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 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants Americans to see her as the new, steady, moderate voice who can lead the increasingly radical Democratic Party. She didn’t endorse the unhinged Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate, Francesca Hong, and in a recent interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, she laughed off “Woke 1.0” as a crazy fad that she has long since outgrown.  Eyeing a 2028 White House run, she now wants Americans to forget her talk of defunding the police, abolishing ICE, and insisting on terms like “pregnant people.” Bring any of that up now, and she says you’re engaging in “cancel culture.” Ok, fine. AOC…

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has pivoted his reelection campaign to center himself as a champion of affordability. Yet the Illinois Tollway Board he appoints, and serves on, is preparing to vote on the largest passenger toll increase in state history as soon as Aug. 19. The proposal would see passenger tolls rise by about 45 cents, or 57%, and commercial tolls rise by 30%. If approved, the hike would go into effect Jan. 1, and there would be automatic inflation-linked increases every two years, starting in 2029. The tollway board allowed for public comment, and 83% of the nearly 9,000…

If anyone were to be immune to America’s loneliness epidemic, it would be college students. For years, Americans have been going to fewer parties and spending more time alone. But college has historically been about socializing—or, let’s just say it, partying—as much as it has been about education. It’s where young people escape parental supervision, move in with roommates, and encounter thousands of potential new friends.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

Stansfield Smith, Popular Resistance. Many revolutions or socialist governments existed the 1970s besides Nicaragua that later lost power or abandoned their socialist ideology by the 1990s. These include Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Tanzania, Congo (Stanleyville), Afghanistan, Grenada, almost in El Salvador, Portugal, Spain, and Ethiopia. In addition, the Communist Soviet Union collapsed (now 15 countries), along with East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania. When the Sandinistas lost the 1990 election these other socialist leaderships were already disintegrating or had already been overturned. Only the Sandinistas continued the struggle and once again arose to…

Tuesday’s primary punctuates just how much Florida, once the nation’s largest swing state, has been transformed into a solidly Republican bastion. Source link

Wealth flight is a Mirage. There are More Billionaires and Multi-Millionaires than ever before Blake Fleetwood ScheerPost Despite the hyperbolic predictions, there has been very little wealth flight under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, even after the enactment of a pied-à-terre tax on second homes valued at $5 million or more. New York has far more billionaires and multimillionaires today than it did under any previous mayor. This new 1% tax is not discouraging the ultra-wealthy. The city is home to a staggering 123 billionaires. Together, they form the most exclusive private club in the world, with a combined net worth…

Trump Romances Kim Jong Un Again Source link

When I studied the First Amendment circa 2007, we struggled to reconcile two Establishment Clause cases decided on the same day. In McCreary County, the Court held that a display of the Ten Commandments posted on the wall of a courthouse was unconstitutional. And in Van Orden v. Perry, the Court held that a large stone monument of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Texas Capitol could remain. Justices O’Connor and Breyer cast the deciding votes in each case. In the latter decision, Justice Breyer worried what would happen if the people saw a large edifice on state property being…

Maximillian Alvarez TRNN In 2024, at the height of Israel’s US-backed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, one of the most widespread waves of college campus protests since the Vietnam War exploded across the United States. Then came the repressive backlash. Over the past two years, we’ve seen a harrowing assault on free speech and the right to protest from the federal government and Zionist organizations, and universities themselves have ramped up their own internal surveillance and repression machines, weaponizing them against their own students, grad students, and faculty. Life, learning, and activism on American college campuses looks very different…

They Should Be Weeping, Not Cheering in Massachusetts Source link