Justice Department acted within its constitutional authority to drop the prosecution of New York Mayor Eric Adams.

An article at Our World in Data recently explored trends in air quality across a selection of high and middle-income countries, and found that not only is the West breathing better air than at perhaps any point since urbanization, but that developing nations likely won’t need 100 years or more to arrive at similar outcomes. […] The post Countries Are Breathing the Cleanest Air in Centuries and Offer Lessons to the Rest of Us appeared first on Good News Network.

News Sifu Sifu: Video Game to Get Netflix Adaptation Backed by John Wick 4 Director Chad Stahelski By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on February 20, 2025 Credit: Sloclap Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Sloclap Netflix has signed on for a feature adaptation of the Sloclap video game Sifu, and it already has a writer attached. According to Deadline, T.S. Nowlin—whose previous credits include The Maze Runner films, The Adam Project, and Pacific Rim: Uprising—will pen the script. The project also has some action heavyweights behind it: It’s produced by 87Eleven, the production house of Chad Stahelski (John Wick 4), and Story Kitchen, the company behind films like Tomb Raider, Just Cause, and Streets of Rage. Sloclap released the action beat ‘em up game in February 2022, and it has since sold approximately 22 million copies. Here’s the premise of the game, per Deadline: Sifu follows the student of a martial arts school’s master (Sifu) as he seeks to avenge the murder of his mentor. The twist, however, is that thanks to a magical talisman, each time our hero dies, he’s resurrected, but the price paid is that he ages with every use. And should he become too old too fast, his death shall become permanent, and his quest unfulfilled. Given the talent behind the adaptation and the source material, the movie is likely to be action-packed with some incredible fight scenes, assuming it makes it to production.            The project is still in its very early days—Nowlin still has to write the script!—so no news yet on casting or if/when the movie will make its way to Netflix. [end-mark] The post <i>Sifu</i>: Video Game to Get Netflix Adaptation Backed by <i>John Wick 4</i> Director Chad Stahelski appeared first on Reactor.

NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND—Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, laid out a plan to combat the Left’s infrastructure in Washington as the Department of Government Efficiency exposed how taxpayer funding went to support left-wing activists and causes. “Talk about what the Oversight Committee is doing … to really root out this corruption and this infrastructure the Left has built in D.C. to really push their political agenda on the entire country,” Townhall Editor Katie Pavlich asked Comer on the main stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday. Comer pledged that his committee will follow up on the corruption that President Donald Trump and DOGE unveil. “We will follow through with investigation, with subpoena power,” he responded. “Follow the money, that’s what we did in the Biden investigation. We got the bank records.” Comer released a book in January titled “All the President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes That Made the Biden Family Rich,” exposing how former President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and other family members reaped rewards by trading off the influence of Joe Biden’s official positions. Comer warned potential investigators that “tax records don’t always tell the true picture,” but he noted that “bank records don’t lie.” “Banks usually catch when something suspicious happens,” he said, so his team focuses on bank records. He mentioned the Democrat fundraising company ActBlue, which faces accusations that it made “straw donations” in the names of elderly Democrats who did not intend to donate to cover up the actual sources of its funding. “We’re doing this now with ActBlue, and I think we’re going to have some very interesting information to come out very soon on ActBlue,” Comer teased. He also noted that the House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on March 5 with the mayors of “sanctuary cities.” “They have tried to obstruct what Tom Homan is doing and obstruct deportation efforts,” Comer noted, referring to Trump’s border czar. “Who’s been paying for this? I believe you’re going to see there are a lot of government pots of money that have been funneling through these [nongovernmental organizations].” Indeed, many nonprofits have received federal funds to move illegal aliens across the U.S., and they are now filing lawsuits to block Trump’s order defunding them. “That’s what we want to identify,” he noted. “[Elon] Musk is all over that, DOGE is all over that, and Congress is going to be all over that. Hopefully, we can show the American people how abusive the Democrats and their allies in the deep state bureaucracies have been with their tax dollars.” ?FOLLOW THE MONEY?@RepJamesComer, head of the @GOPoversight, lays out a plan to combat the Left's infrastructure as @DOGE reveals how USAID and others have funneled money to leftist groups and their allies.Comer has his sights set on ActBlue and the committee is calling… pic.twitter.com/cpBwTj3zLx— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) February 20, 2025 Alina Habba, Trump’s lawyer in the White House who previously served as a legal spokeswoman for Trump, also spoke about the Left’s “lawfare” (legal warfare) at the conference. She remarked that Trump won the election in November in part as backlash to the multiple Democrat prosecutors filing charges against him. And when Trump got into office for his second term and the new administration started fulfilling its campaign promises, the Democrats and their allies started filing lawsuits yet again. Many of the same groups filing lawsuits against Trump had access in the Biden White House, as my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” exposes. Some of the woke activist groups in the book also had ties to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which DOGE has uncovered. ?DEMS CAN'T QUIT THE LAWFAREWATCH @AlinaHabba at @CPAC note the Democrats' addiction to lawfare.Trump won the election in part as a response to the lawfare. Then, "we started doing exactly what America voted for us to do, doing all the things we promised, and then again came… pic.twitter.com/j3ZSIefDt4— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) February 20, 2025 The post FOLLOW THE MONEY: James Comer’s Plan to Fight the Left’s Infrastructure appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Senate confirmed Kash Patel to become FBI director today on a narrow vote of 51-49. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaksa joined Democrats in voting against the nomination.   President Donald Trump nominated Patel to reform the FBI, which has been the subject of several whistleblower complaints in recent years and is under scrutiny for being politicized and weaponized, including for targeting parents who spoke out at school board meetings and for plans to infiltrate traditional Catholics churches.   Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., noted that law enforcement organizations and state attorney generals have supported Patel’s nomination. Kash Patel has spent his career working in criminal law and national security.I look forward to working with him to restore the integrity of the FBI and get it focused on its critical mission. pic.twitter.com/PUBm7C09Wk— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) February 20, 2025 The final vote came after Senate Democrats managed to delay the confirmation for several weeks.  Murkowski asserted she agreed with Patel’s concerns about a weaponized FBI, but she did not believe he had the record to restore credibility. In a post on X before the vote, Murkowski said, “My reservations with Mr. Patel stem from his own prior political activities and how they may influence his leadership. The FBI must be trusted as the federal agency that roots out crime and corruption, not focused on settling political scores.” I will oppose Kash Patel’s confirmation to serve as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI’s mission is “to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States.” Mr. Patel and I agree the bureau has crept past that mission, become an…— Sen. Lisa Murkowski (@lisamurkowski) February 20, 2025 Patel has a 16-year career in law and national security, with both career and political positions at the Justice Department, the White House, and the Defense Department.  Patel will bring needed reforms to the FBI, said Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia attorney general, and former acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration.  “The FBI has been at the heart of weaponization of government,” Cuccinelli told The Daily Signal. “Putting someone in there with as much knowledge and experience as Kash Patel has is an important step forward. He’ll do a great job and will keep America protected, with a less biased FBI. There is an amazing amount to clean up there. He will never get it all cleaned up. But I think he can pick up the bureau up by the ankle and shake the change out of its pockets.” In 2023, Patel’s book, “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy,” was published and detailed his critique of federal agencies, including the Justice Department and the FBI. The book was a sticking point for many Democrat senators during the confirmation process. During the first Trump administration, Patel was chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. Before that, Patel was the deputy assistant to the president and the senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council.  While at the NSC, he helped oversee Trump policies that included eliminating the Islamic State terrorist group as well as al-Qaida leadership such as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Qasim al-Rimi. Patel also was the principal deputy to the former Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, who oversaw the operations of 17 intelligence agencies. Before going to the White House, Patel was senior counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence under then-Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and oversaw the investigation into the Russian active measures campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election.  The two and a half year investigation into whether Trump conspired with the Russian government to win the 2016 election was prompted by information fed to the FBI from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and Democrat operatives. The House panel and later special counsel Robert Mueller concluded there was no evidence that Trump conspired with Russia.  Patel also played a key role in the Nunes memo that showed the FBI relied on partisan “politically motivated or questionable sources” to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.  Before working on Capitol Hill, Patel was a terrorism prosecutor at the Justice Department. While at the Justice Department, he was also the liaison officer to the Joint Special Operations Command, conducting collaborative targeting operations against high-value terrorism targets. The post Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In his effort to purge the federal government of political corruption, President Donald Trump is firing all prosecutors hired by his predecessor. On Tuesday evening, Trump announced via Truth Social that he is dismissing U.S. attorneys appointed by former President Joe Biden. “Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before,” Trump began. He continued, “Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys. We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence.” The president added, “America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System—THAT BEGINS TODAY!” According to a report from Reuters, U.S. attorneys were informed last week that they were being dismissed. Trent Morse, Trump’s deputy director for the Office of Presidential Personnel, sent an email Thursday to Biden administration prosecutors, saying, “At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as U.S. Attorney is terminated, effective immediately.” In comments to The Washington Stand, Article III Project Founder and Trump legal ally Mike Davis explained, “President Trump had to fire every remaining Biden-era U.S. attorney to remove partisan political actors from the justice system.” He added, “For too long, the DOJ was weaponized against half of the country. That changed yesterday. Good riddance.” Already, Trump has begun staffing U.S. attorneys’ offices across the country with his own nominees. For example, Edward R. Martin, Jr. has been appointed as Trump’s U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin’s predecessor in the role, Matthew M. Graves, enacted a host of prosecutions against Jan. 6 protestors but largely refused to prosecute rising crimes in D.C. During his tenure, Graves declined to prosecute 67% of crimes in the nation’s capital, including 72% of misdemeanor crimes and 53% of felony arrests. Martin, meanwhile, served as a defense attorney for many of the Jan. 6 protestors targeted by Graves. Upon taking office, Martin fired over two dozen federal prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 cases and implemented a hiring and promotions freeze on the office. The move comes as Trump’s U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi attempts to ensure that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is prepared to act on the president’s agenda, instead of hampering him. Upon taking office, Bondi reminded all DOJ prosecutors that their responsibilities are not only “aggressively enforcing criminal laws passed by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges.” She continued, “The discretion afforded Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute their personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election.” “When Justice Department attorneys refuse to faithfully carry out their role by, for example, refusing to advance good-faith arguments or declining to sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the president of the benefit of his lawyers,” Bondi clarified. She warned that “any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination.” Bondi also announced the formation of a “Weaponization Working Group” dedicated to examining instances of the Justice Department’s weaponization against Americans, including Jan. 6 prosecutions, the weaponization of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act against pro-life Americans, the targeting of American Catholics, and the political prosecutions carried out against Trump himself. Originally published by The Washington Stand The post ‘Good Riddance’: Trump Fires ‘Biden Era’ Prosecutors appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in for a “treat” next week – his first visit to the US since the new administration took over. Even before Vice President JD Vance touched on this visit in an exclusive interview published on Wednesday by the National Pulse, it was clear from the way the Anglo-American ties are developing (or, deteriorating) on a number of key issues, that Starmer’s trip could be a tense affair. More: Keir Starmer’s Censorship Playbook But now, Vance has confirmed that the topic of free speech will also be on the table. Not something the Trump administration considers one of the UK’s strong suits at the moment – in fact, London has been repeatedly criticized, particularly for its sweeping censorship law, the Online Safety Act. The legislation has the unfortunate quality of at once managing to threaten free speech and big US tech company’s business interests. Vance recently made waves at the Munich Security Conference when he schooled stunned EU and UK elites about many issues related to democratic practices and values that they like to declaratively support, but are in reality undermining – something the VP summed up as, “the treat from within.” Vance at the time paid special attention to “our very dear friends, the United Kingdom,” citing examples of what he clearly considers to be a form of persecution of British citizens on religious and/or ideological grounds. But, will Vance and other US officials repeat these and a host of other concerns, during meetings with Starmer? “We certainly will,” he said. “This is not hard (…) We’re simply telling them to respect the values on which our civilization was founded, that you ought to debate with one another, your government should respect when the people have a dissenting viewpoint. It’s very simple, and it’s very obvious.” Revisiting the issue of “shared values” – a mostly nebulous platitude that’s become popular among liberal governments and legacy media over the last years – Vance said that freedom of the people to express their disagreement with the authorities, without fear of legal ramifications, has to be “one of the most important shared values.” During the interview, Vance also insisted that his Munich speech wasn’t designed to shift all the blame for the “censorship regime” that has developed to European governments, but pointed out that transatlantic cooperation, especially during the previous US administration, produced what he calls a common “censorship problem” – and one that President Trump now intends to tackle. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Keir Starmer’s US Visit Set for Tense Talks as VP JD Vance Criticizes UK Censorship Laws appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – an incorporated agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – earmarked $2.6 million to fund a “war on misinformation” contract in 2023, according to data on the usaspending.gov website. The blanket purchase agreement note lists “misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation analysis” as the subjects of the order, with $1.2 million spent, and as much currently listed as the obligated amount. Screenshot of a USAspending.gov contract summary detailing a completed Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Call awarded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to Guidehouse Inc., located in McLean, VA. As noticed by Foundation For Freedom Online, the recipient is the consultancy firm Guildehouse, a government contractor owned by Bain Capital. A post on the company’s website that has since been deleted spoke about Guildehouse engaging with social media platforms to report misinformation (including flagging posts for removal). Guildehouse also “maintained a proprietary internal database” to track content designated as “misinformation,” and a list of “higher risks” sites that might have published such content. The case looks like another piece in the puzzle that has been the Big Government-Big Tech collusion to suppress speech in the US, unfolding over the last four years. A chart titled “$ Award Amounts” depicting financial data. It shows $1.2 million as the outlayed amount, $1.2 million as the obligated amount, and $1.2 million as the current award amount, with a potential award amount of $2.6 million. This one features some recurring, and some new “characters” – but also, sheds more light on what appears to be the former authorities’ painstaking efforts to obfuscate the ties that bound those actors together. For example, FEMA is not one of the usual entities brought up in Congressional investigations and lawsuits delving deep into that collusion; but it is a sub-agency of the DHS, notorious for things like the failed attempt to set up the Disinformation Governance Board, and even work, in roundabout ways, with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP). In 2023, the House Committee on Homeland Security referred to the practice of “delegating” what’s unconstitutional censorship of speech to third parties as, “censorship laundering.” A group that does often crop up in these probes is the UK-based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a pro-censorship group of the “Kill Musk’s Twitter” infamy, which in 2024 organized what reports say was an “exclusive, invite-only” gala. One of those invited was Erica Mindel – a former member of the Israeli military, a contractor to the US State Department’s envoy monitoring and combating antisemitism – but also, one of Guildehouse’s senior consultants. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post FEMA Allocated $2.6M for “War on Misinformation” Contract in 2023 appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Like Homesteading? You'll also like these homesteading websites! I'm sharing the love and knowledge all around. I know you want to keep the tips and tricks coming on how to be the best homesteader there is so here's a list of other fountains of knowledge. Get more source on how to be self-sufficient and prepared with these other websites and blogs. It's always nice to share the spotlight! 21 Best Homesteading Websites and Blogs What can I say, I love reading homesteading blogs! I might write for one, but I get just as many kicks reading all the other homesteading blogs out there. Check out this list of the 23 best Homesteading blogs. But of course, Homesteading is truly #1!   1. The Prairie Homestead image via theprairiehomestead The Prairie Homestead by Jill is all about cooking from scratch, getting dirt under your fingernails and hoarding mason jars. Visit her blog here and get awesome homesteading and self-sufficiency tips!   2. 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