Trump: 'Very Disappointed' in Putin -
Consequences Will Accelerate
Posted By: Dreadnought, 7/28/2025 11:13:23 AM
Fresh off his trade triumph at the EU, Donald Trump has now set his sights further east to Moscow. Thanks to his new agreement with the largest trading bloc in the West, Trump has already set Europe up to wean itself -- slowly -- from Russian energy imports. As Duane pointed out earlier, the EU has committed to purchasing $750 billion in American liquified natural gas over the next several years, which won't entirely replace Russian imports but should put a big dent in Vladimir Putin's income stream almost immediately. After the most recent wave of attacks on Ukrainian civilian population centers, Trump expressed frustration with Putin and warned that he would accelerate
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Last week PEW published a Party Affiliation Fact Sheet based on a big annual survey it does every year. What the fact sheet shows this year will not be a surprise to anyone who pays any attention to politics. Men, especially young men, have stepped away from the Democratic Party.
Today, Americans are about evenly split between the two parties: 46% identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, and 45% identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party. This balance of partisanship is similar to 2024, but the current near-even division marks a shift from the affiliation advantage the Democratic Party enjoyed a few years ago...
A magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29, triggering tsunami alerts for the entire U.S. West Coast and portions of the Alaska Aleutian Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The earthquake was recorded at 7:24 p.m. ET, about 78 miles east-southeast of of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said in its updated assessment. The agency said the quake was shallow, at a depth of about 11 miles.
Tsunami advisories are in place along Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands. The National Tsunami Warning Center advises that tsunami activity is possible at Shemya, Alaska beginning at 4:46 p.m., Alaskan Daylight Time, then at 5:46 p.m.
The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed repealing the federal government’s bedrock scientific declaration on the dangers of greenhouse gases — a move that would run afoul of decades of research and topple most of the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate regulations.
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Blackstone confirmed that one of its executives was among those killed in the July 28 mass shooting at the company’s Park Avenue office building in New York City.
In a statement shared with PEOPLE, the global investment firm said that Wesley LePatner was killed in the attack, which left three other innocent victims dead including off-duty NYPD officer Didarul Islam and injured other people.
“Words cannot express the devastation we feel. Wesley was a beloved member of the Blackstone family and will be sorely missed. She was brilliant, passionate, warm, generous, and deeply respected within our firm and beyond," the statement read. "She embodied the best of Blackstone.
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The Trump administration’s trade agreements with a handful of countries are helping Americans feel somewhat more confident about the economy’s health and its future.
Consumer confidence climbed 2 points this month to a reading of 97.2, the Conference Board said Tuesday, showing people’s attitudes about the economy have stabilized after deteriorating sharply during the spring when Trump unveiled massive tariffs that threatened to jack up prices and weaken the labor market.
But consumer confidence has recovered somewhat since then. The stiff levies Trump unveiled in April have been delayed several time
CNN's Harry Enten Delivers More Heartbreak
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for Dems With Just How Bad Numbers Are
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We've been reporting just how bad the Democrats' approval/favorability numbers have been.
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Federal employees can preach in the workplace under new guidelines issued Monday by the Trump administration that have alarmed advocates for the separation of church and state.
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The United Kingdom will recognize a Palestinian state if Israel does not agree to a ceasefire and move toward peace in Gaza by September, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned Tuesday.
Starmer made the announcement during a press conference on Tuesday, just a day after meeting with President Donald Trump in Scotland and discussing the Israel-Hamas war and the hunger crisis in Gaza.
"I can confirm that the U.K. will recognize the State of Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, unless
“I am telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my a**. They are dying to make a deal: ‘Please, please sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything! I’ll do anything, sir.’”
—Donald Trump, April 2025
The video is fun, too: Early feedback on the newly-signed U.S.-EU trade deal is overwhelmingly pro-Trump. A BBC analysis with the title “Who are the winners and losers in the US-EU trade deal?” gave a very clear consensus:
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The Trump administration's Bureau of Land Management has rescinded a Biden-era restriction on oil and gas extraction in the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska (NPR-A). More of Alaska's North Slope is now ready and open for "drill, baby, drill."
As is so often the case, Must Read Alaska's Suzanne Downing has the news.
The Department of the Interior announced Monday that it has rescinded three policy documents that placed new restrictions on development within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
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Former "Hardball" host Chris Matthews couldn't even spin President Donald Trump's last six months in office and said that the "country is moving towards Trump," and explains why.
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French Prime Minister François Bayrou is criticizing the trade deal struck by President Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as an act of “submission” by the European Union (EU).
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The political left will never recover from Trump Derangement Syndrome. President Donald Trump could put the economy on a perpetual growth path, stop World War III, bring permanent peace to the Middle East, resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict and in his spare time cure cancer and put a man on Mars, and the Democrats and progressives would still blindly hate him. Would the Republicans and conservatives who have battered and cursed him since 2015 continue to bitterly disapprove of him, as well?
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NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdami
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addresses Midtown mass shooting from Uganda compound 15 replies
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What to know about Israel’s claim that
UN has tons of food in Gaza that it won’t distribute 13 replies
UN has tons of food in Gaza that it won’t distribute 13 replies
Israel is blaming the UN for the lack of vital food deliveries to Gaza — as harrowing video captured hundreds of desperate Palestinians swarming aid trucks over the weekend.
Israel officials are hitting back at claims that they have delayed aid from coming into Gaza — sharing images of tons of aid piled up inside the Gaza Strip, which they said is just waiting to be delivered to hungry Palestinians.
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If you thought you’d seen theatrics in the United States Senate before, buckle up. Cory Booker, ever the drama king (queen?) from New Jersey, turned what should have been a routine discussion over a police funding bill into a one-man Broadway show, complete with finger-pointing at his own party and impassioned diatribes about the imminent descent of the country into authoritarian chaos. That’s right, one of the Senate’s most reliably emotional voices managed to deliver another performance that all but confirmed the absence of meaningful leadership and unity among Democrats.
Booker’s tirade began with a familiar refrain: