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80 years before Lexington and Concord, before the founding fathers were even children, Americans used events in the mother country to engineer a little remembered revolution that transformed the colonies and helped to define the nation we know today. Forgotten Revolution: The 1689 Boston Revolt | 16:32 The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered 1.64M subscribers | 4,480 views | June 26, 2026

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...

Edward T. Winslow@EdwardTWinz·12hlet me tell you what "the courts cannot stop it" means when SCOTUS says it.. because I'm sure most people don't know..it means the Ninth Circuit is done..for years the Ninth Circuit blocked every TPS termination.. every metering policy.. every turnback order.. judges in San Francisco and D.C. issued injunctions the same week DHS tried to enforce anything..that was the strategy.. not the law.. the injunctions..on June 25, 2026.. SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in two separate cases.. same day.. same margin.. both times..case one: federal courts generally cannot review TPS termination decisions.. Kristi Noem's calls are now shielded.. no...

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign unleashed a series of stunts to counter program the Texas Democratic Convention on Friday. Abbott’s campaign went after Democrats and their “radical” policy agenda, featuring taco menus that mock their political track record and distributing “missing” milk cartoons depicting failed Democratic Senate candidate Jasmine Crockett. The spectacle will also feature a live bull draped in a sign that reads, “Don’t buy the bull.” The campaign is kicking things off with the “Talarico’s Tacos” truck serving real tacos with menu items like “open border brisket” and “veggie Talarico.” Attendees who order a “Democrat promises” taco...

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A Polish doctor has been taken into custody after 34 human fetuses were found buried in the garden of her former home, the authorities said on Monday. Magdalena H. – a 57-year-old medical pathologist with no previous criminal record – is suspected of using the fetuses to perform experiments and now faces up to 12 years in prison. Her case has whipped up a storm in traditionally Catholic Poland, with many questioning how she managed to obtain the unborn babies’ bodies in a country with some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. But a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office...

ransomnote: President Trump's TS post is a video featuring two of the times Kennedy addressed the question of communism in the US.I'm limited in how much of the video I can capture. The first part of the video includes a moderator asking Kennedy, in a debate setting, if we should be concerned about communism in the US. Kennedy replies that we should be very concerned, and the rest of his response is captured starting with the words, "We should support the laws which the United States has passed...."https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116814048560190114Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump ransomnote: The second part of Trump's TS video post features...

As President Donald Trump moves this week to extricate himself from a conflict that a CBS News poll finds most Americans want ended now, the powerful donor-class networks that want endless war have rapidly moved to sabotage his efforts. It is no surprise which portions of the right have mounted an emergency campaign against Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent peace efforts. Israel Hayom—owned by the Trump mega-donor Miriam Adelson—published a blistering open letter accusing Trump of signing a “surrender agreement with a murderous and cruel terror regime.” The Wall Street Journal editorial board has been carping about the...

In their new book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan devote considerable attention to the Trump administration’s efforts to influence Smithsonian exhibits. On a Morning Joe segment on Friday, Haberman misleadingly framed it as Trump and his allies “wanted to leave their imprint on what art Americans can see." Haberman highlighted one flashpoint: an Amy Sherald exhibition slated for the National Portrait Gallery that included “Trans Forming Liberty,” a painting depicting the Statue of Liberty as a trans woman. According to Haberman, internal discussions and pressure from figures...

The algae in the Reflecting Pool has been almost completely removed despite liberal activists’ best efforts to impede the removal of algae and destroy the pool’s renovations. Greenwater Services contracted in April by the Department of the Interior for the “procurement and installation of a Nano Bubble Filtration System designed to replace the existing, failing filtration infrastructure at the Reflecting Pool.” The company has come under fire from left-wing media outlets, who claim a conflict of interest because a part-owner of the company is a GOP donor, and that the company has a lack of expertise in filtration systems. During...

BUCKEYE, AZ — A former Buckeye police officer is headed to trial on 2 counts of aggravated assault after internal investigations documented what supervisors described as excessive and unnecessary force against people who were handcuffed and in custody. Carri Carrico, who resigned from the Buckeye Police Department earlier this month, was indicted by a grand jury on May 27, 2026 on 2 counts of aggravated assault — one count connected to each of two separate incidents. She entered a not guilty plea at her arraignment earlier this week. Her trial is scheduled for November. Her attorney declined to comment. ABC15...

ransomnote:I haven't seen the movie and am not recommending or promoting it. I do support Elon Musk's exposure of censorship in Europe.@amuse@amuse·18hCENSORSHIP: Germany and Britain basically banned Citizen Vigilante so Elon Musk posted the entire movie!

California is a blue state, and one of the manifestations of its political orientation has been a tolerance for one of the nation’s highest levels of taxation. The state’s tax rates on retail sales and personal and corporate incomes are among the highest of any state. Although tax rates on real estate are relatively moderate, high property values still translate into high bills for their owners. Specific taxes, such as those on fuel, utilities, cigarettes, liquor, medical care, gambling, guns and ammunition, contribute even more. Overall, state and local governments and school districts collect around $400 billion in taxes every...

A man who routinely boasted about being the first open drag queen to be elected to a school board in the United States was arrested last week for disturbing sex crimes involving children as young as 18 months. Travis J. Longo, 46, who is the vice president of the Cazenovia Central School District’s board of education in New York state, was initially charged over a “pattern” of sending explicit communications to a child under 12 years old. Once authorities seized and searched Longo’s phone, child pornography was discovered. Tyler Toomey, a spokesperson for the United States Attorney’s Office in the...

Today, the word colonialism is treated almost like a curse word. Mention it in a classroom, on social media, or in many political circles, and you’ll immediately hear words like exploitation, racism, oppression, genocide, and theft. For many people—especially younger generations—colonialism has become history’s ultimate villain, the so-called “original sin” from which nearly every modern problem supposedly springs. As a conservative, I’ve always thought this view was far too simplistic. Now, before anyone starts sharpening their pitchforks, let me be clear: colonial powers absolutely committed injustices. Wars were fought. Peoples were conquered. Resources were taken. Some populations were devastated. These...

Californians can expect a wave of changes this summer, from classroom policies to grocery store shelves, as a slate of new laws takes effect.

The plea was made in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, before U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang. Bolton, 77, had faced an 18-count indictment that had accused him of both transmitting and retaining highly sensitive, classified materials during and after his time in the Trump administration. Bolton served as national security advisor from April 2018 until September 2019. Prosecutors alleged that while in that role, he created extensive “diary-like entries” and notes detailing his daily activities, meetings with foreign leaders, intelligence briefings, and sensitive policy discussions. He then transmitted more than 1,000 pages of this material, some classified up to...

The lies told by the man who killed Henry Nowak have been exposed in newly obtained police body-worn video from the night of his death, released following a request by the BBC. Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years for the murder of the 18-year-old Southampton university student after stabbing him multiple times last December. The new footage shows Digwa's repeated and insistent "wicked lies" to officers about having been "racially attacked" and his false claims that Henry was "obviously drunk". It also backs an assertion by the Nowak family that Digwa was "never handcuffed",...

The Democratic Socialists of America‘s shocking wins in New York‘s primaries not only solidified its growing power among the Democratic base but also fueled speculation that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) could mount a successful run for higher office. Two DSA-aligned candidates, backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, took down incumbent Democrats Tuesday night in a similar manner to Ocasio-Cortez’s defeat of 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley during the 2018 midterm elections. Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman...

Four years ago today, Roe v. Wade died, predeceased by over 65 million preborn children. On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, overturning the ruling that had mandated legal abortion in all 50 states. Within weeks, near-total abortion bans had gone into effect in Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. An additional four states — Georgia, Iowa, Florida, and South Carolina — now have six-week “heartbeat” bans on the books. Twenty-eight states ban abortion at later stages. All these laws were impossible...