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Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway accused Nancy Pelosi of treating her like her "maid," as she fired back at the House speaker Thursday following a tense encounter at the White House. The counselor to President Trump gave her side of the story on Fox News' "America's Newsroom," after it emerged that Pelosi brushed her off a day earlier by saying she wouldn't talk to "staff." The clash happened after Trump cut short a meeting with Democratic leaders on infrastructure amid complaints about their investigations into him. Conway told Fox News that Pelosi proceeded to give an “odd” history of infrastructure in...

According to statistics in the incident reports, since March of this year, 747 trains have been either delayed or cancelled as a result of service disruptions caused by the same pattern of behavior. His strategy, such as it is, seems to be to ride on the back of an uptown train, most commonly the 2 or the 5, to a major express stop. He will then pull the emergency brakes, maneuver via the track and across the platform to a train headed in the opposite direction, and do it all over again, plugging both directions of service within minutes. jumped...

Congress has reached a last-minute deal to provide $19.1 billion in emergency aid funding for a series of natural disasters after President Donald Trump dropped his demand that border wall funding be included. The bill will provide aid to communities across America hit by hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, earthquakes and other natural disasters over the past three years, including Puerto Rico. The package was held up for months as Trump objected to aid money to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Trump has repeatedly lied about how much disaster money the island has received. The...

As the city of Beverly Hills gets ready to pass perhaps the toughest law on tobacco sales in the country, local elites have lobbied to exempt their swanky and exclusive cigar lounges. Among them are a cardiac surgeon, a rabbi and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and they may have smoked their way past the pending law, according to the Los Angeles TImes. Once passed, as expected, the city would terminate the sale of any tobacco products — with the exception of three cigar lounges, where those products could be bought and smoked on those premises. The law would prohibit...

Democratic presidential contender Julian Castro joined a march to a McDonald’s restaurant in North Carolina on Thursday to draw attention to workers’ efforts to raise the minimum wage and secure other protections. Nearly all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have expressed support for the idea that the federal minimum wage should be more than doubled, to $15 an hour, and several were joining actions around the country Thursday. The McDonald’s annual shareholder meeting is also Thursday in Dallas. Striking cooks and cashiers planned to travel to the shareholder meeting, where they’ll attend a video town hall hosted by Sen. Bernie...

Wells Fargo and TD Bank have turned over President Trump’s financial records to the House Financial Services Committee, Fox News confirmed on Thursday, amid a contentious legal battle between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats seeking access to sensitive files. The committee, led by Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is one of several panels that have issued subpoenas and requests for Trump’s financial files.

THE WEEK THAT Was THE GOOD, THE BAD THE UGLY GOOD ~ 2 Rallies – both YUGE VERY GOOD ~ POTUS is a fighter MADDENING ~ CONTINUATAL attacks against POTUS BAD ~Pelosi and Shummer scheming LIARS UGLY ~FBI/CIA actions 2016+~ COMICAL ~ Green Deal Rally at Trump Tower SICK EYE ROLL ~ DeNiro still trashing DJT Welcome all you Deplorables to this week's edition of the Dose! This is EVERYTHING TRUMP. Administration, family, frustrations, joys, winning! We welcome your research, your commentary, your personal OT sharing and your presence. Even if you do not share a lot, just check...

The Senate on Thursday voted in favor of legislation that would levy hefty new fines for illegal robocalls, advancing one of the most prominent congressional efforts to crack down on the scourge of billions of unwanted calls that aggravate U.S. consumers every year. The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act, which passed by a 97-1 vote, had received more than 80 co-sponsors by the time it reached the Senate floor. The bill, introduced by Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), would give the federal government the authority to slap offenders with fines of up to...

WASHINGTON — Senators reached a bipartisan deal Thursday that would provide more than $19 billion in disaster aid funding to parts of the U.S. hit by hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes and wildfires, following months of negotiation. Leaving a closed-door Senate Republican lunch, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., told reporters that an agreement had been reached. The two said they had spoken to President Donald Trump about the parameters of the deal Thursday afternoon, which excludes the $4.5 billion in border funding that White House and Republicans kept demanding. Trump signed off, according to the...

A new UN report warns that “around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades.” That allegation was contained within the 1,800-page Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) “Summary for Policy Makers,” released on May 6. If “decades” means 30 to 40 years, then the IPBES estimates an extinction rate of about 25,000 to 30,000 species annually. Not only are there a lot of species in peril, they asserted that “the threat of extinction is also accelerating” and “most of the total extinction risk to species is estimated to have arisen in the past 40 years.” The US...

The World Health Organization is publishing its first-ever global strategy to tackle the problem of snake bites, aiming to halve the number of people killed or disabled by snakes by 2030. Nearly 3 million people are bitten by potentially poisonous snakes every year, resulting in as many as 138,000 deaths. […] In a statement, Doctors Without Borders said it was “cautiously optimistic” WHO’s snakebite strategy could be a “turning point” in addressing snake bites. …

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged Michael Avenatti with defrauding the woman who made him famous — porn star Stephanie Clifford, AKA Stormy Daniels. Federal prosecutors say Avenatti took money from the porn star on a book deal. Avenatti denied the allegations. Last month in a federal case in Los Angeles, the creepy porn lawyer was indicted on 36 counts and accused of ripping off a mentally ill paraplegic client and faces 335 years in prison. In a completely separate federal case in New York, Avenatti faces up to 47 more years in prison if he is convicted on extortion charges....

The Loving Left Kaitlin Bennett is met with waves of love in Austin, Texas. **video in 9 minutes long, warning some language,***

A new national poll of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents confirms Joe Biden maintains a comfortable 19-point lead over Bernie Sanders and the rest of the polyglot posse seeking the party’s presidential nomination next year.But even more interesting at this early stage is that the new Hill-HarrisX Poll out Wednesday also confirms several other recent surveys that found Democrats are much more interested in ousting President Donald Trump than finding a candidate that matches their ideological leaning.If this continues, it’s good news for Biden whose record over a near half-century is consistently liberal, but also contains some stances like fighting...

Inglewood spent millions of dollars in public funds to soundproof middle-class areas of the city while bypassing one of the poorest neighborhoods where the roar from the Los Angeles International Airport flight path is loudest, according to a Times data analysis. Over the last several decades, the Federal Aviation Administration and Los Angeles World Airports have given the city nearly $400 million to purchase and demolish hundreds of homes around the flight path and soundproof thousands of others. A Times review of local and federal records shows Inglewood spent the money for soundproofing disproportionately in middle-class — and primarily single-family...

BREAKING: Lawmakers have reached agreement in principle to approve billions of dollars in aid for regions struck by natural disasters, leaving out border money White House demanded, according to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.). Shelby made the announcement Thursday afternoon. The package is expected to cost $19.1 billion. Congressional Democrats and Republicans, as well as the White House, have signed off on the deal in principle, Shelby said. This story will be updated.

A primary requirement of true science is the ability to replicate the experiment and get the same results. The economic “experiment” has been carried out hundreds of times and real-world results across the globe and time show that freedom and limited government provide far superior results for all -- rich, poor and in-between. The socialist experiments generate consistent results; a yawning gap between the supposed goals and the end results and ultimately the collapse of the economic system. There are reality-based reasons for this. The many will always be smarter than the few. This is called swarm intelligence and perhaps...

You thought it couldn’t get worse? It certainly can. Britain now faces the very real prospect of Boris Johnson moving into N0 10 (with or without his current girlfriend). He would do so as the country faces its gravest crisis since the Second World War – a crisis of which he was a principal architect – and without having won a general election. He would have been chosen, quite preposterously, by fewer than 120,000 ageing, reactionary Tory party members. Rules are rules: the party with the most MPs selects the prime minister. But the Conservatives have no overwhelming popular mandate....

This week Michael is joined by actor Ethan Suplee (Boy Meets World, American History X, and Scorcese's The Wolf of Wall Street). They talk about the biz, Ethan's process (for both acting and for life in general), the coded language that comes with being a part of Hollywood...

Democrats yet again sue Little Sisters of the Poor for contraception coverage May 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The Little Sisters of the Poor are once again the target of liberals in government who believe that the sisters must be strong-armed into violating their consciences by providing contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees, or face extinction. After fighting a lengthy battle against the Obama administration to defend their religious liberty, their ministries to the poor and elderly, and their very existence, the sisters had finally found relief when the Trump administration granted them an exemption. Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro now...