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I’m not someone who watches horror movies, literally ever, because I hate them. I don’t find anything artistic, creative, or impressive about sadistic and macabre productions, I don’t agree with fictionalizing horrendous realities that human beings have actually experienced for cheap gratification, and there’s nothing I personally enjoy about filling my mind with deeply disturbing sights and sounds [snip]. (Plus, my job requires me to be in the news, which is horrifying enough, as evidenced by the point to which I’m getting.)
[snip] take a trip to Spain, where they can enjoy the Mediterranean and watch horror-flick gore in real time!
DSA takes aim at Hochul over taxing the
rich after red sweep, report says: ‘We’re
coming for her’ replies
rich after red sweep, report says: ‘We’re
coming for her’ replies
Kath is going to face the reds’ wrath.
Mayor Mamdani’s socialist cronies vowed to target Gov. Kathy Hochul to push her on their “tax the rich” crusade — as the comrades boasted they “control” the Big Apple.
Democratic Socialists of America leader Gustavo Gordillo warned Hohcul that the emboldened far-left group will target her next after their candidates upset establishment Democrats in several key races in Tuesday’s party primaries.
“She knows we’re coming for her,” Gordillo told the New York Times.
The warning came after Mamdani-endorsed DSA congressional candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, along with avowed progressive Brad Lander, swept their Democratic primary races Tuesday.
Charlie Kirk's accused assassin, Tyler Robinson, can still face the potential death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder, a Utah judge ruled Friday.
Judge Tony Graf Jr. found Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard was in contempt of a court order for statements he made about his opinion on the strength of evidence in the case — but he was not wrong for making other statements in which he disputed a misleading characterization about specific ballistic evidence from a defense court filing.
As a result, Graf denied Robinson's argument that the appropriate remedy would be to remove the potential death penalty — and instead he said he would expand the jury selection
Hopefully, this will speed up the process to remove millions of migrants who were previously shielded by “Temporary Protected Status.” {Ruling Here}
In a 6-3 decision Thursday, the Supreme Court said the administration can strip temporary protected status (TPS) from migrants who arrived from Islamist Syria and the ‘sh!thole‘ nation of Haiti.
Given the ridiculous way Obama and Biden defined crisis, the ruling appears to have removed legal obstacles blocking Trump and Rubio from ending the temporary protected status for immigrants from 13 countries, including Venezuela, Honduras and Afghanistan. Get rid of all of them. Illegal migrants do not have constitutional protection.
John Bolton Pleads Guilty to Mishandling
Classified Information, Faces Five-Year
Prison Sentence replies
Classified Information, Faces Five-Year
Prison Sentence replies
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty on Friday to mishandling classified information during his time in the Trump White House.
When a judge asked whether he was guilty during a hearing on Friday, Bolton responded: “I am, Your Honor, and sorry for it.”
The Justice Department is seeking a five-year sentence for Bolton, who also previously served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He has also agreed to pay a fine of $2.25 million.
Bolton is scheduled to be sentenced on October 28.
Hopping mad Hugh Jackman is blaming ex-wife Deborra-Lee Furness for poisoning showbiz pals against him, insiders told RadarOnline.com. Sources said the Wolverine hunk flipped out after longtime friend Nicole Kidman ignored him and new squeeze Sutton Foster at the Met Gala. But Jackman is especially upset fellow Aussies like Naomi Watts and Russell Crowe are giving him the cold shoulder, sources said. "Hugh's increasingly angry over the feeling that more and more people in Hollywood
Caulking in Reflecting Pool was cut and
tops of fence posts tossed in water, court
filing says replies
tops of fence posts tossed in water, court
filing says replies
Details of the alleged vandalism to the recently refurbished Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. were revealed in a court filing.
According to Deputy Director for the National Park Service Frank Lands, the incident took place shortly after the resurfaced pool was filled again with water on June 9, ABC News reported.
"The U.S. Park Police responded to an NPS report of damage to the reflecting pool, including a caulk over the foam sealant that was cut with a sharp knife or razor and destruction of delaminating surface material. In addition, approximately 70 fence post tops were thrown into the pool," Lands said in a declaration.
Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham (D-NM) responded to Associated Press and Albuquerque Journal reports detailing that the Drug Enforcement Administration allowed just under two million fentanyl pills to "walk" into the United States in order to obtain “intelligence," from 2023 to 2025, primarily during the Biden-era. “Make no mistake: the DEA knew people would die if these pills made it into New Mexico communities, and the agency let it happen anyway,” Lujan-Grisham said in a statement, adding that "there are no words to describe how reckless and dangerous these decisions were."
Crude prices exceeded $110 a barrel in early April but now, at less than $70 a barrel on Thursday, are within a few of bucks of where they were before the bombing campaign against the terrorist regime in Tehran began. They have not fallen fast enough for the president, though, so he’s ordered the Justice Department to dig into oil companies’ business affairs. Please, Mr. President, don’t be Gavin Newsom.
“The big oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for oil,” President Donald Trump announced Wednesday on social media.
Air Conditioning? It’s Illegal!
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Britain is in even worse shape than I thought. From the Telegraph: “Air conditioning torn from homes under net zero clampdown.”
Homeowners are being forced to tear out air conditioning from their private properties under climate laws, despite rising temperatures.
Council planning officers ordered residents to remove air-con units over fears they produce too much carbon dioxide, stating they should only be used as a “last resort”.
The net zero clampdown is part of building regulations that state “active cooling” should only ever be allowed when all other means of “passive cooling”, such as opening windows or using fans, have been exhausted.
So whether you can air condition your home
Spies gone wild: Intelligence Community
watchdog warns agencies fail to act after
alarm raised replies
watchdog warns agencies fail to act after
alarm raised replies
When an intelligence agent purchased illegal firearm components from China, an Intelligence Community contractor searched through employee security files and another such contractor profited off of government service, the IC watchdog raised the alarm. But federal agencies within the community failed to act for months, according to bombshell testimony delivered to Congress this week.
The Intelligence Community Inspector General Christopher Fox testified that his watchdog office lacks the proper authority to carry out investigations into alleged wrongdoing inside the Intelligence Community and instead is often hampered by “tribalism” among the agencies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a stark choice. Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign has emerged as a game-changer, bringing the war directly into the heart of Russia. In recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have repeatedly struck oil refineries in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Moscow’s main refinery in Kapotnya was hit twice in a single week in mid-June, sparking massive fires that sent thick plumes of black smoke billowing over the capital and disrupting fuel supplies and airport operations.
Similar precision strikes have targeted refining and storage facilities across Russia, knocking out a significant share of the country’s refining capacity and directly undermining the economic foundation of Putin’s war machine.All Posts
Gustavo Gordillo is the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America in New York City. During a recent interview with Spectrum News, he explained how the DSA is basically exploiting the Democrat Party’s infrastructure to get their people elected.
It just confirms that these people are not even Democrats. They are an anti-Israel, Marxist contingent that is merely using the Democrat party instead of building a party of their own.
Regular Democrats are so starved for wins, that they are allowing it to happen.
Transcript via Townhall:
A few days ago, I wrote an article for our VIPs, updating you on some of the various efforts the Donald Trump administration and our South and Central American allies are taking to pursue the cartels and narco-terrorists who flood our region with drugs and violence. You can check it out here: Boats Down, Tons Seized: Let's Check In On the Region's Anti-Narco Activity. A lot of these stories don't make MSM headlines, but they're happening nearly weekly (I already have more to share in the days ahead).
The idea of Joe Biden's administration working closely with gun control groups is about as outrageous as someone eating eggs for breakfast. We all know it happened, at least to some degree, and it's nothing new. Both sides work closely with organizations that align with their administrations' interests.
But did the Biden White House go too far with it?
That seems to be the big question before a House committee that wants to know just how closely the administration worked with anti-gunners.It's unclear exactly what the ramifications of such interactions might be, though legislation designed to prevent this sort of thing seems the most likely response.
One way our nation's most "prestigious" newspapers show they're Democrat Party propaganda sheets is when their fashion critics apply all of their tawdry partisan biases to their evaluations of the clothes of politicians (or their spouses).Robin Givhan of The Washington Post was a transparent Democrat, and so is Vanessa Friedman of The New York Times. A white pantsuit worn by Hillary Clinton, as well as the feminist Democrats at the State of the Union, was very chic. But when Tulsi Gabbard wore one while she criticized Hillary at a Democrat debate in 2019, it suddenly carried "connotations of the fringe" and displayed "somewhat combative righteousness (also cult leaders)."
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.
The New York City Rent Guidelines Board approved Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s key campaign promise to “freeze the rent” on Thursday — in a move landlord advocates slammed as “an absolute farce.”
The board passed a rent freeze on both one-year and two-year leases for the Big Apple’s roughly 1 million rent-stabilized units in a 7-1 vote. Arpit Gupta, an appointee of Mamdani’s predecessor Eric Adams, was the one no vote.
It came hours after the public resignation of one of the RGB’s nine members, Christina Smyth, who accused the panel of ignoring its own data during the lengthy process to decide whether to adjust rents —
Democratic socialist candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier won a shocking primary victory in New York, but veteran Democratic strategist James Carville is not celebrating.
The socialist backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who won Tuesday night’s primary election in New York’s 13th Congressional District [snip]
NewsNation interviewed Carville on Thursday for his response to multiple far-left candidates winning in New York. While he downplayed some of the panic as essentially being about three seats in New York, he nonetheless argued Avila Chevalier should not be associated with the Democratic Party.
Democratic New York state Rep. Micah Lasher defeated Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway and Kennedy heir Jack Schlossberg Tuesday in his bid to replace Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler. (snip) Schlossberg entered the race in November 2025 and received endorsements from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and his mother, Caroline Kennedy. (snip) Conway, an anti-Trump lawyer, centered his campaign on removing President Donald Trump from office and “defeating Trumpism.” He co-founded The Lincoln Project, a political action committee (PAC) consisting of former Republicans that tried to prevent Trump and his supporters from winning elections.
President Trump cheered late Tuesday, after Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) lost his House primary to former New York City comptroller Brad Lander (D).
“Weak and pathetic Congressman Dan Goldman just lost, BIG!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I guess people didn’t like him illegally targeting President TRUMP.”
He added, “In any event, this jerk is finally GONE!”
Goldman, a former federal prosecutor, was the lead majority counsel in House Democrats’ first impeachment inquiry against the president in 2019.
NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani got another major win Thursday night when the Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents on the city’s roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. The mayor-appointed panel voted 7-1 to freeze rents on both one- and two-year leases, an unprecedented move that came despite protests from landlords that it would push them into deeper financial straits. The freeze, which will cover some 2 million tenants, will take effect for leases signed starting in October. (Snip) It caps a triumphant week for the Democratic socialist, who scored a clean sweep in Tuesday’s primary elections. The mayor’s
An illegal alien has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for his involvement in an $89 million fraudulent payroll scheme that saw illegal alien construction workers and their employers evade taxes.
“Today, we held an illegal alien from Honduras accountable for a brazen scheme that stole more than $38 million from American taxpayers to facilitate the employment of illegal aliens,” Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said.
“This case exposes how unchecked illegal immigration fuels widespread payroll tax fraud and underground economies that harm American workers and taxpayers,” McDonald said. “This sentence sends a strong message: Those who exploit our open borders, cheat the U.S. Treasury, and violate federal laws
Blue state leaders erupt after Supreme
Court’s decision ending TPS protections
for Haitians, Syrians replies
Court’s decision ending TPS protections
for Haitians, Syrians replies
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration in two key immigration cases on Thursday, drawing strong opposition from blue state Democrats and prompting a prominent House Republican to break ranks over concerns of a looming healthcare "crisis." In a 6-3 decision in Mullin v. Doe, the high court ruled that Haitian and Syrian nationals with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) cannot turn to federal courts to postpone the revocation of their legal status while challenging the Trump administration's policies.
In a separate ruling, the court also held that migrants turned away at the southern border before entering the U.S. are not entitled to apply for