Our Holy Father is in critical condition at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. Please pray for him! May God bless our dear Pope and return him to good health. Thank you.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-02/pope-at-gemelli-hospital-respiratory-crisis-in-the-morning.html

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/donald-trump-college-funding-protests-f4b5a679
President Trump threatened to take away federal funds from universities that allow what he called “illegal protests,” a move legal experts say would violate the First Amendment.

Trump didn’t explain which demonstrations he considered illegal in his social-media post Tuesday morning. Last year many college campuses were overwhelmed by pro-Palestinian protests related to the Israel-Hamas war.

“Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested,” he wrote.

Gautam Hans, a law professor at Cornell University, said the protests that Trump highlighted are protected by the First Amendment, which allows free speech.

“The government is trying to do an end run around the rights of the colleges and the students and the faculty by withholding the purse strings if it doesn’t like what the universities are allegedly saying,” said Hans, who focuses on First Amendment law.

The government funds universities through research grants and student loans.

Trump has previously said he wanted to dismantle the Education Department outright. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, confirmed Monday, has promised to reduce federal involvement in education and eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

In a memo to the Education Department staff titled “Our Department’s Final Mission” viewed by The Wall Street Journal, McMahon pledged to cut back on bureaucracy and waste.

She said the department would participate in a “new era of accountability” that would “impact staff, budgets, and agency operations.”
Federal agencies were created by legislation so it would take an act of Congress to eliminate them.


https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114104167452161158

https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/tariff-war-risks-sinking-world-into-new-great-depression-235fffeb
The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International Chamber of Commerce warned.

“Our deep concern is that this could be the start of a downward spiral that puts us in 1930s trade-war territory,” said Andrew Wilson, deputy secretary-general of the ICC, which promotes global business and trade. High tariffs on foreign goods imported into the U.S. in that decade contributed to a damaging global recession. The downturn plunged nearly a third of the global workforce into unemployment and slashed production at heavyweight industrial economies Germany and the U.S. by half, according to research from the International Monetary Fund.

The likelihood of a similarly severe blow to the global economy is high, Wilson said in an interview Tuesday. “Right now it’s a coin-flip,” he said. “It comes down to whether the U.S. administration is willing to rethink the utility of tariffs.”

His comments come after tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico came into effect in the U.S., stymieing hopes of an eleventh-hour reprieve. Fresh duties were also added to Chinese goods sold to the country. Trump has promised to impose similar tariffs on European goods, raising the prospect of retaliation in kind and a global trade war.

“That puts us in a remarkably precarious position that will cloud the global economy for the coming months,” Wilson said.

Mexico continues to support their drug cartels at the highest levels. In the time it took them to stop 150 fentanyl pills, America stopped 400,000
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/01/mexico-border-fentanyl-trump-trade/
Mexico sent 10,000 troops to stop fentanyl. It remains elusive.
Troops in Nogales, Mexico, have found 150 fentanyl pills, according to official statistics. Meanwhile, U.S. officials across the border have seized more than 400,000.

NOGALES, Mexico — When President Donald Trump threatened 25 percent tariffs unless Mexico put a halt to fentanyl trafficking, the government snapped to attention. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dispatched an additional 10,000 national guard members to the border. For more than three weeks, troops have stopped nearly every U.S.-bound car leaving this city, questioning drivers, sliding mirrors under vehicles, poking fiber-optic scopes into gas tanks and walking drug-sniffing dogs around autos.

The result? The troops in Nogales have found 150 fentanyl pills, according to official statistics. Meanwhile, U.S. officials just across the border have seized more than 400,000.

Some critics have dismissed Mexico’s operation as a show, designed to placate an American leader fond of military solutions to complex problems. That misses the point, analysts say. Mexico appears to be making a serious effort to cooperate more on tackling fentanyl and other narcotics. On Thursday, for example, it transferred 29 high-level drug suspects to the United States.

But the border operation underscores the difficulty of finding the opioid — especially for a country with a weak, underfunded security structure.

The fentanyl epidemic is the deadliest in U.S. history. Overdose deaths attributed mostly to the opioid topped 100,000 in 2023, before dropping by more than 20 percent in the 12-month period ending in August, according to preliminary figures. The drug is largely made in small Mexican labs and is highly concentrated.

Based thomas finna tell them to eat shit
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-gunmakers-mexico/
>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum attends the launch of a federal disarmament program outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City on Jan. 10, 2025.
lmao this is why the cartels killed everyone but her. the cartels plan on disarming the people so they can have complete control

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-pay-hike-politicians-b2706330.html
Elon Musk suggested politicians could get pay raises after DOGE slashed jobs across the federal workforce.

Thousands of probationary workers have already been terminated from their posts as President Donald Trump’s administration hopes to significantly downsize the federal government.

Musk, a senior adviser to Trump, suggested Thursday morning that members of Congress and senior government workers should get pay hikes.

“It might make sense to increase compensation for Congress and senior government employees to reduce ... corruption, as the latter might be as much as 1000 times more expensive to the public,” the tech billionaire wrote on X.

Members of Congress currently earn a salary of $174,000 with good benefits. Lawmakers haven’t received a pay raise since 2009.

A Congressional spending bill put forth in December would have included a pay increase, but Musk and Trump objected to it, and it tanked in the House.

“How can this be called a ‘continuing resolution’ if it includes a 40% pay increase for Congress?” the world’s richest person wrote on X at the time.

The maximum potential increase for 2025 salaries would be 3.8 percent, or $6,600, bringing salaries to $180,600, according to Congressional Research Service.

Lawmakers were divided over the pay hike provision.

“I cannot and will not vote to give myself more money when my constituents are feeling unbelievable financial pressure,” New York Democratic Congressman Pat Ryan said in a December statement. “Congress should be focused on lowering costs for the American people, not giving ourselves a raise. If this provision isn’t removed, I will be voting against the continuing resolution.”

Elon Musk accurately characterizes social security as a Ponzi scheme in front of an audience of 11 million listeners.
The social security Ponzi scheme is expected to begin becoming financially insolvent in the 2030's and it is speculated trump may replace it with the newly created US Sovereign State Fund, which will operate as a sane, reasonable investment and retirement vehicle for the country.
Democrats begin knee jerking since they don't understand finance as all of them are either broke and have never handled money, or got rich through corruption of public office.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-social-security-remark-rebuked-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-2038384
Elon Musk's Social Security Remark Rebuked by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Elon Musk called Social Security "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time" during an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan released on Friday, drawing criticism and warning from Democrats, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Social Security is a federal program that provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits to eligible workers and their families.

Although President Donald Trump has pledged not to cut Social Security, some skeptics remain concerned he may reconsider, especially given the recent involvement of his close adviser Musk, and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force digging into federal agencies to root out waste, fraud and abuse.

The SSA, which started in 1935, faces a funding crisis that could leave the program unable to pay full benefits by the mid-2030s.

In a Friday episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast with around 11 million listeners, Musk told Rogan that the federal government is "one big pyramid scheme," and called Social Security "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time."

Pyramid and Ponzi schemes are fraudulent financial models that deceive new participants, relying on recruitment or fresh investments rather than generating legitimate profits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/world/americas/mexico-cartel-fentanyl-trump-tariffs.html
Trump Threats Hit Mexican Cartel
Several cartel operatives said that for the first time in years, they genuinely feared arrest or death at the hands of the authorities.
Crazy how in 12 years biden and obongo didn't crackdown at all and in fact armed the cartels. Almost like this problem was super easy to fix this whole fucking time

Trump is try again working on fixing another one of America's problems.
8 cartels have been officially designated as terrorist organizations.
This will likely positively impact Mexico, where cartels are the fifth largest employer in their country, and negatively impact the Democrats, who not only rely on these cartels to smuggle illegals and fentanyl into the county, but are also absolutely furious that trump is taking steps towards fixing America's problems
https://www.newsweek.com/cartels-terrorist-organizations-designation-state-department-2033297
Here Are The Cartels the State Department Declared Terrorist Organizations

The United States Department of State branded eight cartels and criminal gangs as terrorist organizations on Wednesday, including Tren de Aragua and MS-13.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote in a declaration entered into the Federal Register that there was enough evidence to change the definition of the groups, known for human smuggling, drug trafficking, and acts of violence against immigrants and American citizens.

Why It Matters
Designating cartels as terrorist groups will make it easier for the U.S. to use military force against them. It would put the groups in the same category as the Taliban and Hamas—extremist groups that the U.S. and its allies have gone to war with.

President Donald Trump ran for reelection on the promise of getting tough on border security, including tackling the criminal gangs known to have penetrated the U.S.-Mexico border, and said these groups were the main driver of illicit fentanyl into the country.

The move by the Department of State comes after an executive order signed by President Trump shortly after his inauguration, branding Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).

Tren de Aragua (TdA), Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Cartel de Sinaloa, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Carteles Unidos, Cartel del Noreste, Cartel del Golfo, and La Nueva Familia Michoacana are all now deemed FTOs.

Trump moves to increase logging in national forests
Story by Wire Service

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-moves-to-increase-logging-in-national-forests/ar-AA1A9Myz

President Donald Trump has promised to “drill, baby, drill.” Now, he also wants to log.

On Saturday, Trump directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up timber production across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.

The move appears aimed at increasing domestic supply as the president considers tariffs on timber imports from Canada, Germany, Brazil and elsewhere. Environmental groups say increased logging would decimate U.S. forests, pollute air and water and devastate wildlife habitats.

And because trees absorb and store carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, cutting them down releases it back into the atmosphere, adding to global warming.

“Trump’s order will unleash the chain saws and bulldozers on our federal forests,” said Randi Spivak, the public lands policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. “Clearcutting these beautiful places will increase fire risk, drive species to extinction, pollute our rivers and streams, and destroy world-class recreation sites,” she said.