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Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (D) announced Tuesday morning that he will vote against a motion to begin debate on Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) permitting reform bill, dealing a blow to Manchin’s hopes of passing the measure. Kaine said he will vote against a motion to proceed to a legislative vehicle that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to use to advance a short-term government funding measure and Manchin’s permitting reform legislation.

Bill Maher says he’s no longer predicting that Democrats will be pummeled in the midterm elections, with abortion offering a “turning point” on momentum. “Things have really turned around,” Maher told ITK in a recent interview. “The Republicans are the dog that caught the car with abortion,” the HBO “Real Time” host said of the Supreme Court’s June ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the federal right to the abortion established by Roe v. Wade. “They’ve been trying to do this for 50 years, and then now you notice that the Republican candidates don’t even want...

Greg Kelly - Obama Caught Red Handed - Stores Classified Documents in a old Furniture Warehouse / Storage facility. Crazy. 👏🏻👏🏻✌🏻https://t.co/jHczwWKsDM— MattMan ✌🏻🇺🇸 (@Ocala_MattMan) September 27, 2022

Smartmatic is being investigated by the US Department of Justice for its alleged payoffs in the Phillapeans to get official contracts and oversee the 2016 presidential election there- through an intermediary. The Biden-led agency is investigating whether the voting machine company Smartmatic engaged in corrupt business practices in the Philippines. Yes. That is a foreign country- the agency continues to ignore calls from US activists and concerned voters to do the same in the United States. “DOJ Investigates Electronic Voting Company Smartmatic for Allegedly Bribing Election Officials in the Philippines,” Shane Trejo reported for Big League Politics on Monday, adding:...

President Biden lashed out at gas stations on Tuesday for allegedly being tardy in lowering the price of fuel in line with dropping oil prices. During a meeting Monday with economic aides, Biden lamented that while crude prices fell sharply last month, it has taken a “long time” for the drop in price to trickle down to the consumer. “We haven’t seen the lower prices reflected at the pump though. Meanwhile, oil and gas companies are still making record profits — billions of dollars in profit,” the president said Monday. “My message is simple. To the companies running gas stations...

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day” that the Democratic Party’s chances of holding a majority in the U.S. Senate after the midterms were a “toss-up.” Anchor Brianna Keilar asked, “Do you think Democrats can hold the Senate here in six weeks?” Manchin said, “I think we have some tremendous candidates. Every candidate we have is experienced. They are well-rounded and they are balanced. So I think that’s the advantage the Democrats would have right now. I know that there is a movement and any midyear election is always a challenging thing. I think these elections are...

BERLIN, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had weeks ago warned Germany about possible attacks on gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, German magazine Spiegel said on Tuesday, after gas leaks in Russia pipelines to Germany were reported.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) joined 50 of his colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Austin Lloyd, U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack raising concerns over the recent acquisition of farmland near a U.S. military installation by a Chinese-based manufacturer with close links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The letter comes after a recent land acquisition near Grand Forks, North Dakota, by the Fufeng Group, a Chinese-based manufacturer with close links to the CCP. The area houses the Grand Forks Air Force Base,...

Israeli researchers found some side effects that occurred after COVID-19 vaccination were caused by Pfizer’s vaccine, according to a leaked video.The Israeli Ministry of Health (MoH) commissioned researchers to analyze adverse event reports submitted by Israelis and the researchers presented findings from the new surveillance system in an internal June 2022 meeting, video of which was obtained by an Israeli journalist.Researchers said that the phenomenon of rechallenge—when adverse events reoccur or worsen following additional vaccine doses—proved that some of the events were caused by the vaccine.A positive rechallenge was reported in 10 percent of the women who complained of menstrual...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia's mayor signed an executive order Tuesday banning firearms in city recreation spaces. The signing comes one day after a funeral for a Parks and Recreation worker who was killed while on the job. There have been 18 incidents of gun violence at city parks and recreation facilities this year alone, including one that took the life of 41-year-old Tiffany Fletcher.

The flow of Russian men of fighting age looking to leave the country persisted Tuesday amid fears the government would soon close its borders to stop those trying to evade President Vladimir Putin’s draft. The mass exodus comes as Putin's government tries to energize Russia's faltering offensive in Ukraine, and looked likely to swiftly annex four occupied territories where referendums on joining Russia were being held. The exit of military-age men began shortly after Putin ordered the mobilization of more troops last Wednesday to regain the upper hand in Ukraine. Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, said a total of 300,000...

The Italian right is illiberal within the normal illiberal standards of modern Europe. Giorgia Meloni, as you’ve doubtlessly heard, is the “far-right” next prime minister of Italy. So says virtually every news outlet in the United States. And anyone familiar with the left’s perfunctory use of “ultra-conservative,” “far-right,” “hard-right,” or “semi-fascist” to describe those who take positions to the right of the Democratic Party’s latest platform, should be skeptical. Then again, trying to decipher European elections through the prism of American politics is a frustrating endeavor. But here is a cataloging, as best as I can pull together, of...

Liz Cheney makes a declaration concerning 2024… I’m Tomi Lahren. Find out what Bitter Liz is threatening, next. The Texas Tribune Festival was chalked full of bitter liberals this year: Hillary Clinton, Gavin Newsom and Liz Cheney! The loser from Wyoming went down to Austin to declare if Trump is the GOP nominee in 2024, she will leave the Republican Party! First of all, you are and have always been a REPUBLICAN in NAME ONLY and secondly, who gives a rip, Liz? Do you really think Trump supporters or Republicans at large care if you leave the party? You offer...

A recent bombshell report reveals that U.S. census errors could provide significant and unfair advantages for Democrats in future elections, so naturally America’s corporate media have chosen to let those errors quietly slide. Back in May, the U.S. Census Bureau released findings from its 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES), a survey in which “the Census Bureau interviews a sampling of households across the country and then compares the results with actual responses from those households in the original 2020 Census records.” As noted by the Census Bureau, the results of the survey “cannot be used to change the final census count.”While...

Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM) said on Tuesday it rejected all claims from Ukraine's energy firm Naftogaz in arbitration proceedings over Russian gas transit, and had notified the arbitration court. It also said that Russia may introduce sanctions against Naftogaz in case it further pursues the arbitration case, meaning Gazprom would be prohibited by the sanctions from paying Ukraine the transit fees. Naftogaz had initiated a new arbitration proceeding against Gazprom earlier this month, saying the Russian company did not pay for the rendered service of gas transportation through Ukraine. read more The company had said "funds were not paid...

(I'm just the poster, not the tester) A YouTuber with 1.4 million followers attempted to tow a 1930 Ford Model A truck with his brand new 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, but it ended in “a complete and total disaster.” “If a truck towing 3,500 pounds can’t even go 100 miles — that is ridiculously stupid,” Tyler “Hoovie” Hoover says in his video. “This truck can’t do normal truck things. You would be stopping every hour to recharge, which would take about 45 minutes a pop, and that is absolutely not practical.” “This is my new 2023 Ford...

Unfortunately, homelessness is a huge problem in cities like Los Angeles. And there’s no question that the pandemic has only made the crisis worse. For Shacola Thompson, who lives in Van Nuys, the issue has become personal recently. She’s been trying to get a homeless man to leave her porch for weeks but to no avail. As noted by MSN, the man “continues to return and make himself comfortable on her porch.” In addition to the stress of somebody encroaching on her space, Thompson told KTLA, “I don’t feel safe when I come out here and try to enjoy my...

Whenever Italy elects a right-of-center Prime Minister, the international press labels them a fascist and links them to Mussolini (coincidentally, the only Italian PM they’ve heard of). What was true for Silvio Berlusconi and Mario Draghi is true of their latest PM, Giorgia Meloni, elected over the weekend.... I’m no scholar in Italian politics, nor have I invested much time researching the 317 parties jockeying for control from Turin to Taranto. But considering the news media’s coverage of U.S. politics, I didn’t fall for their latest imprecation. They claimed Ronald Reagan was a fascist. As was Bush Sr., Bush Jr.,...

Christina Pushaw, the DeSantis campaign’s rapid response director, blasted Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) after the senator bizarrely implied that voting for Democrats will stop hurricanes. During an appearance on Morning Joe, failed Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar suggested that voting for Democrats will help stop extreme weather events, essentially blaming hurricanes on “climate change.” “We just did something about climate change, for the first time in decades. That’s why we’ve got to win this, as that hurricane bears down on Florida. We gotta win in the midterms,” Klobuchar said, implying that Democrat policies would help prevent extreme weather phenomena,...

"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." "Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness." Revelation, Chapter 20 1 And...