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Trump pledges more Iran strikes, saying
U.S. will be 'attacking them very hard'
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Posted by Dreadnought 6/10/2026 2:12:09 PM Post Reply
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. would hit Iran "very hard" again, escalating his public threats as he pressed Tehran to sign a deal. "We hit them hard yesterday, and we're going to hit them hard again today," Trump said at a White House signing event for the Secure America Act. "We're going to be attacking them and attacking them very hard." Trump said Iran "should sign the deal" and said that the U.S. wants an agreement "that's meaningful and works." "We'll see what happens with the deal," Trump said. The comments come after Trump warned on Truth Social that Iran had taken too long to negotiate
Trump pledges more Iran strikes, saying
U.S. will be 'attacking them very hard'
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Posted by Dreadnought 6/10/2026 2:12:06 PM Post Reply
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. would hit Iran "very hard" again, escalating his public threats as he pressed Tehran to sign a deal. "We hit them hard yesterday, and we're going to hit them hard again today," Trump said at a White House signing event for the Secure America Act. "We're going to be attacking them and attacking them very hard." Trump said Iran "should sign the deal" and said that the U.S. wants an agreement "that's meaningful and works." "We'll see what happens with the deal," Trump said. The comments come after Trump warned on Truth Social that Iran had taken too long to negotiate
Ron Johnson calls on Trump administration
to recognize COVID-19 vax injuries as
medical condition
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Posted by mc squared 6/10/2026 11:28:00 AM Post Reply
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is calling for transparency and accountability on COVID-19 vaccine injuries and says he's asking the Trump administration to implement an International Classification of Diseases code for COVID-19 vaccine injuries. “Trump's [Department of Health and Human Services] has to acknowledge that these injection injuries are real. [snip] Johnson's request follows an investigation of 11 million pages of subpoenaed data on COVID-19 vaccine surveillance data, prompting Senate hearings by the chamber's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, including one June 3 titled, “Plausible Mechanisms of COVID-19 Injections Causing Cancer and Attacks on Scientific Publications."
All It Took Was a Single Non-Woke Word
for This Man’s Life’s Work to Come
to the Brink of Ruin
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Posted by Beardo 6/10/2026 10:48:55 AM Post Reply
A Danish man spent years building a clothing company. Over the years, he fashioned, through hard work, careful study, trial and error, attention to trends, and sheer perseverance, a popular clothing brand. In the last few days, however, he has come to the brink of ruin, and of seeing all his labors come to naught. (snip) A Linkedin user asked on the platform what you would remove from Earth that would make it better if you could only choose one thing. (snip) To the question of what he would remove from the Earth in order to make it a better place, Tobia Sloth answered: “Islam.”
Platner’s ‘living on the sea’ claim
dismantled by critics as financial docs
paint a different picture
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Posted by Beardo 6/10/2026 10:30:17 AM Post Reply
Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner claimed that he has been able to "make a living on the sea" since leaving the armed forces during a Friday rally, an assertion his financial disclosures don’t appear to support. Platner, who is running for Senate in Maine to unseat incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins, has long identified himself as an oyster farmer and harbor master, giving a blue-collar tinge to his left-wing campaign. Financial disclosures, however, show that he brings in relatively little money from oyster farming, with reports suggesting that Platner receives the majority of his income through veteran’s disability payments.
As Summer Begins, Let’s Give Thanks
For A Life-Saving American Invention:
Air Conditioning
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Posted by RockyTCB 6/10/2026 10:12:23 AM Post Reply
Do you know who Willis Havilland Carrier is? No? Maybe you should. He’s the engineer who, way back in 1902, invented what we now call air conditioning. His invention has been cooling American houses and businesses ever since. But it’s also done something even more important: Saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Think that’s hyperbole? It isn’t. As America prepares for yet another long, hot summer, most of us will stay indoors to work and relax. Why? When the torrid weather arrives, we simply turn on our air conditioning and immediately feel cool air filling our rooms and making us comfortable. But comfort is a bonus to AC’s real impact: saving lives.
Nancy Mace gets trounced in South Carolina
gov’s race after Trump snub — makes
a surprise endorsement
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Posted by FlyRight 6/10/2026 7:02:44 AM Post Reply
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) conceded the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary race Tuesday less than two hours after polls closed, as returns showed the firebrand congresswoman trailing Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette by double digits. “This isn’t the end of the fight, but it is the end of a chapter,” Mace said in her concession speech, during which she endorsed state Attorney General Alan Wilson in a runoff race against Evette. Serving South Carolina has been the greatest honor of my life,” Mace wrote on X, shortly after conceding. “Every vote I cast, every hearing I called, every fight I picked — it was always for you.”
California’s Election Problems Keep
Getting Worse
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Posted by FlyRight 6/10/2026 6:53:48 AM Post Reply
So, Victor, let’s start out local. California election. This thing—no, there’s no state in America, and in fact, I’ve read there’s no country, non-first-world or first-world country, that counts votes like California does. And we saw the other day there was a dump of votes that came in one tranche, 10,000 votes exactly, for the mayoral race, and not a single one of those 10,000 votes went to Spencer Pratt. They were divided amongst the two Democrats, Karen Bass and, I’m sorry, I can’t remember the lady who’s probably gonna prevail. [Nithya Raman] And then,
Trump announces Pulte will take over as
acting director of national intelligence
on June 19
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Posted by FlyRight 6/10/2026 6:48:03 AM Post Reply
President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte will begin serving as acting director of national intelligence at the end of next week. Trump announced Pulte's appointment last week, and the official will replace Tulsi Gabbard in the post. Gabbard revealed last month that she would resign June 30 to support her husband in his battle with a rare form of bone cancer. The president said in a post on Truth Social that Pulte will now take over as acting director on June 19 and that the FHFA official is working with Gabbard in the transition.
South Carolina GOP Governor Race Goes
to Runoff, While Sen. Lindsey Graham Wins Handily
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Posted by Dreadnought 6/10/2026 12:30:34 AM Post Reply
South Carolina’s Lt. Governor Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson are moving on to the Republican gubernatorial runoff on June 23. They are the two top vote-getters in South Carolina’s Republican primary for governor. The Trump magic did the trick. President Donald Trump’s endorsement put Wilson at the top — but not by much. Evette was gaining 29% of the vote with 77% reporting, and Wilson was just behind her at 26%. Other candidates were much farther behind, with U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman and businessman Rom Reddy at 17% and 15%, and U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace trailing at 11%. Former S.C. State Senator Katrina Shealy said on WIS-TV
Graham Platner’s Ex-Political Director
Drops Bombshell Exposé, Accuses Campaign
of Offering Hush Money
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Posted by Dreadnought 6/10/2026 12:27:03 AM Post Reply
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s ex-political director argued that her former boss “shouldn’t be a U.S. senator,” revealing that she quit her job after becoming “disturbed” by what she had learned about him and claiming that she was offered hush money in a new bombshell exposé. Genevieve McDonald, a former Maine state representative who said she joined Platner’s campaign because she believed he genuinely wanted to fight for the working class, released a damning op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday evening, a day before the state’s Democrat primary. “I know firsthand why Graham Platner shouldn’t be a U.S. senator,”
The Last Straw: They’re Stealing Elections
in Real Time and Pretending It’s Normal
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Posted by FlyRight 6/9/2026 10:47:52 PM Post Reply
It’s not often life showcases a problem in real time. It is now in the form of California and the Senate. It’s become clear that California voting is designed to give Democrats the ability to cheat. Aside from Ranked Choice Voting scam and a universal mail-out of ballots, the state allows 30 days for votes to be counted, a fraud facilitator if ever there was one. We’re seeing it play itself out very much in real time. Last week in Los Angeles in the battle for Mayor, at one point after an update of 24,000 votes, Spencer Pratt, a guy with 30% support, did not gain a single vote.
Trump's Critics Dead Wrong (Again) on
the Economy
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Posted by FlyRight 6/9/2026 10:44:25 PM Post Reply
Last week's blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the Left who throughout Donald Trump's now-five-and-a-half years in the White House keep getting the economy dead wrong. Just a few months ago a gaggle of economists on the Left, led by Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, started warning of "stagflation," a witch's brew of high inflation and high unemployment at the same time. He wrote that "any statement that things aren't as bad as they were in the 1970s should come with the caveat 'so far.'"
The Citizenship Free Ride May Be Ending;
DOJ Warning Should Reach Ilhan Omar
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Posted by FlyRight 6/9/2026 10:40:52 PM Post Reply
The list includes sex offenders, fraudsters, drug dealers, and defendants accused of concealing conduct that should've blocked naturalization in the first place. From Fox News: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche framed citizenship as a privilege tied to honesty. Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, head of the Civil Division, said the department will pursue those who secured citizenship by lying. The government's point is simple enough for even the denizens of Washington to understand, which means somebody there will probably work hard to misunderstand it.
Karmelo Anthony found guilty of murder
in Texas track meet stabbing
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Posted by DVC 6/9/2026 10:38:46 PM Post Reply
A Collin County jury has sentenced Karmelo Anthony to 35 years in prison after he was found guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Memorial High School student Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas. Anthony faced up to life in prison after being convicted of murder. He will be eligible for parole after serving half that time. He broke down in tears and was shaking as the verdict was read Tuesday afternoon, and he was immediately taken into custody. The case immediately moved into the sentencing phase, with Anthony's mother as the sole witness
Assiociated Press Calls Mayor’s Race
for Nithya Raman After Another Fraudulent
Ballot Drop Buries Spencer Pratt – Raman
Gains 33,000 Votes
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Posted by Mercedes44 6/9/2026 10:37:47 PM Post Reply
The Associated Press has called the race for Raman —six days after Election Day. Raman will face incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in a November runoff election. The AP claims, “Large numbers of Democrats held onto their mail ballots and returned them in the race’s final days, which helps explain why Bass and Raman have been doing better than Pratt in the votes counted since primary day.” Raman was trailing Pratt by about 40,000 votes on election night, but thanks to mail-in ballots that were inserted after election day, she closed the gap. It can be recalled that Raman broke down in tears on election night with an emotional,
Scandal-plagued Graham Platner clinches
Dem Maine Senate primary: ‘I’ve made mistakes’
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Posted by Dreadnought 6/9/2026 10:33:09 PM Post Reply
BLUE HILL, Maine — Controversial oyster farmer and Marine veteran Graham Platner easily won Maine’s Democratic Senate primary Tuesday night despite a string of scandals, including sporting a Nazi tattoo on his chest. Platner was projected the winner by the Associated Press at 9:23 pm ET, and jumped to an early lead with 73.3% of the vote with about a fifth of the ballots counted, beating Gov. Janet Mills, who stopped campaigning in April. In his victory speech, held in the rural town where he was born, Platner acknowledged he’s “far from perfect” but pledged to be a “senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator.”
The Case for a ‘Choice Election’ in 2026 replies
Posted by Mercedes44 6/9/2026 10:33:05 PM Post Reply
The Democrat Party and their legacy media allies are framing the 2026 midterms as a referendum on President Trump and Republican governance in Congress, leveraging historical midterm dynamics where the president’s party often loses seats. Democratic leaders (e.g., Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee chairman) explicitly call for making it a referendum on “Trump’s one Big Beautiful Bill and agenda.” Their messaging focuses on affordability, health care costs, farm/economic impacts from policies, and immigration enforcement effects in key districts. They are targeting ostensibly vulnerable GOP seats in Trump-won areas, expanding maps and emphasizing “MAGA extremism” or unfulfilled promises.
How John Thune Forgot the 2004 Voting
Scandal That Made Him
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Posted by Mercedes44 6/9/2026 10:31:12 PM Post Reply
Critics and conservative activists are increasingly pointing to Thune’s historic 2004 Senate victory over incumbent Democrat Tom Daschle, arguing that Thune’s current handling of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act contradicts the very principles that propelled him to power. The 2004 South Dakota Senate race remains one of the most iconic clashes in modern political history. Thune unseated Daschle, then the Senate minority leader, by a razor-thin margin of 4,508 votes. The campaign was defined by fierce debates over authenticity, residency, and the integrity of the vote itself.
Anti-Trump lawyer’s nonprofit secretly
aided state prosecutions of Trump supporters,
memos show
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Posted by Mercedes44 6/9/2026 10:29:09 PM Post Reply
Democratic attorneys general deputized private lawyers from a nonprofit run by former Obama ambassador and anti-Trump activist Norm Eisen to help prosecute supporters of President Donald Trump for organizing alternate electors to challenge the 2020 election results, according to tax records and internal memos released under open record laws. The relationship between state and local prosecutors and Eisen’s States United Democracy Center (SUDC) raises troubling questions about the independence of judicial decisions and the influence of a donor-funded group on matters of law and order, experts said. At least one state — Minnesota — swore in lawyers from Eisen’s SUDC as “special attorneys”
GAO urges federal agencies to do more
to stop at least $180B of improper payments
made in error
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Posted by Mercedes44 6/9/2026 10:26:45 PM Post Reply
Federal agencies paid out an estimated $186 billion by mistake in fiscal year 2025 alone and without better oversight, taxpayers could keep losing money at that level, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Since 2003, these payment mistakes have added up to about $3 trillion, touching everything from Medicare and Medicaid to unemployment benefits and tax credits. The watchdog agency described the issue as a “long-standing, significant problem” and said several departments repeatedly failed to comply with federal reporting requirements designed to track and reduce payment errors.
Mace after 5th-place finish in SC primary:
'This isn't the end'
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Posted by Mercedes44 6/9/2026 10:23:56 PM Post Reply
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., on Tuesday seemed to leave open the door to remaining in public and political life after her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary. "I will always be grateful for the people of South Carolina who trusted me, fought with me, and refused to look the other way. This isn't the end of the fight. It's just the end of this chapter," she said, without specifying future plans. Mace earned 11.4% of the vote, failing to make the runoff. Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and state Attorney General Alan Wilson finished in the top two slots and will advance to the next stage.
Department of Defense labels Cirrus as
a 'Chinese Military Company'
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Posted by Dreadnought 6/9/2026 8:10:22 PM Post Reply
DULUTH, Minn. (KQDS-TV) -- The US Department of Defense (DOD) has labeled Cirrus Design Corporation as a "Chinese Military Company." In a list released by the DOD, 188 companies were identified as "Chinese military companies operating directly or indirectly in the United States." Under section 805 of the 2024 Fiscal Year National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the DOD is prohibited to "Enter into, renew, or extend a contract for the procurement of goods, services, or technology" with these companies. According to the NDAA, this prohibition will take effect on June 30, 2026 An indirect procurement ban will follow on June 30, 2027. The United States Air Force Academy currently uses Cirrus SR-20
CBS News boss Bari Weiss poised to oversee
CNN editorial operations: report
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Posted by Dreadnought 6/9/2026 7:23:06 PM Post Reply
CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report. Paramount executives are said to have held preliminary discussions with several candidates who would come in and run the business-side operations next to Weiss while she continues to oversee editorial. The company is considering several big names, including current CNN CEO Mark Thompson, NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde and former NBC News chief Noah Oppenheim, Axios reported. Ben Sherwood, currently CEO of Daily Beast, and former CBS News president David Rhodes are also under consideration, according to the report.
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