AI BEAUTIFUL ACTRESSES WILL REPLACE THE SPOILED CRY BABIES OF HOLLYWOOD FAME…FINALLY! GOODBYE TO POINTLESS MILLION DOLLAR SALARIES AND UNION MEMBERSHIP AND STRIKES!

Hollywood hits back as AI actress is hailed as ‘the next Scarlett Johannson’ BTW….”SCARLETT IS REALLY NOT PLEASANT LOOKING OR PRETTY AT ALL!”

Tilly Norwood (Picture: Tilly Norwood/Facebook) — This is not a real woman (Picture: Tilly Norwood/Facebook)

The woman you see above might look as real as any other human, but she’s not.

She’s actually an artificial intelligence-generated actress named Tilly Norwood who, after a short time on the scene, has sparked interest among talent agents who are keen to hire her.

As such, she’s been hailed as ‘the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman’, sparking outrage from big names in Hollywood, who are branding it ‘gross’ and expressing rage towards the agencies who wish to sign her.

This has led to the creator of Tilly firing back, insisting that the digital actress is not a ‘replacement’ for a human being.

Taking to Instagram, comedian and technologist Eline Van der Velden wrote: ‘To those who have expressed anger over the creation of my AI character, Tilly Norwood, she is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a piece of art.

‘Like many forms of art before her, she sparks conversation, and that in itself shows the power of creativity.’

Tilly Norwood Instagram 22 July 2025 tillynorwood Sat outside pretending I?m in a French film and not just avoiding my to-do list. What?s your ultimate coffee shop comfort order? #CafeCornerThoughts — Tilly Norwood is an AI-generated actress who’s already causing a stir in Hollywood (Picture: Tilly Norwood/Instagram)

Van der Velden added: ‘I see AI not as a replacement for people, but as a new tool, a new paintbrush. Just as animation, puppetry, or CGI opened fresh possibilities without taking away from live acting, AI offers another way to imagine and build stories.

‘I’m an actor myself, and nothing – certainly not an AI character – can take away the craft or joy of human performance.’

She said that ‘creating Tilly has been, for me, an act of imagination and craftsmanship, not unlike drawing a character, writing a role, or shaping a performance’.

‘It takes time, skill, and iteration to bring such a character to life,’ Van der Velden argued. ‘She represents experimentation, not substitution.

‘Much of my work has always been about holding up a mirror to society through satire, and this is no different.’

Tilly Norwood Actor | London | Particle6 Productions https://www.tillynorwood.com/ — The creator has insisted she is not meant to replace humans (Picture: Tilly Norwood)

She also believes that ‘AI characters should be judged as part of their own genre, on their own merits’, not compared directly to human beings.

‘Each form of art has its place, and each can be valued for what it uniquely brings,’ she wrote.

Concluding on an optimistic note, the creator shared her hopes that ‘we can welcome AI as part of the wider artistic family’ and simply as ‘one more way to express ourselves, alongside theatre, film, painting, music, and countless others’.

‘When we celebrate all forms of creativity, we open doors to new voices, new stories, and new ways of connecting with each other.’

TESLA NOW OFFERS DRIVE-IN BURGERS, ROBOTS AND SUPERCHARGERS

Watch out, McDonald’s—Tesla now serves EVs, burgers, and fries. What the Tesla Diner could mean for drivers

Want fries with that? Tesla’s new diner features robots, EV charging, and all-day breakfast.

The Tesla Diner features 80 Supercharger stalls.
The unique charging location serves food and includes a drive-in theater.
CEO Elon Musk says the Diner is the first of many (if it proves to be successful).

Tesla is one of the most dynamic automakers in the industry, particularly when it comes to debuting innovative technology. The company produces electric vehicles and has recently launched a robotaxi service. It is also developing a humanoid robot named Optimus. Tesla has evolved into much more than just an automaker. The Tesla Diner is the latest in a long line of surprises from this clean energy and EV pioneer.

Tesla’s California diner is a retro-futuristic diner that allows patrons to charge their EVs and grab a bite, according to Eater. The diner opened its doors at 4:20 PM on July 21 and amassed a huge crowd. So, what’s the diner’s purpose and what does it serve?

What is the Tesla Diner?

The Tesla Diner offers 24/7 dining and classic diner options like burgers, fries, milkshakes, and breakfast all day long. Tesla drivers can order from their car’s infotainment systems and food is served in Cybertruck-shaped boxes.

The Tesla Diner includes a whopping 80 Supercharger stalls and solar canopies. It also features a drive-in theater component with two 45-foot screens.

Elon Musk says the innovative diner will keep improving. The Supercharger stalls at the diner are available to all North American Charging Standard-compatible electric vehicles, not just Tesla models. Additionally, the diner is open to the general public.

Are more Tesla Diner locations coming to the U.S.?

Tesla will establish similar locations in “major cities around the world” if the first location is successful, according to an X post from Musk. The CEO calls it “an island of good food, good vibes, and entertainment, all while supercharging”. It’s located at 7001 West Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

What does the Tesla Diner mean for the EV space?

The Tesla Diner is the “largest urban Supercharger in the world” according to an X post from the company. Tesla hosts one of the largest electric vehicle charging networks on the planet with over 70,000 global Superchargers. These chargers are capable of replenishing up to 200 miles of driving range in just 15 minutes.

Tesla’s Supercharger network has become so useful that several major automakers partnered with the company to offer Tesla Supercharger compatibility to non-Tesla EV owners. This is a net-positive for the EV space because charging infrastructure in North America has a long way to go.

Research from the Harvard Business School says that EV drivers are “dissatisfied with EV charging station pricing models”. Additionally, the research concluded that EV chargers are generally less reliable than gas stations, so Tesla’s Supercharger network addresses a major pain point for automakers looking to produce competitive EVs.

BLOATED GOVERNMENT WORKERS SET FOR MASS RESIGNATIONS…FINALLY!

SHUT IT DOWN! Mass Federal Resignations Coming This Week

More than 100,000 federal workers stand ready to submit their resignations this Tuesday if the government shutdown cannot be averted, setting a record for the single largest exodus from government service in American history. This wave comes as part of the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, which has already prompted around 275,000 departures through various voluntary and mandatory measures. The move aims to trim excess from the federal bureaucracy, with the White House estimating annual savings of $28 billion once fully implemented.

At the heart of this program lies a strategy to reshape the workforce without immediate disruptions. Participants receive full pay and benefits for up to eight months while on administrative leave, a setup that has drawn scrutiny for its $14.8 billion price tag but is defended as a cost-neutral bridge to long-term efficiencies.

White House spokesperson explained the rationale plainly: “In fact, this is the largest and most effective workforce reduction plan in history and will save the government $28bn annually,” adding that there was “no additional cost to the government” since these salaries would have been paid anyway.

This approach reflects a push toward an at-will employment model, similar to private sector norms, where the Office of Personnel Management has long argued that outdated job protections hinder adaptability.

Workers who opted into the program often describe a mix of relief and regret, rooted in years of mounting pressures. One longtime employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) captured the sentiment: “Federal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they’re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave. That’s why I left.”

Such accounts reveal how entrenched routines in federal agencies can erode purpose over time, especially when layers of red tape slow down responses to crises like natural disasters. By streamlining staff, the administration seeks to refocus efforts on core duties, potentially allowing remaining teams to operate with greater speed and accountability—much like how private disaster relief organizations prioritize rapid deployment over bureaucratic hurdles.

The broader context includes threats of a government shutdown if Congress fails to approve funding by the deadline, with the Office of Management and Budget instructing agencies to prepare for mass firings via reduction-in-force procedures. This could push total reductions beyond 300,000 by year’s end, surpassing any single-year drop since World War II. Agencies like the Internal Revenue Service have already shed 25% of their staff through layoffs and buyouts, a change that could ease the burden on taxpayers by curbing overreach in audits and enforcement.

Another USDA worker, who faced probationary firing and reinstatement earlier this year, noted: “At that point, I felt they could terminate me at any time. It’s hard to focus on your work when they can just send you an email and you can be gone, and they completely changed the terms of my work. I was hoping things would stabilize and there would be an opportunity to go back, but now it doesn’t look like there will be an opportunity.”

The federal government is way too big. Just about any reductions in size and scope, whether forced or voluntary, would benefit the nation. We can easily recover from the vast majority of job roles being eliminated. We may not be able to survive the bloated and growing government.

8000 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES MAKE MORE THAN THE PRESIDENT, SOME OVER $1 MILLION!

More than 8,000 public employees get paid MORE than the president

Nearly 300 getting paychecks for $1 million and up

By Jeremy Portnoy, Real Clear Wire

Topline: The President of the United States has the most important government job in the country, but even with a $400,000 salary, he is far from the highest paid. There were 8,752 public employees at the federal, state and local levels that earned $400,000 or more in base salary in 2024, according to thousands of open records requests filed by Open the Books.

Key facts: The list of employees includes researchers, doctors, university professors and many more. In total, the 8,752 employees earned just over $4.76 billion in base salary. There were 290 people with salaries of at least $1 million.

The top 10 highest-paid employees are all football coaches at public universities. Kirby Smart at the University of Georgia earned the most with a $12.2 million base salary, far more than Thomas Allen in second place at Indiana University.

Every state except Delaware and Montana had at least one person making more than $400,000. California had the most such employees with 890 people earning $465.8 million in total, but Texas spent the most on its high earners with $538.4 million paid to 806 people.

Florida (533 people), Utah (525) and Ohio (488) were the other states with the most $400,000 earners.

The federal government has 995 people on the list — all doctors, most of whom work for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Alexander Nyerges, director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, was the top-paid public employee not affiliated with a university. He made $1.2 million.

Search all federal, state and local salaries and vendor spending with the world’s largest government spending database at OpenTheBooks.com.

Background: Open the Books’ auditors file over 60,000 open records requests each year to capture every salary paid to public employees across the nation.

Our list of top earners does not include employees whose base salaries are below $400,000 but boosted their earnings in other ways.

For example, one of Los Angeles’ top firefighters had a base salary of $232,603 but collected $644,456 of overtime last year. Ferry workers in New York City earned overtime payments of up to $500,000. Several major cities have reported only their base salaries in response to Open the Books’ open records requests, and not their other sources of compensation, making a comprehensive list of other top earners impossible.

Summary: As taxpayer-funded salaries across the country continue to rise every year, how long will it be until a $400,000 payout is commonplace?

TRUMP DOUBLED HIS SUPPORT FROM BLACK VOTERS, BUT MOST ARE CONSISTENTLY VOTING AGAINST THEIR OWN BEST INTERESTS? WHY?

How Trump nearly doubled his support from Black voters

New data shows historic gains made by the president among this racial demographic.

After the presidential election in November, exit polls suggested that Donald Trump could credit his victory to support from young adults, voters lacking a college degree, and Hispanic and Black men. His improvement among Black voters was noteworthy at the time, but new data — based on voters whose participation is confirmed in state election records — confirms that his share was historic.

Trump is the first Republican presidential nominee in nearly half a century to win at least 15 percent of this bloc, according to the Pew Research Center, two points higher than exit polls showed. This means Trump nearly doubled his support from Black voters compared with 2020, increasing from 5 to 10 percent among women and from 12 to 21 percent among men.

Reports attributed this shift to several factors: the appeal of MAGA’s swaggering brand to Black men, the resurgence of Black conservatives after Barack Obama’s presidency and a generational rift among the nation’s most uniform bloc.

Republican strategists in the post-civil rights era believed that if their candidates could win just 20 percent of Black voters, the party would have a stronghold on the White House and “become a majority party.” Trump came closer to that number than Ronald Reagan and every Republican presidential candidate since. Black Republicans are already pushing Trump and the party to take outreach to Black voters seriously if they want to maintain control of Congress.

Trump’s improvement isn’t due to his delivery on campaign promises or better outcomes for Black voters. Though his continued support of historically Black colleges is welcome, he hasn’t kept his word on nearly any other policy promise made to the group. Their economic situation is worsening: Unemployment is up; income and homeownership are down. And it isn’t his style or persona that is winning them over. Only 5 percent of Black Americans strongly approve of his performance, earning him the group’s lowest approval rating since 1983, when Reagan opposed creating a federal holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. So, what explains Trump’s success?

The easy but incorrect answer is that a growing number of Black Americans are comfortable voting against their interests. The truth is that their party loyalty is fraying and more of them are less likely to link their personal interests to the group’s. A century ago, about 90 percent of Black people lived in the South, creating political bonds as they survived oppression. Scholars have chronicled how segregation and injustice shaped the group’s long-standing solidarity at the ballot box, making civil rights the basis for its politics. But the 1960s were many elections ago — the vast majority of Black voters today were born after the end of Jim Crow and after the Great Migration diffused the Black experience beyond the South. Trump is the first Republican president to benefit from the resulting diversification.

There’s a wide-ranging realignment happening in American politics. The usual cleavages along racial, educational and class lines are changing, and Black America is not immune. A recent study found that 3 in 5 Black voters prioritize health care and cost-of-living concerns over civil rights policy. Younger ones are less partisan, consider racial identity differently in their politics and think most about socioeconomic mobility. Moreover, the Black immigrant population has doubled in the past two decades, and 1 in 5 Black people are either foreign-born or the children of immigrants. In a two-party republic, especially a polarized one, changes in loyalty to the Democratic Party mean some increased support for Republicans.

Perhaps Trump’s campaign sensed the opportunity was ripe for seizing, but if that’s true, the outreach did not reflect it. At a 2024 campaign stop in South Carolina, Trump complained about his criminal indictments before adding: “A lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me. … It’s been pretty amazing but possibly, maybe, there’s something there.” He attended a conference of Black journalists in Chicago where he questioned whether Kamala Harris was Black and amplified false claims that Black immigrants in Ohio were eating their neighbors’ pets. Trump’s success is because an evolving electorate made room for him, not the other way around.

Ideological diversity among Black voters, despite a history of partisan voting, mirrors most groups in America; they are not a monolith. And they are not static, either. Because of the successes and failures of previous generations, their politics, allegiances and priorities change. This generation of Black voters is the first to grow up in an accessible democracy and witness a Black president and vice president — of course their politics have evolved.

There have been three times when 95 percent of Black voters supported the same presidential candidate: during Reconstruction; in 1964, when the Civil Rights Act was effectively on the ballot; and in the Obama campaigns. But rather than signal the beginning of a new politics — such as the idea of a post-racial America in 2008 — maybe these moments were the culmination of the previous struggle. Reconstruction facilitated democratic participation denied at the country’s founding; the civil rights era realized the progress sought during Reconstruction; Obama’s presidency was a product of a half-century of Black electoral solidarity shaped by civil rights legislation.

Trump’s historic showing suggests the realignment underway includes Black voters who are willing to give precedence to factors other than the parties’ rhetoric or records on racial equality. That doesn’t mean Republicans will soon hit their holy grail share of 20 percent nationally. If history is a guide, the party is more likely to squander this opportunity than to appreciate it. Next year’s midterms will offer the best clue as to whether the increased Black support is the party’s or if it is Trump’s alone. Either way, the game is changing.

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KRISTIE NOEM FAST TRACKED MILLIONS OF DISASTER AID FUNDS…AND QUESTION? DOES THE USA HAVE THE BEST LOOKING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, COMPARED TO THE UGLY, UGLY ONES APPOINTED BY OBAMA AND BIDEN???

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, center, speaks with Mayor Teresa Heitmann of Naples, Florida, and City Manager Gary Young on a damaged historic pier in the city on Aug. 29. Credit: Tia Dufour/Department of Homeland Security

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened

The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.

For months, the complaints have rolled in from parts of the country hit by natural disasters: The Federal Emergency Management Agency was moving far too slowly in sending aid to communities ravaged by floods and hurricanes, including in central Texas and North Carolina. Many officials were blaming Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, whose agency oversees FEMA.

“I can’t get phone calls back,” Ted Budd, the Republican senator from North Carolina, told a newspaper this month, describing his attempts to reach Noem’s office. “I can’t get them to initiate the money. It’s just a quagmire.” The delays were caused in part by a new policy announced by DHS that requires Noem’s personal sign-off on expenses over $100,000, several news outlets reported.

But records obtained by ProPublica show how one locality found a way to get FEMA aid more quickly: It asked one of Noem’s political donors for help.

The records show that Noem quickly expedited more than $11 million of federal money to rebuild a historic pier in Naples, Florida, after she was contacted by a major financial supporter last month. The pier is a tourist attraction in the wealthy Gulf Coast enclave and was badly damaged by Hurricane Ian in 2022.

Frustrated city officials had been laboring for months, without success, to get disaster assistance. But just two weeks after the donor stepped in, they were celebrating their sudden change of fortune. “We are now at warp speed with FEMA,” one city official wrote in an email. A FEMA representative wrote: “Per leadership instruction, pushing project immediately.”

Along with fast-tracking the money, Noem flew to Naples on a government plane to tour the pier herself. She then stayed for the weekend and got dinner with the donor, local cardiologist Sinan Gursoy, at the French restaurant Bleu Provence, according to records and an interview with the Naples mayor. This account is based on text messages and emails ProPublica obtained through public records requests.

Noem’s actions in Naples suggest the injection of political favoritism into an agency tasked with saving lives and rebuilding communities wiped out by disaster. It also heightens concerns about the discretion Noem has given herself by personally handling all six-figure expenses at the agency, consolidating her power over who wins and loses in the pursuit of federal relief dollars, experts said.

Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, said that politics has long been a factor in federal disaster relief — one study found that swing states are more likely to get federal help, for example. But “I’ve not heard of anything this egregious — a donor calling up and saying I need help and getting it,” he said, “while others may be getting denied assistance or otherwise waiting in line for help that may or may not come.”

In a statement, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said, “This has nothing to do with politics: Secretary Noem also visited Ruidoso, NM” — where floods killed three people in July — “at the request of a Democrat governor and has been integral in supporting and speeding up their recovery efforts.”

“Your criticizing the Secretary’s visit to the Pier is bizarre as she works to fix this issue for more than 1 million visitors that used to visit the pier,” McLaughlin added. She did not answer questions about the donor’s role in expediting the funding or Noem’s relationship with him. Reached by phone, Gursoy said “get lost” and hung up. He did not respond to detailed follow up questions.

Noem has been criticized for creating a bottleneck at FEMA. When the floods hit Texas this summer — ultimately killing over 100 people — it took days to deploy critical search-and-rescue teams because Noem hadn’t signed off on them, according to CNN. Budd, the Republican senator, said this month: “Pretty much everything Helene-related is over $100,000. So they’re stacking up on her desk waiting for her signature.”

Noem has denied there were delays in the Texas flood response and has defended her expense policy, saying it has saved billions of dollars. “Every day I get up and I think, the American people are paying for this, should they?” she recently said. “And are these dollars doing what the law says they should be doing? I’m going to make sure that they go there.”

Once a sleepy fishing town, Naples is now home to CEOs and billionaires (a property listed for $295 million recently made headlines as the most expensive home in the U.S.). The city is known as an important stop for Republican politicians raising money, and Noem has held multiple fundraisers in the area. State credit card records suggest she visited Naples at least 10 times during her last four years as South Dakota governor.

Noem’s top adviser, Corey Lewandowski, also appears to own a home in Naples near the city’s pier, according to property tax records. Lewandowski is an unpaid staffer at DHS serving as Noem’s de facto chief of staff. (Media reports have alleged the two are romantically involved, which they have both denied.) Lewandowski told ProPublica that he was not involved in the pier decision and that he was not in Naples during Noem’s visit.

For the first seven months of the Trump administration, the pier reconstruction was in bureaucratic purgatory. The city had long been struggling to secure the regulatory approvals it needed to start building, and emails suggest Trump’s wave of federal layoffs had made the process even slower. “These agencies are undergoing significant reorganizations and staff reductions,” a city official told a frustrated constituent in early August. That “sometimes means starting over with new reviewers — something we’ve faced more than once.”

McLaughlin said “both past FEMA and the City bear responsibility” for the delays. She listed “several failures” since the process started in 2023, including “FEMA staff changing up” and indecision by the city government.

By this summer, Naples officials were getting desperate. In June, one tried to enlist Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., to press FEMA to move ahead. “We were told yesterday that Secretary Noem would have to ‘personally’ approve the Pier project before FEMA funding would be obligated,” the city official wrote to the senator’s staff. The Naples mayor, Teresa Heitmann, also personally wrote to FEMA. Heitmann said she was “perplexed” by the delays and begged the agency for guidance.

Heitmann had long been paying expensive Washington consultants to help her city navigate the process. But she was “feeling increasingly helpless,” she later said, until she had the idea that would finally put her project on the fast track. On July 18, the mayor emailed a Google search to herself: “Who is the head of Homeland security?” She was going to go straight to Noem.

Heitmann determined that her best bet for getting Noem’s attention was Gursoy. A Naples cardiologist, Gursoy has no obvious experience working with the federal government; much of his online footprint centers on his enthusiasm for pinball. But Gursoy gave Noem at least $25,000 to support her campaign for governor in 2022. That was enough to put him near the top of Noem’s disclosed donor list. (In South Dakota, campaign contributions remain relatively small.)

On planning documents for the 2024 Republican National Convention obtained by ProPublica, the Florida doctor is listed as an attendee affiliated with the delegation from South Dakota, a state he has no apparent connection to besides his support for Noem. Heitmann told ProPublica that Gursoy introduced her to Noem at a political event at a private home in Naples while Noem was governor.

“Hello it’s Teresa,” the mayor texted Gursoy in early August. “I really need your help.” She explained the tangle of bureaucracy she’d been contending with. “FEMA is holding us up,” Heitmann wrote. “Kristi Noem could put some fire under the FEMA employees slacking.”

Gursoy responded: “Okay. I will get on it.”

The next week, on Aug. 11, the doctor gave Heitmann an update. “Kristi was off for a few days for the first time in a long time, so I left her alone,” he said. “I just txted her now.” Within 24 hours, he had exciting news. He told the mayor to expect a call from Noem’s “FEMA fixer” shortly.

The identity of the “fixer” is not clear, but by Aug. 27, Naples officials were seeing a “flurry of activity” from Noem’s agency. That day, a FEMA staffer told the city that “FEMA is intending to expedite the funding” for the pier. “Secretary Noem took immediate action when I reached out to ask for help,” the mayor soon posted on Facebook.

Two days later, Noem flew to Naples. Her schedule listed a 30-minute walk-through at the pier with the mayor, followed by a nail salon appointment and dinner at Bleu Provence, which serves wagyu short ribs and seared foie gras. Noem then stayed through the weekend at the four-star Naples Bay Resort & Marina. Heitmann told ProPublica she wasn’t at the French dinner but Gursoy was. “I didn’t ask her to come, but she showed up,” the mayor told the local news. “I was very impressed.”

Before she left town, Noem posted about the Naples pier on Instagram. She was finally getting the project back on track, she said. “Americans deserve better than years of red tape and failed disaster responses,” Noem wrote. “Under @POTUS Trump, this incompetency ends.”

PROPUBLICA IS A DEMOCRATIC MOUTHPIECE AND CONSTANT COMPLAINER….THEY BASICALLY HATE SMART WOMEN THAT TRUMP HAS APPOINTED, INSTEAD OF THE UGLY, AND STUPID ONES APPOINTED BY OBAMA, BIDEN AND OTHER “DUMBOCRATS”.

IOWA SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT WAS AN ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINAL EARNING $265,000!!

SHOCK: ICE Arrests Superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa, Public Schools – An Illegal Alien Fugitive From Guyana with Prior Weapons Arrest

ICE agents on Friday arrested the Superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa, Public Schools – an illegal alien from Guyana with a prior weapons arrest.

According to Fox News, Dr. Ian Andre Roberts was an active ICE fugitive with a deportation order since May 2024. As soon as ICE agents identified themselves, Roberts fled in his car and sped off. He then abandoned his car and fled on foot. Federal agents found him hiding in shrubbery and took him into custody.

Agents found a loaded handgun and a fixed-blade hunting knife in Roberts’ vehicle.

A senior ICE official tells @FoxNews that today, ICE arrested the Superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa Public Schools, Dr. Ian Andre Roberts, who ICE says is an illegal alien from Guyana and active ICE fugitive with a deportation order since May 2024. Fox is told Dr. Roberts fled from ICE agents in his car once they ID’d themselves as immigration agents, speeding away, then abandoning the car. He was found in a brushy area 200 yards away with the help of an Iowa State Police K9. Per ICE official, agents found a loaded gun, a “fixed blade hunting knife”, and $3,000 cash in Dr. Robert’s vehicle.

Per senior ICE official, Roberts first entered the U.S. in 1999 on a F-1 student visa at St. John’s University was ordered removed from the United States on May 22, 2024, with proceedings being held in absentia. On April 24, 2025, an Immigration Judge in Dallas, TX denied a Motion to Reopen his immigration case.

Fox is told Dr. Roberts also has a weapons arrest in 2020, though the disposition of that charge/case is currently unclear.

Dr. Ian Roberts, the Des Moines Public Schools superintendent arrested by ICE, was earning an annual salary of $265,000. He began his tenure on July 1, 2023, and was placed on administrative leave following his arrest in September 2025.

Fox News is reporting that ICE agents recovered a loaded Glock 19 in Roberts’ vehicle.

Full statement from ICE:

ICE arrests criminal alien serving as Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent; prior weapons charges and in possession of loaded handgun at time of arrest

“ICE Des Moines today arrested Ian Andre Roberts, a criminal illegal alien from Guyana in possession of a loaded handgun, $3,000 in cash and a fixed blade hunting knife. At the time of his arrest Roberts was working as the Superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools despite being an illegal alien with a final order of removal and no work authorization.

During a targeted enforcement operation on Sept. 26, 2025, officers approached Roberts in his vehicle after identifying himself, but he sped away. Officers later discovered his vehicle abandoned near a wooded area. State Patrol assisted in locating the subject and he was taken into ICE custody.

Roberts has existing weapon possession charges from February 5, 2020. Roberts entered the United States in 1999 on a student visa and was given a final order of removal by an immigration judge in May of 2024.

The investigation into how Roberts acquired the handgun is being turned over to the ATF. It is a violation of federal law for those in the U.S. without legal status to possess a firearm and ammunition.

“This suspect was arrested in possession of a loaded weapon in a vehicle provided by Des Moines Public Schools after fleeing federal law enforcement,” said ICE ERO St. Paul Field Office Director Sam Olson. “This should be a wake-up call for our communities to the great work that our officers are doing every day to remove public safety threats. How this illegal alien was hired without work authorization, a final order of removal, and a prior weapons charge is beyond comprehension and should alarm the parents of that school district.”

ICE is grateful for the assistance of the Iowa State Patrol in apprehending this subject.”

RUSSIAN SOLDIERS, WHO WANT TO LEAVE THE WAR ZONE, ARE SIMPLY SHOT, WHAT A GREAT WAY TO MOTIVATE TO JOIN THE MILITARY!

Ukrainian intelligence has once again intercepted communications of the Russian military, in which a commander orders fire on his own troops, according to a post by the Defense Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on Telegram.

Soldiers of the Defense Intelligence intercepted another conversation of the Russian military in the Donetsk region. The Russian commander orders the execution of subordinates who try to retreat from their positions.

“There’s no way to retreat, none! No one is retreating anywhere, d*** it! I’m telling you again, d*** it: if anyone tries to run off, f****** shoot them. We are moving only forward, f****** h***, only forward, d*** it,” the Russian commander says.

In addition, Ukrainian intelligence emphasized in their post that the Russian troops will face just retribution for every crime committed against the Ukrainian people.

Defense Intelligence interception

Earlier, we reported that Ukrainian intelligence intercepted a conversation of the Russian forces in which they admitted to maiming their own soldiers when they tried to flee the battlefield. From the conversation, it appears that their comrade with broken limbs would be used as “bait” for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense previously published a conversation in which a relative of one of the Russian military revealed that out of 25 Russian soldiers in the war against Ukraine, only two remained alive.

In addition, the Defense Intelligence published a recording of the Russian military’s conversations in which a Russian commander in the Novopavlivka direction orders his subordinates to force Ukrainian soldiers to surrender and then kill them.

PUTIN IS SURE WINNING THE HEARTS OF HIS PEOPLE!

$2.2 BILLION, AGAIN WASTED, ON POINTLESS GREEN ENERGY PLANT!

Seen from the sky, the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert resembles a futuristic dream.

Viewed from the bottom line, however, Ivanpah is anything but.

The solar power plant, which features three 459-foot towers and thousands of computer-controlled mirrors known as heliostats, cost some $2.2 billion to build.

Construction began in 2010 and was completed in 2014. Now it’s set to close in 2026 after failing to efficiently generate solar energy.

In 2011, the US Department of Energy under President Barack Obama issued $1.6 billion in three federal loan guarantees for the project and the secretary of energy, Ernest Moniz, hailed it as “an example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.”

But ultimately, it’s been more emblematic of profligate government spending and unwise bets on poorly conceived, quickly outdated technologies.

“Ivanpah stands as a testament to the waste and inefficiency of government subsidized energy schemes,”Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, an American energy advocacy group, told Fox News via statement this past February. It “never lived up to its promises, producing less electricity than expected, while relying on natural gas to stay operational.”

When Ivanpah began operating in 2014, it ranked as the world’s largest solar plant. It seemed like a viable solution to California’s renewable energy goals of employing affordable and efficient technology to reduce the need for fossil fuels.

Located near the California-Nevada border, 65 miles southwest of Las Vegas, the plant’s glowing towers are as striking as some casinos on the Strip.

The facility’s 5 square miles of desert were covered with some 173,500 heliostats, adjusted via computer to catch maximum rays. The computer-controlled mirrors can reflect light from the sun at temperatures that can reach 1,000 degrees in part of the installment.

“The idea was that you could use the sun to produce a heat source,” alternative energy consultant Edward Smeloff told The Post. “The mirrors reflect heat from the sun up to a receiver, which is mounted on top of the tower. That heats a fluid. It creates steam [that spins] a conventional steam turbine. It is complicated.”

Though it sounds like a bit of a Rube Goldberg contraption — and looks like an art installation — Ivanpah was a cutting-edge idea for a while. But, as the market changed, it couldn’t compete with newer and less expensive forms of creating solar power.

“It simply did not scale up,” said Smeloff. “It’s kind of an obsolete technology [that’s] been outpaced by solar photovoltaic technology.”

That tech uses semiconductor material to transform sunlight into energy in a streamlined process. The solar panels you see on many residential rooftops or in endless rows across the desert rely on the technology.

A statement from NRG Energy, the Texas-based company that was an Ivanpah partner and the largest investor, having put up $300 million, agrees with Smeloff’s view.

“When the power purchase agreements were signed in 2009, the prices were competitive, but advancements over time … have led to more efficient, cost-effective and flexible options for producing reliable clean energy,” a company statement read.

Ivanpah hasn’t just been inefficient and expensive — it’s been deadly for wildlife.

According to the Association of Avian Veterinarians, the power plant “is believed to be responsible for at least 6,000 bird deaths each year.”

They get fried “if they fly in the area where the reflection is going up to the tower,” Smeloff explained

But maybe it didn’t have to be that way. A report published by World Economic Forum earlier this year noted that private investors can be more nimble with new technologies than the government.

“Unlike public market investors, private equity firms can implement transformative changes through hands-on management and aligned incentives,” the report read.

Steven Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute and former Trump EPA transition team member, agrees.

“No green project relying on taxpayer subsidies has ever made any economic or environmental sense,” he said. “It’s important that President Trump stop the taxpayer bleeding by ending what he accurately calls the Green New Scam.”

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People are irate about a cowboy’s very blunt sign as they try to remove it — BIG mistake

eople are irate about a cowboy’s very blunt sign as they try to remove it — BIG mistake

A Florida seafood restaurant owner was so fed up with what he’d seen that he got off the fence for the first time to share exactly how he felt by posting four blunt phrases on the sign outside his business.

Not concerned with who he would offend, he got more than he expected when certain people saw it, but the cowboy had a surprise for them.

People are irate about a cowboy's very blunt sign as they try to remove it — BIG mistake

William “Bill” Davis has been in the business of serving the people of Sarasota the freshest seafood around and providing friendly customer service for years at Barnacle Bill’s Seafood Restaurant. Being in a public business, Bill said he’s always kept his opinions to himself but couldn’t do it anymore after seeing what Democrats were trying to do.

The conservative didn’t want any liberals telling him how to live, so he put a special message on his marquee. To say that it didn’t go over well with those who have different political views is a bit of an understatement. When those who oppose his sentiments tried to retaliate, it backfired on them.