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The temple – called Palaspata – connected multiple trade routes and was an economic and ceremonial hub.

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Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film CorporationWhen the first astronauts land on Mars, they will need lots of water to drink, grow food, and create oxygen for breathing and rocket fuel. Scientists think they have found a place on Mars with plenty of water. Scientists have analyzed images of the surface of Mars taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. They were most attracted by the wide volcanic plain stretching between the equator and the poles of the Red Planet called the Amazonian plain. Scientists have come to the conclusion that it is in this place that water ice is located not deep under the surface and the first settlers on Mars will be able to extract water from it. The study was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, writes Earth. In images of the Amazon plain on Mars, scientists have found characteristic surface features that on Earth are often created by subsurface ice. This region on Mars resembles the permafrost zone in Alaska and Siberia. (Picture for illustration purposes only. Credit: NASA) Scientists have concluded that there is water ice under the surface of the Amazon plain at a depth of less than one meter. This means that people who find themselves on Mars will be able to easily extract it to obtain water from it. Astronauts will be able to use this water for drinking, growing food, and also to obtain oxygen for breathing and creating rocket fuel. Delivering tens of tons of water from Earth to Mars is a very expensive process. Moreover, people will have to wait several months before this water arrives on the Red Planet. Therefore, scientists insist that water should be mined on Mars. Even a small expedition of four astronauts could require more than 20 tons of water for a 500-day stay on Mars. Delivering this water would require additional launch vehicles and astronomical budgets. It is known that there is a huge amount of water ice near the poles on Mars. But it is very cold there and there is little sunlight needed to power future bases. Closer to the equator, the temperature is higher and there is more sunlight. That is, the Amazon plain is well suited for building the first bases on Mars. Scientists say it is an ideal place for humans to stay on Mars for a long time, with water ice found just below the surface. Water ice is interesting not only for its water supply, but it may also preserve signs of ancient or even modern life on Mars, scientists say. On Earth, ice can preserve biomarkers of past life and may also contain populations of microorganisms. So the same could be true on Mars. Before humans can set foot on the Red Planet, scientists say, rovers or landers need to be sent to the Amazon plain to confirm the presence of water ice beneath the surface. It is not yet known exactly when the first astronauts will land on Mars. It could be in the next decade, or it could be in 20 years. But thanks to this research, we now know what may be the ideal place for future settlers to live on Mars. The post Scientists have found the ideal place on Mars where people can live appeared first on Anomalien.com.

The New York Post last week chided President Trump for not “getting it right” on deportations. But its real target wasn’t Trump. It was Stephen Miller, the president’s longtime immigration adviser and current White House deputy chief of staff. The Post’s editorial board warned that Miller’s plan to apprehend 3,000 illegal aliens per day is “asking for trouble.”The Post argued the number is unrealistic. Even if Immigration and Customs Enforcement focuses on “the worst of the worst,” the roundup will still trigger media-fueled hysteria and nationwide riots. Mass arrests, it claimed, carry the “highest risk public-opinion-wise.”If we concede to street violence, we let the enemy set the terms. That’s not leadership. That’s surrender.The Post envisioned a wave of anti-ICE demonstrations, media pearl-clutching, and chaos. It feared ICE would be stretched too thin trying to hit its daily targets. Worse still, agents might apprehend illegal immigrants who entered before Biden — or even before Obama — and have “put down some roots.” That, we’re told, would create “economic problems,” particularly for agriculture.The solution? The Post recommended a “scalpel, not a hammer.” Encourage illegal immigrants to self-deport. Offer incentives. Go soft. Supposedly, a million have already left on their own. And if Trump continues gently urging them out, the paper claims, many more will go peacefully.The problem? We don’t even know if that number is real. The Department of Homeland Security doesn’t systematically track self-deportations. It’s possible some of the exits happened during the Trump years or even before. Regardless, they’ve hardly made a dent in the 11 million people Homeland Security says are here illegally.But more troubling than the questionable data is the message Trump would send if he adopted the Post’s approach: that he’s willing to pull back on deportations — not because it’s the right policy, but because it might provoke the left. It would mean ICE can’t arrest even violent felons if it risks upsetting the street mobs funded by Democrats. And because the left treats all illegal immigrants as future voters, that would effectively shut down enforcement altogether.As a historian, I’ll offer a provocative but fitting comparison: Today’s leftist thugs resemble the Nazi brownshirts of the Weimar era. Back then, many thought the nationalists could harness the street violence for political gain. They were wrong. The brownshirts brought chaos, not order. I see nothing morally or politically superior about the rioters in Los Angeles. They may call themselves anti-fascists. But their behavior — and their impact — is the same.RELATED: Police union calls on Cudahy vice mayor to resign over video taunting violent street gangs to defend LA from ICE agents Photo by MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty ImagesThose who excuse or encourage this violence, or who blame the government for trying to remove violent criminals, don’t care about law and order. They don’t care about stopping murderers, rapists, or cartel operatives. They care about power.If some illegal immigrants have lived here for years and become productive members of society, the government can evaluate those cases once the criminals are gone. Prioritizing felons doesn’t mean abandoning discretion. But it does mean enforcing the law — despite the noise.Trump’s crackdown will also encourage more self-deportation. If illegal immigrants know there’s a new sheriff in town, they’ll think twice about staying. As for the rioters and their wealthy enablers? Perhaps, we could find a way to help them self-deport to Antarctica. At a minimum, they deserve the same accommodations the left gave to January 6 protesters.Even if Miller’s 3,000-a-day goal can’t be fully met, the effort matters. Laura Ingraham is right: We won’t deport all of the Democrats’ future voters. But that’s no reason not to try. The street violence and intimidation are designed to cow Republicans into submission. They’re a threat — not just to policy but to republican government itself.If we concede to street violence, we let the enemy set the terms. That’s not leadership. That’s surrender.No more accommodation. Crush the coup.

The Supreme Court upheld South Carolina's decision to bar Planned Parenthood from accessing federal Medicaid funding for non-abortion-related services on Thursday.The court voted 6-3 with Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting.The decision allows other states to implement similar policies that would prevent reimbursements for services not related to abortions, such as screenings or acquiring contraceptives.As NPR reported, federal law has prohibited using federal Medicaid for abortion services for decades, except in the cases of rape, incest, and life-threatening complications.As reported by Detroit News, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) had said that no taxpayer money should go to Planned Parenthood, with the new budget bill, coined the "big, beautiful bill" by President Donald Trump, looking to cut federal Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood altogether.RELATED: Republicans to watch when Trump’s $9.4 billion cut comes to the Senate — (@) Planned Parenthood said that this would have "catastrophic consequences" on it since one-third of its revenue is funded by the government, according to an X post from law professor Jonathan Turley.Detroit News noted that this could result in closing about 200 locations for the abortion provider, most in states where abortions are legal.This is a developing story.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Republican lawmakers are becoming increasingly frustrated with the Senate as the parliamentarian continues to hack away at key provisions in President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill."The latest ruling from the Senate parliamentarian has sent Republicans into a tailspin. It struck several Medicaid-related reforms that many conservatives fought for. Some of these provisions include limiting federal funds to states that allow illegal aliens to receive Medicaid benefits, prohibiting federal funds for "gender-affirming care," and preventing non-expansion states from increasing their current provider tax rates. 'The Senate should know better than to send a bill with this waste of taxpayer money back to the House.'RELATED: Republican support wanes as Senate overhauls key provisions in 'big, beautiful bill' Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images"How is it that an unelected swamp bureaucrat, who was appointed by Harry Reid over a decade ago, gets to decide what can and cannot go in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill? The Senate Parliamentarian is not elected," Republican Rep. Greg Steube of Florida said in a post on X. "She is not accountable to the American people. Yet she holds veto power over legislation supported by millions of voters.""We are trying to undo the America LAST insanity from the Democrats by kicking illegals off of Medicare and Medicaid and stopping taxpayer subsidies from being used for genital mutilation of children!!" Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said in a post on X. Although the parliamentarian is able to issue advisory rulings over which provisions are in violation of the Byrd Rule, they can be overruled, which is what Republican Rep. Keith Self of Texas is calling for. "The rogue Senate Parliamentarian should be overruled, just like activist judges."RELATED: Republican senator makes a stunning admission: 'I can't be somebody that I'm not' Photo by Michael B. Thomas/Getty ImagesIt's not just the Medicaid provisions that have sparked outrage amongs Republican lawmakers. The Senate has hardly rolled back Biden-era green-energy subsidies that were implemented through the Inflation Reduction Act. Many Republicans in the House made it clear that aggressive cuts were nonnegotiable, yet the Senate is extending certain solar and wind subsidies through at least 2030 and in some cases through 2040."The American people are sick and tired of their tax dollars funding Chinese solar panels and inefficient wind turbines that are destroying our land," Republican Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois told Blaze News. "President Trump made it clear he wants no Green New Scam tax credits in the big, beautiful bill. The Senate must follow the House's lead and get it done — this is our opportunity to protect our farmland, our food supply, and our energy independence."RELATED: SALT Republicans left seething after Senate makes major changes to the 'big, beautiful bill' Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images“Congress has a chance to end the left’s Green New Scam for good, but if Senate Republicans swap the House’s firm ‘placed in service’ deadline for the vague ‘construction begins’ standard, we will fail to deliver on President Trump’s promise," Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin told Blaze News. "This loophole would let wind and solar subsidies drag on for years — long after Trump’s second term — destroying American farmland and threatening our power grid." "Americans didn’t elect Republicans to rubber-stamp Joe Biden’s radical Green New Deal scam," Self said in a post on X. "The Senate’s watered-down 'Big Beautiful Bill' wastes billions on climate schemes."Republicans maintained that if the Senate punts this "watered-down" bill back to the House, they will likely not have the votes to pass the bill before the July 4 deadline. "Biden's Green New Scam offers massive, unchecked subsidies to billion-dollar corporations and Chinese manufacturers, undermining American energy independence and economic freedom," Republican Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina told Blaze News. "Yet the Senate is reportedly gutting our hard-fought House measures to stop these tax giveaways. President Trump wants them gone, and so do I. The Senate should know better than to send a bill with this waste of taxpayer money back to the House.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The way suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle sees it, he has lived through 1,004 betrayals — and counting.O’Boyle was rewarded for his whistleblower disclosures to Congress with a loss of pay and benefits, attempted character assassination, and what he said is a malicious FBI effort to destroy him and his family.‘I thought he was going to do the right thing.’“If the FBI is trying to make you do something that is wrong or illegal or against policy or against rule, you’re supposed to be able to push back and be protected for doing so,” O’Boyle told Blaze News. “But then look what happens. You get suspended for a thousand days with no paycheck.”What hurts as much as, if not more than, what was dished out by the Christopher Wray-led FBI is knowing the new FBI director, his friend Kash Patel, seems to have done nothing to repair the breach or bring justice to the case.O’Boyle was suspended in September 2022 based on a provably false allegation that he leaked materials to Project Veritas.O’Boyle well remembers that Patel and his foundation helped him financially in December 2022 so that the O’Boyle children could have a nice Christmas.He recalls with clarity how Patel promised to fix the unjust suspension after he was nominated as FBI director in November 2024. O’Boyle said he was told he would be brought back to the FBI, have his security clearance restored, and be provided more than 140 weeks of back pay.RELATED: Kash Patel's surprising appointment of a top J6 inquisitor to head DC FBI office Suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle says he trusted that new FBI Director Kash Patel would end his prolonged whistleblower nightmare.Photo by Chris Duzynski for Blaze NewsAs recently as March 2025, O’Boyle said, he was in communication with Patel, who had been relying on several FBI whistleblowers for advice and feedback as he got himself established as the ninth director of the FBI.But now the silence from the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., is deafening.No solution. No decisions. No communication. And most recently, word through a third party from Patel: There would be no job restoration for O’Boyle. “Initially we were still corresponding,” O’Boyle said in an interview. “I even had a few people who would send me information that they thought he should know, and I passed some of that on to him. The bit of communication I [last] got was just a thumbs-up emoji.”As O’Boyle’s suspension flew past the 1,000-day mark on June 22, it appears that thumbs-up emoji might as well feature a different finger.“I thought he was going to do the right thing,” O’Boyle said. “I've known him for almost three years now, and he told me — he told all of us — that he was going to bring us back. Now it’s the end of June. The last I heard was that that’s not going to be happening.”‘There’s something in your file that is preventing him from bringing you back.’O’Boyle said he has heard that Patel and podcaster turned Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino have been stung by sharp criticism of them on social media. They have been blasted for allegedly not doing enough to clean house of agents who took part in the weaponized abuses of the Jan. 6 investigation.Patel once famously said if he were ever FBI director, on day one he would shut down the Hoover Building and turn it into a deep state museum.O’Boyle said he has been restrained on social media when it comes to Patel and Bongino. He teams up with former Agent Steve Friend on a thrice-weekly show, “The American Radicals Podcast.” He is a founding member of “The Suspendables,” a tight-knit group of former whistleblowers.‘Just trust me, bro’Others have taken a more in-your-face approach, including former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin in his daily podcast, “The Kyle Seraphin Show.” Seraphin doesn’t hold his fire when criticizing the FBI. He mockingly refers to the two top leaders as “Dash Pongino.” He has ridiculed their reason for delays in reforming the FBI and says their attitude is one of, “Just trust me, bro.”O’Boyle said it’s ironic that of the suspended FBI employees who testified before Congress in May 2023, one, Marcus Allen, was given his job back by the Biden administration. Now, with Donald J. Trump in the White House and an ostensible friendly running the FBI, it appears there is no plan to make O’Boyle and his family whole.“You can argue the point that Joe Biden and Christopher Wray did more for FBI whistleblowers than Donald Trump and Kash Patel,” O’Boyle said.O’Boyle’s whistleblower disclosures were a litany of alleged FBI wrongdoing, including COVID testing requirements and vaccine policies with no basic exemptions for religious objections. He said the FBI was targeting employees who refused to take the experimental, gene-modifying COVID shots. In all, O’Boyle reported 19 disclosures alleging that the FBI’s COVID policies violated the law.In May 2022, O’Boyle disclosed that the FBI was using the public leak of the Supreme Court decision in the landmark abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization as a pretext to target pro-life individuals, who were tagged as potential risks for abortion-clinic bombings.O’Boyle said an official who has spoken to Patel told him he will not get his job back. Word has leaked out of the FBI that there are suddenly “character issues,” not just with O’Boyle but with former special agents like Steve Friend, who was driven out of the FBI for making whistleblower disclosures about Jan. 6 and other issues.RELATED: Faith continues to drive long-suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle as he waits for justice Suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle tells the House Judiciary Committee on May 18, 2023: “The FBI will crush you. This government will crush you and your family.”Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images“There’s something in your file that is preventing him from bringing you back,” O’Boyle said he was told.If that’s true, O’Boyle said, that “something” must have been added to his personnel file recently. O’Boyle said earlier this year that he obtained the full contents of his FBI file as part of his appeal. Nothing was flagged as a “character issue,” nor was that term used by the FBI in falsely accusing him of leaking to the media, he said.“There weren’t any character issues when we got hired,” he said. “There were no character issues when I was getting awards for cases I was working on or the highest annual rating an employee can get. Or when getting selected for specialty units like a SWAT team or the surveillance unit I was headed to.“Suddenly, once Kash Patel and Dan Bongino get there, there are character issues,” O’Boyle said. “That doesn’t make sense or add up. It tells me that either Kash or Dan or both have decided for whatever reason to not make things right.”‘You’re accusing me of leaking those to the media, which I didn’t do.’Back in summer 2022, O’Boyle was looking forward to moving his family from Kansas to Virginia to take a new FBI job on a special surveillance team. He and his wife, Heidi, had found their dream house, sold their old home, and were packed up and ready to go.When O’Boyle showed up for the new job in Manassas, Va., instead of taking part in a new-job orientation, he had his badge, credentials, and service weapon taken. Two agents asked him about Project Veritas and a May 2022 broadcast featuring James O’Keefe interviewing an FBI agent hidden in shadow with his voice disguised. It wasn’t O’Boyle who did the Veritas interview but rather Kyle Seraphin.“I just was basically telling them, ‘Look, I was whistleblowing to Congress about these things.’ And they’re like, ‘Well, that’s separate.’ And I’m like, ‘Pretty sure it’s not, because you’re accusing me of leaking things that I took to Congress. You’re accusing me of leaking those to the media, which I didn’t do.’”Within an hour of showing up for his new job, O’Boyle was back out in the parking lot. His security clearance was suspended — and so was he.RELATED: Going rogue? FBI agent gathered information from private citizens questioning Rep. Cory Mills’ record Kash Patel, director of the FBI, attends the funeral of former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik at St. Patrick's Cathedral on June 6, 2025, in New York City.Photo by NDZ/Star Max/GC ImagesO’Boyle has since learned that the FBI knew it wasn’t him on the Project Veritas video. Yet officials allowed him to get far into a move halfway across the country, only to suspend him. Worse yet, according to whistleblower disclosures given to Empower Oversight, it was done on purpose.Thus began an open-ended suspension without pay. The family’s belongings were in storage in Virginia. The FBI initially would not allow O’Boyle to access them, he said. Then the bureau stuck him with the $30,000 cost of the move to Virginia. The mortgage loan on the new house was canceled. Before long, the O’Boyle family members were back in their home state of Wisconsin, living in an RV.During the 1,004 days since the suspension began, O’Boyle was not allowed to look for work even though he had no income. The family’s FBI-paid health insurance was canceled. A short time after that, Heidi had a miscarriage. The O’Boyles said they believe the stress from being persecuted by the FBI was a factor in losing their fifth child.Unbeknownst to the O’Boyles at the time, the FBI had gotten a grand jury subpoena for Heidi’s iPhone. That gave the bureau access to texts, photos, and call logs. For what? They never found out.If all of this were not bad enough, O’Boyle later learned that he was targeted by his own government for this treatment. On purpose.The head of the West Coast office that reviews security clearances “bragged to at least one other FBI employee that he was going to really ‘screw’ O’Boyle,” according to an FBI whistleblower disclosure made to Empower Oversight. O’Boyle said he has it “on strong authority” that clearance review agent actually said, “We’re going to f**k the motherf**ker.”“They didn’t do it because they thought it would hurt me,” O’Boyle said. “They did it because they knew it would. That was their intent.”Congress does littleAlthough O’Boyle testified before a subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary in 2023, nothing ever came of it. Aside from a letter or two, no lawmaker intervened to help. And for all of the difficult days since, O’Boyle has been left to twist in the wind.Empower Oversight investigated O’Boyle’s suspension and prepared a detailed 22-page letter refuting every point made by the FBI to suspend and later revoke O’Boyle’s security clearance. That document was sent to the FBI in March 2025. Nothing has happened since.The chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), pressed Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi for action on the whistleblower cases.“The Biden administration’s political weaponization of the Justice Department and FBI has caused significant damage to these institutions and its employees, but you’re in the position to right the ship,” Grassley wrote in a March 2025 letter to Bondi and Patel.It all has been enough to make O’Boyle question whether he should ever have spoken up and made whistleblower disclosures to Congress.‘Is there going to be an end?’“For the longest time, I used to say I did the right thing,” he said. “I still think I did the right thing. But to have no conclusion at this point, no restoration of anything: position, back pay, health care, you name it.”O’Boyle said he initially heard that even with Patel in charge at the FBI, his case would take some time.“He [Patel] did say that it’s going to take a couple months or it’s going to take a few months,” O’Boyle said. “And I suppose looking back on that, I should have known then that it wasn’t going to happen.“It really shouldn’t take a couple months. Why would it? Anybody who is familiar with the intimate details of my case, they know that the FBI did this intentionally.”RELATED: Blaze News original: FBI agents: True servants of justice — or bullies 'just following orders'? Former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend and suspended Special Agent Garret O’Boyle host “The American Radicals Podcast.”Screenshot/Rumble via Garret O’BoyleO’Boyle questioned why the FBI doesn’t just fire him.“I’m still technically an employee, so fire me then,” O’Boyle said. “If you’re not going to reinstate me, then the only other option is for you to fire me. So why hasn’t that happened either? I don’t know what they’re waiting for. I don’t know what they’re trying to determine.”O’Boyle does not believe he can get a similar job in law enforcement because of the beating his reputation has taken at the hands of the FBI. He recently interviewed for a police officer position at a smaller department. He was honest about his situation and explained the FBI suspension and whistleblower disclosures.“They called me back a couple days later, and they led with — and I recorded it; I have the call recorded — they led with, ‘Hey Garret, it’s got nothing to do with what you got going on with the FBI, but we’re going to be moving in a different direction.’“I’m a whistleblower, so no city or state or federal entity is going to hire me again.”Garret and Heidi O’Boyle have leaned heavily on their faith to get through the 1,004 days.“As the months have ticked by, it’s like, what do we do? Lean into our faith and trust in that,” he said. “But even that has become a monumental task because we just are like, ‘Hey, Lord, when is this going to end? Is there going to be an end?’“We just feel like we’ve been forgotten. We don’t know what to do,” he said. “We don’t know how to take care of our family. And we’re crying out, ‘Lord, when is enough enough?’”Blaze News reached out to the FBI for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers "breached his constitutional boundaries" when he partially vetoed and modified substantive portions of a bill in a literacy package last year.Evers clearly did not appreciate being put in his place.In the wake of the ruling, Evers claimed that the majority-liberal court's decision was "unconscionable."Republicans, meanwhile, celebrated the ruling, in one instance throwing leftists' NoKings hashtag back at them.State Sen. Julian Bradley (R) noted that the governor's "ridiculous and unlawful veto that held up money to teach kids to read has been UNANIMOUSLY ruled unconstitutional," adding that "even the far left-wing justices couldn't find a way to justify @GovEvers' actions. #NoKings."ShotWisconsin's Republican-led legislature sued Evers in April 2024 over his partial veto of a bill intended to help fund literacy programs in the Badger State.RELATED: Democrat governor brutally mocked on social media for posting video of himself trying to throw a football Daniel Steinle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSenate Bill 971 empowered the GOP-controlled state Joint Committee on Finance to direct $50 million set aside in the biennial budget to specific Department of Public Instruction programs created after the budget bill passed, including the literacy coaching program, the DPI's Office of Literacy, and grants for early literacy curriculum.While Evers approved SB 971, he improperly exercised partial-veto power to strike certain sections of the legislation in part and others in full that he claimed overly complicated "the allocation of funding related to literacy programs in Wisconsin by creating multiple appropriations for what could be accomplished with one."'Wisconsin families are the real winners here.'The Democratic governor suggested further that his actions would ensure greater flexibility in meeting the "investment needs for coaches, grants, and professional development alike."While Evers may partially veto an appropriation bill under Article V, Section 10(1)(b) of the Wisconsin Constitution, this was not an appropriations bill.The Republican legislators' complaint noted that if the governor mistakenly believed SB 971 was an appropriations bill, "he should have requested the legislature recall the bill in order to pass both houses of the legislature with the proper vote." After all, any bill that appropriates funds must pass both chambers with a roll-call vote — something that had not taken place in this case.The complaint noted further that the unconstitutional partial veto of SB 971 left the legislature in a dilemma: While the JCF wanted to fund the appropriate literacy programs, "any money directed under the partially vetoed version of [SB 971] might (but should not) be treated by DPI as money that can be used by the Office of Literacy for any nondescript 'literacy program' of DPI's invention."ChaserThe Wisconsin Supreme Court sided with the Republican legislature against Evers Wednesday and torpedoed his narrative concerning the JCF, which he suggested had been wrong to withhold funds.The court noted that the Wisconsin Constitution "does not authorize the governor to partially veto a non-appropriation bill, which the governor may veto only in its entirety.""We hold the governor breached his constitutional boundaries because the bill he partially vetoed was not an appropriation bill," said the ruling. "We also hold JCF did not improperly withhold funds the legislature appropriated to JCF."RELATED: 'Inseminated person': Wisconsin Gov. Evers tries to erase mothers with gender-neutral language overhaul Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesAs a result of the court's decision, SB 971 as passed by the state legislature — without Evers' changes — is the law.The Associated Press suggested that the Wisconsin Supreme Court's ruling might also result in the legislature pushing budget and other spending bills in a similar manner to get around Evers' future partial vetoes, thereby securing greater control over spending.State Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R) and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) said in a joint statement that the ruling "is a rebuke of the Governor’s attempt to break apart a bipartisan literacy-funding bill and JCF's constitutional authority to give supplemental funding to agencies.""While the governor wanted to play politics with money earmarked for kids' reading programs, it is encouraging to see the court put an end to this game. Wisconsin families are the real winners here," they added.Evers did his best to spin his efforts and pin the holdup of funds on Republicans, writing, "I will never apologize for fighting for our kids and our schools. Not today, not ever.""Twelve lawmakers should not be able to obstruct resources that were already approved by the full legislature and the governor to help get our kids up to speed and ensure they have the skills they need to be successful," continued Evers. "It is unconscionable that the Wisconsin Supreme Court is allowing the legislature's indefinite obstruction to go unchecked."The Democratic governor urged the JCF to immediately release the $50 million before the money goes back into the state's general fund next week.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

In Episode 402 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the woods of East Granby, Connecticut, searching for the lost pirate treasure of Captain David Marteen. In the 1660s, Marteen sailed his ship up the Connecticut River, set up a small community, hid what would be over $300 million in treasure in today’s money, then vanished. Is the gold still out there? We have an idea of where to dig. BECOME A LEGENDARY PATRON: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends CREDITS: Produced and hosted by: Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger Edited by: Ray Auger Theme Music by: John Judd SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST FOR FREE: Apple Podcasts/iTunes | Spotify | Pandora | Amazon Podcasts | TuneIn | iHeartRadio JOIN OUR SUPER-SECRET: New England Legends Facebook Group