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President Trump on Tuesday endorsed Ken Paxton in the race for U.S. Senate in Texas, delivering the state attorney general an edge in the primary runoff race against incumbent Senator John Cornyn.
“Ken is a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
“John Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough,” the president added. “John was very late in backing me in what turned out to be a Historic Run
Cory Booker, Senator from New Jersey and child of two wealthy executives at IBM, knows struggle – he’s seen every episode of “Dear White People.” The struggle is real…especially in the first two seasons. Or so it has been explained to him, as he’s led a charmed life, which would be impossible if the United States of America were half the racist hell hole he pretends it is to advance his political career.
It amuses me to no end when white liberals act like they are the saviors of black people, and it’s even more amusing when black politicians who grew up just as much, if not more, “privileged”
A Texas Republican has proposed legislation that could be used to keep Muslim religious leaders from entering the United States.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas has introduced the Inhibiting Militant Adversarial Mullahs (IMAM) Act.
“The United States should never roll out the red carpet for foreign clerics who preach anti-American hatred, celebrate terrorism, or serve as mouthpieces for radical regimes,” Roy said in a statement on his website. The proposed legislation adapts immigration law to bar non-immigrant religious worker visas for an alien with the title of Imam, Grand Imam, Shaykha, Mufti, Grand Mufti, Ayatollah, or Grand Ayatollah from entering the United States.
Trump Details White House Construction
Beyond a Ballroom: Military Hospital,
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President Donald Trump’s White House construction goes beyond a ballroom, the commander-in-chief told reporters on Tuesday as he stood outside the construction site detailing the complexities of the massive addition.
“You might want to take a look at the complexity,” Trump said as he gestured toward the construction site on the premises. He explained that the ballroom is only part of the story. In fact, he described the ballroom itself as a “shield” of sorts, protecting all of the space currently being built underneath. That includes a military hospital, meeting rooms, and much more.
“These are all different rooms out here,” Trump said. “They’re building a hospital. They’re building a military hospital.
A socialist group with ties to a China-based financier is setting up indoor hubs for radical activism in neighborhoods across the U.S.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) has at least 28 event spaces, often called “Liberation Centers,” open since 2021 or in preparation, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of online PSL posts and local news reports found. The organization uses the centers to cultivate “revolutionary” thought and attract new local followers while organizing protests against foreign policy decisions and law enforcement. Former tech mogul Neville Singham, based in Shanghai, has donated tens of millions of dollars to a network of leftist groups that share
Remember the days when families dining out at nice restaurants behaved like, well, families dining out at nice restaurants? Remember when restaurants had dress codes? And even if they didn’t, their patrons were mature enough to feel shame at being the least-dressed-up person in the establishment?
The restaurants themselves remember, and a few are taking steps to reintroduce a bare minimum standard of what can be expected from customers. Ruth’s Chris Steak House had the audacity — the audacity, I tell you — to remind people of its long-existing dress code requiring that ball caps be removed upon entry to their dining rooms.
At the beginning of a week, coming off a weekend during which the United Kingdom has seen this sort of outpouring of national fervor. And such deep pride in being British. Juxtaposed against one of the very things they are waving flags about and trying to protect - their national identity - from the swarms of immigrants swallowing such things whole across the European continent. A woman fights for her life after being deliberately struck by a driver rampaging down the sidewalk of a street in Modena, Italy.
Her legs, what was left of them, had to be amputated.
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President Trump deserves the gratitude of all American patriots. He has singlehandedly stopped the slide towards chaos that Obama and Biden worked so hard to achieve; he was kneecapped in his first administration by disloyal, treasonous bureaucrats and Democrat Party extremists bent on destroying what generations of Americans have built.
Like any other leader, the president is not all-knowing and all-seeing. While most of his supporters enjoy his humor and his readiness to boldly confront our enemies, foreign and domestic, there are times when somebody must speak bluntly to him when he is about to slip on a banana peel. This is one of those times.
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Aisha Gomez is facing calls to lose her tax committee chairmanship after allegedly telling a Republican colleague to "go f**king shoot himself" on the House floor.
House Speaker Lisa Demuth and Majority Leader Harry Niska want her removed and are demanding Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic leadership publicly condemn her.
It started Thursday night. Democrats tried to force a vote on HF5140, a gun-control bill that would ban semiautomatic "assault weapons," restrict large-capaThey knew it had no chance. The House is tied 67-67, and not a single Republican was going to flip. The vote failed along party lines. Democrats then launched an overnight sit-in at the
Predicting that catastrophe is just around the next corner is an old game for the global warming crowd. From Al Gore to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to King Charles to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the forecasts of doom have been raining down on us for decades. That we are able to note this today is remarkable, because one crank is sure that 2026 is the year of our extinction.
“I can’t imagine there will be a human on the planet in 10 years,” Guy McPherson said when asked in 2016 how much time the human race had.
“We’re headed for a temperature in that span
Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (Snip) Here we go again. With the midterm elections now less than half a year away, it would be nice if all we had on our minds were the classic election concerns of yesteryear, like messaging and the quality of our candidates. If the fortunes of the Republican Party were riding on regular stuff like that, I'd be throwing money at Polymarket and betting on a GOP romp in November.
We're dealing with 21st century Democrats here, though. They don't do much in the way of developing policies that appeal to American voters in order to win elections. The strengths of the
A Democratic city council member who once welcomed the “change” from socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is now admitting he is “gravely concerned” about the business exodus affecting the major American city.
This comes as blue states like Washington and New York face a business exodus in favor of more market-friendly red states. Starbucks, a major player in Seattle’s business scene, recently announced a major expansion into Nashville while simultaneously cutting Seattle-based corporate jobs, a move that has intensified concerns about Seattle’s business climate and economic competitiveness.
Wilson, a self-proclaimed socialist, recently went viral for laughing off the exodus of billionaires and business leaders from her city,
Americans across the political spectrum were stunned by Donald Trump’s upset victory in 2016. Pundits, pollsters, and political insiders had largely failed to account for a powerful bloc of supporters who either stayed quiet about their views or were underestimated entirely — the “silent Trump voter.”
Now, a decade later, some are wondering whether that same phenomenon might be happening in the Los Angeles mayoral race.Is there such a thing as the “silent Spencer Pratt voter”?
The growing excitement and online buzz surrounding the former reality-TV star’s campaign has sparked national headlines in the weeks since he turned a candidate debate with Mayor Karen Bass and city council member Nithya Raman
It's tempting to say that the worst hoax of the 21st century was the COVID hysteria that did so much damage to the United States and the world. A virus that is no more dangerous than a bad flu season was used to upend the world, destroying lives, separating families, redistributing tens of trillions in wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthy, and destroying a generation's education and mental health.
But as bad as the COVID myths were, I think it is safe to say that the Climate hysteria and all the downstream consequences of reshaping our lives and economies around a hysterical overreaction
Recently, a friend in media asked how he could acquire a New York City press pass.
I sent him the form to fill out, but I told him it was a longshot without a legitimate body of work.
How foolish of me.
Apparently, all you need is a Substack and a lust for political violence.
Perhaps it helps if you give yourself a cutsie name like the “Mangionistas.” On Monday morning, Luigi Mangione appeared for a hearing in Manhattan, and the aforementioned “Mangionistas,” aka his murder cheer squad, showed up to support him.
And these extremists have been granted full legitimacy by mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Executive Director of the Press Credentials Office, Samer Nasser.
Can we all get a refund? Now UN climate
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Apocalyptic climate-change predictions were box-office gold for Hollywood but they did untold damage to the public psyche, economy and the average man’s pocketbook.
Now the United Nations’ influential climate change committee has quietly discarded the dire temperature-rise scenarios used in two previous reports predicting horrific consequences of global warming if greenhouse emissions weren’t curbed.
For years, lefty outfits — based on dubious climate science — screamed about the coming climate catastrophe: The New York Times warned that “Climate Change Is Harming The Planet Faster Than We Can Adapt,” “Climate Change Is Speeding Toward Catastrophe” and “A Hotter Future Is Certain.”
The story plays out the same way virtually every time.
Democrats, egged on by the increasingly powerful progressive base, push some obviously unconstitutional scheme that they contended is needed to preserve “democracy.”
The courts inevitably knock down the ploy. Frustrated, Democrats ratchet up the anger, promising to “reform” the judiciary that stands in their way.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) recently argued on the House floor that the next Democratic White House “does not need a court reform commission like some college seminar. We need action. We need term limits for justices. We need to expand this morally bankrupt Supreme Court from 9 to 13.”
Do we? Great, let’s do it today.
TrumpRx is expanding to about seven times its current size, adding more than 600 generic prescription drugs to the months-old direct-to-consumer government website, the president said Monday.
The website was created as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to lower drug prices for Americans, a policy agenda continued from his first term. TrumpRx.gov functions as an online marketplace for a number of select expensive pharmaceutical drugs, with the manufacturers having agreed to significantly discount them for Americans who don’t have or aren’t using their insurance.
(The Center Square) - A new state regulatory filing on Monday revealed that Starbucks is laying off 252 more workers across its Seattle headquarters.
The latest filing with the state Employment Security Department comes after Starbucks announced last week that it was laying off 61 employees in its technology department.
The new layoffs focus on Starbucks’ corporate support staff, but also impact employees in various corporate roles, including vice president, managers and administrative assistants. Starbucks officials didn’t respond to requests for comment, and it's unclear whether the moves are related to cost-cutting efforts by Starbucks' CEO Brian Niccol.
American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten tapped hundreds of thousands in union resources to help write her controversial book — working with a team that raked in more than $1.4 million from the labor group, a new analysis found.
Weingarten used the abundance of union-fueled resources for the liberal agenda-pushing “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy” then pocketed a portion of the proceeds, the Freedom Foundation claimed in a new report.
Her team included an attorney who supposedly worked on the book pro bono but whose firm raked in $977,000 for various work for AFT, as well as a supposed “ghost writer who earned over
Recently, at the U.S.-China summit in Beijing, Premier Xi [Jinping] mentioned that he hoped that both parties, the United States and China, could avoid the Thucydides Trap.
What did that mean? It refers to a book and an article by the well-known political scientist Graham Allison.
In it, he presented a paradigm of international relations. Briefly, it was this: If you have an established power, like ancient Sparta, and it gets worried that there is an ascending power, a rising new neighborhood bully or something, the older power, the established power, will attack it, and there will be a war.
Graham Platner has made his status as a fully disabled veteran a central part of his insurgent campaign against Maine senator Susan Collins (R.). At the same time, he has refused to disclose whether the Veterans Affairs (V.A.) benefits that make up the vast majority of his income come with work restrictions—a critical distinction that could have legal implications for his campaign.
Platner told News Center Maine in October that he holds a 100 percent disability rating due to "a couple herniated discs," a "wreck" of a shoulder, knees that "bother him," and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and that, as a result, he receives roughly $4,800 a month from the V.A.
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker's (D.) administration offers a taxpayer-funded training on "microaggressions" and other "exclusionary behaviors" that depicts white people and police officers as mosquitoes who suck blood from people of color.
The training—which Pritzker's Department of Human Rights offers to "private-sector, government, and public participants" and which the Washington Free Beacon attended—is meant to "increase knowledge, awareness and prevention of discrimination and harassment issues and offer solutions to employers and employees on how to appropriately respond to situations as they arise." It defines "microaggressions" as "the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons
Meet the new boss.
After months of resisting endorsing a successor, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the former House speaker, officially threw her support behind a fellow progressive, San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Connie Chan, on Monday. She is one of the party’s most successful fundraisers, and Chan is expected to benefit from her fundraising network.
Connie Chan is an immigrant from Hong Kong, her politics are well to the left and anti-American, and there have been some questions asked about her ties to Communist China’s propaganda infrastructure. Chan’s 2022 decision, as District 1 Supervisor, to designate Sing Tao Daily—a national Chinese-language newspaper with a documented history of alignment