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  • Trump’s Jobs Boom Skips Illinois—Thanks to Pritzker’s Tax Hikes

    06/30/2025 10:54:27 AM PDT · by PBRCat · 9 replies
    The Illinois Review ^ | June 26, 2025 | Thomas McCullagh
    Across the country, American factories are reopening. Companies are returning home. Jobs are being created. Under Donald Trump’s leadership, U.S. manufacturing is seeing a revival. Tariffs on foreign goods, tax incentives for domestic production, and fewer federal regulations have caused a shift. Major corporations are pulling operations out of China and Mexico and bringing them back to American soil. Kentucky. Alabama. Indiana. Texas. South Carolina. These states are attracting billions of dollars in new manufacturing investments. Thousands of new jobs are being created. But Illinois is being left out—and Governor JB Pritzker’s tax-heavy policies are a major reason why.
  • LOOK: Stunt driver jumps General Lee over the town square fountain in Somerset

    06/30/2025 3:29:39 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 34 replies
    On3 ^ | 06 29 2025 | Zack Geoghegan
    Them Duke boys were at it again on Saturday… At the Somernites Cruise festival in Somerset, KY, one brave stunt driver by the name of Raymond Kohn hopped in a General Lee replica and jumped 150 feet over/through the town’s Fountain Square. It’s a video you have to see to believe — and people on social media were posting it from every possible angle. With thousands upon thousands in attendance for the 25th annual Somernites Cruise, known as the official car cruise capital of Kentucky, the “Dukes of Hazzard”-inspired 1969 Dodge Charger flew off the ramp, barrelled through the fountain’s...
  • TRUMP-MASSIE FEUD REACHES FEVER PITCH

    06/28/2025 10:32:01 AM PDT · by RandFan · 59 replies
    The Hill ^ | 06/28/25 12:00 PM ET | by Julia Manchester
    President Trump’s feud with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is showing no signs of abating as the president seeks to oust the GOP congressman for his history of regularly breaking with the administration. Massie recently opposed the administration by denouncing its strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and refusing to support the president’s legislative agenda, leading Trump’s political operation to launch a targeted campaign against Massie. On Friday, a Trump-aligned super PAC, led by the president’s co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita, rolled out its first ad as part of a $1 million ad buy targeting Massie. The 30-second ad — titled “What happened...
  • Senate blocks Iran war powers resolution

    06/27/2025 6:13:37 PM PDT · by backpacker_c · 30 replies
    thehill ^ | June 27, 2025 | Al Weaver
    The Senate blocked an effort Friday to prevent President Trump from taking future military action against Iran without authorization from Congress, less than a week after he directed strikes aimed at the country’s nuclear capabilities. Senators voted 47-53 largely along party lines against the war powers resolution. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the lone GOP lawmaker to vote with Democrats. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), an ardent backer of Israel, voted with Republicans.
  • GE Appliances moving China manufacturing to Louisville, creating 800 jobs

    06/27/2025 6:17:06 AM PDT · by Phoenix8 · 22 replies
    WLKY ^ | 6/26/2025 | Suckow
    LOUISVILLE, Ky. — One of Louisville's biggest employers is making a massive investment, bringing hundreds of jobs into the Commonwealth from overseas. According to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, GE Appliances is going to invest $490 million into its global corporate headquarters at Appliance Park in Buechel. It's the largest investment in the company's history. Advertisement GE Appliances will be bringing laundry production to Louisville as they reshore some production from China. “Today’s announcement brings more appliance manufacturing back to the United States and solidifies Kentucky and Louisville as the global headquarters of GE Appliances,” Beshear said. “GE Appliances is one...
  • Trump Team Launches SuperPAC Focused Solely on Ousting Thomas Massie

    06/26/2025 5:43:39 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 70 replies
    thelibertydaily ^ | thelibertydaily
    Rapidly making good on President Trump’s promise to back a 2026 Republican primary challenger to libertarian-minded Rep. Thomas Massie, the Trump team has already launched a super PAC dedicated entirely to removing Massie from office next year. It promises to make for the strongest challenge Massie’s faced yet. The new “Kentucky MAGA” super PAC will be run by top Trump political operatives Tony Fabrizio and Chris LaCivita, with La Civita telling Axios the new entity will spend “whatever it takes” to replace Massie. Trump’s political circle has already had discussions with potential challengers. “Massie’s long-time opposition to…really anything to do...
  • Why Ominbus bills suck

    06/26/2025 2:31:29 PM PDT · by RandFan · 19 replies
    X ^ | June 26 | TheoVon
    @TheoVon Omnibus bills and why they suck w/ @RepThomasMassie
  • Graham overrides Paul’s border wall, immigration enforcement proposal

    06/25/2025 5:27:27 PM PDT · by backpacker_c · 23 replies
    the hill ^ | June 25, 2025 | Alexander Bolton
    Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has unveiled a plan to override Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) proposal to fund border security and immigration enforcement activities at roughly half the amount favored by Senate and House Republican leaders. Paul created an uproar two weeks ago when he unveiled his portion of the Trump agenda megabill that would spend $6.5 billion on completing President Trump’s border wall and $22.5 billion on expanding detention facilities for migrants. Now Graham has answered with a move of his own, unveiling a proposal to restore funding for the border wall and Immigration...
  • Massie isn’t backing down. Neither is Trump.

    06/25/2025 10:29:46 AM PDT · by RandFan · 51 replies
    Politico ^ | June 25 | By Brakkton Booker, Daniel Desrochers and Lisa Kashinsky
    ..... Members of Kentucky’s congressional delegation say Massie’s sprawling district, which runs along the northern border along Ohio and Indiana and stretches from the southern Cincinnati suburbs to the outer bands of the Louisville metro area, is a unique cross-section of the state that appears to relish Massie’s independent streak. It’s home to some of the most prominent members of the “liberty faction” of the Kentucky Republican Party, a group that embraces Trump while also gravitating toward libertarian-leaning Republicans like Massie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. The senator has weathered his own barrage of attacks from Trump for voicing opposition...
  • House Speaker Johnson argues the War Powers Act is unconstitutional

    06/25/2025 6:31:34 AM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies
    CNBC ^ | Jun 24 2025 | Kevin Breuninger
    House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., argued that the War Powers Act, a Nixon-era law limiting the president’s power to unilaterally wage war, is unconstitutional. President Donald Trump’s decision to order strikes on Iranian nuclear targets over the weekend was “clearly” within his powers under Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, Johnson said. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., alongside Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, has introduced a War Powers resolution that would bar the U.S. military from “unauthorized hostilities” in Iran. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., argued Tuesday that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, and vowed that a pending resolution...
  • GOP Rep. Massie: ‘I Have the Trump Antibodies’

    06/24/2025 11:57:36 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 55 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/24/2025 | Pam Key
    Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) said Monday on MSNBC’s “All In” that he was not bothered by President Donald Trump’s criticisms because he had developed what he called “Trump antibodies.” Host Chris Hayes said, “You obviously, you’ve taken some votes that have really put you on an island, I think it’s fair to say. You’re the single, solitary, no vote on that on that Big, Beautiful Bill that was coming through the House.” He asked, “I’m not going to read the entirety of this long post from the president, but he said he’s called you a simple minded grandstander. That MAGA...
  • 'Mofo...in the White House': Jasmine Crockett attacks Trump, praises Massie in anti-Iran strike rant

    06/23/2025 8:17:04 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 56 replies
    FOX News ^ | 6/23/25 | Elizabeth Elkind
    'There's only one Republican that I know I can count on for sure doing the right thing,' Rep Crockett says in a new video Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, launched another tirade against President Donald Trump over the weekend, while offering rare praise for one of her House GOP colleagues who is currently at odds with the commander in chief. The Democratic firebrand took to Instagram Live late Saturday to criticize Trump's strikes on Iran, while giving a "shout out" to Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., over his bipartisan resolution to rein in the president's ability to conduct such operations. "So long...
  • SCOOP: Trump launches MAGA PAC in effort to oust Rep. Massie from Congress

    06/23/2025 3:12:53 AM PDT · by RandFan · 74 replies
    axios ^ | June 23 | Alex Isenstadt
    President Trump's political operation has launched an aggressive effort to unseat Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, its first such effort to defeat a sitting Republican incumbent, Axios has learned. Why it matters: By going after Massie, Trump's team is looking to put wayward Republicans on notice that they're ready to play hardball. Massie has attacked Trump over his strike on Iran, saying on X that it was "not Constitutional," prompting the president to fire back on Truth Social that the congressman is "not MAGA." He also called Massie "weak, ineffective" and "disrespectful to our great military, and all that they stand...
  • Trump says MAGA should drop ‘pathetic loser’ Massie after pushback on US strikes

    06/22/2025 6:23:46 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 47 replies
    The Hill ^ | BY TARA SUTER
    President Trump said on Sunday that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement should abandon Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) after his pushback Saturday night against the U.S. strikes on Iran. In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Massie “not MAGA” and “a simple minded ‘grandstander’ who thinks it’s good politics for Iran to have the highest level Nuclear weapon.” Massie is weak, ineffective, and votes ‘NO’ on virtually everything put before him (Rand Paul, Jr.), no matter how good something may be. He is disrespectful to our great military, and all that they stand for, not...
  • Rashida Tlaib joins with Thomas Massie, Nancy, Pelosi, AOC , Hakeem Jefferies, in condemning Trump's bombing of nuclear facilities in Iran

    06/22/2025 3:49:30 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 133 replies
    X ^ | Rashida Tlaib
    President Trump sending U.S. troops to bomb Iran without the consent of Congress is a blatant violation of our Constitution.
  • Trump launches PAC to oust sitting Republican congressman (Massie) after Iran strike criticism

    06/22/2025 2:36:21 PM PDT · by dennisw · 35 replies
    MSN - Raw Story ^ | 6 22 | David Edwards
    President Donald Trump's political operation has reportedly launched a new political action committee (PAC) to oust Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican. On Sunday, Axios reported that Trump's team had created the Kentucky MAGA super PAC after Massie slammed Saturday's strike on Iran. Senior Trump advisers Tony Fabrizio and Chris LaCivita were expected to run the organization. According to the report, the PAC was in the works before Massie's criticism. LaCivita said the group would spend "whatever it takes" to oust the congressman. It was said to be Trump's first effort to unseat a sitting Republican. "It was a good...
  • 'Pathetic loser': President condemns GOP's [Thomas Massie] holdout on Iran operation.

    06/22/2025 1:44:49 PM PDT · by Words Matter · 55 replies
    INN ^ | 06.22.25
    President denounces GOP lawmaker's opposition to Iran strike as disloyal and harmful. US President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, sharply criticizing him for opposing recent US military action in Iran.
  • Trump Admin Sues Kentucky Over In-State Tuition For Illegals

    06/18/2025 7:30:13 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 11 replies
    AOL ^ | June 18, 2025 | ELISSA O'ROURKE
    The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Tuesday over a state rule that allows illegal immigrations to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities. The lawsuit alleges that Kentucky improperly categorizes individuals in the country without legal status as state residents, thereby making them eligible for reduced in-state tuition rates, while U.S. citizens from other states must pay higher tuition. The move coincides with the Trump administration’s heightened scrutiny of jurisdictions that do not comply with federal immigration laws. “This unequal treatment of Americans is squarely prohibited and preempted...
  • ‘I Apologize’: Simone Biles Backs Down In Riley Gaines Spat, Calls For ‘Fair Competition’

    06/10/2025 1:29:54 PM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 61 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | Mairead Elordi
    Simone Biles apologized to Riley Gaines on Tuesday for their online spat over trans-identifying males in women’s sports, the Olympic gymnast adding that she believes the current women’s sports system is “flawed.” The two athletes clashed on Friday when Biles attacked Gaines seemingly out of the blue, calling the former University of Kentucky swimmer a “sore loser” and telling her to “bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.” “I wanted to follow up from my last tweets,” Biles posted Tuesday on X. “I’ve always believed competitive equity & inclusivity are both essential in sport. The current...
  • Senate weighs Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' as policy group backs CBO, projects $3 trillion debt increase

    06/04/2025 10:26:15 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 52 replies
    Fox ^ | By Louis Casiano
    CBO projects $3T added to debt from bill that tackles tax policy, border security, healthcare reforms President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is projected to increase the debt by $3 trillion, with interest, or $5 trillion if made permanent, according to estimates. An estimate of the House-passed bill by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects it would add more than $2.4 trillion to primary deficits before interest over 10 years, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a nonprofit public policy organization. As of Wednesday, the national debt, which measures what the U.S. owes its creditors,...