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Former President Obama will campaign with Democratic Virginia gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger in Norfolk, Va., on Nov. 1, according to a Tuesday announcement from Spanberger’s campaign.Obama last campaigned in Hampton Roads in 2012. His upcoming campaign stop with Spanberger will mark the first campaign visit of any Democratic president to the area in over 10 years. The announcement comes less than a week after Obama cut two ads urging Virginia voters to back Spanberger in next month’s governor’s race.

Image in Post 1. MCRD-SD graduation on October 18. I was in attendance for my grandson.

“You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.” After Zohran Mamdani castigated Cuomo for not visiting a mosque, he showed him how it was done by visiting the Al-Taqwa Mosque and posing smilingly with its Jihadist Imam Siraj Wahhaj. Mamdani, running to be the city’s first Muslim mayor, had already visited a great many mosques, some, like the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, already notorious for its support for Hamas and cursing Christians and Jews, but had saved the worst mosque for last. The progressive candidate openly embraced an imam who...

The European Union will phase out all Russian oil imports by January 1, 2028. New contracts will be prohibited after January 2026; existing short-term contracts must cease by June 2026 and long-term contracts by January 2028. The EU still believes it can target 45% renewable energy by 2030 and reduce its reliance on fossil fuel entirely. These conditions are perfect for inflationary price spikes and bottlenecks leading to extreme volatility. Europe has dismantled its economy to support Ukraine. Cutting Russian gas imports reroutes the flow of capital across Europe and the globe. Alternative sources must be developed, infrastructure must be...

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President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas. Will Central and South America be free and aligned with the United States -- or will half the Western Hemisphere be forever plagued by cartels, communists and Chinese influence? The Cold War in Europe ended more than 30 years ago, but it never really ended in our own backyard. Cuba remains communist, and a little more than a decade after the Soviet Union collapsed, Venezuela joined the ranks of socialist dictatorships under Hugo Chavez and then Nicolas Maduro. Whenever left-wing leaders come to power in the region,...

Key Points Warner Bros. Discovery said it is open to a sale as it expands its strategic review. The company had planned to split into two separate entities and is not abandoning those plans. WBD said it’s received “unsolicited interest” from multiple parties. =============================================================== Warner Bros. Discovery said Tuesday it’s expanding its strategic review of the business and is open to a sale, sending shares of the company 8% higher in premarket trading. Earlier this year, WBD announced plans to split into two separate entities, a streaming and studios business and a global networks business. It’s also been fielding takeout...

A terror attack, mass protests and institutional responses show an England on the edgeI went to England on a history vacation. It turned into an archaeological expedition, uncovering the bones of a once-great civilization. All the tourist sites are still there. You can still see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, recall the "V" for victory in the Churchill War Rooms or be inspired to pray at Westminster Abbey. But those are mere historical artifacts, like the pyramids of Egypt or the Acropolis in Greece. The ideals and most of the people who believe in them are long...

They rewired what you believe.This film exposes the hundred-year experiment that turned psychology into a weapon—how war-era mind research evolved into advertising, media manipulation, and now…the algorithm running your nervous system.You’ve felt it your whole life: the dread, the noise, the endless chase for validation. It isn’t random. It was built.Watch until the end—and decide what’s really yours.What’s Inside • Tavistock Institute — where population psychology began • Edward Bernays — the man who sold desire • Operation Mockingbird — the press turned puppet • MK-Ultra — the erasure of identity • The Algorithm — digital conditioning in real time

SNIP SOURCE A three-judge panel for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to stay a district court order that had prevented the deployment of National Guard troops to the city. The majority opinion found it was likely that the president had lawfully exercised his statutory authority.(Via Politico) – A federal appeals court panel has backed President Donald Trump’s authority to send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, concluding that though the president’s claims on social media “may exaggerate” the violence in the city, he may still have had a valid basis for the deployment.The 2-1 ruling, endorsed...

Kenny Loggins has hit out at Donald Trump for using his song ‘Danger Zone’ in a controversial video regarding US protests. The classic ‘80s song was heard playing in a video shared by the US president on his Truth Social account over the weekend. In the clip, a version of Trump made using artificial intelligence was seen wearing a crown and flying in a jet labelled ‘King Trump’. While in the jet, he is seen dumping sludge onto a crowd of people protesting in the streets. Now, Loggins has criticised the president for using the song without asking for permission,...

Within Islam, the Prophet Muhammad is highly respected and revered. Even mentioning his name requires Muslims to follow it with an honorific like “peace be upon him.” He was also given prestigious titles, such as apostle, messenger, prophet, and warner. The popularity of the name Muhammad for baby boys also demonstrates the respect Muslims have for him. Muhammad has been a common name for boys in Muslim countries for centuries and is becoming increasingly popular in Western countries that have become infested with large Muslim populations. But then, who wouldn’t want to name their child after a serial rapist (see...

As we grow out of intellectual adolescence, religion’s popularity soarsRichard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens recorded a two-hour conversation in 2007 deriding religion that got millions of YouTube views and was said to have sparked an atheist revolution. “Not believing in God was no longer just fashionable,” as journalist Peter Savodnik put it. “It was, for those on campus, for best-selling authors, for those who dominated our most rarefied intellectual spaces, the only rational position worth having.”No longer. In the fall of 2025, it sometimes feels as if every influencer in good standing has gotten religion. David...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that there is an expiration date for Obamacare subsidies “because that was all that we could get. But we’ve been arguing for a renewal of those tax credits for months. So, I don’t accept that particular Republican talking point” that the expiration date Democrats put into place is a Democratic policy.

Over the past two decades, no company has done more to shape the American workplace than Amazon. In its ascent to become the nation’s second-largest employer, it has hired hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers, built an army of contract drivers and pioneered using technology to hire, monitor and manage employees. Now, interviews and a cache of internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots. Amazon’s automation team expects the company can avoid...

Donald Trump is considering commuting Diddy's sentence as early as this week, according to a high-ranking White House official.According to our source, the President is "vacillating" on a commutation. We're told some of the W.H. staff are urging Trump not to commute the sentence. But, our source states the obvious -- "Trump will do what he wants," and we're told Trump could set Diddy free as early as this week.

“Divide and rule” tactics are as old as human conflict. Instead of building consensus among the members of a tribe or nation, rulers exacerbate grievances that exist between social groups. By doing so effectively, a military or political leader with only minority support can maintain control over a much larger group of people who refuse to work together. Julius Caesar used this strategy to conquer Gaul. The Ottoman Empire ruled over a great number of tribes using the same technique. The British Empire controlled the Indian subcontinent in much the same way. Turning potential enemies against one another enables an...

Reddit decided to ban all user-to-user sales and/or trades of firearms parts or accessories. The sale or trade of firearms was already banned on Reddit. This rule took effect on October 9th, 2025. The announcement also bans the subreddit r/RetroARMarket completely.No one on Reddit will be allowed to facilitate user-to-user transactions involving firearms parts and enhancements. Even specific instructions, such as those for 3D printing files to create such items, are prohibited.According to Wikipedia, Reddit was the seventh most visited website on the planet as of February 2025. Over 50% of the traffic comes from the United States, about 7...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(10/21/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleJob 38:8-108 “Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, 9 when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, 10 when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.________________________

When the election integrity laws are this bad, you almost wonder if it’s on purpose. In New Mexico, it’s almost impossible to prove voter fraud. No proof of citizenship is required to register to vote, and no voter ID is required for in-person voting. For absentee voting, no photo ID is required to obtain an absentee ballot, no copy of a photo ID need be included with the returned absentee ballot, and there is no signature verification of the signature on the returned inner envelope. Why does New Mexico have such slipshod laws? You can thank the Democrat-controlled state Legislature...