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The far-left group Progressive Victory is unveiling a troubling allegation against a potential candidate to replace Democrat Graham Platner in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, alleging that this individual “struck a female colleague with a bottle he threw at her” during a disagreement, corroborated by several witnesses. Platner is facing more than an uphill battle after yet another controversy bubbled up. This time, a woman alleges that Platner broke into her home and sexually assaulted her. Jenny Racicot, 41, the alleged victim, told Politico that she was dating Platner on and off. In 2021,
With the latest allegations against Graham Platner, Democrats in Maine are scrambling to find a candidate to replace him on the ballot this fall.
One name that has been floated is Troy Jackson, a far left Maine Democrat who also ran for governor of the state.
There’s just one problem. There are allegations of assault against a woman by Troy Jackson too. You could not make this up.
Amazingly, the allegations against Jackson were uncovered and published by a leftist group which doesn’t want Democrats to make the same mistake they did with Platner.
Virginia rolled hard toward gun control this year. Never mind that Gov. Abigail Spanberger ran as a moderate, said little to nothing about guns during her campaign, said she was about affordability, and then took office and did nothing about the cost of living. Instead, she tried to redistrict the state--something she expressly said she wouldn't do--and tried to take everyone's guns away. I was ready to hold onto Cam's guns for him if he needed it, but thankfully, that hasn't been necessary.
Part of the reason it's not necessary is because of grandfather clauses thankfully, but another part is that everything Spanberger's tried has blown up in her face spectacularly.
The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being ‘gouged.’ I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing!”
That was President Donald Trump on June 24 in a post on Truth Social, stating he had ordered the Justice Department to investigate alleged price gouging at the gas pump, noting oil prices are falling faster than gasoline. The implication is there might be illegal price collusion.
SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 on Tuesday, 25 days after Elon Musk took the rocket company public.
For millions of Americans with passive funds inside a 401(k), the company that made Musk the first trillionaire in recorded history may soon land inside their retirement account too. SpaceX opened at $150 a share on its first day of trading, moved higher, pulled back, and closed Monday at $160.42. Nasdaq confirmed SpaceX would enter the Nasdaq-100 on July 7.
Funds that track the index will buy the stock. Many of those mutual funds and exchange-
Israel: Rule of Law in Crisis
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Well, it finally happened. The executive branch – Israel's government – has apparently had enough of the activist, self-selected Supreme Court endeavoring to micro-manage policy decisions that have nothing to do with it.
For the first time in Israel's nearly 80-year history, the government announced it would not abide by a Supreme Court ruling.
The reality... is that the Supreme Court is itself guilty of these allegations directed towards the government. The court has ignored existing law, for reasons of its own ideological persuasions, and has led the country to a constitutional crisis entirely of the court's own making.
Nigel Farage has been under extreme pressure from the U.K political apparatus surrounding a £5 million personal donation from a long-term friend Christopher Harborne to pay for a personal security protective detail.
Both the Labour and Conservative political parties in the U.K have been blistering Farage under investigations around this donation, and the subsequent investigations are being used as justifications in attempts to remove him from his position as leader of the Reform Party. Essentially, the British government -writ large- are using all of the mechanisms of government institutions trying to take him down.
To put a stop to the nonsense,
The radical Left’s desperate scheme to flood American elections with illegal non-citizen votes just hit a massive, Trump-shaped brick wall in Florida.
A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida has OVERRULED a highly controversial order by a far-left, foreign-born activist judge in Washington D.C., officially REINSTATING President Donald Trump’s powerhouse election security system.
The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system upgrades, which allow patriot states to instantly screen voter rolls and purge illegal aliens, is back online.
Last March, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at preserving and protecting the integrity of US elections.
My Platner Prediction Just Came True.
Here’s What’s Next — Including the
Death of the Dems' Brand. replies
Here’s What’s Next — Including the
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Before I take a (well-deserved) victory lap, a confession: My predictive accuracy rate for Democrats is astronomically high, yet I’ve whiffed quite a bit predicting President Donald Trump’s next moves. (Certainly didn’t have Greenland, the Iran War ceasefire, or the White House ballroom on my bingo card.) But there’s an excellent reason why the Donkeys are so much easier to predict: The Democrats rely on traditional PR tactics, so if you figure out why a competent PR pro would play that card, it unmasks their entire agenda. After all, PR tactics aren’t random; they’re based on cause and effect.
It was a direct violation of the “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) between the two countries, according to the U.S., and the resulting American military response was roughly eight times larger than the earlier strikes on June 27, after Iran also attacked commercial shipping.
The Treasury Department also reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil sales, hitting them where it hurts: in the wallet. All this is going on as the seemingly endless, week-long funeral for the very dead former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rambles on.
The ceasefire looks increasingly tenuous, as our Ward Clark reported earlier Tuesday:
Monday marked the third time Cuba’s worn-out National Electric System (SEN) has completely collapsed in 2026 so far, and the eighth nationwide blackout experienced by Cubans since the grid’s complete collapse in late 2024. According to Cuba-focused outlets, the blackout started around Monday at noon (local time) and remains largely unresolved 24 hours later. At press time, the Electric Union (UNE), the Castro regime’s electric authority, has reportedly not disclosed what caused the blackout, nor has it provided an estimated timetable towards restoring power.
For decades, Cubans have experienced daily,
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they targeted US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait on Wednesday after the US launched a wave of military strikes on Iran in response to attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
In the latest blow to the fragile cease-fire agreement, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it carried out a joint missile and drone operation against key US military sites in Bandar Salman, Bahrain’s Fifth Naval District and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, and shot down a US MQ9 drone attempting to interfere in the operation.
Air raid sirens sounded in Bahrain and Kuwait, officials said.
The dynamic has been playing out for several years now. Democrats lost the presidency to Donald Trump in 2016 and ever since have maintained that the best way for them to win competitive elections is not to adopt more appealing positions, but to conceal their perverse drag queen identity beneath a corny, manifestly fraudulent aesthetic. We’ll call it “straight guy coded.”
Their latest attempt just blew up in Maine, where Graham Platner is facing yet another accusation of sexual misconduct, as reported Monday in Politico. “I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,”
Federal judge hands Trump big win, directs
DHS to restore voter verification features
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DHS to restore voter verification features
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federal judge in Florida on Tuesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore some of the key features of its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, which states use to verify citizenship and immigration status for voter rolls.
The ruling overturns a D.C. judge's ruling, who determined that the SAVE system's features, including a feature that allowed workers to verify citizenship status through a resident's social security number, violated the Social Security Act and Privacy Act by improperly aggregating and using Americans’ personal data.
The SAVE system was enhanced under the Trump administration to better support state election integrity efforts, including maintenance of state voter rolls.
Far-left Muslim Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing renewed scrutiny after newly surfaced audio revealed him explicitly supporting efforts to defund police departments. In his previous interviews, El-Sayed has denied ever calling to defund the police, arguing that his old social media posts were misrepresented after being taken out of context. But recordings from 2020 tell a different story. In one interview from June 2020, El-Sayed said he believed police funding should be reduced while more taxpayer dollars should be directed toward schools, mental health services, and anti-poverty programs.
CENTCOM said the strikes were intended to impose “heavy costs” on Iran for targeting civilian-crewed commercial shipping in an international waterway, describing the attacks as “unwarranted” and “dangerous.” The operation came as Washington and Tehran were implementing a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending months of regional conflict and restoring safe navigation through the strategic waterway. The escalation followed a series of Iranian attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz over Monday and Tuesday, including a Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker and a Saudi tanker, prompting condemnations from Gulf states,
The Treasury Department revoked a sanctions waiver issued on June 21 that had temporarily allowed transactions involving Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, and petrochemicals. Under the new guidance, companies have until July 17 to wind down transactions previously authorized under the waiver. The original authorization had been set to remain in effect through Aug. 21.
The waiver was issued as part of a ceasefire memorandum of understanding (MOU) reached between the United States and Iran following months of conflict. A U.S. official said the agreement was always contingent on Iran’s behavior.
Embattled Senate Candidate Graham Platner
Won’t Drop Out Unless He Can Choose
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Won’t Drop Out Unless He Can Choose
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Maine Democrat candidate Graham Platner is refusing to drop out of the Senate race after being accused of rape unless he gets to approve his successor, the New York Post reported Tuesday.
The political winds shifted decidedly against the Maine Democrat Monday, after the latest sexual abuse allegations dropped in POLITICO.
A woman who once dated Platner, a fellow Democrat, told the outlet that he broke into her house and “forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections.”
Platner called the allegations “categorically false,” but stated he would be pausing his campaign nonetheless.
California Democrats spent years trying to strangle ICE detention in their state. Trump's DHS just spent $1.5 billion to make sure that doesn't work.
President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security has purchased two of the largest ICE detention facilities in California, securing more than 4,500 detention beds in a state where Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has made blocking immigration enforcement a signature political cause. CoreCivic, the nation's largest private prison and detention operator, announced Monday that DHS completed the purchase on July 2 of the 2,560-bed California City Detention Facility and the 1,994-bed Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego,
Less Bad Numbers on the Midterms
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Rasmussen’s latest numbers are looking up a bit for Republicans. Keep in mind that this is a likely voter poll:
The Democratic Party now leads Republicans by four points in the battle to control the House of Representatives.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that if the elections for Congress were held today, 46% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Democratic candidate, while 42% would vote for the Republican. Five percent (5%) say they would vote for some other candidate, while another eight percent (7%) are not sure. …
America's enemies have never feared our committee hearings; they fear the sound of American factories waking up.
A nation that builds its own medicine, chips, ships, steel, tools, trucks, and energy systems is harder to bully, starve, and much harder to beat.
The latest manufacturing numbers offer a reminder the country needed: the factory floor is still one of America's truest sources of power.
U.S. manufacturing slightly cooled in June, but the bigger story still holds. The Institute for Supply Management said its Manufacturing PMI registered 53.3 in June after May hit 94.0, the highest reading since May 2022. Readings above 50 show expansion, and June marked
A high school in Northern California is pushing back on Gov. Gavin Newsom's latest law that forced it to remove its "Indians" mascot on Wednesday.
In 2024, Newsom signed into law an extension of the California Racial Mascot Act, which prohibits public schools from using "any derogatory Native American term, as defined, as a school or athletic team name, mascot, or nickname" except for schools operated by an Indian tribe or tribal organization or with consent from a federally recognized tribe.
The law officially went into effect on Wednesday, leading Marysville High School to retire its "Indians" mascot after nearly 100 years.
Yesterday, Graham Platner denied allegations made by Jenny Racicot of rape, but then announced that he would take some time to mull over his options. At the time, Platner had already cancelled his upcoming events before the July 13 deadline to withdraw his nomination as the Democrat candidate for US Senate from Maine. His withdrawal from the race appeared imminent, so much so that Polymarket actually shut down the betting pool on it.
Well, it has been 24 hours since then, and ... all is quiet on the Totenkopf Front. Platner has lost almost every endorser in the race, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee announced
Graham Platner’s implosion isn’t a
problem for just him — rather the entire
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problem for just him — rather the entire
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Now they turn on Nazi-tattooed alleged rapist Graham Platner?
After all these months of defending him and making excuses — knowing full well what a repugnant dirtbag he is?
Let’s be honest: At this late date, the accusation that Platner raped an ex-girlfriend should shock absolutely no one. And that it took so long for Dems to cut him off speaks volumes.
Indeed, the only reason they’re deserting him now is not that they’ve finally grown a moral spine; it’s that they fear his grotesque character won’t fly with normal voters.
Not only would a continued Platner campaign for Maine’s US Senate seat almost certainly fail; voters nationwide may now realize