EXTENDED VERSION: The Chairman and I felt the need for speed with TOPGUN at Naval Air Station Fallon. Incredible Americans! pic.twitter.com/i6O1tjnRyW
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 22, 2025
EXTENDED VERSION: The Chairman and I felt the need for speed with TOPGUN at Naval Air Station Fallon. Incredible Americans! pic.twitter.com/i6O1tjnRyW
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 22, 2025
Here’s a very insightful video. More & more people are starting to notice.
How the shutdown enabled the Trump administration’s mass firing spree;
The White House is using the government shutdown as an opportunity to fire thousands of people — furthering the aims of Elon Musk’s DOGE effort earlier this year.
Why it matters: This time the stated focus isn’t efficiency or eliminating fraud. It’s all about shrinking the federal government — and doing away with programs that run counter to the administration’s ideologies.
The big picture: This is the first time an administration has used a shutdown to terminate federal workers.
The firings appear to be in line with the overall goal of bringing the federal government under the president’s control and shrinking its size, as OMB Director Russell Vought laid out in Project 2025.
…for all the Whitetail on Southern BLVD, located directly across the street from Palm Beach International Airport, in the median of a major highway… directly facing the Air Force One stairs (200yds).
I can’t share the details on how @michaelgwaltz & @SecRubio have, in just a few days, organized the greatest opposition to UN policy since the Cold War and blocked this UN Carbon Tax.
I can say it was a knife fight to the end.
“I’ve been in this industry for 30 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” one shipping executive told me today. “You just don’t say NO to these guys. It’s unheard of.”
It’s unclear who “these guys” are, but I suspect the European families with shipping investments and net wealth that far exceeds Elon’s.
Absolutely none of the maritime experts I interviewed early this week thought the US could pull this off. Zero. Massive amounts of money, NGO influence, diplomatic threat and media manipulation were behind this… and the American media (except @gCaptain and Fox News) was dead silent.
And yet Trump did it.
“That Trump Truth Social post sent shockwaves through the building,” one UN delegate in London told me. “NOBODY expected it. The Secretary General @IMOSecGen looked like a deer in the headlights this morning.”
Incredible. Simply incredible work by team Trump and a massive blow to the European deep state who planned to use this tax as a slush fund to plug holes in US Aid funding for globalist NGOs.
Promises made. Promises kept!
Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign to Derail Global Shipping Emissions Tax
KASH PATEL: “For the first time, Antifa-aligned anarchist extremists have been hit with federal terrorism charges after a July 4th attack on an ICE facility in Texas.”
Trump Rule Sidelines 6,000 Truckers Over English Tests
The Trump administration’s enforcement of a strict English-proficiency requirement for commercial truck drivers forced about 6,000 drivers off the road this year amid rising tensions with state governments over compliance, The Washington Post reported.
Under a May 2025 policy issued by Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy, roadside inspections must now begin in English, and drivers suspected of lacking language proficiency may face a two-step evaluation. Failure results not just in a citation but immediate out-of-service designation.
BREAKING: The U.S. posted a massive $198 BILLION surplus in September — the largest September surplus on record, according to Scott Bessent.
“September’s monthly surplus of $198 billion was the largest surplus of any September on record and 147% higher than last year.”
— Jack (@jackunheard) October 17, 2025
Dear Jon:
Hi, my name is Cynical Publius. While you may know me from X, I am also a sometimes-published commentator on matters of importance. In fact, you may recall my work in The Federalist during the 2024 election revealing Tim Walz' military cowardice. I'm pretty proud of… https://t.co/QkEwU693uf
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 16, 2025
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 14, 2025
While historic changes are occurring in the Middle East, the petty grudges of ignorant Canadians are still ongoing and some are noticing:
Canadian officials went so far as to ban American spirits from their store shelves, a prohibition that still exists in many provinces today.
“This was all about some ugliness that we’re not part of,” Moore said. “We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims.”
Canadian visitors by land to the United States have plunged 31% so far this year through the end of September, according to the most recent data from Statistics Canada. Air travel by Canadians is down by 13%.
“The tough thing for us is, it’s nothing we’ve done. We’ve worked hard to grow our business and lure folks who want to come across the border,” Dame said. “Canadians just aren’t happy. It’s not economic policy. It’s these hurtful things said about their country.”
SDA regular commenter, David Murrell, shared an interesting tip about what American auto workers are saying about General Motors moving production from Oshawa to Indiana:
Rich LeTourneau is blunt as he sets down his beer on the union hall bar, located just a stone’s throw away from the General Motors plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. where he’s put in 38 years.
I respect Canadian unions, I respect the Mexican union. We didn’t raise our hand and say … ‘I’ll take what you guys got.’ That decision was made way above our head, he told CBC News.
But when the company comes to me to increase volume, I’m not gonna tell them no, either, because it’s job security for my people, and hell, if I can corner the market, I will.
LeTourneau is the bargaining chairman at United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2209, which represents GM workers in Fort Wayne. This is where GM is adding 250 temporary jobs to build Chevrolet Silverados — work that has also been happening in Oshawa, Ont. but is being scaled back.
Today, Mark Carney met Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Here are some snippets:
Could someone please do a wellness check of Andrew Coyne. After seeing Carney’s glowing praise for Trump, did Coyne’s head spontaneously explode?!?
Democrats are now chugging bottles of Tylenol on TikTok.
— Calley Means (@calleymeans) September 22, 2025
The press is mocking RFK Jr. and President Trump for linking Tylenol to autism.
But universities like Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Mount Sinai — none of them aligned with Trump or RFK — have published research showing the risks.
Science shouldn’t be political.
A thread on autism studies that link prenatal exposure to acetaminophen to increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders.
May 23, 2024: Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy insists immigrants make US neighborhoods safer: ‘It is the truth’
So far, there is absolutely no word from Chris Murphy about this illegal immigrant rapist let loose in his state.
Well timed. @GLENNBECK & RYAN MAURO REVEAL INVESTIGATION INTO SOROS NETWORK on Charlie Kirk Show
JUST IN: Trump takes down ANOTHER drug trafficking boat containing three cartel members
This is exactly what I voted for pic.twitter.com/EhfbAMm8mt
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 15, 2025