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[ad_1] It ought to be a pretty optimistic time for Democrats. Donald Trump’s in a deep hole, and his only answer is to ask for more shovels. The House seems likely to tip back toward Democrats, redistricting shenanigans notwithstanding, and strong Senate candidates in a bunch of reliably red states — Ohio, Texas, North Carolina, Alaska — have put the Senate firmly in play as well. Arguments over wokeness and wealth taxes have been tabled in favor of hammering Trump over gas prices and rampant corruption. Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] In an online ad viewed millions of times, Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico appears to be wearing a dress and singing about transgender children. Citizens for Sanity, a conservative nonprofit group, published the ad, showing Talarico wearing an outfit similar to Julie Andrews’ in “The Sound of Music.” In the ad, he sings a loose parody of the movie’s song “My Favorite Things,” with revised lyrics: “Boys in white dresses with blue satin sashes, girls dosed with hormones ’til they grow mustaches, changing the gender of all your offspring, these are a few of my favorite things.” The…

[ad_1] Let’s say a government agency pays for a study and is involved in the design, data collection, analysis, writing, and interpretation of that study. Would you find it plausible that the agency had zero influence on the results? In 2025, the academic journal Tobacco Control published just such a study. The paper investigated what happened when two California towns, Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, became the first U.S. cities to ban all tobacco products. The study tried to determine prohibition’s impact on sales of both tobacco and non-tobacco products, both in the cities themselves and in surrounding neighborhoods. It…

[ad_1] Kathy Gannon Substack The statement that came out of the first day of meetings in Switzerland between Iran and the United States announced a number of committees or cells, including the “de-confliction” cell. What does that even mean? Merriam-Webster offers up one definition: “The coordination of flights, maneuvers, etc. between groups especially in areas where overlapping operations are occurring in order to reduce the risk of accidents or incidents.” Or the same dictionary offered up as an example of how it would be used: “Deconfliction is how friendly forces keep out of each other’s way,” John Bolton. Now…

[ad_1] Stealing land is an American tradition, but these days it isn’t just the buffalo being driven off a cliff; it’s everyone. Data centers have sprouted into existence across the country, against the will of the people, to drain energy and water resources from the local communities. Meanwhile, Bill Gates is systematically acquiring farmland at a record pace, while his investments in synthetic meats go belly up. ICE was also building two dozen detention facilities across the country into its own version of FEMA Camps. It appears that Big Tech and the State are actively at war against the American…

[ad_1] Dan Moraff rushed vetting of the Maine Senate candidate. He says he’s trying to blow up the way Democrats run campaigns. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Nathan Firun (WW II-era photos). (NA)   Today is the 85th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on the Soviet Union, in 1941. Virtually all my then-living relatives were caught up in the war in one way or another. But none more immediately than my grandfather Nathan Firun, who was 17 at the time. This is a shortened version of his story of that time, which he recounted to me in 2011. He hated talking about his experiences in World War II, and only after much effort did I persuade him to tell this story: Nathan was a graduate…

[ad_1] Juan Cole  Fars News reported on comments by Iranian negotiator Hossein Ghorbanzadeh about the course of the talks on Sunday at the Burgenstock Resort near Lucerne, Switzerland. He indicated that real progress was made on some issues, especially the conditional lifting of US sanctions on Iranian oil and petroleum products, saying that draft language to that effect will soon be finalized and then put into practice. (It might be noted that only Congress can permanently lift sanctions, but that in the case of Syria Trump has been issuing serial 6-month waivers on sanctions from the executive branch.) Ghorbanzadeh said…

[ad_1] Prime Minister Keir Starmer has had his share of humiliations in recent weeks and months, but perhaps the worst and final insult was seeing his resignation today pre-announced yesterday by President Donald Trump on Truth Social. He had “failed,” was the president’s assessment. Only a year ago, Starmer was being called the “Trump Whisperer” because of his apparently cordial relations with the mercurial leader. That all went wrong during the Iran conflict, when the PM refused to get involved in offensive operations. The Donald said he was “not Winston Churchill.” Yet standing apart from the Iran adventure has been…

[ad_1] Oil refinery, Ashland, Kentucky. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Another week, another court ruling that the Trump administration illegally withheld Congressionally appropriated funding from communities. This time, the funding in question comes from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program. In 2022, Congress enacted the Inflation Reduction Act, appropriating $2.8 billion in financial assistance to support environmental and climate justice initiatives. The funding, administered through Community Change Grants, was allocated to projects such as a collaboration between Texas A&M University and the Black Belt Unincorporated Wastewater Program to install wastewater treatment systems for households in…