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A school district in the leftist enclave of Minnesota, now run by Gov. Tim Walz, the failed Democrat nominee for president in 2024 whose agenda has been to promote abortion and transgenderism, has decided to ban pastors from meetings of the local Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

A report from columnist Todd Starnes identified the school as Pequot Lakes Public Schools, which announced “non-school adults may not attend FCA meetings on a regular basis.”

The report explained the school imposed the draconian viewpoint discrimination rule after the Freedom From Religious Foundation filed a complaint and accused a local youth pastor of recruiting students at middle school FCA meetings.

“They accused the middle school of using FCA meetings as a recruiting ground for a religious mission. They further contended that the youth pastor broke the Equal Access Act,” Starnes reported.

Kyle Steinberg, a part of the FFRF team, complained, “Schools cannot constitutionally allow religious organizations to treat schools as a recruiting ground for their religious mission.”

And Annie Laurie Gaylor, another FFRF member, insisted, “A pastor or other evangelists may not be allowed unobstructed access to a captive audience of public school students. The district has made the right call to abide by the Constitution.”

Starnes, however, pointed out, “For the record there’s nothing unconstitutional about a Christian club inviting a Christian minister to speak to Christian students.”

Further, students may choose to attend FCA meetings, but are not ordered to do so.

Starnes pointed out if atheists want equal access they could start their own club.

“But let’s get serious – nobody wants to fellowship with a bunch of godless, heathen atheists,” he noted. “And everybody knows the Christians serve better snacks.”

Feb. 18, 2025: 10:00 a.m.:

Pardoned J6er, Barry Ramey Gets Standing Ovation

PARDONED J6er, Barry Ramey Gets Standing Ovation, Speaks to Americans on Primaries While Facing New Health Expenses and Leering Debt – Help this Hero Rebuild What He’s Lost

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Acting Social Security Commissioner Michelle King, who was appointed last month, has been forced out after attempting to stonewall an investigation into massive fraud within the agency—an investigation spearheaded by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

King’s abrupt departure comes after Musk’s team requested access to critical data that could expose widespread abuse and fraudulent claims draining the Social Security fund.

Far-left Washington Post reported:

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over their attempts to access sensitive government records, three people familiar with her departure said Monday.

Michelle King, who spent several decades at the agency before being named its acting commissioner last month, has now left her position after the disagreement, the people said.

President Donald Trump appointed Leland Dudek, a manager in charge of Social Security’s anti-fraud office, as acting commissioner while Frank Bisignano, the president’s nominee for permanent commissioner, is vetted by the Senate, according to three individuals who spoke on the condition anonymity to speak candidly. A public announcement is expected this week. Dudek had posted positive remarks on social media about DOGE’s efforts to cut costs and search for fraud in federal agencies, according to two of the individuals.

The White House declined to comment on the developments. However, White House officials have said that Musk’s associates are being properly vetted and have the proper security clearances before they are appointed to official roles in the agencies they are helping scrutinize. Administration officials have also been skeptical of career employees’ efforts to guard federal data, which they have maintained political appointees should also be able to access, particularly if necessary to root out wasteful or erroneous spending.

Since President Trump’s return to power, his administration has made it clear that government waste and fraud will no longer be tolerated. Social Security alone accounts for nearly $1.5 trillion in annual spending, and conservatives have long pointed to rampant misuse of disability and retirement benefits that Democrats have refused to address.

Musk’s DOGE initiative has already uncovered shocking levels of fraud and corruption across multiple federal agencies, with insiders warning that Social Security is one of the worst offenders.

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller has sounded the alarm on a massive foreign fraud operation that has siphoned off billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded benefits using fake IDs and fake Social Security numbers.

“There’s a massive amount of fraud in this country. You have, for example, foreign fraud rings,” Miller wrote.

“These are foreign nationals who come into the United States, they use fake social security numbers, they use fake identities to steal billions in taxpayer benefits.

“There’s no way to know until DOGE gains full access exactly how much money we’re talking about. But over a ten-year normal budget window, you could be talking about saving over a trillion dollars by clamping down on massive fraud in our tax and entitlement systems, including, again, those carried out by organized fraud and theft rings.”

Read more:

Stephen Miller Exposes Foreign Fraud Rings: Foreign Nationals Use Fake SSNs to Steal Billions in Taxpayer Benefits Through IRS — Full Scope Unknown Until DOGE Accesses Records

The Gateway Pundit also reported earlier that Elon Musk’s DOGE team has unearthed jaw-dropping irregularities from the U.S. Social Security database.

The numbers are truly mind-boggling: over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself.

This information released by Musk aligns with the audit conducted by the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General (SSA OIG) in 2015.

According to the report, “In response to our 2015 report, SSA considered multiple options, including adding presumed death information to these Numident records. SSA ultimately decided not to proceed because the “. . . options would be costly to implement, would be of little benefit to the agency, would largely duplicate information already available to data exchange consumers and would create cost for the states and other data exchange partners.”

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Former presidents who make big bucks with speaking fees, media deals or memoirs could find their taxpayer-funded benefits pared back if legislation introduced Monday by Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa becomes law.

The legislation, titled the “Presidential Allowance Modernization Act,” would provide former presidents with a pension of $200,000 a year and a $200,000 allowance per year with cost of living adjustments every year, but the bill would reduce the allowance if the former president earned more than $400,000 a year. Ernst told the Daily Caller News Foundation that with former presidents making massive amounts of money after their presidencies, taxpayers shouldn’t be footing their bills.

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have entered into a multi-year agreement to produce films and series for Netflix, potentially including scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries, and features.

— Netflix (@netflix) May 21, 2018

“From speaking gigs to Netflix deals and much more, former presidents have been raking in the dough,” Ernst told the DCNF. “Americans should not be on the hook to support those who clearly are having no issues supporting themselves. This commonsense bill flips Washington on its head by finally prioritizing taxpayers over politicians.”

Ernst’s legislation would also increase the pension for surviving spouses of former presidents to $100,000 a year from $20,000 a year.

Under current law, former presidents receives a pension equivalent to the salary of a Cabinet secretary, along with an office allowance of $115,000 a year to pay staff for the first two and a half years, before it drops to $96,000 a year.

Ernst cited significant speaking fees provided to former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as one justification for the legislation. The Obamas also reached a deal with Netflix to produce content, while also signing a $65 million book deal with Penguin Random House.

A previous version of the legislation introduced by Ernst passed the House and Senate in 2016, but Obama vetoed it on July 22, 2016.

“It would impose onerous and unreasonable burdens on the offices of former Presidents, including by requiring the General Services Administration to immediately terminate salaries and benefits of office employees and to remove furnishings and equipment from offices,” Obama claimed in the veto message. “It would withdraw the General Services Administration’s ability to administer leases and negatively impact operations, with unanticipated implications for the protection and security of former Presidents.”

Former President Bill Clinton has a net worth of about $120 million, according to Newsweek, while former President George W. Bush’s net worth was about $40 million.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.

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(JNS) — The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) remains operational in eastern Jerusalem despite its outlawing there and throughout Israel last month, an Israeli radio station reported on Sunday.

Senior UNRWA staff have left Israel and Judea and Samaria because the outlawing of the agency risked compromising their freedom of movement, Kan 11 reported. The organization’s two headquarters in Jerusalem have also closed down.

But schools and other UNRWA facilities in eastern Jerusalem and beyond remain open and operational, according to the report.

Feb. 17, 2025: 9:18 p.m.:

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller explains upcoming DOGE Audit of IRS

Miller says reforms that are coming are “systematic, programmatic reforms.” He also called out the fact that the IRS has been “weaponized at the career level against the American people for years now.”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on @DOGE’s Audit of the IRS: “We are talking about performing a basic anti-fraud review to ensure that people are not engaging in large scale theft of federal taxpayer benefits.”

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— America (@america) February 17, 2025