beholder. Conservatives rightly consider Chicken Little climate warnings (the burning of fossil fuels will bring about the end of the world) a form of political meddling in science. Unfortunately, the bureaucrats who staff these agencies would likely consider any attempt to dial down the doomsday rhetoric a form of “political meddling,” even though the American people selected Trump, who ran on a platform of unleashing all forms of energy production, including fossil fuels. The organization Protect the Public’s Trust has compiled a list of at least a dozen breaches of scientific integrity under the Biden administration. Although Biden issued a Scientific Integrity Memorandum early in office, claiming that “[s]cientific findings should never be distorted or influenced by political considerations,” his Office of Science and Technology Policy “formally recognized” “indigenous knowledge” as “one of the many important bodies of knowledge that contributes to the scientific, technical, social, and economic advancements of the United States.” Federal agencies “do not need to judge, validate, or evaluate Indigenous Knowledge using other forms of knowledge in order to include Indigenous Knowledge in Federal policy, research, or decision making,” Biden’s science office said. 3. Retrenchment Of course, many bureaucrats will simply refuse to leave. While some federal bureaucrats are already looking for other work, many are feverishly working to protect their jobs ahead of the Trump purge, The Washington Post reported. Bureaucrats have started scrubbing social media and even changing their job titles in an effort to preserve their woke functions in the coming new Trump administration. Some agencies are reclassifying jobs with “titles that could clash with Trump’s agenda, especially those promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, boosting environmental justice and fighting the effects of climate change,” the Post reports. In other words, the Environmental Protection Agency is working to reclassify the climate activist and purveyor of critical race theory (the notion that America is systemically racist against black people) who got hired to further “environmental justice,” to hide the real reason he has a job. This will prevent the Trump administration from identifying woke activists and rooting them out, thus enabling these activists to undermine Trump’s agenda from within. Given how vociferously the deep state fought the first Trump administration, leaking to the press and helping to launch the Trump-Russia probe and the first impeachment, Trump’s second administration must take the threats of entrenched bureaucrats quite seriously. I humbly suggest that my book, “The Woketopus,” is a good place to start. It lays out many of the woke nonprofits that staff and advise the administrative state, bankrolled by the likes of Alex Soros and his Open Society Foundations. This vast network should serve as a tool in identifying the worst offenders who seek to turn the federal government into a tool for the woke agenda. The post What’s Next for the Woke Bureaucrats in the Administrative State? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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