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Image: Wikipedia. Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary since 2010, suffered a humiliating defeat (April 12th) after a record turnout of roughly 77.8 percent. His challenger, the center-right candidate Péter Magyar and his Tisza party, won 136 of 199 seats in Hungary’s parliament, or about 68 percent. Hungarian and American academics, especially scientists in pursuit of truth, popped open bottles of champagne, spraying rooms across the land like baseball players winning the World Series. After all, Trump and his MAGA followers idolized Viktor Orbán. His record of achievement served as a template, but it’s gone down in flames. This is…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) calls out Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) for not getting the Save America Act passed in the Senate. On “Straight to the Point,” Luna told journalist Catherine Herridge that if Thune can’t get the legislation passed, he does “not deserve to come back to Congress.””I think the number one most important issue in the country right now is voter ID,” Luna told Herridge. “And if we can’t deliver on that, then people like John Thune do not deserve to come back to Congress. Vote him out. He’s not up for reelection, but when it’s…
Donald Trump’s three appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court have already helped engineer a constitutional counterrevolution. But he’s clearly frustrated that “his” justices aren’t always blindly loyal to his interests. As we draw closer to a midterm election in which Democrats are likely to flip at least one chamber of Congress, Trump is dropping some strong hints that he’d like to make more lifetime appointments to the Court while he still can. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
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. Staff A fragile pause in the widening Middle East war is colliding with escalating rhetoric, conflicting claims, and continued violence on the ground. In a flurry of social media posts, President Donald Trump declared that the United States had directly intervened to halt further Israeli strikes on Lebanon. “Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer,” Trump wrote.“They are…
On “The Ingraham Angle,” Mollie Hemingway argues that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ability to lie is a strength in the Democratic presidential primary.LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS: And I think if California were run well, Mollie, Newsom should be a shoo-in. I mean, it’s a massive state with a giant economy, one of the largest economies in the world of any countries in the world. But of course, the record in California is a nightmare, he’s a nightmare, and so I don’t see how that’s going to fly at all.MOLLIE HEMINGWAY, THE FEDERALIST: Well, Laura, the thing that he has to his…
New Hampshire is not the only state subject to court-ordered commandeering. Next week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit will hear oral argument in Bear Warriors United v. Lambert, in which Florida is appealing a district court order effectively commandeering the state under the Endangered Species Act. Bear Warriors United (BWU) is an environmental organization “dedicated to defending Florida’s wildlife and serving as a powerful voice for nature.” Among the species BWU seeks to protect is the manatee, which is currently listed as a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In 2022, BWU filed suit against…
Image by Marissa&Eric. Middle East professor of political science Oren Barak explains Lebanon as a fragile state and how the ongoing conflict with Israel exacerbates the region’s destabilization. Groups such as Hezbollah will continue to exist if the basic conditions that led to their emergence continue. The geopolitical landscape of Lebanon has been greatly impacted by the threat of regional hard power. In this interview, exclusive to CounterPunch, Oren Barak, the Maurice B. Hexter Chair in International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explains how institutions, non-state actors, and historical conflicts impact both peace and security. As Israel engages…
A two-week ceasefire to the Iran War entered its tenth day as Iran announced that it would “open” the Strait of Hormuz. Iran says the decision comes because of the “ceasefire in Lebanon,” which was announced by President Donald Trump on Thursday. On Friday, shortly after Iran’s announcement about the Strait of Hormuz, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Israel was now “PROHIBITED” from bombing Lebanon. It remains unclear how open the waterway will truly be, with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi releasing a statement that said ships should travel “on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and…
The Orange County Register Editorial Board once interviewed state Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco) about his bill to decriminalize the use of some psychedelics. We questioned the obvious inconsistency between his anti-prohibition stance on mushrooms and his prohibitionist stance on vaping and flavored-tobacco products. He reminded us that he’s a San Francisco progressive and not a libertarian. Fair point. I recall that encounter as I mulled Wiener’s Senate Bill 982, which mainly encourages the state attorney general to sue oil companies “for climate-attributable damage to recover costs and losses suffered by the California FAIR Plan.” The Fair Access to Insurance Requirement Plan is the…
Just six weeks in, we’ve already got “global Economic scars” that will “define a generation”. That was fast. The Iran War has been going on for less than six weeks, has thus far involved no infantry engagements of any kind on either side, and is currently in the middle of a ceasefire. Does that sound like a conflict that can already be described as going to “define our generation”? Because that’s what Sir Keir Starmer said earlier today. Now, politicians engaging in hyperbole for the sake of a soundbite is hardly rare, but Starmer is far from alone in this over-statement… The New…