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On the surface there are no three politicians more different than John Cornyn, Thomas Massie, and Bill Cassidy, the three Republican lawmakers whose current stints in Congress were recently ended by President Donald Trump. Massie is the only one of this trio who might have a political future. Although he lost by nearly 10 points, he won a shade more than 45 percent of the vote to Cornyn’s 36 percent and Cassidy’s just under 25 percent. But the truth is, Trump has never cared much for either the GOP establishment institutionalists like Cornyn and Cassidy or the strict constitutionalists of…
Californians will face two competing tax measures this November. The first is the Billionaire Tax Act, a onetime, 5 percent levy on the accumulated net worth of the state’s richest residents. Lesser known is the Retirement and Personal Savings Protection Act, which would draw constitutional lines around what Sacramento can and cannot tax, prohibiting new levies on retirement accounts, personal savings, and individually owned assets and banning retroactive taxation. Everyone with even just a little bit of money set aside—not just the California billionaires targeted by the wealth tax—should understand what these two measures represent. Start with the Billionaire Tax…
Democrat James Talarico may win – and the president weakened his hold over the GOP Source link
Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. 962 days since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began, and 227 days since a ceasefire took effect through the implementation of the first phase of Donald Trump’s “Peace Plan”, Nickolay Mladenov, the Bulgarian former UN official who is now the “High Representative of Gaza” in Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace”, has alarmed those seeking a balance between Israel’s obligations under the ceasefire deal and an acceptable response by Hamas by telling the UN Security Council on May 21 that Hamas was the “principal obstacle” to the continued implementation of the next phase of the “Peace Plan”…
President Trump has a way of making his political adversaries adopt new heroes. Source link
The Democrat Autopsy and Where the Party's Focus Should Be Source link
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In early May 2026, three pro‑Palestine candidates in French municipal races were hit with a coordinated smear campaign built on lies, synthetic identities and anonymous digital attacks, which French authorities and platform investigators traced back to an Israeli influence construct and the wider cyber‑operations infrastructure behind it. In Marseille, QR codes directed passers‑by to a blog accusing La France insoumise deputy and mayoral candidate Sébastien Delogu of sexual harassment. In Toulouse and Roubaix, similar websites and social media accounts pushed fabricated allegations against François Piquemal and David Guiraud, backed by fake testimonies and AI‑generated visuals. The targets were carefully chosen, and…
Trump Still Thinks He's Winning in Iran Source link
GLP-1s and the Limits of Knowing Better Source link
Trump says he wants “few people killed,” then talks like bombing Iran is a weekly calendar event. That contradiction is where we start, because the public narrative around the Iran war keeps snapping from all-out threats to last-minute “negotiations” as deadlines magically extend. I walk through why that cycle looks less like strategy and more like a president boxed in by bad options, public messaging, and allies with their own priorities. From there, we get into the part most outlets blur: the difference between political victory laps and what US intelligence and reporting suggest on the ground. If Iran can…