(Patriot TV)—Attorney General Pam Bondi has terminated the employment of a Department of Justice paralegal after evidence emerged of her repeatedly disrespecting National Guard troops stationed in Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Baxter, who worked in the environmental defense section, was removed from her position effective immediately following an investigation that included witness accounts and security footage.
According to NY Post: “Baxter arrived for work at the DOJ’s ‘4CON’ building in the NoMa district of Washington, DC, at 8.21 a.m. on Aug. 18, and boasted to a DOJ security guard that she had just made the obscene gesture to a guardsman at Metro Center Metro Stop and said, ‘F–k the National Guard,’ according to Bondi.”
The incidents occurred amid heightened security measures in the capital, where President Trump deployed hundreds of National Guard members earlier this month to address what he described as a crime emergency. This move included a temporary federal oversight of the city’s police department, a decision that followed similar deployments to Los Angeles and threats of intervention in Chicago.
Trump highlighted the initiative’s early results on Truth Social, posting, “DC will soon be a CRIME FREE ZONE, in only 14 days, far faster than scheduled.” Despite data showing violent crime at a 30-year low in the district last year, the administration has prioritized aggressive law enforcement reforms to restore order.
According to details from the probe, Baxter arrived at the DOJ’s “4CON” building in the NoMa neighborhood on August 18 and bragged to a security guard about an encounter at the Metro Center station, stating, “F–k the National Guard.” Security cameras later captured her extending her middle finger toward Guard members while exclaiming, “F–k you!” A week later, on August 25, she reiterated her disdain to the same guard, claiming she hated the National Guard and had told them to “F–k off!”
Bondi’s termination letter to Baxter cited “inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members,” specifying, “You are removed from your position of Paralegal Specialist, GS-0950-11, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and from the federal service, effective immediately.” In a statement, Bondi emphasized the department’s priorities: “Today, I took action to terminate a DOJ employee for inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members in DC.” She added, “This DOJ remains committed to defending President Trump’s agenda and fighting to make America safe again. If you oppose our mission and disrespect law enforcement — you will NO LONGER work at DOJ.”
A DOJ spokesperson confirmed the dismissal, noting in a social media post, “Very simple: if you don’t support law enforcement, @AGPamBondi’s DOJ might not be a good fit.” The action aligns with broader efforts to streamline the federal workforce, including plans outlined in the president’s 2026 budget to reduce non-defense agency positions by over 100,000 jobs, targeting areas like Education, Labor, and Housing. By year’s end, the administration anticipates a net reduction of around 300,000 federal employees compared to January levels.
This case echoes another recent termination at the DOJ. Earlier in August, paralegal Sean Charles Dunn was fired after allegedly hurling a Subway sandwich at a Border Protection officer in D.C.’s U Street area while shouting, “F—k you! You f—king fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!”
Bondi addressed that incident on social media, stating, “This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ. You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement.” Dunn faced misdemeanor assault charges after a grand jury declined to indict on felony counts.
These dismissals underscore the administration’s zero-tolerance stance on behavior that undermines law enforcement and national security priorities, as federal agencies continue to realign under new leadership.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.