Whistleblower Steve Friend fired from FBI after veiled threat to Director Kash Patel https://t.co/xI8JvYwa8u pic.twitter.com/eqTgHFn1jE

— New York Post (@nypost) December 13, 2025

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"You better pray to Gaia or Vishnu or whatever your maker is, that real Steve Friend is never in a position to be an instrument of God's wrath, because I will be merciful: I won't give you a trial and a hanging," he told The Kyle Seraphin Show on Dec. 5. "I'll allow you to breathe every breath that your body will have for the rest of its natural life inside of a box, and then when it ultimately fades to black, that's when real wrath begins."

While Friend did not mention Patel by name, he alluded to the FBI director as the person who allegedly concocted the bogus coverup noting the person may have been in "executive leadership" and made references to Hindu god Vishnu, a likely nod to Patel being raised Hindi.

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Source: https://t.co/JygjsvCpQv

— Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) December 12, 2025

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The "weak jobs" narrative doesn't hold up when you look at the whole. From SeptNov, payrolls fell 41K, but private-sector jobs rose +121K while government employment dropped 162K. Since April, private employment is up +333K, native-born employment +998K (Household Survey), and the native-born E/P ratio has edged higher. Add Atlanta Fed GDPNow at +3.5% Q3 growth and this looks like normalization after public-sector excess, not economic collapse or even a recession.

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The “weak jobs” narrative doesn’t hold up when you look at the whole. From Sept–Nov, payrolls fell 41K, but private-sector jobs rose +121K while government employment dropped –162K. Since April, private employment is up +333K, native-born employment +998K (Household Survey), and…

— Quantus Insights (@QuantusInsights) December 16, 2025

Canada’s September job report:

- down 44,000 jobs over the quarter
- most new jobs are government jobs
- private sector faltering
- 7.1% unemployment rate

Understand it below 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/6xCNsbnUSD

— Elliot Daigneault (@hrh_elliot) November 1, 2025

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Federal employment is now at the lowest level since 2014 — down by 271,000 jobs since President Trump took office.

Promises made, promises kept. pic.twitter.com/vKNy0MHGoP

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 16, 2025

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Defund the UN, we don’t want cuts, we want zero

— Sarah Adams (@TPASarah) December 18, 2025

Yes Sarah, but it's a start.

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WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump's "America First" priorities.

The chiefs of mission in at least 29 countries were informed last week that their tenures would end in January, according to two State Department officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel moves.

All of them had taken up their posts in the Biden administration but had survived an initial purge in the early months of Trump's second term that targeted mainly political appointees. That changed on Wednesday when they began to receive notices from officials in Washington about their imminent departures.

Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president although they typically remain at their posts for three to four years. Those affected by the shake-up are not losing their foreign service jobs but will be returning to Washington for other assignments should they wish to take them, the officials said.

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Africa is the continent most affected by the removals, with ambassadors from 13 countries being removed: Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia and Uganda.

Second is Asia, with ambassadorial changes coming to six countries: Fiji, Laos, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Vietnam affected.

Four countries in Europe (Armenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovakia) are affected; as are two each in the Middle East (Algeria and Egypt); South and Central Asia (Nepal and Sri Lanka); and the Western Hemisphere (Guatemala and Suriname).

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The Department of War is calling for an ethics inquiry into Rep. Eugene Vindman, D-Va., over business deals he and his brother retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman struck in Ukraine while Eugene was simultaneously part of a State Department-funded inquiry into Russian atrocities in Ukraine.

The Pentagon's General Counsel Earl Matthews sent the November letter to House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., as well as to the leaders of the House Armed Services and Oversight Committees.

The letters urged an ethics-related inquiry into the efforts undertaken by Eugene elected to Congress in 2024 and by his brother Alexander as the brothers each worked with U.S. defense companies and the Ukrainian government to pursue potentially lucrative contracts in the war-torn country at the same time as
Eugene was also being funded by the State Department for Russian war crimes work in Ukraine.

Rep. Vindman's authorized biography says that "On July 25, 2019, Eugene's twin brother, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who also served on the NSC, listened in on President Donald Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky," during which time Vindman claimed that "Trump attempted to extort Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden. Alex reported the call to Eugene, and together they reported it up the chain of command. Trump was impeached for this attack on democracy but was never held accountable. Two days after he was acquitted by the Senate, he fired Alex and Eugene from the White House."

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A senior defense official who insisted upon anonymity due to the sensitivity of the inquiry told Just the News that the Vindman brothers were attempting to work with the Ukrainian government, and that whether or not they were successful, they should've gotten proper permission.

The defense official said the main focus by the Pentagon is on Eugene seeking to do work with a foreign government without seeking proper approval from the U.S. military as required, but that the fact that he was drumming up business while being funded by the State Department is certainly interesting as well.

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🚨There is not only smoke, but a raging inferno! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

The Pentagon is not asking Vindman whether he cashed a check from Kyiv personally. It is asking whether he received remuneration directly or indirectly through Trident Support LLC, whether approvals were sought, and… pic.twitter.com/MUwXeKOB1T

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) December 23, 2025