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NASA Director Nominee Jared Isaacman on Returning to the Moon versus Focusing On Trip to Mars

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Jared Isaacman:  the entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, and astronaut nominated by Trump for new NASA administrator.

President Donald J. Trump’s pick for new NASA administrator is the entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, and astronaut Jared Isaacman, who made headlines when he made the first spacewalk on a private mission, the Polaris Dawn.

As Isaacman is about to lead NASA face senators today (9) on his confirmation hearing, he is torn between two competing priorities: to return to the moon or to focus on going to Mars?

In his written statement, he states that the space agency ‘will prioritize an astronaut mission to Mars’, while also alerting that most American space programs ‘are over budget and behind schedule’.

Reuters reported:

“’We will prioritize sending American astronauts to Mars. Along the way, we will inevitably have the capabilities to return to the moon and determine the scientific, economic, and national security benefits of maintaining a presence on the lunar surface’, said Jared Isaacman, a 42-year-old billionaire entrepreneur, in written testimony for his U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation confirmation hearing on Wednesday.”

Watch: Jared during his spacewalk in the Polaris Dawn mission – “From here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.”

“Reuters reported on Monday that Isaacman told Senate staff last week that returning humans to the moon before China sends its own astronauts there is a national imperative. His remarks allayed some concerns that NASA’s multibillion-dollar moon effort could be upended by Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s focus on Mars as a top destination for U.S. astronauts.”

NASA’s Artemis moon program was created by Trump in his first term to speed up the U.S. return to the moon, a ‘proving ground’ for the missions to Mars.

“After his assurances to lawmakers about the moon strategy, Isaacman’s written testimony raises questions on whether his prioritization of Mars would affect NASA’s existing moon missions or represent a rebranding of the program to give Mars a more central emphasis in the space agency’s strategy.”

Isaacman and the Polaris Dawn astronaut crew.

NASA has already spent billions of dollars in the delayed Lunar program.

“But in his second term, Trump has fixated on Mars in public remarks, while Musk, who spent $250 million in support of Trump’s presidential campaign and pushed for Isaacman’s nomination, openly considers the moon a distraction from his ultimate goal to send crews to the Red Planet.”

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Space X’s Polaris Dawn Flies on a Record-High Orbit, Will Attempt First Private Spacewalk by Billionaire Jared Isaacman

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REPORT: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Flew FIRST CLASS to the Bernie Sanders ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Event in Las Vegas

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On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a video lamenting the future Trump administration, labeling it authoritarian. (@EndWokeness / X screen shot)

Far left New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been speaking publicly with Bernie Sanders on a ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour but she is doing it in luxury, of course.

When AOC traveled to Las Vegas for one of these events in March, she was spotted flying first class. Nothing but the best, right?

Doesn’t this conflict with AOC’s professed beliefs about climate change? Isn’t a first class seat much worse than a coach seat, according to the true believers? AOC used to have a Tesla. Why didn’t she drive her electric car to the event?

The New York Post reports:

AOC flies first-class to Bernie Sanders’ ‘Fight Oligarchy’ rally as critics pan lefty pol for battling inequality one ‘mimosa at a time’

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was photographed flying first-class to a Bernie Sanders event last month — with critics saying it shows how she battles inequality one “mimosa at a time.”

An incredulous passenger snapped AOC getting comfy in the roomy first-class cabin of JetBlue Flt. 511 on March 19 that departed from JFK Airport in Queens for Las Vegas, where she spoke at a Sanders rally titled “Fighting Oligarchy.”

The next day, the equality-spouting darling of the far left headlined “Fighting Oligarchy” rallied along with her socialist comrade, Sen. Sanders of Vermont, in North Vegas and at Arizona State University in Tempe.

“Nothing says, ‘Power to the people’ like ignoring voters looking to say hello and reclining in first class while tweeting about income inequality,’” the flier who took the photo told The Post — claiming that AOC did not respond to friendly comments once she sat down.

Isn’t this the same woman who said the world is going to end in ten years because of climate change? She clearly takes the issue very seriously.

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Bloodbath in NYC: Meat Cleaver Attack on Children, ‘Maniac’ Suspect Shot

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Four girls were slashed Sunday in an attack that ended when a cleaver-wielding man was shot by New York City police.

The victims were 8, 11, 13 and 16 years old, according to WABC-TV.

The 11-year-old girl called 911, but there was a glitch.

“The 11-year-old caller stated that she and her siblings had been stabbed by her uncle. She did not know her address,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

Tisch said police traced the 10:15 a.m. call to the Bensonhurst area, where police entered an apartment building, according to WNYW.

She said, responding officers “heard screams coming from behind the door to their left and immediately began forcing their way into the apartment,” WABC reported.

“Once they entered, they encountered a man standing near the entrance holding a large meat cleaver, covered in blood, and they could see blood on the floor and the walls of the home,” Tisch said, per WNYW.

“The officers ordered the man to drop the weapon several times. He refused and advanced towards them. Two officers discharged their firearms, firing seven total rounds between them and striking the subject, ending the threat,” she explained.

Tisch said the girls were rescued because of the combined efforts of the girl who called 911, technicians who sent officers to the address, and officers who kicked down a locked door, according to The New York Times.

All this, she said, “absolutely saved the lives of the young girls.”

“This could have ended very differently,” Tisch said, according to the New York Post, which called the attacker a “maniac.”

“Tisch told reporters that a fifth child, a boy, was in the apartment earlier and ran for help when the suspect launched his attack,” the Post wrote.

The suspect has been identified as Lun Chang Chen, 49, who lived in the same home as the victims. He was listed in critical condition on Sunday.

“I was watching through the window, and the girl covered in blood came out,” a neighbor identified only as Maria said. “And then there was another girl. The two girls were just covered in blood.

“I was shaking. I’m still shaking now,” she said. “I don’t usually see them. They just moved here. I lived here seven years, and there are a lot of new people moving here.”

WABC reported that the suspect had a history of mental illness.

It reported that in addition to the cleaver the suspect was holding, a bloody knife was recovered from the apartment.

“Police came in and did what they had to do to save the children. Terrible,” resident Carl Caltabiano said.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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19 State Attorneys General Sue Trump Admin to Stop Election Integrity Executive Order and Allow Illegal Aliens to Vote – Arizona’s Democrat SOS and AG Announce Plan to Save Their Rigged Elections (VIDEO)

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Arizona Democrats Kris Mayes (left) and Adrian Fontes (right) announce lawfare against Trump Administration on April 3, 2025

Arizona’s Democratic Attorney General, Kris Mayes, and Secretary of State, Adrian Fontes, have joined dozens of Democratic states in a lawsuit against the Trump Administration, challenging an executive order that makes it harder to cheat in elections and prioritizes prosecution of election crimes. 

The President’s March 25 Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections executive order mandates voter ID and documentary proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, audits and improves the security of voting machines, and orders the DOJ to enforce the law against states that count mail-in ballots received after Election Day. It also prioritizes the enforcement of laws preventing foreign money from influencing elections and federally funded organizations from lobbying or supporting candidates.

Additionally, the order includes a provision that “the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the DOGE Administrator, shall review each State’s publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities as required by 52 U.S.C. 20507, alongside Federal immigration databases and State records requested, including through subpoena where necessary and authorized by law, for consistency with Federal requirements.” This will ensure that illegal aliens are not slipping through the cracks and committing election fraud, especially in border states like Arizona.

The nineteen far-left Attorneys General filed their lawsuit in the Massachusetts Federal District Court, arguing that the President’s order is unconstitutional. They further allege that the federal government’s policy of enforcing federal law and preventing illegals from voting in federal elections “interferes with States’ inherent sovereignty and their constitutional power to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections.”

The Gateway Pundit reported that the Democratic Party, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also filed a lawsuit in Washington, DC, last week against President Trump so that they can continue to allow illegal aliens to vote in US elections.

Both lawsuits were filed just days after DOGE head Elon Musk revealed that millions of illegal aliens were issued Social Security Numbers under the Biden Regime, including 2.1 million in 2024 alone.

“This was a massive, large-scale program under the Biden administration to import as many illegals as possible—ultimately to change the voting map of the United States, disenfranchise the American people, and lock in a permanent deep-blue, one-party state from which there’d be no escape,” Musk stated as he revealed the bombshell data to voters ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

To combat the lawfare from Democrat election fraudsters, Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ), whose 2022 race for Arizona Attorney General was stolen by Kris Mayes, introduced legislation last week to codify the President’s executive order, The Gateway Pundit exclusively reported. His legislation is meant to thwart Democrats and their rogue activist judges from legislating through the courts.

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) Introduces Bill to Codify President Trump’s Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections Executive Order as Democrats Sue to Prevent Secure Elections

Hamadeh's office released a statement on Thursday, slamming "the beneficiaries of Arizona’s broken election system," Mayes and Fontes, and their "Radical Attack on Election Integrity."

"Arizona’s illegitimate Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and their ilk across the country will go to any lengths to keep our elections processes broken," the press release states.

It can be recalled that 60% of voting machines failed to tabulate votes in Maricopa County, Arizona, on election day in 2022, creating hours-long lines and disenfranchising tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of voters. Kris Mayes, Adrian Fontes, and Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs successfully stole the election through illegal machine shenanigans, fraudulent mail-in ballots with no chain of custody documentation, and voter registration glitches--all overseen by then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.

Most notably, Kris Mayes stole the election for Attorney General by 280 votes, and thousands of Republican votes across the state were discarded after their voter registrations were wrongfully canceled.

Now, they're desperately fighting to secure their grip on power by averting election oversight and law enforcement as they prepare to run for reelection next November.

Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a press release Thursday,

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes today joined a coalition of 19 states in filing a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the federal Election Assistance Commission, and other Trump Administration officials over Executive Order No. 14248 (the Elections Executive Order), an unconstitutional, anti-democratic, and un-American attempt to impose sweeping voting restrictions across the country.

Among other things, the Elections Executive Order attempts to conscript State election officials in the President’s campaign to override our elections system. It also seeks to upend common-sense, well-established State procedures for counting ballots — procedures that make it easier for peoples’ voices to be heard.

“This EO is an unacceptable and unconstitutional intrusion on the rights of states and the power of Congress by an out-of-control executive branch hellbent on destroying 250 years of precedent,” said Attorney General Mayes. “Clearly, Trump only supports state's rights when it suits him.”

The President has no constitutional power to rewrite State election laws by decree, nor does the President have the authority to modify the rules Congress has created for elections. The coalition’s lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, explains that the power to regulate elections is reserved to the States and Congress, and that therefore, the Elections Executive Order is ultra vires, beyond the scope of presidential power, and violative of the separation of powers. The attorneys general ask the court to block the challenged provisions of the Elections Executive Order and declare them unconstitutional and void.

"If President Trump wanted to make laws then he should have run for congress where the U.S. Constitution says that work is done," said Secretary of State Fontes. "The Constitution also says elections belong to the states. If the President wants to reshape our elections, he must propose realistic bipartisan legislation in Congress instead of forcing states into unfunded mandates through unlawful executive orders.”

In their lawsuit, the attorneys general assert that provisions of the Elections Executive Order will cause imminent and irreparable harm to the States if they are not enjoined. The challenged provisions include:

  • Commanding "the head of each Federal voter registration executive department or agency (agency) under the National Voter Registration Act, 52 U.S.C. 20506(a)” to begin implementing aspects of the Executive Order. This aspect of the Elections Executive Order commandeers State agencies and their personnel, forcing States to participate in the President’s unlawful and unnecessary agenda.

  • Forcing States to alter their ballot counting laws to exclude “absentee or mail-in ballots received after Election Day.”  In Arizona, voted ballots must be received by 7pm on Election Day in order to be counted. However, this Elections Executive Order could impact the ability to cure ballots under Arizona law.

  • Requiring military and overseas voters to submit documentary proof of citizenship and eligibility to vote in state elections. The Federal Post Card Application form is used by voters in the military or living abroad to register to vote in federal elections. Federal law unequivocally grants them the ability to register and cast a ballot “in the last place in which the person was domiciled before leaving the United States” — there is no requirement that this form demand documentary proof of citizenship or proof of current eligibility to vote in a particular state.

  • Threatening to withhold various streams of federal funding to the States for purported noncompliance with the challenged provisions. In so doing, the Elections Executive Order seeks to control Plaintiff States’ exercise of their sovereign powers through raw Executive domination, contrary to the U.S. Constitution and its underlying principles of federalism and the separation of powers.

In filing today’s lawsuit, Attorney General Kris Mayes joins the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. The litigation was led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford.

A copy of the complaint can be found here.

Mayes and Fontes announced their lawsuit and intent to prevent the federal government from enforcing the law and lawfully accessing publicly available voter data during a press conference on Wednesday.

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