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Taylor Swift, an apparent strong believer in Trickle-down economics, is reportedly giving six-figure bonuses to all of the truckers carrying her equipment around the country for her Eras Tour. TMZ reports that each trucker was given a $100,000 bonus check after her show last Saturday in Santa Clara, California. Around 50 truckers received the bonus, which works out to about $5 million in money from Swift. That may sound like a lot – and it is – but please keep this in mind: TMZ says the nationwide tour has made over $1 billion in sales. It could end up being...

The Missouri Democratic Party deleted a tweet calling for a house adorned with Trump campaign merchandise to "burn" down. The state's Democratic Party responded to a Monday tweet by Democrat political influencer Jon Cooper asking Twitter users what they would do if the house covered with Trump campaign flags were their "next-door neighbor." "The roof, the roof, the roof is on [fire] we don’t need no water, let the ‘insert your word,’ burn!" the Missouri Democrats tweeted, referencing Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three’s hit "The Roof is On Fire." "#VoteBlue2024," they added. The tweet was later deleted by...

Paula Scanlan joined the swim team at UPenn as a way of getting over a nightmare from her past. Instead, it brought it up all over again. The 23-year-old Connecticut native began swimming at age 8, and she credits the sport for helping her recover after surviving a sexual assault in a bathroom at age 16. “To be honest, swimming was the only thing that kept me going,” she told The Post. But after earning her spot on the University of Pennsylvania’s swim team, Scanlan was troubled by the school’s decision to allow transgender athlete Lia Thomas to switch from...

...Buddy who drove and used State ID drove us back, we go into the Officer of the Day's office to report my lost/stolen ID. OOD is a crusty old bastard, but fair. Actually a mustang, he takes his orders from the President and god... and we are not sure of the president he might tell him to f**k off if it is a stupid idea. ..."Seaman Raccoon here says the doorman at Joe's took his ID and wants $20. Pull a driver and one of those Jarheads at the gate and go down their and sort it out."

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA — Today, detectives at the Port St. Lucie Police Department announced the arrest of Radames Guzman aka “The Candy Man” after a sting revealed he was selling drugs out of his mobile snack food truck. Guzman told police that he began selling fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms from his snack truck to offset the bad economy. After obtaining a search warrant, detectives raided the “Xotic Snackz” truck parked at the 1300 block of Southwest Gatlin Boulevard and seized the following: • 10,000 Fentanyl pills with a street value of $300,000 • 626 grams of cocaine...

REHOBOTH, Del. — President Biden and first lady Jill Biden went to see the summer box office hit movie “Oppenheimer” the evening his predecessor and political rival, former President Trump, was indicted. The Bidens are on vacation in Rehoboth and prior to going to the movies, they had dinner at a nearby restaurant, Matt’s Fish Camp Lewes. They arrived at the theater around 6:30 p.m. to see the movie, starring Cillian Murphy as the famed real-life Manhattan Project physicist.

As usual, the vicious right-wing media is dragging another noble, upstanding Democratic politician through the mud with false allegations. It can sometimes be difficult to discern the truth about these great liberal leaders from all the lies of dangerous conspiracy theorists. Thankfully, The Babylon Bee is here to provide the following list of clear signs Joe Biden is obviously innocent. 1. He's a good family man who talks to 6 grandchildren every day: That's almost all of them. 2. He raised an honest, law-abiding American citizen in Hunter Biden: Joe is every bit as innocent as his son. 3. He...

Vice President Kamala Harris slapped down Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ invite to hash out their curriculum spat. “Extremists attempt to divide our nation with unnecessary debates. But I have news for them: We will not be distracted — and we will not be deterred,” Harris tweeted Tuesday. “There is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate the undeniable fact: There were no redeeming qualities to slavery.”

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On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Fox News Contributor and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump “basically just accuses him of disinformation. This is a disinformation indictment” and charges “many” things that are protected by the First Amendment. Turley said, “There’s less than meets the eye in this indictment. I thought the last indictment was a very serious threat for Donald Trump. When I take a red pen through material that is protected by the First Amendment, it reduces much of...

This is why Vivek beats DeSantis👇🏼pic.twitter.com/RYwUWGpFFO— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 1, 2023JUST IN: Vivek Ramaswamy strongly defends Donald Trump after the former president was indicted by the Biden Department of ‘Justice.’Vivek specifically blamed censorship for the J6 attack, including how the FBI and Big Tech colluded to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.“It would be easier for me if Donald Trump were eliminated from competition. That's not how I wanna win. This is not about politics. To me, this is about first principles. We do not want to become a country where the party in power is able to use...

DC_Draino @DC_Draino 🚨President Trump was NOT charged with Insurrection or Seditious Conspiracy This means that despite the very serious headaches this indictment will cause during the campaign, he will not be prohibited from being President under the Constitution If he wins, he can pardon himself If he loses, he will likely be imprisoned This is what’s at stake 4:47 PM · Aug 1, 2023

[Catholic Caucus] World Youth Day: Communion in Ikea BowlsBarcelona Cardinal Omella presided over a July 31 Eucharist in Estoril, Portugal, with 30,000 Spaniards as part of World Youth Day. Potato chip bowls purchased from Ikea were used to distribute the Novus Ordo Communion.The bowls were distributed to the co-presiding priests with a plastic wrap and the Ikea bar code still on them (photo).According to InfoVaticana.com, they were chosen by Church authorities to convey a message of "humility" and "simplicity".

The US’s credit rating has been cut to AA+ from AAA, in an unexpected blow to the world’s biggest economy. The rating agency said its downgrade “reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of governance relative to ‘AA’ and ‘AAA’ rated peers over the last two decades that has manifested in repeated debt limit standoffs and last-minute resolutions.” The US narrowly avoided a default just weeks ago, with the federal borrowing limit lifted at the eleventh hour after months of tension over spending cuts.

"And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. "But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: "For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry." Luke, Chapter 15 1 Then drew near...

[Devotional] Feast of the Holy Maccabean Martyrs2 Maccabees 7The glorious martyrdom of the seven brethren and their mother.1 It came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their mother, were apprehended, and compelled by the king to eat swine's flesh against the law, for which end they were tormented with whips and scourges.Contigit autem et septem fratres una cum matre sua apprehensos compelli a rege edere contra fas carnes porcinas, flagris, et taureis cruciatos.2 But one of them, who was the eldest, said thus: What wouldst thou ask, or learn of us? we are ready to die rather than...

The intimate connection between secret societies and the nation’s political elite is as strong as ever. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was among those present at this year’s infamous meeting of the secretive Bohemian Club at the Bohemian Grove campground in Monte Rio, California. Known as much for its eyebrow-raising occult-tinged rituals as for its luminary member roster, the male-only Bohemian Club has hosted business titans (William Randolph Hearst, the Rockefellers) and presidents (Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon). It was reportedly the place where J. Robert Oppenheimer first discussed the Manhattan project. Donald Trump is notably one major power player who...

Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States’ long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to AA+ from AAA on Tuesday, pointing to “expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years,” as well as a growing general debt burden.

Far left Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Tuesday charged her former Republican foe Attorney Matthew DePerno for daring to look at a Dominion voting machine following the 2020 presidential election. This is now against the law in Democrat-run Michigan. Nessel previously appointed a special counsel to investigate her Republican opponent Deperno just weeks before the general election. Nessel has made threats against Matthew DePerno since last year before the midterm elections. MLive reported: Former republican attorney general candidate Matt DePerno and ex-state Rep. Daire Rendon are facing criminal charges for their alleged role in a scheme to access voting...

35-year-old Garnet Harper died after hospitals refused to perform a life-saving kidney transplant on him because he did not take the experimental COVID-19 shots. Canadian health officials asked an Ontario woman to donate organs of her husband who died after being denied an organ transplant because he did not receive the COVID-19 shots. In May, Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN), the Ontario organ donation agency, called Meghan Harper to harvest her husband Garnet’s organs as he lay dying because the hospital refused to provide organ transplants to unvaccinated Canadians. “They call you while you’re sitting next to your dying...