BREAKING: Plane in Philadelphia Crashes into row of Houses

A plane has crashed into homes in Philadelphia, causing a massive explosion and multiple casualties. 

Nick Sortor reported on X, ” A plane has just crashed into a row of houses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”

“A massive fire has broken out, and casualties are being reported,” he added. “HUGE emergency response underway.”

Sortor shared updates on the massive blaze:

Additional footage from the crash shows the airplane barreling down into the houses “like a freaking MISSILE,” said Sortor.

This comes after an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a US military helicopter on Wednesday night.

President Trump has blamed incompetence and DEI hiring practices as a potential cause of Wednesday’s tragedy. The president addressed the crash during a press conference Thursday and pointed out the disastrous record of Pete Buttigieg, the DEI hire and former Transportation Secretary.

Per 6abc:

An investigation is underway after a small plane crashed in the area of Northeast Philadelphia.

It happened near Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard just after 6 p.m. Friday.

Action News has learned a plane possibly hit several buildings and cars in the area.

Multiple casualties have been reported.

This is a developing story.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/breaking-plane-philadelphia-crashes-row-houses-video/

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“All Options are On the Table” – Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth Opens Door to Strikes Against Drug Cartels in Mexico

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to rule out the possibility of military action against Mexican drug cartels.

In an interview with Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends on Friday morning, Hegseth said that “all options are on the table” when it came to dealing with foreign terrorist organizations.

Here is a transcript of the exchange:

KILMEADE: “If we find that they continue to fire at Border Control and they continue to put fentanyl into our country, as a secretary of defense, are you permitted now to go after them in Mexico or where they are?”

HEGSETH: Brian, I don’t want to get ahead of the president and I won’t. That’s ultimately going to be his decision.

But let me be clear. All options will be on the table if we’re dealing with what are designated to be foreign terrorist organizations who are specifically targeting Americans on our border.

We’re finally securing our border. We’ve been securing other people’s border for a very long time. The military is orienting, shifting toward an understanding of homeland defense on our sovereign territorial border.

That is something we will do and do robustly. So we’re already doing it. Should there be other options necessary to prevent the cartels from continuing to pour people gangs and drugs and violence into our country — we will take that on.

So the president will make that call. I’ll work with him in that decision making process. Ultimately, we will hold nothing back to secure the American people.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order designating cartels and other organizations as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations and specially designated global terrorists.”

This order has led to fundamental changes in how law enforcement is allowed to handle counter-narcotics investigations because authorities are granted additional powers when dealing with terrorists or those deemed a threat to national security.

The order stated:

The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only destabilized countries with significant importance for our national interests but also flooded the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs.

The Cartels functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States.  In certain portions of Mexico, they function as quasi-governmental entities, controlling nearly all aspects of society.

The Cartels’ activities threaten the safety of the American people, the security of the United States, and the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.

Their activities, proximity to, and incursions into the physical territory of the United States pose an unacceptable national security risk to the United States.

Hegseth, meanwhile, is still adjusting to being in charge of the Pentagon after he was confirmed to the role by a 51-50 vote in the Senate in which Vice President J.D. Vance acted as a tiebreaker.

All Democrats voted against Hegseth’s nomination, while RINOs Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski also refused to support him.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/defense-sec-pete-hegseth-opens-door-military-force/

BREAKING: Elon Musk aides have LOCKED Govt officials out of sensitive computer systems

It’s just being reported that aides to Elon Musk have locked career government officials out of computer systems containing sensitive data.

This is happening in the Office of Personnel Management, and those running the agency say there is no oversight into what these career officials are doing and that it “creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications.”

Here’s more from Reuters:

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

Since taking office 11 days ago, President Donald Trump has embarked on a massive government makeover, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants in his first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists.

Geez Louise, you gotta love how these liberals in the garbage media attack Trump’s efforts by saying he’s doing this to “install more loyalists”. No, he’s getting rid of disloyalists! Yes, he is downsizing the government, but he’s also getting rid of people who can’t be trusted and may work to sabotage his efforts to make America great again.

It continues:

Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO and X owner tasked by Trump to slash the size of the 2.2 million-strong civilian government workforce, has moved swiftly to install allies at the agency known as the Office of Personnel Management.

The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department’s data systems.

The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.

“We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,” one of the officials said. “That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications.”

Officials affected by the move can still log on and access functions such as email but can no longer see the massive datasets that cover every facet of the federal workforce.

Musk, OPM, representatives of the new team, and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The garbage media is essentially operating in outrage mode now because of these firings, but they are essential. President Trump was sabotaged over and over in his first term and he’s for damned sure not going to allow that to happen again.

https://therightscoop.com/breaking-elon-musk-aides-have-locked-govt-officials-out-of-sensitive-computer-systems/

FBI Is Still Stalling and Refuses to Turn Over the Seth Rich Records – The Information Could Take Down Democrat Party for a Generation

 This article is thanks to ricepaddydaddy!

Seth Rich

The FBI is stalling again. The world’s top intelligence agency is still refusing to turn over the Seth Rich records to Attorney Ty Clevenger.

Attorney Ty Clevenger is the bulldog attorney who has been working for years to get to the bottom of the Seth Rich murder. His requests continue to be denied by the FBI. Kash Patel cannot be sworn in as FBI Director soon enough!

Clevenger previously investigated who supplied the DNC and Podesta emails to Wikileaks during the 2016 election cycle. This was always the key to the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense.  No proof was ever offered up by the fake news legacy media, Democrats, or the intelligence community involving this scandal. If Russia did not supply the DNC emails to WikiLeaks then this was more proof that the DOJ’s Russia collusion story was a complete lie used to fool the American public.

Seth Rich was a DNC operative who was mysteriously murdered in the summer of 2016 weeks before Wikileaks released their Clinton email investigation. The murder is still unsolved.

After years of denying they had anything related to Seth Rich, the FBI and DOJ were caught lying over and over again.  In September 2023, a judge finally demanded the FBI and DOJ provide all they had regarding Seth Rich to Attorney Clevenger. The FBI responded requesting another 66 years before releasing the information. They wanted it moved out like the JFK assassination reports.

Then in late November 2023, a Federal Judge ruled the FBI must hand over evidence regarding former DNC employee Seth Rich’s murder to Ty Clevenger.

No media outlet has covered the Seth Rich story as extensively as The Gateway Pundit.

But since the November 2023 court order the FBI has completely dug in in the coverup of the Seth Rich murder. Chris Wray’s FBI continues to defy the court and will not release the laptop computer.

On Thursday, Attorney Ty Clevenger released a string of tweets on the latest in the Seth Rich investigation.

Could it be that the Seth Rich computer confirms that he leaked the Hillary Clinton emails to Wikileaks as its founder Julian Assange implied?

The American people deserve to know the truth about this horrific murder and political scandal.

The US Senate MUST confirm Kash Patel as the next FBI Directer. And Kash must expose the facts of this scandal once and for all.

Could it be that the FBI blamed Russia for leaking the emails when they knew that was not the truth? There was no computer hack. The emails were leaked.

And could this explain Seth Rich’s mysterious death?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/fbi-is-still-stalling-refuses-turn-seth-rich/

Lawsuit: Oregon SOS Destroyed ERIC Records Showing Wrongfully-Removed Voters

A legal group is suing the Oregon secretary of state, claiming the office destroyed records showing voters inaccurately flagged for removal.

A conservative legal group is suing Oregon’s secretary of state for allegedly destroying records from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) indicating which voters have been wrongfully removed from the rolls.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a complaint Jan. 28 against Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read, a Democrat, for allegedly failing to keep data from ERIC that would show which voters the database had wrongfully marked as deceased and flagged for removal.

ERIC is an elections database and network that supposedly helps states clean their voter rolls through membership, but it has close ties to the left, as The Federalist previously reported. It has deemed dead voters as “eligible but unregistered” in the past.

PILF had been requesting “deceased retractions” reports throughout 2023 and 2024, according to a press release. ERIC issues these reports to member states, showing voters the database had inaccurately flagged as dead and needing removal. 

Oregon is a member of the network, so PILF requested “deceased retractions” reports in April 2024 from Democrat Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade. A staffer denied this request, saying officials do not keep the data. 

“We receive the data monthly; however we do not download and retain the data,” a public records analyst wrote in an email to PILF.

But the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 requires states to retain “all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities” for “ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters” for two years.

“Oregon thus does not maintain the ERIC Retraction Reports for two years as the NVRA’s Public Disclosure Provision requires,” PILF’s lawsuit reads.

Since Read has since replaced Griffin-Valade, he is now the defendant as PILF is suing the Oregon secretary of state in his official capacity.

“The NVRA requires document preservation and transparency,” said PILF President J. Christian Adams in the release. “This is a case that the Biden Justice Department should have brought, but instead private parties have been stuck enforcing federal election laws.”

Registering Noncitizens To Vote

State officials discovered in September that glitches and oversights in the Oregon DMV’s “motor voter system” had registered more than 300 noncitizens to vote since 2021. Griffin-Valade and Democrat Gov. Tina Kotek ordered limited audits of the issue, finding more than 1,600 potentially ineligible voters on the rolls. 

Officials concluded workers at the Oregon DMV made errors recording the forms of identification provided, leading the system to automatically register noncitizens to vote. As The Federalist previously reported, the Oregon DMV processed more than 54,600 registrations for voters of “unknown citizenship” from June 2021 to October 2024.

Months later, before Read took office, Oregon’s then-Elections Director Molly Woon and other top staffers in Griffin-Valade’s office resigned. 

Leftist Ties

The DMV only found it helped register noncitizens to vote because the leftist group Institute for Responsive Government (IRG) inquired about the state’s “motor voter” system, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive.

The IRG is a project of The New Venture Fund, of the leftist dark money network Arabella Advisors, according to InfluenceWatch. It issued “Zuckbucks”-style grants to local election offices ahead of November.

IRG Executive Director Sam Oliker-Friedland is chief counsel for the left-wing Center for Secure and Modern Elections, also under Arabella’s New Venture Fund. After finding Oregon’s “motor voter” system had registered noncitizens to vote, state officials including Woon planned a briefing call with CSME, according to emails obtained through a FOIA request by Oregon journalist Jeff Eager.

Following the 2020 election, Louisiana’s attorney general sued CSME and the Center for Tech and Civic Life — which are “closely connected” according to InfluenceWatch — alleging illegal interference. 

ERIC was founded by David Becker, who leads another group — the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR). Together, CEIR and the Center for Technology and Civic Life funneled close to $400 million from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to local election offices in 2020, boosting Democrat turnout. Meanwhile, ERIC helps register the “new American majority” — changing the existing electorate, which Becker has disparaged as “disproportionately white, disproportionately wealthy and disproportionately old.” 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/31/lawsuit-oregon-sos-destroyed-eric-records-showing-wrongfully-removed-voters/

President Trump Tells Senior FBI Agents To Clear Out Their Desks By Monday

As President Donald Trump continues to clear house within the Executive Branch, reports began to surface this week that several senior officials within the FBI were in his crosshairs.

Multiple sources reported that the bureau advised these agents that they could either retire, resign, or be fired as soon as early next week.

According to USA Today:

Trump has clashed with the FBI in the past, including when he issued blanket pardons to those charged or convicted in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, protest on Capitol Hill.

There was also the federal raid conducted on his personal residence at Mar-A-Lago in Florida:

Fox News reported on the Senate confirmation hearing going on as news began to surface about Trump’s ultimatum:

During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Patel said he is unaware of any plans of retribution by the Trump administration.

“Are you aware of any plans or discussions to punish in any way, including termination, FBI agents or personnel associated with Trump investigations?” asked Democratic Sen. Cory Booker.

“I am not aware of that, senator,” Patel replied.

Although Patel has been nominated, a director has not been officially confirmed to take charge, so the news of the ultimatum was alarming for those involved.

Until the vote comes to a close, Brian Driscoll remains the bureau’s acting director.

The FBI declined to comment when reached by Fox News.

Here’s a clip from one notable exchange during the hearing:

https://wltreport.com/2025/01/31/president-trump-tells-senior-fbi-agents-clear-their/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=president-trump-tells-senior-fbi-agents-clear-their