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According to Florida lobbyists, they have been contacted by state employees with instructions to send payments to the campaign of Ron DeSantis. The ethical problems within this effort are numerous and could potentially be legally liable for DeSantis government officials participating.At best, the issue is extreme swamp behavior, where DeSantis officials are pressuring lobbyists in Florida to donate to the DeSantis 2024 election campaign or their advocacy may be disregarded in state budget considerations.When state employees use their offices to solicit payments to political entities, the legal issues become very murky. Then again, this is swamp behavior – and when...

I openly predicted last year, when Ron DeSantis announced his candidacy, we would have the most fun in a presidential primary in history. The last 24 hours have been absolutely hilarious. If you are not having fun at the expense of the DeSantis billionaire funders, you are doing it wrong.Candidate Ron DeSantis cannot even hold a public event in the state of Florida, because the only people who support him are the isolated group immediately around him and the Selfie-My-Lunch crowd who are disconnected from the average life of a Floridian.Have you ever heard of a presidential candidate launching a...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has extended the probable date that the U.S. will default on its sovereign debt payments absent legislation from Congress to raise the debt ceiling, according to a letter she wrote on Friday. The new date is a revision from her earlier estimation of June 1 as the default date.

On Wednesday, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk announced that former president and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump will be speaking at the Turning Point Action Conference in July.The event is set to take place in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 15 and 16, and will feature a number of prominent conservative voices, in addition to engaging student activists ahead of the 2024 presidential election. "Introducing the ALL-NEW Turning Point Action Conference," Kirk announced on Twitter earlier this month. "ACTCON 2023, coming to West Palm Beach July 15-16. This will be the first multi-day event hosted, produced, and organized...

Update from Ukraine | Big Army was created to take Bakhmut back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ25wwq8sng ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 456– Summary May 23, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 25th May 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-456-summary/ *** Greatly appreciate the viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use on each Front map! [NOTE: "pleased to introduce you new maps. They are, just like the previous ones, handcrafted from OSM data to best suit our needs”]

La Croix: "Exclusive Survey - Traditional Mass: a Rite that attracts Young Catholics" La CroixMay 25, 2023Traditional Mass: a rite that attracts young CatholicsEXCLUSIVE SURVEY: between sacredness, tradition and identity, some young French Catholics are attracted to the Tridentine Mass. The 2023 edition of the Chartres pilgrimage is set to break attendance records, thanks in no small part to young people.***A first in living memory. The Chartres pilgrimage, organized by the Notre-Dame de Chrétienté association, is sold out this Pentecost weekend: a record 16,000 walkers are expected. And for the first time in the history of this pilgrimage, in...

A Utah Target has been evacuated and a bomb squad has been called in after multiple threats were made against stores across the state and five in Ohio after the company's annual Pride collection sparked fury. A Layton Target - located at 810 West 2000 North - was evacuated after receiving multiple bomb threats. A bomb squad and a K9 unit were deployed to the store around 1pm, according to KUTV. All staff and customers were directed to the parking lot. Police said stores in Layton, Salt Lake, Taylorsville and Provo were threatened. Authorities became aware of the threats after...

Led by anchor Jason Lezak, the USA 4x100m free relay team, including Michael Phelps, swam one the greatest come-from-behind races in history of the Olympic Games against the French team. Lezak's anchor leg kept Phelps' dream of 8 gold medals in one Olympics alive. USA vs France: The most epic Swim Relay Finish - Beijing 2008

Actor Michael Norell, renowned for his portrayal of Captain Hank Stanley in the popular TV series "Emergency!" passed away earlier this month in Pennsylvania, as stated in his obituary. He was 85 years old. The TV series "Emergency!" aired from 1972 to 1977 and is widely recognized for its role in popularizing the field of paramedicine.

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A former University of Arizona swimming star said Wednesday anyone born male should not be able to compete in girls’ sports, no matter what the age. Marshi Smith, the 2005 NCAA and Pac-10 Conference women’s backstroke champion, already was on record as opposing the NCAA policy of allowing those born male to compete against females. At an event in January, she read a letter from 45 current and former female athletes and coaches threatening action against the organization which regulates intercollegiate sports if they do not rescind the policy. But on Wednesday, Smith said this goes beyond college and even...

China This week, after Biden vetoed a House and Senate-approved plan to reinstate the tariffs on solar panel imports, 197 House Democrats and eight House Republicans voted to help the administration stave off the tariffs. (snip) From 2001 to 2018, U.S. free trade with China eliminated 3.7 million American jobs from the economy — 2.8 million of which were lost in American manufacturing. During that same period, at least 50,000 American manufacturing plants closed down. Those massive job losses have coincided with a booming U.S.-China trade deficit. In 1985, before China entered the World Trade Organization (WTO), the U.S. trade...

Bud Light is one of the brands sponsoring next month’s Cincinnati Pride Parade — the latest in a series of mixed signals the beer giant has given as it grapples with controversy over its Dylan Mulvaney partnership. A glance at the list of sponsors on the event’s website reveals that the Anheuser-Busch brand is lending its name to the annual event, which will be held on June 24. The image on the page shows a rainbow-colored bottle of Bud Light next to a glass of beer under the heading “Together in Pride.” Bud Light’s sponsorship of the event was first...

WarTranslated's Commentary:https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1661501189488254977/photo/1"A serviceman of the 4th Brigade of the Russian forces Andrey "Murz" Morozov is under attack by patriots on Telegram for his negative forecasts. But he is not budging, insisting that Ukraine is preparing the battlefield for something that will inevitably lead to the most difficult catastrophe for Russia. "His only hope is in drawing parallels with the 1942 Soviet retreat in the East which was followed by a counter-offensive."The exchange is very long, so below is just an excerpt from it."Full link to Murz's comments: https://t.me/wehearfromyanina/1976Translated excerpt:Igor Girkin, former Defense Minister of the Donbass, long time FSB agent,...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland Demonstrates Humility with SSPX ‘Flip Flop’It is fitting that just in time for ‘pride’ month – or pride season – if you live in Canada, that a good bishop demonstrated humility in the public forum.A couple of weeks ago Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas tweeted the following: “Schismatic movements like SSPX or Sedevacantists however well-intended are an injury to the body of Christ.”It was May 13, the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima, and I was on my way to a wedding at an SSPX Chapel when I was sent the tweet. My first reaction...

Two men working on behalf of the Chinese government’s Ministry of Public Security attempted to bribe an IRS agent in a scheme intended to further Beijing’s harassment of Falun Gong believers, the Justice Department revealed in a criminal complaint unveiled today. The defendants were arrested today in California on charges including acting as unregistered foreign agents, money laundering, and bribery. “The Chinese government has yet again attempted, and failed, to target critics of the PRC here in the United States,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement this afternoon. “The Justice Department will continue to investigate, disrupt, and prosecute...

Hundreds of people are flocking to the small town of Gower, Missouri, to see the body of a nun who died in 2019 and was recently exhumed, showing no visible signs of decomposition. The founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster’s body was being moved to its final resting place inside the monastery chapel. According to the Catholic News Agency, the practice is a long-standing custom to place the remains of founders and foundresses under the altar of the church. Seemingly immune to the natural process of decay, the church calls them “incorruptible...

Truck drivers who deliver Bud Light have been flipped the middle finger and vendors have been called homophobic slurs, according to beer distributors reeling from slumping sales in the wake of the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco. Several top officials at beer distribution companies told ABC News they have been put in an untenable position by Bud Light’s St. Louis-based parent company, Anheuser-Busch, which has seen sales of its top brand fall six consecutive weeks since the April 1 tie-up with the trans influencer. Aside from harassing truck drivers, distributors have faced intentional collisions from shopping carts as they drop off Bud...

The 2020 Georgia situation mirrors events of 60 years ago in Hawaii, revealing that everything the media have said about ‘fake electors’ is wrong.Headlines recently proclaimed that eight of Trump’s “fake” electors accepted immunity deals. Of course, in reporting the news, the corporate outlets all missed the real story — that the electors’ testimony failed to incriminate anyone, including Trump, and that the county prosecutors engaged in massive misconduct. Equally appalling, however, was the corrupt media’s continued peddling of the “fake electors” narrative. There were no “fake” electors. There were contingent Republican electors named consistent with legal precedent to preserve...

As the geography narrows before us, it is important to remember the stakes and avoid the distractions. As a consequence, the baseline must be reaffirmed. It is critical to understand that both the DNC and RNC are private corporations with no affiliation to government. It is a difficult shift in thinking, but the party system in U.S. politics revolves around two distinct private corporations – two clubs that feed from the same corporate trough and position for influence and affluence within a political dynamic they control. The priority for both clubs, Republican and Democrat, is NOT politically or culturally ideological....