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As the Trump administration and Vice President JD Vance intensify efforts to crack down on wasteful federal spending, one of the federal government’s largest green-energy projects has largely escaped serious scrutiny: the U.S. Postal Service’s nearly $10 billion electric vehicle modernization effort.
The “greening” of the USPS fleet was central to former President Joe Biden’s climate agenda and the Inflation Reduction Act, which directed billions toward replacing aging mail trucks with a new generation of electric delivery vehicles. But years into the effort, inspectors general, lawmakers, and outside analysts are raising concerns over delays, unused vehicles, infrastructure failures, and mounting financial pressure
The Biden administration’s special envoy for "LGBTQI+ Persons," gender activist Jessica Stern, had a mandate to put gay and transgender issues at the forefront of American foreign policy, according to internal emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The trove of emails reveals just how far the Democrats went to impose fringe views about gender and sexuality on American diplomats and allied countries across the globe.
The internal emails, along with records of speeches and conference calls, span Stern’s tenure as the second ever "U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Persons." They document how Stern performed
Climate researcher Judith Curry says the
era of ‘climate stupidity’ is done
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era of ‘climate stupidity’ is done
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American climatologist Dr. Judith Curry on Tuesday announced that she would no longer maintain her influential blog, “Climate Etc.”
“It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and move on,” said in her final post. The reelection of President Donald Trump came with an overall shift in the political landscape regarding climate and energy issues. Since then, major media outlets shut down their climate desks, corporations are easing back on emission-reduction targets, and polls consistently show the public rates climate change low on their list of priorities.
Some figures like Curry who disputed the “climate crisis” narrative — often in the face of vitriol from those who support it —
U.S., Iran reportedly to 'stand down'
after weekend of military skirmishes,
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after weekend of military skirmishes,
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The United States and Iran will reportedly "stand down for now” after a weekend of military skirmishes in the Strait of Hormuz, and both sides will try to reboot peace talks in Qatar this week.
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.
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.
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.
Nabih Berri, the country’s parliament speaker and an ally of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group, delivered the stinging rebuke about the deal just three days after it was signed in Washington, D.C.
He said the US-brokered framework — which allows for the Israel Defense Forces to maintain a security zone in Southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is removed from the area — is “10 times worse” than the May 17, 1983, agreement, the closest Beirut and Jerusalem have come to a peace arrangement.
100 Long Island retirees caught ‘double-dipping’
on Medicare, costing taxpayers $1.6M: audit replies
on Medicare, costing taxpayers $1.6M: audit 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.
American Tributes – James Comer: America’s
250th Birthday Is a Celebration of What’s
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250th Birthday Is a Celebration of What’s
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As part of Breitbart’s America 250 coverage, we proudly present American Tributes. This special section showcases original videos sent to us from members of Congress, the Cabinet, and the Administration… all thematically connected by one simple premise: love of country.
America is amazing because truly “anyone can build a better life,” Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said ahead of America’s big 250th birthday celebration.
“As we prepare to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, we have every reason to stand proud of the greatest nation in the history of the world,” Comer said, pointing out that America has stood as a “beacon of freedom, faith, and opportunity” for the last 250 years.
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.
With the rapid takeover of their party by the Democratic Socialists of America underway, it’s time for every Democrat to answer for what the DSA believes in.
As the City Journal’s Stu Smith reported, the DSA has adopted a new platform that is, incredibly enough, even more radical than its previous one. Although it still hasn’t been published on its website, an advance version, which Smith obtained, is straight-up Marxism, declaring “the entire global system of capital” as its enemy and promising to “build a new society from the ground up.”
We doubt that many Democrats – much less the general public –
You can’t make this up. I mean, people signing up for Obamacare without social security numbers. I thought that was impossible, but I guess not. Surprise! Surprise! Let’s hear from Secretary Kennedy: Picking up where the text leaves off: Hold someone accountable for putting lots of people in Obamacare? I hope so, because that large a number suggests this is more than a minor mistake or data entry error. A ton of people on Obamacare without Social Security numbers tells me that someone was behind this scheme.
Man, it’s been fun watching old-school Democrats freak out as they watch their party get taken over by extremist democratic socialists. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (14) was perhaps the biggest early warning shot, as the DSA member managed to upset longtime incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in the 2018 Dem primary for her seat. Now we’ve got the far-left Zohran Mamdani as NYC Mayor, America-hating Darializa Avila Chevalier sending five-term incumbent New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat packing in their primary, along with other concerning wins, especially in the Empire State.
In a cruel irony, just days before we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the creation of the United States of America, which could not have happened without thousands of able-bodied men bearing their own arms to defend their freedom and liberty, the state of Rhode Island will make it illegal to purchase or sell the modern version of a musket. AR-15s and other semi-automatic firearms labeled "assault weapons" will be prohibited for sale beginning on July 1, and some Democrats are demanding the state go even further and ban their possession as well.
When Sir Keir Starmer walked into Downing Street in July 2024, the Labour Party had just won one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern history. They took 412 seats, yet only one in five eligible voters actually voted for them.
That paradox sits at the heart of British democracy right now – and it is getting harder to ignore.
Labour’s landslide was not the product of a surge in support. It was the product of a split. While Labour held its coalition together, the right-of-centre vote fractured badly between the Conservative Party and a surging Reform UK. Across the UK, the combined —
In an ordinary midterm congressional election, the usual outcome is that the President’s party loses seats in the House of Representatives. If history repeats itself in November, the Democrats may well flip enough seats to overcome the razor thin Republican majority and take control of the House. But there is reason to believe that the GOP will defy history in the upcoming midterms because it won the 2025-2026 “redistricting war,” the struggle between red and blue states to gain an edge by engaging in mid-decade redrawing of their congressional districts.
California State Senator, professional leather-wearing gay man, and candidate for Nancy Pelosi’s House seat, Scott Wiener, just discovered that, no matter how far left you are, to the Jacobins who have taken over the Democrat base, the fact that you are Jewish nullifies everything else about you. As my friend Robin M. Itzler likes to say, when they start loading the trains to the new Auschwitz, they’ll load up the leftist Jews as fast as they will the conservative ones.
For a long time, Wiener has been the perfect progressive Democrat: He’s a product of the Ivy League (Harvard Law), his leftist political positions are impeccable, and he’s super-duper gay,
The recent sweeping victories by Democratic Socialists in New York have political observers of both parties paying attention, although for different reasons. The Democratic Party appears to continue to abandon most of its traditionally reliable voting blocs. But while Democratic Socialists blather on about helping working people, there is one specific group of working people who may get hit the hardest by the new crop of socialist candidates, and it will determine where their support ultimately ends up. The leaders of one of New York City's most prominent labor union have spoken out about the Democratic Socialist wins in the Big Apple. Robert "Bobby" Bartels, Jr.,
The United Kingdom is having a hot summer. Granted, that's a little bit of an eyebrow-raiser in the U.K., which is famous for cool, damp weather, but it happens. Of course, many places see warm summer weather, and for the last few decades, people who live in the civilized world have had a great modern solution to hot weather: Air conditioning. AC not only makes life more comfortable, but for some people, like the elderly and people in poor health, it can be a lifesaver during serious heat waves. It's a lifesaver that's now being denied to Brits, because of the government's lunatic Net Zero policies.
Residents of a small Massachusetts island community are shocked and furious upon learning from town officials that they may not be able to fly American flags to celebrate the nation’s upcoming 250th birthday.
As Fox News reported on Saturday, homeowners on Plum Island received a letter from the town of Newbury warning them last week that it had become aware of multiple “devices and materials intended to deter” protected shorebirds from frequenting beach and dune systems.
These materials included “mylar streamers, flags, and reflective materials.”
The Times May Be a-Changin’
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“Come MPs and prime ministers, please heed the call,” Bob Dylan might sing about Europe. “Don’t stand in the doorway. Don’t block up the hall…. For the times they are a-changin’.”
Or at least may be changing – not only in Europe but across the globe.
Europe’s ruling elites opened their countries’ borders to millions of unvetted, largely Third World, often Islamist migrants with little interest in assimilating – and gave them free lodging, food and medical care (paid with other people’s money), and an official blind eye to rising crime and molestation of women.
In 2023,
The U.S. and Iran have agreed to “stand down for now” and allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz after renewed fighting in the past few days, a U.S. official told The Hill on Sunday.
“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 official said, referring to the memorandum of understanding signed by both sides earlier this month.
The war against Iran, which started four months ago on Sunday, has stressed the global economy, raised gas prices in the U.S. and strained America’s relations with Israel and traditional European allies.
Sen. Dave McCormick Steps Up to Undo Cancelation
of Pennsylvania Participation in America
250 Fair replies
of Pennsylvania Participation in America
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Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) is stepping up to undo Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-PA) cancelation of Pennsylvania’s involvement in the Great American State Fair on the National Mall.
In a press release from McCormick, it was revealed that he and Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) were announcing “a coalition of Pennsylvania organizations” that will ensure that the state has a presence at the event organized by Freedom 250 —which runs from June 25-July 10. The announcement also came “after working in coordination” with Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins.
For calling gay marriage a sin, the Asbury Theological Seminary has lost its approval as [a] school for ordained ministers through the United Methodist Church.
David Watson, president of the evangelical Christian seminary, said in a statement Thursday that the decision came from the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, and it was not a “shared resolution.”
The Methodist denomination’s “requirements, particularly those related to the UMC’s 2024 Social Principles concerning ‘Human Sexuality’ and ‘Marriage,’ are not aligned with Asbury Theological Seminary’s institutional ethos and the historic witness of the Christian faith,” Watson stated.
- .WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced that he will introduce legislation to increase the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour. If the legislation passes, it would be the first change to the federal rate since 2009. The Living Wage For All Act would require large corporate employers to implement a $25 wage floor by 2032, while other businesses would have until 2039 to do so. The bill would mandate automatic, continued increases of the federal minimum wage to two-thirds of the national median wage. “There is nowhere in America where a worker with just one dependent can