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  • Will Cain’s show is terrible

    04/30/2025 2:15:46 PM PDT · by BuckeyeGOP · 38 replies
    Well duh, it’s fox I know, but I’ve tried to watch his show a few times and he always has this pattern of bringing on some of the most radical worst liberal politicians,lets them rant on and then retorts with the most wishywashy spineless comments like “We can agree to disagree”…. All the while legitimizing whatever ridiculous TDS crap they are spewing. Grow a fling spine Will or go be a hero on msdnc
  • Iran accused of 'covering up' death toll in port explosion amid concerns of uprising

    04/30/2025 2:15:18 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 10 replies
    Fox News ^ | Caitlin McFall
    The Islamic Republic of Iran is suspected of "covering up" the true extent of the devastating explosion that rocked the Shahid Rajaee port in Iran's southern coastal town of Bandar Abbas. On Tuesday, the death toll reported from Tehran after the explosion had risen to 70, with another 1,200 said to have been injured from the blast. But, according to information from eyewitnesses and the impacts of the blast radius, those figures are expected to be drastically underreported amid concerns of escalating internal unrest, sources have told Fox News Digital. According to information provided by the National Council of Resistance...
  • Awesome News – GDP Growth at -0.3% in First Quarter, Despite Massive Import Purchase Increase of 41.3% to Avoid Tariffs

    04/30/2025 2:14:59 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 22 replies
    The Last Refuge ^ | April 30, 2025 | Sundance
    The absolute key to the first quarter GDP result is to remember that ‘imports‘ are a deduction in the economic equation of Gross Domestic Product. The GDP is the valuation of all goods and services produced in the USA *minus* the value of imports.The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) releases the results of the first quarter GDP. The overall economic growth seems low at –0.3% until you look at how U.S. companies responded in February and March to the tariff announcement.Companies proactively purchased massive amounts of products in advance of the tariffs leading to an overall increase in imports of...
  • Peak Hassett – National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett Provides Details on Trade Negotiations

    04/30/2025 2:12:45 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 1 replies
    The Last Refuge ^ | April 29, 2025 | Sundance
    As we saw previously in Term-1, President Trump has again divided and assigned trade negotiation responsibility to key cabinet members. In this interview with CNN National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett smiles and walks effortlessly through the narrative engineering attempt by CNN pundit Kassie Hunt.This is a must watch interview if you are following the details of the current global trade renegotiation.Hassett outlines the current status of trade negotiations with some of the biggest trade partners in the world. India and Southeast Asia are being handled by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is in control of the...
  • RFK Jnr. just blew the lid on government child trafficking rings within HHS under Biden

    04/30/2025 2:08:24 PM PDT · by RandFan · 26 replies
    X ^ | Aprii 30 | @Patri0tContr0l
    @Patri0tContr0l WTF did RFK Jr just say? “During the Biden Administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for sex and for slavery. And we have ended that, and we are very aggressively going out and trying to find these children. 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden Administration.” It’s worse than anyone can imagine.
  • Witkoff: Putin sees opportunity for the ‘first time in decades’ for a relationship recalibration

    04/30/2025 2:07:10 PM PDT · by Mariner · 25 replies
    The Hill via Yahoo ^ | April 30th, 2025 | Tara Suter
    U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Tuesday that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin sees an opportunity for the “first time in decades” for a U.S.-Russia relationship recalibration.“I think that … he sees the opportunity for the first time in decades, to recalibrate the relationship of the Russian Federation with the United States, and it’s clear,” Witkoff told radio hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby on their WABC show.“I’ve had four meetings with him, and not one of them was less than three hours,” he added. “And there was one that was close to five hours.”In the first few months...
  • Russia's foreign minister visits the Dominican Republic to strengthen economic and commercial ties

    04/30/2025 2:06:31 PM PDT · by McGruff · 3 replies
    ABC News ^ | April 30, 2025 | MARTÍN ADAMES
    Russia expects to open its first embassy in the Dominican Republic as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov defined the Caribbean country as a “promising partner” on Wednesday during an official trip. Lavrov, who met behind closed doors with Dominican Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez, said Russia plans to strengthen its commercial and economic ties with the Dominican Republic, saying there are “mutual opportunities.” Meanwhile, Álvarez said a key conversation topic was “the profound political, security and humanitarian crisis affecting Haiti and how this impacts the Dominican Republic.” Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island of Hispaniola.
  • BREAKING: Biden Judge Bars DHS From Transferring Illegal Aliens to Other Agencies After Four Venezuelan Gang Members Were Flown from Gitmo to El Salvador

    04/30/2025 2:02:40 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 40 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 30, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A federal judge on Wednesday barred the Department of Homeland Security from transferring illegal aliens to other agencies like the Department of Defense. US District Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, said the Trump Administration’s DHS cannot transfer aliens to other agencies as a way to prevent them from receiving ‘due process.’ “[After] taking custody of an alien, Defendants may not cede custody or control in any manner that prevents an alien from receiving the due-process guarantees…” the judge wrote.
  • ‘It’s The Key’: Chips Giant Breaks Ground On Third US Plant

    04/30/2025 1:56:22 PM PDT · by CFW · 27 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 4/30/25 | Thomas English
    The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) broke ground Tuesday on its third factory in Arizona, widening the Trump administration’s push to yank critical chip production out of China’s shadow, according to the Department of Commerce. The new fab — backed by some $6.6 billion in CHIPS Act grants and part of a broader $100 billion expansion pledge TSMC made in March — is slated to provide thousands of local jobs and anchor a domestic supply chain for everything from smartphones to fighter jet avionics, according to a TSMC press release “It’s the key,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said of domestic...
  • 2 Ukrainian Nationals Hit With Federal Charges After Illegally Voting In 2024 Presidential Election

    04/30/2025 1:52:13 PM PDT · by McGruff · 7 replies
    One America News ^ | April 30, 2025 | Blake Wolf
    Two Ukrainian women in South Florida on temporary visas were hit with federal charges after being accused of illegally voting in the last 2024 U.S. presidential election, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Svitlana Demydenko, 53, and her daughter, Yelyzaveta Demydenko, 22, purportedly handed in their 2024 presidential votes in Palm Beach, Florida, on October 31, 2024. “Svitlana and Yelyzaveta entered the United States in April 2021 on nonimmigrant visas. In August 2024, while living in Florida, Svitlana and Yelyzaveta registered to vote in federal elections using a system that requires certification of United States citizenship, which neither of...
  • CNN’s Amber Ruffin: I’m Black, I’m Terrified, I’m ‘Less Welcome’ Under Trump

    04/30/2025 1:29:03 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 83 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/30/2025 | Pam Key
    CNN host Amber Ruffin said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that she felt “less welcome” under President Donald Trump while discussing being removed as the host of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Ruffin said, “They were, like, look, you were running your mouth in these streets, and now you can’t host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and I was like, oh, no, you know, this is horrible. I was running my mouth, and I was being careless. Then, as the day went on, people were like your free speech has been revoked. How dare they. Then I was like, oh,...
  • Sexual abuse must be a key issue at Conclave

    04/30/2025 1:23:29 PM PDT · by Gillibrand1 · 14 replies
    Catholic Conclave ^ | 30/4/2025 | CG
    At the General Congregations, the so-called pre-conclave, the cardinals gathered in the Vatican are currently discussing the state of the Church and the profile of the next pope. What "skills" will the next head of the 1.4 billion Catholics need? And what issues will the cardinals be particularly concerned with when they soon retreat to the Sistine Chapel for the Papal election, the Conclave? "I believe that the issue of abuse will already play a role in the preliminary discussions, the so-called pre-conclave," German child protection expert Hans Zollner told the news agency Kathpress in Rome based on conversations with...
  • DOGE Dance in Beverly Hills, Calif.

    04/30/2025 1:12:18 PM PDT · by Fiji Hill · 5 replies
    Youtube ^ | April 30, 2025 | Durium
    Shiva Bagheri, a dance and fitness instructor, community organizer and activist leads a dance celebrating the accomplishments of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a recently formed task force seeking to root out waste, fraud, bloat and corruption in the Federal Government. This performance took place at a rally in Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills, Calif. on April 27, 2025.
  • USDA Ends a Biden Administration InjusticeThe National Forest Service wrongly targeted South Dakota ranchers Charles and Heather Maude.

    04/30/2025 1:10:13 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 20 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 30, 2025 | By Brooke L. Rollins
    Fifth-generation ranchers Charles and Heather Maude make their living raising cattle and hogs on the wide plains of western South Dakota. Since 1907, Charles’s family has been on the land where they now farm thousands of acres.
  • How Canada voted - in charts

    04/30/2025 12:52:16 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 23 replies
    BBC ^ | 4/29/25 | Phil Leake, Alison Benjamin, Daniel Wainwright and Jess Carr
    Mark Carney's Liberal Party has won enough seats in the House of Commons to form a government in Canada. However, CBC News projects they will fall short of the majority they wanted. Carney is set to remain prime minister, having only assumed the role in early March following Justin Trudeau's resignation
  • Canadian Conservatives Back Poilievre After Election Defeat

    04/30/2025 12:43:33 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 38 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/30/2025 | John Hayward
    Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre lost his own seat in Parliament in Monday’s election, but he has not resigned as leader of the party and some prominent Conservatives have spoken up to defend his position. “There is no doubt that Pierre Poilievre and his team ran an incredible campaign,” former Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said in a post on social media platform X on Tuesday. Scheer noted that while the Conservatives came up short of forming a government, they won “the highest vote percentage in modern Conservative history” and “the most amount of total votes for our party,...
  • [Catholic Caucus] May it be a Minimal Papacy: For a Pontificate of the Essential, with no more Personalism, Narcissism, and Despotism

    04/30/2025 12:39:26 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 12 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | April 24, 2025 | Camillo Langone
    [Catholic Caucus] May it be a Minimal Papacy: For a Pontificate of the Essential, with no more Personalism, Narcissism, and DespotismCamillo Langone Il FoglioApril 24, 2025Limited to its essential tasks. The head of the Church is not the Pope, but Christ. Let the new Pontiff's motto be John the Baptist's words about Jesus, “He must increase, I decrease.” May it be a minimal Papacy. A Papacy like the Minimal State theorized by liberal philosopher Robert Nozick, that is, limited to its essential tasks. Few things, but done well. Not only because the vain loudness of an overwhelming Papacy, and an...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Happy Sky over Bufa Hill in Mexico

    04/30/2025 12:37:00 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    NASA ^ | 30 Apr, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Korona
    Explanation: Sometimes, the sky itself seems to smile. A few days ago, visible over much of the world, an unusual superposition of our Moon with the planets Venus and Saturn created just such an iconic facial expression. Specifically, a crescent Moon appeared to make a happy face on the night sky when paired with seemingly nearby planets. Pictured is the scene as it appeared over Zacatecas, México, with distinctive Bufa Hill in the foreground. On the far right and farthest in the distance is the planet Saturn. Significantly closer and visible to Saturn's upper left is Venus, the brightest planet...
  • US-Ukraine inching toward mineral deal amid last-minute roadblocks

    04/30/2025 12:32:47 PM PDT · by McGruff · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | April 30, 2025 | Michael Dorgan
    The United States and Ukraine are on the verge of signing a mineral deal after months of fraught and chaotic negotiations, although a last-minute snag still needs to be ironed out. Ukraine's prime minister said First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko was flying to Washington on Wednesday to sign the deal, which is central to Kyiv's efforts to mend ties with President Donald Trump and the White House as the U.S. president tries to secure a peace settlement in Russia's war in Ukraine. ... However, a snag arose as Svyrydenko’s plane headed to Washington, with U.S. officials reportedly demanding that...
  • [Catholic Caucus] After 12 years of Francis, faithful Catholics must not recognize the election of a heretic

    04/30/2025 12:30:51 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 8 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | April 30, 2025 | Robert T. Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] After 12 years of Francis, faithful Catholics must not recognize the election of a hereticIf the cardinals elect a known heretic, who is clearly ineligible to become pope, then they will surely invite God’s wrath as never before in the Church’s history. In his introduction to LifeSite’s recent article about eight cardinals who may succeed Francis, Bishop Joseph Strickland alluded to the role of the Catholic Church in recognizing whether or not the man elected by the conclave is truly the pope: As St. Robert Bellarmine and others have taught, a heretic cannot be the head of the...