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No matter how hard the Iranians try to pretend they have the upper hand in negotiations to end hostilities with the US, the inescapable reality is that the ayatollahs desperately need to seal a deal -… Source link
Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt opened up about his run for mayor of Los Angeles in an exclusive interview with CBS News. Source link
Photo by William Bossen on Unsplash When Stalin wanted to get rid of someone, he didn’t just have them executed with a shot to the back of the head. He attempted to remove the offending person from history as well by excising their name from encyclopedias and airbrushing their image from photographs. In one infamous photo of two dozen Communist leaders from 1920, so many of them were declared “enemies of the people” in subsequent years that the official photo ended up with only Lenin and writer Maxim Gorky standing on the steps of a conspicuously empty porch. In other altered snapshots,…
Dems Scheme To 'Fix' VA Gerrymander Fail a Worse Outrage Source link
UK Election Heralds a New Era in Devolved Politics Source link
If I were a UFO enthusiast, someone who believes that some UFOs (now UAPs) are aliens visiting the Earth and that the US government knows this and is covering it up, I would be really disappointed. I might engage in some serious motivated reasoning to convince myself that the recent release of documents by the Pentagon was somehow dramatic, but down deep how could you escape crushing devastation. Lucy once again put the football out there for Charlie Brown and then yanked it. Trump wrote that his administration will, “begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to…
For most of modern history, money has been treated as something constant—something stable enough to build entire lives around. We plan futures with it, measure success through it, and depend on it for survival. But there is a hidden assumption behind all of this: that money will always be available, always moving, always functioning. That assumption has failed before. And the uncomfortable reality is that the conditions forming today look disturbingly familiar—just dressed in a more advanced, more controlled system. Deflation is often misunderstood as simply “falling prices,” but in reality, it is something far more dangerous. It is what…
After Virginia’s Supreme Court rejected Democratic redistricting, a proposal to force justices into early retirement sparks court-packing concerns. Source link
President Donald Trump’s most recent pick for the office of U.S. Surgeon General, Nicole Saphier, is a source of tension between the MAGA and MAHA factions of his supporters. Given that she’s the president’s third pick for the slot, the administration would undoubtedly just like to put disputes over this one office behind them. But there’s an easy path to a conflict-free resolution: The Trump administration could leave the Office of the Surgeon General unfilled and push for its abolition. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get more of J.D.’s commentary on government overreach and threats…
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Kate Morrissey for Capital and Main Elenilson Armando Coto Delgado believed that he would be imminently deported to El Salvador when he had a medical emergency in late April while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Coto Delgado feared that the Salvadoran government would send him to a notorious prison called Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, where guards have…