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A newly promoted Biden administration official has come under fire over old social media posts that compared police to “slave patriots” and celebrated the anti-Israel movement. Department of Interior worker Tyler Cherry’s incendiary tweets began to re-emerge shortly after he was promoted last week to join the White House communications team. Cherry, who spent three years working under Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, wrote in 2015 amid the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died in police custody, “Praying for #Baltimore, but praying even harder for an end to a capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and...

WASHINGTON — President Biden said Monday he was “appalled” by clashes outside a Los Angeles synagogue Sunday involving anti-Israel protesters who sought to block the building’s entrance. “I’m appalled by the scenes outside of Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles,” the 81-year-old president tweeted from Camp David, where he’s spending a full week secluded from the public while preparing for Thursday’s debate against former President Donald Trump. “Intimidating Jewish congregants is dangerous, unconscionable, antisemitic, and un-American,” Biden wrote. “Americans have a right to peaceful protest. But blocking access to a house of worship — and engaging in violence — is...

I made the decision to join the United States Armed Forces twice in my life. First, in the early 1990s after school when I enlisted and trained as a U.S. Marine. Then, following the 9/11 attacks, I signed up for the Idaho National Guard and was later deployed to Afghanistan. Those were my decisions, ones I made because I believed in service, and knew the military would be good for me. But what if it wasn’t your choice to join the military? What if it wasn’t your son’s choice? What if, suddenly, your daughter was forced to join the military?...

Ok, a thought just occurred to me. The scuttlebut has been that the left wants to replace Joe and his performance at the debate might be the trigger. What better way to accomplish this than for Tapper and Bash to sabotage Joe? Joe is expecting soft balls and kid gloves. Questions about abortion and J6. What if they turn the tables and hammer him on the economy, immigration, etc? Get him flustered and yelling incoherently? All it would take would be a back-channel communication from Obama's crew to get this done.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured striking new images of the Serpens Nebula that reveal a rare alignment of stellar jets, offering new insights into the formation of stars. Protostellar outflows occur when high-speed jets of hot gas produced by young stars collide with surrounding dust and gases. In the new Webb images, several outflows spotted in the northern area of the Serpens Nebula appear to all be aligned and oriented in the same direction. Located around 1,300 light-years from Earth, the Serpens Nebula is a dense cluster of young stars, some of which are only about 100,000 years...

Crosman is shutting down one of its product plants in Ontario County. According to the Rochester Business Journal, the East Bloomfield-based air gun manufacturer stated in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice filed with the state that 10 people would be laid off by the end of the year as a result. The furloughs are expected to begin in September. Additional details were not released. Crosman is a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of air guns, accessories, and related consumables.

Antisemitic mob in Los Angeles beats a Jewish woman in broad daylight. Never Again is NOW, damnit

Maricopa County elections officials will reportedly need to spend thousands of dollars to reprogram security equipment after an apparent theft at an election facility. On June 20, surveillance footage within the Maricopa County elections building in downtown Phoenix captured an employee taking a “security fob” and keys off a desk before putting them in his pocket. According to police documents, the employee was questioned about the alleged theft, but he denied taking the security fob and keys. The next day, detectives went to the man’s home and saw part of the keys in his vehicle. He was arrested and told...

.... [It's] the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the U.S.," Culdesac CEO Ryan Johnson tells CNBC Make It. ...

“We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong but when they are weak,” declared Ronald Reagan at the 1980 Republican National Convention. “It is then that tyrants are tempted,” he added, summing up his conviction that peace could only be secured through strength. Until Donald Trump followed in Reagan’s footsteps as the GOP’s standard-bearer, this formulation was axiomatic on the American right. But Trump’s careless rhetoric — which often flirted with isolationism and flattered America’s sworn enemies in Moscow and Pyongyang — emboldened the Republican Party’s isolationist wing. In an op-ed endorsing...

Philadelphia ranks No. 1 among U.S. cities for new sexually transmitted infections—STIs—according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is up from fifth place in 2023 and puts Philadelphia ahead of four cities that had previously rated higher: Memphis, Tennessee; Jackson, Mississippi; New Orleans and St. Louis. Among 15- to 24-year-olds in Philadelphia, syphilis cases have shot up 30% since 2019, while cases of gonorrhea increased 18%. Chlamydia cases are down 13% from pre-pandemic numbers among this age group, but remain high.

Mitt Romney trashed Donald Trump again, which gave the media another opportunity to pretend Republicans are abandoning President Trump. Romney never supported President Trump. WMMS reported, “Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said he won’t support former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election due to ‘a matter of personal character.’“Romney, 77, was among several politicians within the party to condemn Trump during his presidency and said the presumptive GOP candidate's recent meeting with Republicans on Capitol Hill last week did nothing to change his perspective.”I chose to quote WMMS over other outlets because it is the Home of the Buzzard. The...

Thursday’s presidential debate is “not the ideal arena for live fact-checking” former President Donald Trump, CNN political director David Chalian warned potential viewers Monday. CNN’s coverage of Trump often includes network personnel attempting to fact-check Trump in real time or trying to fact-check him immediately after live coverage ends. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins was widely criticized last year for failing to successfully fact-check Trump during her town hall event. The audience cheered Trump’s performance, while Republicans lauded Trump’s delivery as one of the best by the former president. Chalian, who believes Trump “doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt on words,”...

However, a new poll has shown Trump is edging ahead of Biden among one important group of voters: independents. According to the ActiVote poll of 2,029 likely voters, the Republican is 22 points ahead of Biden among independent voters in a two-way matchup, holding 61 percent of the vote share to Biden's 39 percent.

@Nigel_Farage Hi @BorisJohnson If you tell lies about me, I’ll tell the truth about you.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL — The Trump campaign announced Monday that the former president had begun preparing for his upcoming debate with Joe Biden by visiting nursing homes and arguing with dementia patients. "George, you're wrong about Lime JELL-O. Nobody likes it," Trump said as he argued with a 94-year-old man dementia patient who claims to be constantly observed by Russian spies. "It doesn't taste good! Everyone's telling me all the time how much they hate it and you're going to say they should serve it every day? On DAY ONE I will ban Lime JELL-O." Elderly onlookers applauded as...

Left-wing activists in at least 11 states have launched efforts to place abortion on the ballot in November — and proposed constitutional amendments have officially qualified for the ballots in five of those states. When the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs decision on June 24, 2022 — exactly two years ago — it overturned Roe v. Wade, which had invented a federal right to abortion for 50 years. The Dobbs decision thus returned the issue of abortion to individual states and their elected representatives, changing the nature of the struggle between the pro-life movement and the abortion industry. Pro-abortion organizations...

The homicide investigation is still open, but authorities have named Jared Ravizza as a suspect in Feldman’s death and the killing of two dogs. Ravizza is linked to a Memorial Day weekend stabbing spree that same afternoon. A killing in Connecticut Bruce Feldman, a 70-year-old lawn appliance inventor from West Hartford, Conn., was last seen on May 25 seated on a lawn chair, outside a scenic contemporary Deep River, Conn., short-term rental home with his roommate, 26-year-old Jared Ravizza, from West Tisbury, Mass. They were taking in a view of the Connecticut River. Their poodles were nearby. Then a terrible...

Hospitalization risk 80% higher versus nonusersCannabis use was significantly associated with a greater risk of severe outcomes following a COVID-19 infection, according to a retrospective study that spanned the first 2 years of the pandemic. Among more than 70,000 patients with a documented case of COVID at a large medical center in the Midwest, use of cannabis was linked with an 80% greater risk of hospitalization and a 27% higher risk for intensive care unit (ICU) admission after an infection, but no difference in all-cause mortality: Hospitalization: OR 1.80 (95% CI 1.68-1.93) ICU admission: OR 1.27 (95% CI 1.14-1.41) Mortality:...

Cernovich @Cernovich Zero reason for Trump to do the rigged CNN debate. From Jayne Zirkle 11:12 AM · Jun 24, 2024