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A central Oregon county scheduled an election to test support for becoming part of Idaho on Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after final results from a May election in an eastern Oregon county showed a victory for supporters of the “Greater Idaho” movement. The razor-thin vote in Wallowa County means that 12 Oregon counties have voted to move toward a long-shot effort to redraw the state’s boundary with Idaho that would turn close to 400,000 Oregonians into Idahoans and give the Gem State control of almost two-thirds of Oregon’s land. The next to vote is Crook County, after the...

Wednesday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Tonight,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused the FBI of covering for President Joe Biden. Grassley was referring to the FBI’s alleged stonewalling regarding House inquiries into potential wrongdoing by Biden and members of his family. “Senator Chuck Grassley, you’re a resolute guy,” FNC Jesse Watters said. “You are patient. You’ve done this before. You know how this works. Do you feel like the Department of Justice and the FBI are playing games?”

China reportedly reached an agreement with Cuba to allow them to create an electronic eavesdropping facility on the Caribbean island, which is located about 100 miles south of Florida, as tensions between Beijing and Washington have been rising dramatically over the past several months. The Cuban facility would allow Chinese intelligence officials to monitor U.S. ship traffic and to listen to electronic communications throughout the southeastern United States, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of highly classified intelligence, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. China reached an agreement in principle to pay several billion dollars to the impoverished Marxist-Leninist nation...

A self-proclaimed sugar baby has claimed that older men are clamoring to pay for her to shop and travel the world — showing her more respect than some of her previous younger lovers. Charlotte Davies, 24, said that she was motivated to become a sugar baby after watching a TV show that explored the sugar baby-daddy relationship. “I’d gotten out of an eight-year-long relationship, so I knew that I didn’t want to get into anything serious anytime soon,” said Davies. “The only dating I was doing was very casual, so I just thought that this was like what I’m doing...

Because the Russia hoax was evil and false, the FBI, Democrats, and the media will have a much harder time effectively running the operation again.Stop leaking to the media, peddling false narratives, and obstructing congressional oversight into the FBI’s handling of allegations that President Joe Biden was part of a criminal bribery scheme, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told FBI Director Christopher Wray in a floor speech Tuesday.“Quit playing games,” Grassley said. “The Justice Department and FBI no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt,” he added, pointing to the FBI and Department of Justice’s track record of deception from the...

The Trevor Project, whose mission is to “end suicide among LGBTQ young people,” has partnered with common household brands to develop their respective pride-themed collections and has, in some cases, received seven-figure donations from corporate sponsors. The major corporate partnerships, which include iconic clothing brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch to fast food chains like Chipotle, come despite the organization’s unsafe online practices. The youth-oriented LGBT activist group hosts an anonymous online chat forum “Trevor Space,” which allows adults to communicate with minors, National Review previously reported. The organization hosts multiple age-segregated chatrooms but has no age-verification system in place,...

Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-NY) just introduced the GUO Act of 2023 to fight the weaponization of the U.S. justice system due to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) infiltration. Santos announced his new legislation in a June 7 tweet, which included a video clip of his remarks. Chinese dissident Miles Guo, one of the most vocal opponents of the genocidal CCP, was arrested in March on federal charges of fraud and was denied bail. Two CCP spies arrested soon after were quickly released on bail, however.In a May speech to the House, which he shared with his announcement of the GUO...

As the World Health Organization pandemic treaties bear fruit, the mark of the beast has arrived in Europe. Everything the Public Health™ experts have done since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to this moment of triumph for the global technocracy.“WHO & EU_Commission launch landmark digital health initiative to help protect people across the world from on-going & future health threats,” WHO tweeted out on June 5. “This is the first building block of the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network that will develop a wide range of digital products to deliver better #HealthForAll.”WHO & @EU_Commission launch landmark...

Photo: AlamyIn a gesture of support and patriotism, President Trump has invited the Rushingbrook Children’s Choir to sing at his next rally in South Carolina.The children’s choir made waves in the media over the last week after a video surfaced online of Capitol Police halting their performance of the National Anthem inside the Capitol Building.President Trump released a video addressing the situation. He stated, “I heard about what happened at the Capitol and that’s a shame – really that’s a serious thing. To have such an event like that…to be interrupted in such a way. But we’re going to have...

Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Thaddeus never stopped reveling in the breeziness of thatched undergarments. Roll with the whimsy today, my friends. Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has made his name as one of the most notorious liars in the history of Congress. That’s kinda why I like him. Look, almost everyone in the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives is a grifter whose familiarity with the truth is casual at best. Santos’s appeal to me is that he doesn’t shy away from his indifference to veracity. I don’t need legislators to be my life...

VIDEO51 intelligence officials have determined that Special Counsel Jack Smith isn't acting at all politically in his obsessed pursuit of the Orange Whale.

The trial tested an approach that allows doctors to transplant hearts from donors who have succumbed to "circulatory death" -- meaning the heart has stopped beating. Traditionally, heart transplants could only be done with a heart from a donor on life support who has been declared brain dead. A new transplant method that "reanimates" donor hearts appears safe and effective, a new clinical trial has found -- in an advance that could substantially expand the supply of donor hearts available in the United States. The trial tested an approach that allows doctors to transplant hearts from donors who have succumbed...

Ukraine’s main counteroffensive against Russia’s invasion appears to have begun, multiple Western news agencies have reported. The long-discussed Ukrainian counteroffensive may be underway, although not heralded as such by the Ukrainian government, but rather by a series of no-name comments from military figures briefing to Western newspapers. Indeed, Ukraine insisted the counteroffensive was not yet happening as recently as yesterday, but they have also recently said they would not discuss it for strategic reasons.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to restrict gun ownership, following a record year of mass shootings. The Democrat's plan would leave the 2nd Amendment unchanged and 'respect' America's 'gun-owning tradition'. But he has demanded 'common sense constitutional protections and gun safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, independent voters, and gun owners overwhelmingly support'. It would include 'universal background checks, raising the firearm purchase age to 21, instituting a firearm purchase waiting period, and barring the civilian purchase of assault weapons.' All of those are hot political topics that have divided Congress as well...

The left wasted little time on Thursday celebrating the passing of Christian television evangelist Pat Robertson. The 93-year-old’s death was announced earlier in the day by his broadcasting network. No cause was given. As Breitbart News reported, Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms for over half a century, known for his “700 Club” television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of God’s judgment on a host of topics. His energy and business sense turned a tiny Virginia TV station into a global evangelical network before he sought the GOP presidential nomination in 1988 and helped...

Left-wing nutballs have had the upper hand in America’s culture wars for a long time. They are hyperaggressive and focused on pushing America in a radical direction. They push their agenda on school boards, in local and national political venues, and on many corporations. To date, resistance has been isolated to a small number of dedicated conservative activists. Most Americans just want to get along whenever possible, not fight about sensitive social issues if they can help it and, most of all, not be mean to people. That’s a laudable attitude in general, but when up against radical, ideologically driven...

One performer attempted to "titty weight lift" with various objects that included a sword, five pound weights, and a wooden spoon. Children were subjected to adult nudity at a recent drag show at Oregon State University which included stripping, fully exposed breasts, and something called "titty weight lifting." The event titled, "Illegal Drag Show," was hosted by an LGBTQ student club on campus called Rainbow Continuum, which marketed the show for "all-ages," despite its explicit nature, Campus Reform reports. Video footage from the event that occured on June 2 shows a female performer's fully-exposed breasts after she took off her...

Ukrainian forces have suffered losses in heavy equipment and soldiers as they met greater than expected resistance from Russian forces in their first attempt to breach Russian lines in the east of the country in recent days, two senior US officials tell CNN.One US official described the losses – which include US supplied MRAP armored personnel vehicles as “significant.”Ukrainian forces managed to overrun some Russian forces in the east around Bakhmut. However, Russian forces, armed with anti-tank missiles, grenades and mortars, have put up “stiff resistance,” with their forces dug into defensive lines that are several layers deep in some...

Several House Republican members of the Freedom Caucus have revolted against Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) over his Debt ceiling deal with Democrat President Joe Biden. Republicans have been outraged that McCarthy struck a deal with the Biden White House to raise the debt ceiling last month. Twelve Republicans voted with the Democrats to defeat the GOP’s attempt to bring four bills to the House floor. The bills were related to gas stoves and regulatory reform. This is the first time a House rule vote has been defeated since November 2002. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said: “Today, we took down the...

Chilling video footage caught a Syrian refugee repeatedly stabbing screaming adults and kids in a French playground Thursday — including at least one toddler in a stroller. A 90-second clip shared online shows the knifeman repeatedly running at people in the picturesque Alps town of Annecy, injuring at least six people, including four kids aged under 5 left fighting for their lives. Police later blamed a 31-year-old Syrian national with legal refugee status in France for the attack that President Emmanuel Macron called “an act of absolute cowardice.” The footage starts with the black-clad suspect rushing out of the play...