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Upstate legislators and agricultural advocates are decrying a proposal in the New York State Legislature that would limit the size of dairy herds to 700 cows. The proposal would prohibit the Department of Environmental Conservation from “issuing or authorizing any permits” to farms with 700 or more dairy cows. The bill states that farms of that size amount to factory farms that “have numerous detrimental impacts to the environment, resulting in billions of pounds of manure each year, creating runoff that pollutes local waterways....” The bill also states that the larger dairy farms “also release significant amounts of methane, a...

A surprise second eyewitness has emerged in the Idaho student murders case and could testify against Bryan Kohberger at trial later this year. A woman claiming to be the Idaho DoorDash driver who dropped off food to victim Xana Kernodle minutes before a home invasion stabbing spree killed her, her boyfriend, and two roommates, has emerged as a surprise second eyewitness to testify at Kohberger’s upcoming murder trial, and she told police she saw him at the scene. The purported driver revealed herself in a police bodycam video from an alleged DUI stop taken in September 2024 and posted weeks...

Run time 12m 34 s BREAKING: Israel Finally ATTACKS Khamenei’s Bunker - President’s Plane Leaves Tehran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBUbT3T3Bk&pp=ygUIdG91c2kgdHY%3D

A former National Intelligence Officer for Cyber under President Trump and Joe Biden has come forward with explosive allegations: the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) deliberately buried evidence of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in the 2020 presidential election—and fired him when he refused to play along. The whistleblower’s damning post came in response to General Mike Flynn’s tweet Monday questioning why foreign election interference by the CCP wasn’t exposed back in 2020: “So there was foreign interference by the CCP in the 2020 presidential election. Who was running the USIC at that time and...

An Iranian government plane reportedly landed in Oman on Wednesday. This is where the US and Oman officials were holding their nuclear talks. This is a very distinct sign that Iranian officials are worried and that they are backed into a corner. ........ Snip......... Manoj Singh @PracticalSpy · Follow 🚨 Big Breaking 🚨 Iranian government plane just landed in Oman, where the talks with the US were previously held. is Khamenei going to sign the surrender today ?? #Khamenei #Iran #iranisraelwar #Israel #IsraeliranWar #IsraelIranConflict 10:26 AM · Jun 18, 2025

America cannot survive if it continues to fund The killing of innocent preborn babies. In the Bible, a lot of smiting of nations happens for just this reason. The Big Beautiful Bill is not perfect, but it must be passed. I hope there will be amendments that will decrease spending and the deficit and fix all of the other things that people object to in the bill, but all of these are secondary and can be addressed in the future. Our great ship is beginning to turn. Who would have ever thought that the Supreme Court would be required to...

Not a big deal, but just a bit surprised at how little we see Ambassador Huckabee on TV during this Iran mess. I mean I see the Israeli Ambassador to the US, many Israeli leaders (military and civilian), and even Trey Yingst….lol…all the time. Just wondered about why our Ambassador is keeping such a low profile.

Trump’s actual positions (vs the strawmen many are arguing against) are enormously popular with Americans outside the online influencer bubble. https://t.co/9FMnZFvbnZ— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 18, 2025

VIDEOOne of the YUUUUGE Tells that something is definitely amiss in the case of accused Minnesota shooter Vance Boelter is that police did NOT confiscate the cell phone of his pizza delivery roommate. Does this make sense? They entered his home early and tore it apart looking for evidence yet somehow allowed the Sweaty Pizza Delivery Guy to keep his phone so that he could later go out and go through the motions of reading a text message from the shooter while be sure to tell reporters that his buddy is a REPUBLICAN who voted for TRUMP? So has law...

Remember all the infamous one-liners from the Global War on Terror? In the years after 9/11, when the neocon establishment in Washington was pushing ahead with its disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were everywhere. It’s a slam dunk case! We have to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here. We’ll be greeted as liberators. Islam is a religion of peace. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.Those last two are direct quotes from President George W....

At 11:25 in this video, a protestor who traveled to Egypt with a bunch of other protestors, asks an Egyptian law enforcement officer, “We could do it in America, why can’t we do it here?” I think that’s an excellent question. But I think his timing is horrible. He, as well as all of the other protestors, should have done some research on Egypt’s laws regarding protesting and immigration before they traveled to Egypt. And I’d say the same thing for any other country. Always research the laws in any country that you plan to visit, before you make your...

Evil vs Israel Ephesians 6:4 (King James Version) And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. All of the sudden the world is back to the days of king David and the Philistines with Israel and Iran. Of course, Iran was Persia although it is the same fight between the Arabs and the Jews. It is just this time it seems like there is not much unity between Iran and the rest of the Arab world as they have finally worn out their welcome and the Arabs...

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ bombshell sex-trafficking trial was derailed Wednesday because of a sick juror — as the rapper’s alleged “drug mule” had been poised to begin testifying. Manhattan federal Judge Arun Subramanian informed Combs, his lawyers and prosecutors just after 9:00 a.m. that a juror had been experiencing “vertigo symptoms.” “I don’t see how we can proceed today,” the judge added. Brendan Paul, a former college basketball player who allegedly supplied Combs with drugs — arrived in court Wednesday morning as he was slated to begin testifying as the last major witness in the prosecution’s case against the hip-hop mogul.

President Donald Trump recently hinted that this uncompromising immigration policy may be moderated."Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!" A bit later, President Trump told reporters...

Deep inside Tehran, as Israeli fighter jets fly overhead dismantling the regime of the Islamic Republic from above, a quiet but determined resistance pulses through private homes, clinic rooms, and encrypted message threads. One such voice, a Tehran-based medical worker, “M” agreed to speak with The Jerusalem Post under condition of anonymity for his safety. His account offers rare insight into how ordinary Iranians, silenced by oppression for decades, are responding to a war their rulers began but the people never chose. "The opinion of the Iranian people toward the Islamic Republic has changed for years now,” M stated. “They...

WASHINGTON — Right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson clashed with Sen. Ted Cruz in an interview and posted a clip Tuesday night in which the senator was unable to answer questions about Iran. "How many people live in Iran, by the way?" Carlson asked the Texas Republican. "I don't know the population," Cruz responded. "At all?" Carlson asked, prompting Cruz to reiterate that he did not know. "You don't know the population of the country you seek to topple?" Asked again how he did not know Iran's population, the senator responded, "I don't sit around memorizing population tables." (The CIA estimated...

Polymarket @Polymarket · 2h BREAKING: It’s a bad week to be an Iranian nuclear technician. 59% chance their underground Fordow nuclear facility is destroyed. https://x.com/alx/status/1935366805507424649

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) criticized the Trump administration’s use of the military, saying the U.S. is turning into “one of the worst countries.” In an interview late last week, Omar noted the deployment of U.S. troops to quell protests in Los Angeles took place in the same week that the administration held the military parade, which celebrated 250 years of the U.S. Army’s existence, and which happened to fall on President Trump’s birthday and Flag Day.

President Trump revealed to reporters outside the White House that he spoke with Vladimir Putin yesterday, saying the Russian leader offered to mediate the Iran-Israel conflict. Even Trump, who has been a staunch defender of Putin, admitted he couldn't play peacemaker while the Ukraine-Russia war rages. -snip- “Would have never happened if I was president,” he said before making a four-word comment to Putin directly. “Putin would have never done it and I spoke to him yesterday and I said you know, he actually offered to help mediate. I said ‘do me a favor, mediate your own. Let’s mediate Russia...

In April, President Donald Trump followed through on a campaign promise and implemented tariffs on the majority of the United States’ trading partners. Predictably, the left lost their collective minds and giddily spoke of the coming collapse of the American economy, higher inflation and massive unemployment. Perhaps no one on the left stoked fear more than the Democrat senator from Hawaii, Brian Schatz. Schatz lamented that, "Donald Trump is ruining the economy on purpose … we'll be paying more for everything – groceries, food, cars, homes, toys, electronics, everything that you buy. This is about the ability for people to...