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Former President Donald Trump is letting his fellow Republicans know he is not interested in participating in the 2024 primary debates, at least as far as they’ve been planned to date, without his approval.The presumptive frontrunner took to social media to complain that “nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump Campaign, before announcing them.” Two debates have been announced thus far, the first on Fox News and another at the Reagan Libary in Simi, California.Trump wrote:I see that everybody is talking about the Republican Debates, but nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump Campaign,...

This is the horrifying moment suspected Haitian gang members beg for mercy before a vigilante lynch mob stones and burns them alive. The mob beat and burned 13 men to death with gasoline-soaked tyres on Monday after pulling them from police custody at a traffic stop, police and witnesses in the capital Port-au-Prince said. Six more burned bodies were seen in a nearby neighbourhood later on in the day, and witnesses claimed to have seen police kill them before residents set them on fire. News agencies said this could not be verified. Haiti's National Police said in a brief statement...

An Olympia School District board member cut music classes because they are examples of “white supremacy” culture that “caused significant institutional violence.” The district is expecting an $11.5 million budget shortfall and needs to make budget cuts. Music courses for 4th and 5th graders were on the chopping block, leaving students and their parents angry and concerned. In the end, the district cut band and strings from 4th-grade classes for a savings of roughly $537,000. But the cuts were not considered solely over budgetary concerns. School Board Director Scott Clifthorne told concerned parents that music courses aren’t offered equitably across...

The headline in Sunday’s Ottawa Citizen was strange: “‘The ordeal’ is not over for Hassan Diab after French court sentences him to life in prison.” Clearly, the Citizen’s sympathy is with Diab, despite the fact that he must have been convicted of something extremely serious to warrant being given life in prison. And the Citizen is not alone.Hassan Diab is a darling of the Leftist political and media establishment, despite the fact that the crime he was convicted of committing was the bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris during Shabbat services on Oct. 3, 1980. Four people were...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether to revive two federal gun restrictions struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.Both cases arise under the federal firearm statute, 18 U.S.C. § 922. Enacted by Congress in 1994, Section 922(g)(8) criminalizes gun ownership by anyone subject to a domestic-violence restraining order. Another provision enacted in 1986, Section 922(o)(1), bars the possession...

Douglas Macgregor, Col is a senior fellow with The American Conservative, the former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, and a combat veteran.In this YouTube presentation, Colonel Douglas Macgregor sits down with Stephen Gardner to update us on the Ukraine Russia war. Colonel Douglas Macgregor shares thoughts on Scott Ritters battle assessment, China, North Korea, Biden, the US dollar and de-dollarization.Timestamp: 0:44 Has Bakhmut fallen? 2:50 Bakhmut is the keystone of this war 5:40 General Milley goofs and says Ukraine cannot win this war 8:20 DC will provoke China to engage in war and rumors of...

....Pluto- NASA / Unsplash Finding life on other planets might well be the holy grail of astronomy, but the hunt for suitable host planets that can sustain life is a resource-intensive task. The search for exoplanets (planets outside our Solar System) involves competing for time on Earth’s biggest telescopes – yet the hit rate of this search can be disappointingly low. In a new study published in Science, I and my international team of colleagues have combined different search techniques to discover a new giant planet. It could change the way we try to image planets in the future. Imaging...

As the war on women continues, a trove of corporations are attempting to not so subtly chip away at the soul of humanity, and they have now set their sights on Mother’s Day. Although not a “new” trend, this year the list of companies has grown—significantly. Twitter user AZInformer has put together a thread of emails (that is growing by the minute) of corporations who have decided to email their patrons and inquire about whether they want to “opt out” of any communications having to do with Mother’s Day, lest they be “triggered” or emotionally affected by them. Included in...

National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) chairman Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) on Monday endorsed former President Donald Trump for president in 2024, a major additional pickup for the former president amid several major endorsements he has racked up lately.Daines, who made the endorsement during an appearance on Donald Trump Jr.’s Rumble show Triggered on Monday evening, is the 11th U.S. senator to back Trump’s bid to return to the White House. Daines, as chairman of the NRSC, is also the first member of the Senate GOP leadership to formally back Trump in 2024.“The best four years I have had in the...

Allentown’s mayor accused the city parking authority of poor decision-making on Saturday when it issued parking tickets to folks in line for free groceries at a church food bank. Parking Authority Chairman Ted Zeller acknowledged a parking enforcement officer issued nine tickets to folks Saturday who were queued up for food in their cars at Fuente de Vida Church at 729 St. John St. The tickets were later reduced to warnings after the parking authority “understood what was going on,” Zeller said. “The food drive blocked multiple streets and a local neighbor complained, so the officers acted in response,” Zeller...

On the eve of when President Joe Biden is expected to announce he is running for reelection, former and potentially future President Joe Biden released a particularly long and damning statement about what the president has done in his slightly over two years in office so far."You could take the five worst presidents in American history, and put them together, and they would not have done the damage Joe Biden has done to our Nation in just a few short years. Not even close," Trump began his statement with.Trump then listed off a host of specific issues and how Biden...

When President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday he was running for reelection in 2024 he did with a video message. No press conference, and there were no pesky reporters present to shout questions. Critics of this safety-first approach suspect it will be how he runs his campaign, just as he ran his first term and just as he ran his last campaign. By most communication metrics, Biden lags far behind other recent presidents. In fact you have to go all the way back to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan for presidents who have fewer press conferences. Biden averaged only ten...

Violence by trans activists against their political opponents — and anyone who disagrees with them — has been consistently escalating and consistently ignored by the mainstream media. The threats, however, are getting even more brazen, as a TikTok video from transgender activist “Tara” Jay (which he has since deleted after too many people noticed it) made clear. Jay had 2,400 TikTok followers, but his call to arms went viral. Jay — a male who calls himself female (he’s not fooling anyone) — issued a call to trans activists and supporters to purchase weapons to use against anyone who wished to...

On Sunday evening the New York Post reported, “An unforeseen tragedy forced Governor DeSantis to reschedule his trip to New York,” Zeldin spokeswoman Katie Vincentz said, declining to elaborate. “While we’re rescheduling with Governor DeSantis for a later date, tonight’s fundraiser will proceed and is expected to raise almost a million dollars.” (link)Monday afternoon the New York Post identified the “unforeseen tragedy“:Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis backed out of a fundraiser for New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin to attend a Monday memorial service for a member of his security detail who died in the line of duty, sources told The...

Concerning world government: on Apr. 13, 2023, The Gateway Pundit posted an article by Joe Hoft, author, and contributor to their website, concerning a Steve Bannon interview of Michele Bachmann on The War Room. Hoft reported that Michele Bachmann (attorney, Dean of Robertson School of Government at Regent Univ., first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota) said: In July 2022, Pres. Biden was pushing an amendment to an agreement (on international health regulations; IHRs) with the UN World Health Organization (WHO) that would “prevent Americans from doing anything that the World government didn’t...

House Committee on Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) on Tuesday issued a final letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding all documents and information related to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s role within the Biden Administration. Since 2021, Republicans have questioned what duties and responsibilities Kerry actually holds. On three separate occasions, Comer has requested Blinken provide transparency about Kerry’s role, but those requests have been ignored. Blinken’s failure to provide the requested information has caused Comer to threaten a subpoena.

As Gov. Ron DeSantis continues his tour of Asia, Israel and the United Kingdom, cracks may be emerging in his domestic donor fortress.The latest indications of attrition come from a New York Times article, in which one of the Governor’s biggest backers is said to be “evaluating” the 2024 Primary landscape.According to the Times, Citadel CEO Ken Griffin has been alienated by DeSantis’ framing of the Ukraine war as a “territorial dispute,” in a statement provided to the now-canceled Tucker Carlson show on Fox News. Additionally, the state’s new six-week abortion ban, which DeSantis messaged about tentatively during political speeches,...

American manufacturing giant 3M will cut 6,000 jobs to reduce costs as global demand for goods slows, the company said Tuesday. The layoffs are in addition to the 2,500 job cuts 3M announced earlier this year. The Minnesota-based company plans to reduce its workforce by around 10 percent. 3M CEO Mike Roman said on an earnings call that the layoffs “will span all functions, businesses and geographies.” The layoffs will reduce costs by up to $900 million annually. 3M, which manufactures a wide range of products including N95 respirators and Post-it notes, pointed to “significant weakness in consumer electronics and...

The US economy is slippin’ into darkness. The Philly Fed NBOS General Business Activity Region Diffusion Index SA crashed to -22.8 in April. And today’s Fed Funds Futures data points to a return of The Bernanke/Yellen “Low Rider” policy for rate management. Why can’t the corporate media, AOC and Tucker Carlson be friends?

On the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast, the president of OpenTheBooks.com told co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers that the Newsoms may have reached a new low in feeding at the public trough. Governor Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, was paid $1.5 million over the decade to run a non-profit film and school curriculum organization, Adam Andrzejewski told the Drill Down. The group licenses its films to 5,000 schools across the country, which pay licensing fees to the non-profit. The non-profit doesn’t create the films. That’s done by a for-profit film production company she also owns, which...