AOC Warns America Could Be Invaded By Reading Section She Didn't Read

On Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Obviously-Commie (Comrade-NY) once again reminded Americans that confidence and comprehension are not necessarily traveling companions.

The latest episode began after the Bronx-born, Yorktown Heights raised, socialist took to social media to denounce the pending National Defense Authorization Act. She declared that one provision in the bill was an “existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy” that would “merge parts of our military with the IDF.”

Unfortunately, she is a dolt. The actual legislation refused to cooperate with her interpretation.

Within hours, critics, lawmakers, and legal experts pointed out that Section 219 has nothing to do with AOC's verbiage.

Rather than placing American troops under Israeli command or having Marines report to Tel Aviv before breakfast, the provision simply formalizes ongoing cooperation between the United States and Israel on research, technology development, missile defense, artificial intelligence, and counter drone systems. Let me say that important word again: COOPERATION.

In other words, it describes the sort of defense partnership Washington has maintained with allies for years, making it a rather disappointing script for those hoping for an international military takeover.

EPA Chief Lee Zeldin suggested the New York Democrat spend less time inventing geopolitical thrillers and more time brushing up on reading comprehension and critical thinking.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was even less charitable. “Good grief, you are either obtuse or intentionally lying,” he wrote on X.

Legal scholars also struggled to locate the imaginary constitutional apocalypse AOC described. They noted that joint defense projects such as Iron Dome and David's Sling have been staples of U.S. policy for decades under bipartisan administrations, including laws signed by former President Barack Obama. As constitutional crises go, Congress passing legislation through Congress ranked surprisingly low on their list.

For longtime observers, the episode felt less like breaking news and more like a rerun. AOC has repeatedly delivered sweeping pronouncements about Israel before discovering that the facts stubbornly refuse to endorse them.

Her most memorable performance came during a 2018 appearance on Firing Line, where she labeled Israel "occupiers" before admitting she was “not the expert on geopolitics” after being asked to explain the issue.

Since then, she has continued courting her activist base with increasingly uncompromising positions, including promising at a Democratic Socialists of America forum never to support military aid to Israel, even defensive systems like Iron Dome that exist to intercept rockets aimed at civilians.

By week's end, Americans were once again left wondering whether AOC's greatest legislative talent is transforming routine defense cooperation into an Avengers crossover event. The only thing that actually merged was another social media panic with another elementary misunderstanding of the bill she was criticizing.

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Celebrates As Trump Declares Victory Over The Climate Apocalypse That Was Totally Going To Kill Us All, Probably

Lee Zelding and President Trump

WASHINGTON—In a stunning development that has coastal elites reaching for their reusable straws and therapy dogs, President Donald Trump took a victory lap Saturday after scientists quietly admitted that one of their favorite doomsday global warming scenarios was about as accurate as a Hillary Clinton email server.

"Good riddance! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that 'Climate Change' is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. 

The president accused Democrats of using climate fears the way a used car salesman uses "low mileage" to scare people into buying something expensive and unreliable.

"For far too long Climate Activism has been used by Dumocrats to scare Americans, push horrible Energy Polices, and fund BILLIONS into their bogus research programs," he continued. "Unlike the Dumocrats, who use Climate Alarmism nonsense to push their GREEN NEW SCAM, my Administration will always be based on TRUTH, SCIENCE, and FACT!"

Trump’s comments came after climate scientists finally started phasing out the IPCC’s most extreme emissions fairy tale, the one that predicted cities underwater, crops failing like a vegan barbecue, and basically a real-life dinosaur extinction event but with more Priuses. The scenario, known as RCP8.5 (or SSP5-8.5 for those who like their acronyms extra spicy), assumed humanity would keep burning coal like it was going out of style while ignoring every trend toward cheaper renewables and actual emissions data.

Researchers, writing in a journal that sounds like it was named by a thesaurus, basically said: "Yeah, this high-end nightmare fuel is now implausible."

"For the 21st century, this range will be smaller than assessed before: on the high-end of the range, the high emission levels (quantified by SSP5-8.5) have become implausible, based on trends in the costs of renewables, the emergence of climate policy and recent emission trends."This comes after Trump called climate change "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" at the U.N. last September.

"It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion," Trump said at the time. "All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong."

"They were made by stupid people that have cost their country's fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success," he continued.

Naturally, this triggered the usual suspects. 

Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, emerged from whatever wine cellar she was haunting to denounce the remarks as "total disinformation."

"You know yesterday at the U.N., President Trump said, ‘Climate change is a hoax,’ because it’s just total disinformation," Killery said during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. "It’s a statement that is just not true, and yet being propagated."

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, however, backed the president. 

"The president is absolutely right and we've seen it in the name of climate change, these left wing policies willing to cause extreme economic pain for people who can at least afford it," Zeldin said.

Sources close to the climate cult confirmed they are now working on a brand new, even scarier model that will definitely be right this time, guys. Just trust the science. 

And remember to recycle your guilt.

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DOJ Prosecutor quits, refuses criminal investigation into $20B in climate spending

There is a curious storm brewing in Washington, and at its center stands Denise Cheung, until recently the head of the criminal division in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office. She has stepped down, not with a whimper but with a resolute refusal to bend to the will of interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin. His order? To launch a criminal investigation and unleash the machinery of grand jury subpoenas. Cheung said no—and paid the price with her resignation.

The root of this clash appears to lie in EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s crusade to claw back $20 billion in green energy contracts—funds shoveled out under the grandiosely misnamed 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, dispensed in the twilight of the Biden administration. Zeldin, with the fervor of a man who sees waste as an affront to decency, has branded these contracts a scandal, alleging they are little more than "pass-through" schemes designed to siphon money to mysterious elsewhere. His aim is noble on its face: return the lucre to the U.S. Treasury. "Gold bars off the Titanic," he quipped on Fox News, a line that drips with both wit and disdain.

But Cheung, in her resignation letter, drew a line in the sand. She was willing to freeze the funds in a Citibank account—a practical move—but when Martin demanded escalation, likely into the realm of asset seizure and criminal probes, she demurred. The evidence, she argued, did not meet the threshold of probable cause. Martin, unamused, requested her departure, and she obliged.

This episode, like so many in our age, raises questions that cut to the marrow of governance and justice. First, the matter of legal thresholds: Cheung’s stand rests on her judgment that the evidence is too thin to warrant criminal action. One wonders what she saw—or didn’t see—in those contracts. Were they merely sloppy, rushed by a departing administration eager to cement its legacy, or was there something darker, something provably illicit, that she nonetheless deemed insufficient? Without the specifics, we are left to speculate, but her refusal suggests a prosecutor’s caution—perhaps even a flicker of integrity.

Then there is the political context, which looms large and unavoidable. Zeldin’s zeal fits neatly into a broader narrative: the dismantling of Biden-era excesses, particularly the climate spending that has long been a totem for progressive virtue. His rhetoric is that of a fiscal conservative with a populist edge, a man who sees $20 billion not as an investment but as a plunder. Is this pressure—political, theatrical, Trumpian—pushing the Department of Justice to overreach, to conjure a case where the evidence is more smoke than fire? Cheung’s exit might suggest as much.

And here we arrive at the institutional tension, the quiet war between the careerists and the appointees. Cheung, a seasoned prosecutor, pitted against Martin, an interim figure, and Zeldin, a Trump loyalist. Is her resignation a principled cry against the politicization of justice, a refusal to let the law be bent to the whims of a new regime? Or is it, less charitably, the stubbornness of a bureaucrat unwilling to adapt to a shifting tide? We cannot know—not yet—for the details remain frustratingly opaque. What were these contracts? What evidence did Cheung weigh and find wanting?

In the absence of clarity, we are left with competing visions. Zeldin’s camp might thunder that the contracts are a blatant misuse of taxpayer money, a green-tinted boondoggle crying out for justice. Cheung’s position whispers back: not so fast—the case isn’t there, not yet, not enough. What we witness, then, is less a resolution than a skirmish, the opening salvo in a grander struggle over Biden’s climate legacy and how this administration—brash, unapologetic—chooses to bury it.

 As ever, the truth lies buried beneath the noise, and we are poorer for it.

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DOGE Finds $2 B in Taxpayer Funds meant for Stacey Abrams-Linked Group

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found out that $2,000,000,000 of taxpayer money was given to a new nonprofit connected to Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who keeps losing elections.

In April 2024, the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave Power Forward Communities the huge grant through a program called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This group got the money for green energy projects even though it was only started in late 2023 and had almost no experience. According to its latest tax records, it made a mere $100 in its first three months.

Power Forward Communities was one of eight groups that got a piece of the $20 billion the EPA handed out in April 2024. On February 13, 2025, EPA boss Lee Zeldin said his team, along with DOGE officials, discovered that Biden’s administration had moved that $20 billion to a private bank before leaving office. This made it harder for the government to keep an eye on how the money was being used.

Finding out that Power Forward Communities got some of this cash raises big questions about whether Biden’s team picked favorites when giving out these giant grants. Abrams strongly supported Biden’s green energy plans and campaigned for Kamala Harris, the former vice president.

 
Republicans have warned for years that Biden’s allies might create groups just to grab federal money from programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This program, started by the Democrats’ huge 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, was meant to act like a “green bank” to fund eco-friendly projects.

“I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars and I’ve wasted no time in keeping my word,” Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon. “When we learned about the Biden Administration’s scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this.”

“As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been,” Zeldin added. “It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”

Neither Power Forward Communities nor Abrams answered questions about this.

Power Forward Communities was set up in October 2023 by a number of groups, including Rewiring America, a left-leaning organization pushing for electric power over fossil fuels. Abrams, who works as Rewiring America’s senior counsel, said she was “thrilled” to join the group. “This is how we expand access to clean energy—by prioritizing housing, equity and resilience,” she posted on X.

The group’s website says it’s the first big nationwide program to pay for energy-saving home upgrades. It wants to help homeowners, builders, and renters switch out gas appliances—like old stovetops—for electric ones, like induction stovetops.

In its only press release so far, Power Forward Communities said it would use the $2 billion from the EPA to install things like heat pumps, solar panels, home batteries, electric car chargers, and better insulation.
“For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant—it doesn’t just fly in the face of common sense, it’s out and out fraud,” said Daniel Turner from Power the Future, an energy advocacy group, in an interview with the Free Beacon.

Power Forward Communities lists a number of partners on its site, including two nonprofits Abrams started after losing the 2018 Georgia governor race: the Southern Economic Advancement Project and Fair Count. The Southern Economic Advancement Project, which works on racial equity and economic power in the South, is backed by the Tides Center, a group that gives tons of money to left-wing causes.

Other partners include the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO, two big labor unions that support Democrats. The teachers’ union leader, Randi Weingarten, and Abrams both advise Climate Power, a group that spent $55 million on ads for Kamala Harris’s presidential run in September 2024.

“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people to stop the fraud and abuse by leaders who irresponsibly shoveled boat loads of cash to far-left, activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity, instead of serving the American people,” Zeldin said. “Those days are over.”

Right before Biden’s team left office, they put the $20 billion—now tracked down by Zeldin and DOGE—at Citibank. The eight groups that got the money, including Power Forward Communities, have only used a small amount of it thus far. But this setup makes it tough for Trump’s administration to take the money back, though Zeldin is working hard to do just that.

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Biden's EPA funneled money to Leftists

Lee Zelden with a blurry woman behind him

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Wednesday that his agency uncovered a plan where the Biden administration was funneling money to leftist activist groups as they were leaving office.

“An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were ‘tossing gold bars off the Titanic,’ rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day,” Zeldin said in a video message. “The gold bars were tax dollars, and tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it.”

Zeldin mentioned that he had reached out to the Department of Justice and the inspector general to look into the $20,000,000,000 that was moved to an outside financial institution to distribute to hard left leaning groups just as Biden was physically leaving office--he had mentally left office as vice president.

“Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars. Shockingly, roughly $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA,” Zeldin said. “This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight. Even further, this pot of $20 billion was awarded to just eight entities that were then responsible for doling out your money to NGOs and others at their discretion with far less transparency.”

Zeldin insisted that the deal with the financial institution should be canceled right away and the money returned to the government, adding that “[T]he days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-Left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.”

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Ilhan Omar calls Stephen Miller a 'white nationalist'

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), hasn't met a Jew she doesn't dislike. The anti-Semite took to Twitter on Monday to criticize White House adviser Stephen Miller's influence on policy and called him a "white nationalist."

Miller is Jewish.

In case you don't know, white nationalists tend to hate Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and basically everyone who isn't a white nationalist. So Omar somehow made another, oops, inadvertent anti-Semitic slip.

Miller has a strong influence over President Trump’s immigration policy and was reportedly instrumental in the ousting of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirsjen Nielsen.

“Stephen Miller is a white nationalist,” Omar hatefully tweeted. “The fact that he still has influence on policy and political appointments is an outrage.”

The fact that Omar is in American government, the fact that she's on the foreign affairs committee, is an outrage.

Her tweet sparked fierce backlash on Twitter.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), posted on Twitter that he has never seen another member of Congress “target Jewish people like this.”

The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., also weighed in, calling her the “head of the Farrakhan Fan Club” and that she “apparently has no shame.”

Meanwhile, Omar is in a bit of a jam over campaign financing. She apparently used some of the donations to pay her divorce lawyer, ostensibly to settle the case in which she is or was divorcing her brother whom she married in order to get him into the country illegally.

No wonder she's all for illegal immigration and open borders. It isn't business . . . it's just personal.


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