Posts on Wednesday, March 11, 2026
The former FBI agent who ran the bureau’s warrantless spying program said this week that he personally witnessed the director and other senior officials recruiting agents based on political leanings, not qualifications, during Director James Comey’s tenure.
Bassem Youssef, a retired special agent who ran the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit from late 2004 until his retirement in late 2014, also says he warned senior officials about the potential for civil liberties abuses in the surveillance program that he oversaw, but said neither Comey nor the White House took his warnings seriously.
DUBAI - Iran will target economic and banking interests linked to the U.S. and Israel in the region, after an attack on an Iranian bank, a spokesperson for Tehran's Khatam al-Anbiya military command headquarters said on Wednesday.
An administrative building linked to Bank Sepah, one of the country's largest public banks and with historical links to the military, was hit overnight in Tehran, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency. "Following their failed campaign, the terrorist U.S. army and cruel Zionist regime (Israel) have targeted one of the country's banks," state media quoted Ebrahim Zolfaqari as saying.
"With this illegitimate and uncommon action, the enemy is forcing our hand
Israeli drones carried out attacks on several Tehran neighborhoods on Wednesday evening, killing members of the security forces, Iran’s Fars news agency reports.
It’s the first time since the outbreak of the Middle East war on February 28 that drone attacks have been reported in the Iranian capital.
Fars says the drones flew over southern and northern districts of Tehran, adding that “several members of the security force and the (volunteer) Basij force stationed at checkpoints were martyred. An AFP journalist in the northern part of the city heard the loud noise of a drone flying over the area.
Three Norwegian brothers of Iraqi descent were arrested Wednesday for allegedly carrying out a “terror bombing” at the US embassy in Oslo over the weekend — as investigators probe whether it was done on behalf of a foreign state.
The three suspects, who have not yet been publicly identified, are accused of setting off an IED that damaged the entrance to the embassy’s consular section around 1 a.m. local time on Sunday, according to authorities. “They are suspected of a terror bombing,” Police Attorney Christian Hatlo told reporters at a news conference.
The three siblings, all in their 20’s, are Norwegian citizens of Iraqi descent. Police had not previously investigated the trio
Knife crime in the United Kingdom‘s capital city has become so commonplace that the London Assembly is backing a plan to install bleed kits at every major bus station and along bus routes experiencing sustained levels of violent crime. Over the weekend, the assembly passed a non-binding resolution asking the London Ambulance Service (LAS) to coordinate with Transport for London (TfL) to distribute the stab wound kits across the bus system. Notably, the motion is non-binding, meaning the London Mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan, is not obligated to act on it. Additionally, TfL—citing National Health Service (NHS) guidance—says it does not plan to publicly advertise the availability of the bleed kits
Well, that’s one way to stage a political comeback.
Tiffany Henyard, the former embattled Democratic mayor of a Chicago suburb, has been known as everything from “super mayor” to the “worst mayor in America.”
And now, it appears Henyard will also be known as a Republican. According to The Hill, the 42-year-old former mayor of Dolton, Illinois, isn’t just switching parties, but switching states, as well.
Henyard is now running as a Republican in the Fulton County Commission race in Georgia. She is the only Republican in that race, as she is currently facing four Democratic opponents.
This about-face comes after Henyard lost re-election bids for both mayor and township
The U.S. Department of Justice issued a legal opinion on Tuesday that President Donald Trump could order Sable Offshore Corp. to restart oil production using the Defense Production Act, bypassing state requirements and approvals.
The DOJ issued an opinion stating that the president could order the company to begin continuous production under the Defense Production Act.
The department said in its statement that restarting production through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System would help “address energy vulnerabilities on the West Coast.”
California Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell reportedly rents a single room in a home occupied by a family of three near Fresno — and one of his Democratic opponents says it’s just so the congressman can claim he lives in the Golden state.
The discovery came from Swalwell’s top Democratic opponent, billionaire Tom Steyer. Steyer says Swalwell appears to “live in California on paper only” as the governor race heats up, “making him unlikely to meet the basic residency requirements to run for Governor.”
In a letter from Ryan Hughes, Steyer’s attorney, he called on the Secretary of State Shirley Weber to “enforce a dormant residency requirement in the governor’s race” and
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) denied Wednesday that he reversed his stance on the Senate filibuster rules to curry favor with President Trump amid speculation that he made the switch in order to win the president’s coveted endorsement in his competitive reelection primary.
“I’d say that’s not true,” Cornyn told an NBC News reporter when asked to respond to the notion.
Cornyn, who once likened Democratic attempts to scrap the filibuster as taking a “wrecking ball” to Senate rules, wrote in an op-ed published by the New York Post on Wednesday that he was now open to changing the rule to advance a Trump-backed nationwide voter ID bill.
“After careful consideration,
If a man takes a swing at you and barely misses, that doesn’t make him a pacifist — it just means he has bad aim.
Standing still and giving him a second free swing wouldn’t be wise or honorable; it would be foolish.
In 2022, Chuck Schumer and 47 other Senate Democrats tried to change the rules of the US Senate and “nuke” the filibuster to ram through a left-wing takeover of election laws.
They were just barely stopped by two holdout Democrats who were promptly driven out of their party and into retirement.
In 2024, Schumer confirmed to reporters that Democrats mean to finish the job
The International Energy Agency announced Wednesday that its member countries, which includes the United States, would release 400 million barrels of oil from reserves.
However, whether the U.S. will participate in any releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is unclear.
The act will be the largest release of crude from global strategic reserves in history, and it’s part of an effort to bring down crude oil prices, the according to The Wall Street Journal.
The release would be twice the size of the next largest release, which occurred in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That release put 182 million barrels of oil on the market.
NEW YORK - A new bill could push New York City’s minimum wage as high as $30 an hour, setting the stage for one of the highest local pay floors in the nation. What we know: The proposal would require employers to pay workers at least $25 an hour if they provide qualifying benefits and $30 an hour if they do not. Lawmakers would apply the same standards to independent contractors, including those who perform work through digital labor platforms. Dig deeper: The bill directs the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to adjust the minimum pay rates each year
The FBI has reportedly warned police departments across California that Iran could attempt to retaliate against the United States for Operation Epic Fury by launching attack drones targeting the state. Iran does not have the capability to launch drones from the Middle East that could reach the U.S. West Coast. However, the FBI reportedly warned that unidentified vessels operating off the California coast could potentially be used to launch attack drones.
The Trump administration’s messaging on America’s military involvement in Iran has been, to put it lightly, a mess. And it’s clear after listening to his remarks about the conflict that Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is not helping the situation. Since the U.S.-Israeli-led operation against Tehran began, Graham has rushed to every microphone and television camera available to express his unbridled enthusiasm about the campaign. When he isn’t bragging about how much money the U.S. is going to make as a result of the conflict, he’s calling for more American intervention in countries like Cuba and Lebanon.
The Bank of England is to end the tradition of printing images of great Britons on the verso of paper money notes, stating it has decided to proceed with pictures of wildlife instead after it wanted something “not divisive”.
Sir Winston Churchill will no longer grace the pockets of Britons after it was announced the 50-year practice of printing portraits of famous Britons on the opposite side of notes from that of the reigning monarch is to end. The Bank of England, which issues money on behalf of the government, said in a statement on the change, emphasised that the change was supported by their research into public taste,
Ecuador’s Defense Ministry on Tuesday announced that, with the help of the United States, Ecuadorian Armed Forces officials seized 1.9 tons of presumptively U.S.-bound suspected drugs at sea.
The Ministry detailed in an official statement that the drug bust was carried out by Ecuadorian officials in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard and the support of naval intelligence, noting that the action was part of the South American country’s cooperation agreements to combat transnational crime at sea with allied nations such as the United States. The seized illicit cargo is valued at approximately $40 million at U.S. markets and $70 million in Europe, according to the Ministry.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is proposing a bill that, if passed, would make the first $75,000 of a household income tax free.
If the bill -- called the Keep Your Pay Act -- passes, it would more than double the standard deduction for taxpayers.
Under Booker’s proposal, which was revealed Monday, the median American family would see their taxes cut by roughly 85%. Single filers and heads of households would also receive proportional tax relief through the Keep Your Pay Act.
In a video advocating his bill, Booker said in part: "The tax system, we all know this, is rigged. It’s rigged against working people and all full of things to help
The Art of the Decapitation
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With the dust literally settling and an acknowledgment that the situation could unexpectedly change, Operation Epic Fury appears to be a success. The U.S. and Israel now control the skies and the seas, and Trump will facilitate the transition to new leadership. In its final death throes, the old regime has shot off missiles every which way, hitting random areas, with diminishing prospects of serious retaliation. Altogether, based on how the campaign has progressed, Iran is on its way to becoming a stable and prosperous republic, or at least a tolerable autocracy that doesn’t sponsor terrorism.
Iranian regime loyalists displayed a taped-together cardboard cutout of their new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who was reportedly injured in recent strikes and has not been seen since his elevation.
The makeshift stand-in appeared at a pro-regime rally in Tehran, where organizers brought the life-size cutout of Khamenei onto the stage, according to Israeli journalist Amit Segal. Regime loyalists hailed and swore allegiance to the cutout, which appeared crudely assembled and held together by strips of tape, Segal reported.
Ex-Virginia first lady Dorothy McAuliffe
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Former Virginia first lady Dorothy McAuliffe launched her campaign for the commonwealth's 7th Congressional District on Wednesday, joining a crowded Democratic primary race.
“Virginians are working harder than ever, but the middle class is still out of reach for too many,” McAuliffe said, who served as U.S. special representative for global partnerships during the Biden administration, The Hill news outlet reported. Her husband is former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), a major Democratic fundraiser.
A Tennessee Republican congressman sparked widespread fury across social media after weighing in on last weekend’s Islamic terrorist attack in New York City, but he is not backing down one inch.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, two male Islamist terrorists threw a homemade bomb in an attempt to kill protesters at an anti-Islam rally outside Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s official residence on Saturday. The bomb was laced with metal and powerful explosives, according to the New York Times.
Fortunately, no one was injured in the incident.
One of the men screamed “Allahu Akbar!” while getting arrested.
The scandal-plagued Obama Presidential Center in Chicago already stirred up plenty of controversy. Now the money trail surrounding it raises even more uncomfortable questions about how former President Barack Obama’s inner circle is cashing in while taxpayers get screwed over.New federal tax filings reveal the staggering salaries flowing through the Obama Foundation as construction of the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park nears completion. The foundation will operate the massive 19.3-acre campus, which sits on publicly owned Chicago parkland. The project includes a museum,
It’s not just New York and California: All across the nation, blue states are committing political and economic suicide by targeting millionaires with high taxes. Who will suffer most from this ideologically driven push to punish the wealthy? Wage workers and the poor. Leftist Democratic pols demanding new state tax-the-rich measures are ignoring economic reality: Wealthy residents can and do move in response to unreasonable taxes — taking jobs, revenue and even congressional representation with them. In Washington state this week, a slim Democratic majority is on the verge of passing a 9.9% income tax on millionaires.
Kamala Harris is cutting California loose from her book tour, cancelling the remainder of her currently scheduled stops in the state.
On Tuesday, the former presidential candidate pulled out of book tour stops for her memoir “107 Days” in Sacramento, San Diego and Anaheim. The appearances had been scheduled for next month.
Ticketing company Ticketmaster refunded ticketholders and explained that the cancellations of “A Conversation with Kamala Harris” were due to a “scheduling conflict.”
The Atlanta judge overseeing the scuttled 2020 election interference case against President Donald Trump and others has barred Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from fighting their request for almost $17 million in defense costs.
Willis was disqualified from the case before it was dismissed in November under a replacement prosecutor, allowing Trump and most of his co-defendants to seek attorney fees through a new Georgia law written with the case in mind.
Security experts told the Daily Caller that President Donald Trump’s latest operation in Iran is part of a broader strategy to cripple Tehran’s ability to threaten the U.S. and its allies while also weakening hostile powers that depend on the regime.
President Donald Trump announced in an early morning video statement on Feb. 28 that U.S. and Israeli forces had launched major combat operations against Iran under Operation Epic Fury. The experts said the conflict fits Trump’s broader “peace through strength” foreign policy, arguing that a decisive strike on Iran could reshape not only the Middle East, but also America’s posture toward larger adversaries such as China and Russia.
NEW YORK -- Both chambers of the state Legislature agree on increasing taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and corporations, which Gov. Kathy Hochul has said she will not support. The one-house budget resolutions could raise roughly $5 billion more for the city through a mix of taxes and other state aid. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has made tax increases on the wealthiest a signature proposal, said he agrees with the move. Though their proposed tax increases are smaller than Mamdani's, they are both calling to raise a variety of taxes, including the personal income tax and the state's top corporate
Attorney General Pam Bondi has moved to a military base in Washington, D.C., after federal investigators flagged credible threats related to her work at the Justice Department, the New York Times reports. The move happened within the past month, after law enforcement warned her team that the danger had reached a level serious enough to force action.
Ms. Bondi moved from an apartment in the city within the past month in response to an array of threats flagged to her staff by federal law enforcement, these people said, including an uptick in criticism of Ms. Bondi, and threats relayed by investigators.
One catalyst was an increase in threats following the capture
Ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz ditches
Seattle for Miami as Dems move to impose
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Seattle for Miami as Dems move to impose
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Former Starbucks owner and CEO Howard Schultz says he is leaving Seattle for Miami after 44 years in the java giant’s home state of Washington — as Dems there have been pushing for a so-called “millionaires’ tax.”
He has paid about $44 million for a 5,500-square-foot penthouse at the Surf Club, Four Seasons Private Residences in Surfside, Fla., the Wall Street Journal reported.
“For those of you who know us well, we have entered the ‘retirement’ phase of our lives,” Schultz wrote about himself and his wife Sheri Schultz in a late Tuesday LinkedIn post. “We are enjoying the sunshine
The origin of this issue goes back to 2021 and the relaunch of the Build Back Better European green energy program to fight the non-existent climate change problem. We have been highlighting the consequences within the EU auto sector (snip) the EU’s mandated fines against auto manufacturers who do not hit their production goals for electric vehicle sales began in 2025. EU automakers unable to meet the regulatory compliance goal began purchasing carbon credits to avoid stiff EU fines. Many of those carbon credits were purchased from Chinese EV automakers,who then turned around and started using the extra EU revenue to discount Chinese cars sold
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has moaned he was punched in the face by a fellow Rikers Island inmate and is “constantly threatened and derided” by other prisoners.
Weinstein made his claim in a self-pitying one-hour interview with the Hollywood Reporter conceding he “wouldn’t last long” among the general prison population while despairing Gwyneth Paltrow betrayed him with sexual harassment claims.
Weinstein, who uses a wheelchair to compensate for his lack of mobility, insisted safety concerns at the notorious New York City lockup have kept him confined to his cell for 23 hours a day because when he is out of confinement bad things happen.
The bitter debate between Democrats and Republicans over the SAVE Act — which would require voters to provide a valid ID to cast a ballot — has roiled political waters as both major parties gird themselves for the 2026 midterms. But do voters care? They sure do, and it’s not good news for the Democrats, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll results indicate.
The online poll, taken from Feb. 24 to Feb. 27 by 1,456 adults nationwide, asked voters: “The SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) is a proposed federal law that would require individuals to present identification and prove U.S. citizenship
Federal judges declined to extend Wisconsin interim U.S. Attorney Brad Schimmel's temporary term, which ends next week. A majority of the judges on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on Tuesday declined to invoke their power to keep Schimmel in his post until the vacancy is permanently filled (snip.) "The Court awaits the nomination and confirmation of a full-time United States Attorney by the President and the United States Senate," according to a notice posted on the court's website.
A top Iranian security official made a thinly veiled threat against Donald Trump’s life on Tuesday after the U.S. President warned of massive strikes against Iran if it blocked oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.
"Iran doesn't fear your empty threats. Even those bigger than you couldn't eliminate Iran. Be careful not to get eliminated yourself,” Ali Larijani, the head of the Iranian National Security Council, posted on X.
The threat came in response to Trump’s post on TruthSocial that if Iran doesn’t allow oil shipment to resume in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. would hit Iran “twenty times harder” than they have been hit so far.
A conservative watchdog group is pushing federal regulators to investigate the tax-exempt status of a major nonprofit that has been allegedly bankrolling violent protests for years. The Center to Advance Security In America (CASA) is requesting the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigate the Progress Unity Fund (PUF), a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit based in California (snip.) CASA argues that PUF is violating its ta-exempt status due to its financial support of the ANSWER Coalition, a group behind several high-profile violent protests and allegedly tied to extremist elements. (snip) ANSWER activists have assaulted law enforcement, destroyed federal property, and even had ties to pro-Hamas groups.
The pressure campaign is escalating as conservatives demand action on the SAVE America Act, and now President Trump's former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is putting lawmakers on notice. Mark Meadows has dropped the hammer on X, revealing exactly which senators are ready for a "standing filibuster' for the SAVE America Act and which RINOs are still dragging their feet, potentially sabotaging President Trump's top priority to secure our elections from fraud and illegal alien interference.
Perhaps the only thing more remarkable than the joint U.S.-Israeli decapitation strike against the Iranian regime on February 28 is the nature of the criticism of the action. Nearly all opponents claim support for the demise of the bloody-handed Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while simultaneously expressing outrage that the operation itself has supposedly violated a litany of laws, norms and other requirements that were necessary to proceed. The most prominent objections are that President Donald Trump acted without first explaining his objectives; that he failed to secure Congressional authorization or the support of America’s international allies; and that he refused to exhaust diplomacy before choosing military options.
James Talarico is a creep.
I don't say that merely because I think he is wrong on just about everything. I say that because he is, objectively, really really creepy.
As in "check his hard drive," creepy. (X) David French, though, finds Talarico utterly delightful and a model for how a Christian should be. And he is deeply disturbed that evangelicals aren't flocking to this creep and embracing him as the most Christian guy on earth. (X) You will recall that French insisted he was voting for Kamala Harris because of his own pro-life convictions, which he has paraded for decades. He is also a convert on trans issues,
Yamaha, Exxon's blue-state exits only
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the latest in money and business fleeing
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Yamaha Motor Company is now the latest seismic hit to California after announcing that, after half a century, the nearly $7 billion company is leaving the deep blue state.
Yamaha, which announced the move Tuesday, is not alone. Several prominent companies with longstanding ties to California have also relocated their headquarters or significant operations in recent years, often citing factors such as business climate, talent access and operational efficiency.
Hours later, ExxonMobil announced plans to end its New Jersey corporate registration and redomicile in Texas, citing a better business-friendly legal environment, after years of shareholder and climate-related legal battles, according to Fox Business News.
Sudan's ongoing civil war is not just a clash between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their former military allies-turned rivals, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). It is a calculated power grab by the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood, recently listed by the US as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).... Meanwhile, the terrorist organization appears to be using the SAF as a Trojan horse to dominate northeast Africa and the Red Sea – a critical artery for global commerce.
Saudi Arabia's ideological red lines have long included deep hostility to the Muslim Brotherhood — but only within its own borders.
Yamaha Motors Corp. has been in Orange County, California for almost 50 years, but has announced that they are leaving the state for greener pastures in Georgia.
This is just the latest example of a big company leaving California on Governor Gavin Newsom’s watch. The state is also losing population for the first time in history under Newsom.
And this is the guy Democrats are going to run for president in 2028? The guy who somehow managed to destroy California?Another large business is leaving California. Yamaha says Sayonara to Governor Gavin Newsom after 50 years in the once-Golden State…
Washington, DC — David Casem, the co-founder and CEO of telecommunications company Telnyx, said President Donald Trump is a “unique strategic advantage” that the United States has over other countries in the race for artificial intelligence (AI) dominance.Speaking with Breitbart News Political Editor Bradley Jaye at a Tuesday morning policy discussion, Casem praised Trump for his forward-thinking leadership on AI and his administration’s work aiding the technology’s growth.While misconceptions about AI spooked some politicians, Trump immediately saw both the promise in the technology as well as the necessity of taking the lead in its growth to combat China on the geopolitical stage.
Chuck Schumer is promoting the SAVE Act without even realizing it.
While speaking to the press this week, the clearly panicked senator said that the SAVE Act would purge millions of people from the voter rolls. Does he mean illegal aliens and dead people? It’s probably safe to assume he does.
This is exactly why millions of patriotic Americans support the SAVE Act, Chuck.Chuck Schumer criticized the proposed SAVE America Act, claiming that the legislation could purge millions from voter rolls.
The Senate minority leader also took aim at tech billionaire Elon Musk, alleging that an AI-driven system linked to his efforts could remove voters without notice.
Top DOJ prosecutor says tens of thousands
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The top Justice Department prosecutor for civil liberties and voting rights tells Just the News that her ongoing review of state voter rolls has proven tens of thousands of noncitizens made it into a position to cast ballots and that hundreds of thousands of dead or departed residents were not properly removed from state election systems.
"It's really frustrating that we're being prevented from doing our job," Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said Tuesday night, criticizing state election offices and federal judges who are blocking her office from her historic effort to obtain and review every state's voter roll ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Establishment elites have begun seeding the narrative that Vice President JD Vance and the GOP are locked in an internecine battle over artificial intelligence, one that could derail Vance’s ascent as the heir apparent to carry President Donald Trump’s MAGA mantle forward.
“Vance Is Handcuffed: The Tech Fight Bedeviling 2028 Republicans,” declared a recent Politico headline. “How an AI Bust Could Blow Up the 2028 Race,” warned another.The increasing emphasis on AI as a potential lightning rod election issue is not without merit. A new NBC poll finds that just 26 percent of Americans hold a positive view of artificial intelligence, crystallizing a high-stakes electoral reality:
The White House is pushing on Congress to immediately pass the Save America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote, dubbing it one of the most vital pieces of U.S. legislation ever.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called on Congress to act on the bill during her opening remarks at Tuesday’s White House press briefing.President Trump is urging Congress to pass the SAVE America Act; one of the most critical pieces of legislation in our nation’s history,” she said.The legislation has strong bipartisan support, with 71 percent of registered voters sampled in the latest Harvard-Harris poll, including 91 percent of Republicans,
A high-stakes special election in Georgia is now headed to a runoff after no candidate secured a majority of the vote in Tuesday’s crowded race to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress.
Republican Clay Fuller, a district attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit who received the “complete and total endorsement” of President Donald Trump, will face Democrat Shawn Harris, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general and cattle farmer, in an April 7 runoff.
The race to fill Georgia’s 14th Congressional District seat drew a crowded field of candidates from multiple parties. Because Georgia uses a jungle-primary system, all candidates appeared on the same ballot,
Senate Majority Leader Thune Is a 'No'
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The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which would require providing ID to vote, passed the House in February but sits stalled in the Senate, where it needs 60 “ayes” to overcome a filibuster.With a tight 53-47 GOP margin in the Senate, that’s not likely to happen.
Many have suggested that we get rid of the filibuster altogether and force up or down votes in the chamber, or reinstating the "talking filibuster" — but Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) threw cold water on that plan:Eighty-three percent of Americans support voter ID, according to a February CNN poll,
In less than two months, voting by mail will begin in California’s midterm primary election. The actual Election Day of June 2 is illusory. By May 4, hordes of ballot harvesters will hit the streets from San Diego to Crescent City, armed with the finest microtargeting tools ever deployed. They will scour every neighborhood and canvass every precinct, finding the votes they need in college classrooms, homeless encampments, prisons, and retirement homes. For voters who didn’t register, they’ll be armed with same-day registration forms and provisional ballots. They’ll pound the pavement until the last hour of the last day,
Péter Magyar, leader of Hungary’s opposition party Tisza, and heads of several European nations are quietly working behind President Donald Trump’s back to reshape Europe in their own image — with a clear disregard for American interests.
Europe has long been seen as an island of stability and prosperity, but those days are firmly in the past. Only arrogance prevents Europeans from acknowledging this reality. This arrogance is driving leaders across the continent to make shortsighted decisions that threaten their most important alliance: Washington.
The 2025 US National Security Strategy rightly identifies serious problems within Europe.
HBO host Bill Maher is taking aim at the New York Times for portraying Donald Trump’s actions in Iran as a “bad war.”
Maher brought up the subject on his recent Club Random podcast featuring neuroscientist Sam Harris. The show was recorded a few days after Trump launched his sorties against Iran’s radical, Islamist Mullahs, and during the segment Maher and Harris began to talk about the media’s portrayal of the military actions that had only just started.
“As we’re talking now, the Iran [war], the new Iran war, and The New York Times headline was, you know, ‘U.S. troops die’ – that was like what they led with.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that Iran’s military power is “being systematically degraded and annihilated” as Operation Epic Fury entered its tenth day, declaring the campaign will end “on our timeline and at our choosing” while forcefully pushing back against suggestions it could devolve into another prolonged Middle East conflict.
Speaking during a Pentagon briefing alongside the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, Hegseth outlined battlefield progress while stressing the military operation ordered by President Donald Trump remains tightly focused on specific objectives aimed at dismantling Iran’s ability to threaten the United States and its allies.
Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said President Donald Trump would try to “seize ballot boxes’ to “subvert the vote” in the midterm elections.
Host Jen Psaki said, “The administration subpoenaed records from 2020 from Arizona. We know that’s not about changing the outcome of the 2020 election. We know that they’ve already gone through that. It’s obviously about 2026. What do you make of that and what’s your level of concern about it?”
Schiff said, “I think the subpoenas in Arizona, America, Maricopa County, the FBI raid in Georgia, this is all trying to establish some kind of phony predicate
The American energy sector is springing back into action with new exploration and extraction of natural gas well underway. But "drill, baby drill" isn't much good without "refine, baby, refine," as petroleum in particular has to be converted into something useful before its real value can be achieved: Gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, and all the the myriads of other materials we get from that black gold. The problem is, the United States hasn't seen a new petroleum refinery open in over 50 years - until now. President Trump and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum spread the good news on Tuesday. The president, on Truth Social, writes:m
“Finish the job.” President Donald Trump revealed that as the message he received from the families of the American military heroes who died overseas during the ongoing joint operation with Israel against Iran’s terrorist and America-hating regime.
Seven U.S. troops have tragically died in Iranian regime counterstrikes since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, and the president paid his respects to the remains of six of them last week at Dover. Subsequently, Trump also spoke to the press on Monday and emphasized that parents of the service members who gave the last full measure of devotion want the president to finish off the task that their loved ones offered
The most overrepresented, overhyped, and overexposed political bloc in today’s mainstream media is… any guesses?
I’ll give you a hint: They’re in the Republican Party (more or less). And the amount of media attention they’re receiving is nothing short of extraordinary. In all their years, they’ve never received better press!
And in a weird, inexplicable coincidence, their business model directly depends on being noticed.
Not liked or loved. Not supported, trusted, or believed. And certainly not “winning hearts and minds” — because so far, they’ve failed to influence almost anyone.
Even though they call themselves “influencers.”
But it’s a simple financial formula:
Notice them.
Click on them.
Ca-ching!
I’m speaking of those MAGA-adjacent podcasters, “influencers,” and politicos
It's the Great Fear that is just eating away at the poor folks at Politico. It was first expressed by that periodical in December when they suddenly realized that with so many Democrats (and none clearly in the lead) that in the open primary for governor of California that it was possible that with only two Republicans in that race, that both of them could end up in first and second place due to the Democrats splitting up the rest of the votes among themselves. A couple of months later in February that fear not only did not go away but intensified with poor Politico going full delusional
Oil giant ExxonMobil announced it intends to drop its New Jersey corporate registration and redomicile in Texas, citing the Lone Star State’s business-friendly legal environment and after years of shareholder and climate-related legal battles.
The company on Tuesday said its board of directors unanimously recommended shareholders approve changing the company’s legal domicile from New Jersey to Texas, saying aligning ExxonMobil’s legal home with where its leadership and core operations have been based since 1989 will benefit shareholders.
"Over the past several years, Texas has made a noticeable effort to embrace the business community. In doing so, it has created a policy and regulatory environment that can allow
Earlier today, I wrote about CNN's appalling bit of propaganda that almost romanticized the terrorist attack in New York City by two Islamists, who were radicalized by ISIS. The lede of the story and the tweet they produced were so embarrassingly bad that CNN had to delete it and kinda sorta maybe apologize a little bit. It didn't fail to reflect the gravity of the situation. It failed to accurately communicate who was responsible, who the intended victims were and where the blame for the attempted terrorist attack lay. In other words you didn't accidentally downplay the seriousness of it, you deliberately
Surprised? NBC News readers might be if they only read their Sunday news report about their latest poll numbers.
We'll get back to that momentarily. NBC News chose to frame these poll results in the hoary pox-upon-both-houses narrative, while informing their readers of the shocking fact that independents matter in elections. About the closest they come to hitting the real news is in the equally shocking news that voters see both parties negatively:
As party primaries kick off ahead of the pivotal battle for control of Congress this fall, Democrats — and especially Republicans — say they are prioritizing ideological alignment instead of electability when they pick candidates,
The future of travel may soon include flying taxis—and Texas is now one of the federal government's testing grounds. The Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation announced eight proposals selected for a new Advanced Air Mobility initiative, the Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) Integration Pilot Program (eIPP). Under the program, Texas will work with federal regulators and private aviation companies to test air taxi operations connecting major cities across the state. The aircraft being tested are known as electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, or eVTOLs
The United States Navy has destroyed 16 Iranian boats suspected of preparing to lay naval mines near the Strait of Hormuz, marking one of the most direct maritime confrontations in the ongoing Gulf War. According to the United States military, the vessels were targeted after intelligence suggested they were equipped for mine-laying operations in the strategic waterway through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes. Officials from the US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed the strike on Tuesday and released unclassified footage showing several Iranian vessels being destroyed during the operation.