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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs’ Chief of Staff, Allie Bones, has resigned after working with Hobbs for four and a half years. She worked in her current role for five months. ... Kari Lake (R-Ariz.), Hobbs’ gubernatorial opponent in the 2022 election, shared her thoughts ... Everyone close to @katiehobbs is fleeing as fast as they can. Hobbs is a disaster. She's a sinking ship. I just hope she doesn't take our state down with her. ... She is the fourth member of Hobbs’ administration to resign within the first six months of the governor’s reign.

The white supremacist host of a podcast that made “vile” racist attacks in an attempt to stir up hatred, divide communities and spread fear has been jailed for two and a half years. James Allchurch, 51, from Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales, and his guests used extreme racial slurs and propagated racist ideology while discussing topics such as grooming gangs, immigration, slavery and crime... But the judge, Huw Rees, told Allchurch he was a “perfectly intelligent man” whose lack of work “gave you the time you needed to harbour and promote your warped thinking and express it in highly emotive, racial and...

“Rivers of Living Water” (John 7:37-39)Last weekend Susan and I went to Excelsior Springs, Missouri, to attend the wedding of Pastor and Mrs. Paul Flo. Excelsior Springs got its name and its fame long ago from the springs of water located there--healthful, healing waters, with restorative powers, it was said. Well, it so happened that when we went out there on that Friday, I wasn’t feeling so well. But when we returned on Sunday evening, I came back . . . with a bad case of acute bronchitis. I guess the healing waters of Excelsior Springs didn’t do me much...

Ron Wears Lady Clothes... pic.twitter.com/PLC2shlfU0— C3PMeme (@C3PMeme) May 25, 2023

REDDING, Calif. — The attempted recall of Shasta County Supervisor Kevin Crye has quickly turned contentious and expensive. ... "When you come into my neighborhood and you start telling me my business is going to suffer because I support a man, that's hypocritical, that's not what they're supposed to be doing," Gibbons said. "They're wanting to get rid of Kevin Crye, for reasons, I want to support Kevin Crye, for my reasons, and I'm not going to let people like that push me around in my own neighborhood." ....

A 35-year-old woman was recently caught sexting and providing alcohol and drugs to teens. She was subsequently arrested. After being taken into custody, Amanda Dorrough, better known as “Taz” to her underaged friends, allegedly told Washington state officials that she identified as a 15-year-old boy. According to an article published yesterday (May 25) by Fox News, the Port Angeles Police Department claimed Dorrough had plans to flee to Seattle with the teens. Before she could evade authorities, she was taken into custody and charged with unlawful harboring of minors. May 4 is when school administrators first learned of the alarming...

Taiwanese-American actor, Benji Wang, 40, and his wife, Cindy, welcomed their baby girl into the world on 12 May. They posted a Reel on the husband's Instagram account, @kungfubenji, on 14 May. The Reel, which has been flagged by the platform as containing graphic content, shows Benji demonstrating how he cooked the umbilical cord and placenta by first washing and cleaning them. He then chops the placenta with the umbilical cord into bite-size pieces before boiling it in water. After boiling once, he changes the water and boils the pieces again. He then stir-fries them with onions, ginger, and capsicum...

Medical personnel were rushed into the East Room of the White House on Friday when a member of collegiate championship-winning Louisiana State University women's basketball team fainted at an event to honor the team. Joe Biden called for year-round support for women's sports when the player, who was standing in the risers behind the podium, slunk downward and was helped off the stage. ... Coach Kim Mulkey said that the player, freshman Sa’Myah Smith, was okay as personnel wheeled her out. ... The event marked a thawing of earlier tensions between the team and the administration, after first lady Jill...

With the X-date for potential US default now estimated at June 5, House GOP and White House negotiators appear to be settling on an agreement to raise the debt limit and cap federal spending for two years, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the discussions. That said, while the two sides have whittled down their differences over the past several days, the details are tentative, and a final agreement is not yet in sight. The two sides have yet to agree on the amount of the cap, however under the emerging agreement, defense spending would be allowed to rise 3%...

In Pakistan the campaign by the army and the government to discredit and isolate opposition leader... Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin today... Tomorrow in Austin, Texas the State House of Representatives set to vote on the impeachment... The CEO of JP Morgan Jamie Dimon deposed in the lawsuits over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein... The highest court in Guatemala tossing out the Presidential candidacy of populist Carlos Pineda... A military and political demonstration underway in Serbia... Hundreds protesting a crackdown on public protests in South Australia. The state government wants to...

Texas Children's Hospital will stop offering hormone therapy and other transgender care, according to the Houston Chronicle and ABC affiliate KTRK. In anticipation of a Texas bill — which aims to curb gender-transition care and which was sent to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's desk on May 19 — becoming law, Texas Children's CEO Mark Wallace told employees the hospital will cease providing some transgender care services within the next few months, according to an email sent May 24 and obtained by the news outlets. The hospital is one of two Texas facilities part of an attorney general investigation based on...

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has been quietly let go from her Warner Bros TV deal after producing no content. Cullors, 39, signed the deal with the media giant in 2020 to much fanfare but it ended in secret in October 2022, it emerged on Friday. The deal, unfortunately, did not result in any produced shows,' a source told the New York Post. Cullors claimed in January 2022 that she was working on a documentary about how reparations were similar to the idea of landback, where Native Americans got back their lands, and another about black social mobility. She...

Jesuit Media Outlet Publishes Article Sympathizing with Anti-Catholic Hate GroupCV NEWS FEED // In the Jesuit-run America Magazine, Michael O’Loughlin explained his “complicated feelings” about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), an anti-Catholic hate group.SPI is a troupe of men who dress it lewd costumes that critics say mock and degrade habited Catholic nuns.America posted the article on May 24 under the headline “Drag queen ‘nuns’ will be included in LA Dodgers Pride Night. I have complicated feelings about it.”The article credits SPI with doing charitable work, but does not mention that the group currently raises funds for a clinic...

The bishop of Limburg and chairman of the German bishops’ conference said he sees no Vatican obstacles getting in the way of German Synodal Way ambitions.VATICAN CITY — In a new interview, Bishop Georg Bätzing has said he believes the “vast majority” of Catholics in Germany support the decisions of the Synodal Way and that he sees no danger of a schism as a result of the path being taken by the Church in Germany. The president of the German bishops’ conference said he “definitely” doesn’t see this risk, believing that in his view, most people want to build “bridges...

Vivek Ramaswamy violated the “hate speech,” “misinformation,” and “violence” policy on LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft Corporation.Vivek, as you know, is a hateful White Supremacist with a history of unhinged ranting and violent threats to everybody. He wields machetes (oops, no, that is a college professor), calls for violent protests in the streets (oops, no, that is Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal), rants about chasing public officials out of restaurants and all public spaces (oops, no, that is Congresswoman Maxine Waters), and holds speakers at colleges hostage (oops, no, that is the woke college students in San Francisco).Well, anyway. Maybe he...

President Joe Biden remains the leading contender for the Democratic nomination in 2024, but his primary opponents have carved out significant bases of support, presenting a hurdle for the president should their candidacies linger.Biden claimed the support of 60% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters in a CNN poll published Thursday. By contrast, challengers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Hollywood guru Marianne Williamson claimed 20% and 8%, respectively.In additional bad news for Biden, majorities of those groups expressed openness to both of his challengers, with 64% open to RFK Jr. and 53% willing to consider Williamson. The outlet noted that RFK...

Denver, Colo., May 26, 2023 / 13:15 pm Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco said Thursday that prosecutors’ decision to reduce the charge against activists who destroyed a parish’s statue of a saint from felony to misdemeanor sends the signal that attacks against the Catholic Church can continue with impunity. “It is clear to me that this course of action would not have been taken with anyone else. In fact, if the same kind of offense had been committed against another religious congregation or group, it would almost certainly have been prosecuted as a hate crime,” Cordileone said. Cordileone’s statement...

In 2018, President Donald Trump told a crowd in West Virginia that the Washington elite establishment was playing games with the American people. He told supporters, “You are the elite. They’re not the elite.”Trump’s statement boldly embodied his platform as a Washington outsider, a true “Mr. Smith” who left his personal life behind to run for office with the simple goal of making America great again.🚨 MUST SEE — New Ad from Team Trump: “Starting Day One”WATCH:pic.twitter.com/V1TlWv7WT0— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) May 24, 2023A recent ad from the Trump campaign Now, five years later, the president’s status...

As RedState’s been noting, normal people are waking to the social carnage wrought by the Sex & Death Left. They don’t like people sexualizing their kids or turning every public event into a ritual of woke political theater. Bud Light is learning it, Target is learning it, and hopefully, the Dodgers might be catching on soon.They will if CatholicVote has anything to do with it. The group has sent a public letter to L.A. Dodgers owner Mark Walter and CEO Stan Kasten announcing a boycott of the team to be publicized by a $1 million ad campaign.At issue, of course,...

Viktor Orbán's Controversial Remarks at Qatar Economic ForumDOHA, Qatar (ChurchMilitant.com) - The prime minister of Hungary did more than just talk about money at the Qatar Economic Forum (QEF) in the capital city of the Middle Eastern country this week — he broached controversial topics such as Christian-Muslim cooperation and peace in Ukraine. Viktor Orbán, who traveled to Doha to attend the QEF by invitation of his Qatari counterpart, His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, joined a wide array of heads of state and business leaders. The three-day forum, backed by the left-leaning billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg, was...