We'll miss you, Kail, promise — if we remember to.

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one of 21 million, but you gotta start somewhere

Illegal alien cut loose in plea deal after raping sleeping woman — but then the feds stepped in

An Ecuadorian migrant cut a deal with Queens prosecutors that allowed him to dodge jail time for rape — but he couldn’t outrun the feds.

Kail Cardenas, 27, was picked up by federal agents in Jamaica Monday morning, less than a month after he was freed in the horrifying 2023 rape and sex abuse case….

According to federal immigration sources, Cardenas arrived in the US from Ecuador on a visitor visa in September 2016 but remained in the country after his legal status expired in July 2021.

The illegal migrant was accused of molesting a woman who passed out at an apartment party in Jamaica on Jan. 29, 2023. The victim told authorities she woke up as Cardenas was raping her, according to the criminal complaint in the case.

…. The victim told authorities she woke up as Cardenas was raping her, according to the criminal complaint in the case, according to reports.

Cardenas was arrested and charged with first-degree rape and first-degree sexual assault.

He could have faced between five and 25 years behind bars if convicted of the top charge.

But Cardenas was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser third-degree rape charge as part of a deal that required him to complete one year of sex offender counseling — and would serve no jail time if he passed.

Cardenas was sentenced on January 13 to time already served in jail and released — with the court issuing an order of protection for him to stay away from the victim, records show. The charge was then knocked down to third-degree sexual abuse, a misdemeanor.

The free ride ended with Monday’s bust by a coalition of federal agencies, sources said.

The Deep State war is just heating up

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the same strategy will triumph again

WIRED Doxxed DOGE Engineers; Now They Are Being Hunted

David Strom:

The war on DOGE has intensified. 

As Elon Musk and crew start tearing down the Deep State, the Deep State is striking back by calling for DOGE employees to be literally hunted by leftist activists. 

Bluesky is the "nice" and "moderated" social media platform where all the "best people" avoid the nastiness and Nazi-like behavior on X, and they are so concerned about the Nazification of the US by people who are shrinking the grifting Deep State that they are calling for the death of DOGE employees. 

As government employees try to lock out DOGE investigators, outside agitators are ramping up the outside war on government accountability. 

WIRED is the Pravda Media outlet pushing the narrative that government accountability is "infiltration," as if the agents of the elected President of the United States who RAN on DOGE are invaders and the bureaucrats are the legitimate government. Pravda feeds the outside brownshirts the information on who to target, and those brownshirts go out and do the dirty work. 

And this:

If you doubt that the #resistance is working day and night to frustrate government accountability, James O'Keefe has yet another investigative report on a DHS manager explaining how bureaucrats avoid doing what they are assigned. 

But then there’s this: “Sod off, Swampy.”

I was wrong to doubt him, and I'm so glad I was.

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Canada announces US tariffs on hold for 30 days after Justin Trudeau holds ‘good phone call with President Trump’

Trump, 78, and Trudeau, 53, spoke on the phone twice Monday before announcing the agreement, with Canada set to ensure 10,000 troops will be stationed at the northern border and the PM vowing to take steps to crack down on fentanyl smuggling.

Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, and now Canada. Four countries, three days. Biden and his Border Tsar had four years, and accomplished nothing, deliberately.

They couldn't delay construction and await better technology because we were already two years past the deadline for the world to end; that, and there were pockets waiting to be lined

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11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What was once the world’s largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green energy sources. Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises.

The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed at the time as a breakthrough moment for clean energy, its power has been struggling to compete with cheaper solar technologies.

Pacific Gas & Electric said in a statement it had agreed with owners — including NRG Energy Inc. — to terminate its contracts with the Ivanpah plant. If approved by regulators, the deal would lead to closing two of the plant’s three units starting in 2026. The contracts were expected to run through 2039.

The plant appears likely to become a high-profile loser in the race to develop new types of clean energy in the era of climate change.

The Ivanpah plant uses a technology known as solar-thermal, or concentrated solar, in which nearly 350,000 computer-controlled mirrors roughly the size of a garage door reflect sunlight to boilers atop 459-foot towers. The sun’s power is used to heat water in the boilers’ tubes and make steam, which drives turbines to create electricity.

NRG said in a statement that the project was successful, but unable to compete with rival photovoltaic solar technology — such as rooftop panels — which have much lower capital and operating costs.

Initially “the prices were competitive but advancements over time in photovoltaics and battery storage have led to more efficient, cost effective and flexible options for producing reliable clean energy,” NRG added.

A post on the PG&E website said that Ivanpah’s “technology had worked on a smaller scale in Europe.” But over time, it couldn’t match the lower prices of photovoltaic technology.

The plant has long been criticized for the environmental tradeoffs that came with large-scale energy production in the sensitive desert region. Rays from the plant’s mirrors have been blamed for incinerating thousands of birds. Conservation groups tried to stop construction on the site because of threats to tortoises.

“The Ivanpah plant was a financial boondoggle and environmental disaster,” Julia Dowell of the Sierra Club said in an email.

“Along with killing thousands of birds and tortoises, the project’s construction destroyed irreplaceable pristine desert habitat along with numerous rare plant species,” Dowell said. “While the Sierra Club strongly supports innovative clean energy solutions and recognizes the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels, Ivanpah demonstrated that not all renewable technologies are created equal.”

There were other early problems. After its much-hyped opening, the plant didn’t produce as much electricity as expected for a simple reason: the sun wasn’t shining as much as expected.

The plant can be a startling sight for drivers heading toward Las Vegas from Southern California along busy Interstate 15. Amid miles of rock and scrub, its vast array of mirrors can create the image of a shimmering lake atop the desert floor, but depending on the angle of the sun and mirrors, it could also be blinding.

If the PG&E agreement is approved, NRG said the units will be decommissioned, “providing an opportunity for the site to potentially be repurposed for renewable (photovoltaic) energy production.” The company did not respond to questions about the projected cost or what would become of the equipment at the site.