France's Macron, alone at the center of Europe
Posted By: 4250Luis, 6/30/2026 6:30:26 AM
When Emanuel Macron was first elected French president nearly a decade ago, he looked like the prototype of Europe’s next generation of leaders: young, reform-minded, pro-market, pro-European, strategic, not clearly on the right or the left. Macron is still ambitious internationally, but at home he is term limited, with falling approval levels, and looking increasingly like the last remaining champion of Europe’s battered liberal center. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned amid populist pressure at home. In Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz is struggling as the country’s right wing strengthens. Giorgia Meloni of Italy, who heads Europe’s most stable government in a major country, comes from the right. And in Spain,
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President Trump is seizing on a series of far-left wins in Democratic primaries to paint the opposition party as dangerous “communists” about four months out from midterm elections.
The president has never shied away from painting Democrats as far left, but his recent messaging gives Republicans an amped-up blueprint for capitalizing on the progressive left becoming an insurgent force across the country.“They use the word social democrat because it sounds so nice, but it’s really communism you’re talking about,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday when asked about the growing list of left-wing primary wins.
Tuesday’s primaries in Colorado mark the next front in the establishment-versus-insurgent battle playing out within the Democratic Party, one week after major victories for candidates in New York City backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.Colorado’s Democratic primaries have flown more under the radar, but they feature three major contests where veteran Democrats are facing challengers who are aiming to capitalize on the party’s growing anti-Washington sentiment.
Here’s what to watch for Tuesday night as the votes come in. Polls close at 9 p.m. ET.
In Trump v. Slaughter, published yesterday, the Supreme Court held that the President has plenary (that is, unfettered) authority to fire the heads of regulatory agencies (though not the governors of the Federal Reserve Board, as explained in a note at the end of this post). The decision is hugely consequential. It is both a massive blow to the regulatory state and a huge—albeit precarious—step to returning our nation to function as the Constitution intended.
For over a century, ever since President Woodrow Wilson ushered in the “progressive era,” Congress has been creating “independent” agencies that have complete power to write regulations with the force and effect of law,
Now that Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates are popping up in races all over the country, actual Democrats are starting to get questions from a nervous media which wonders how all of this happened.
In response, the talking point you keep hearing from Democrats is that they are a ‘big tent’ party.
It’s a stupid and lazy response that completely fails to address the actual issue. The Democrat Party is being taken over by full-on communists who hate Israel and Jews.
Today on The Five of FOX News, Jesse Watters talked about this, saying:
When Emanuel Macron was first elected French president nearly a decade ago, he looked like the prototype of Europe’s next generation of leaders: young, reform-minded, pro-market, pro-European, strategic, not clearly on the right or the left.
Macron is still ambitious internationally, but at home he is term limited, with falling approval levels, and looking increasingly like the last remaining champion of Europe’s battered liberal center.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned amid populist pressure at home. In Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz is struggling as the country’s right wing strengthens. Giorgia Meloni of Italy, who heads Europe’s most stable government in a major country, comes from the right. And in Spain,
The contrast couldn’t be clearer.
While Democrats spent years painting President Trump as the man who would torch the Constitution and defy the courts, a pair of videos posted by Townhall Media flip the script and show exactly who the real threat to the rule of law was from the start.In one clip, the current President sits in the Oval Office and accepts an unfavorable Supreme Court ruling.
A reporter asked Trump, in the context of a few rulings earlier today that went against him, whether he would accept the Court's decision on birthright citizenship, which is expected tomorrow.
"Well,
As a 37-year comedy veteran, I believe I'm pretty good at "reading the room," and I believe the room, in this case, Western civilization, has turned a corner: we've finally had enough of the Islamic rape and murder epidemics terrorizing mostly white Christian girls and women in the West.We've seen a series of events — and heinous crimes — unfold in the last month that are shaking the world and scaring the globalist, New World Order lizard people to their Godless core.
Here is a timeline of crimes and victories we've seen in the past month:
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He is also clearly opposed to communism, which makes him even more attractive as a candidate.
Now the good news. As noted by Justice Thomas, this decision when contrast against the Lisa Cook decision does not find alignment.
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This lengthy 108-page decision supports the Unitary Theory of government in that the President can remove any agency head within the Executive Branch through plenary power,
Lebanon vowed Monday that the US-brokered peace agreement with Israel “will not be implemented” – just days after Hezbollah ripped up the deal, declaring it “null and void” and “humiliating.
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100 Long Island retirees caught ‘double-dipping’
on Medicare, costing taxpayers $1.6M: audit 9 replies
on Medicare, costing taxpayers $1.6M: audit 9 replies
Nearly 100 Nassau County retirees were caught double-dipping on Medicare checks for over 20 years — costing taxpayers over $1.6 million, a new audit found.
Some 94 county retirees were confirmed to have collected Medicare Part B reimbursements from Nassau County for spouses who are also retired public workers — while those same spouses still collected a payment for the same bill from their own former public employers, according to the audit released June 15 audit by county Comptroller Elaine Phillips.
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On Monday, SCOTUS issued a 5-4 ruling that permits states to count mail-in ballots — sent on or before election day — that are received by state election officials after election day.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority’s opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts as well as Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Monday’s bombshell Supreme Court ruling established that “election day” isn’t really election day at all; it’s a period of time. Specifically, the court decided 5-4 in Watson v. RNC that states could count mail-in ballots even if they were received after the election date, as long as they were postmarked in time. Naturally, many conservatives, including President Trump, were deeply disappointed by the decision, which to many seemed to defy common sense and the notion of election integrity. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and his ilk were almost certainly cheering; after all, they still haven’t certified the governor’s primary, which was held on June 2.
A clown show.
Supreme Court refuses to review E. Jean
Carroll’s $5M sex abuse, defamation
verdict vs. Trump 19 replies
Carroll’s $5M sex abuse, defamation
verdict vs. Trump 19 replies
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up President Trump’s appeal of the $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict that followed a lawsuit by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Now Trump will have no choice but to pony up the $5 million to the 82-year-old, who has repeatedly claimed that the president sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room during the mid-1990s.
Trump’s lawyers argued that, as president, he should not be distracted from his executive duties in order to deal with “decades-old, false allegations.”
Just as his party is overrun by communist revolutionaries, Barack Obama has decided to take center stage in a frenetic public relations campaign, ostensibly to promote his so-called library.
He’s here, there and everywhere, silkily opining about everything under the sun, except the only thing that matters: the disintegration of his party. Like Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned, Obama is curiously detached from the disaster he helped create.
Democrats desperately need a leader to rally around, but all they have is Obama.
He is the only former Democratic president who is still sharp, charismatic and dynamic enough to take up the mantle.
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And no one is loving our temperature-controlled houses, more
U.S., Iran reportedly to 'stand down'
after weekend of military skirmishes,
resume talks in Qatar 16 replies
after weekend of military skirmishes,
resume talks in Qatar 16 replies
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Officials told multiple news outlets, including Axios, CNN and Fox News, that there was an easing of tensions after several days of exchanging fire near the Strait.
“Technical talks are slated to continue on all areas of the MOU. Both sides will stand down for now and vessels can move freely," the White House told Fox News.
Axios reported that the two sides will resume talks in Doha on Tuesday.
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“As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world,
How digital price tags are spreading at
retailers like Walmart — and sparking
‘surveillance’ fears 12 replies
retailers like Walmart — and sparking
‘surveillance’ fears 12 replies
The growing use of digital price tags at Walmart and other big US retailers is stirring fresh anxiety that prices on groceries and other basic goods could be subjected to high-tech manipulation — and labor unions are looking to capitalize on the fears.
Walmart said it is rapidly installing the tags — which can raise or lower the prices displayed on their tiny LED screens en masse with the click of a button — in all of its 4,600 US stores by the end of the year. The idea, Walmart says, is to free staffers from the decades-old, time-consuming task of switching out paper tags slotted on shelves.
Kyiv — Once Russian soldiers reach certain parts of the front lines of the war in Ukraine, they can expect to live an average of just 20 to 35 minutes, according to a grim estimate by Russian military bloggers, cited by Oxford historian Peter Frankopan in a Foreign Policy report. CBS News has not independently verified the claim. But similar accounts are becoming increasingly common on Russian military channels, suggesting that more Russians are becoming aware of the war and its toll on their side — a toll Kremlin officials have long sought to shield from view.
The war has inflicted staggering losses on Russia's young men.
Expert stock picker Nancy Pelosi revealed her post-Congress retirement plan Monday.
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The captain of the Cape Verde soccer team is being accused of raping his female translator in her hotel room just before the start of the World Cup games, a report says.
Ryan Mendes, 36, is being accused of attacking a Brazilian woman whom his team hired to translate for him when the Cape Verde team played in New Zealand back in March, the New York Post reported. The translator, who has not been publicly identified, claims that she informed at least three Cape Verde soccer officials, but nothing came of her complaint.
With a population fewer than 620,000 people, Cape Verde is the smallest nation ever to reach the World Cup.