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California Governor Gavin Newsom, the man who presided over a mass exodus of businesses, rising homelessness, skyrocketing crime, and record-setting taxes, now says he’s “thinking about” taking his failed leadership nationwide. In a taped interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, Newsom admitted he’d “be lying” if he said he wasn’t considering a presidential run in 2028. The Democrat governor, who has spent more time preening for cameras than addressing California’s crises, told CBS’s Robert Costa that after the 2026 midterms, he’ll give a White House bid “serious thought.” “Yeah, I’d be lying otherwise,” Newsom said. “I’d just be lying. And...

As Maricopa County voters begin casting ballots in the off-year election, Supervisor Debbie Lesko is raising concerns about Proposition 409 — a $898 million bond proposal to fund major upgrades for Valleywise Health, the county’s public hospital system. “I’m not a fan of Prop. 409, the Valleywise Health ballot measure,” Lesko wrote on X. “This is a new tax in addition to their existing tax. If this passes, we’ll be paying for two Valleywise bonds on our property taxes.”

A German court ruled the Trump administration is “openly far-right” with “fascist tendencies” as German police raided several prominent conservative critics for alleged “Hate Speech” last week. Firing back, the US Embassy in Berlin warned of “censorship and oppression of political opponents in Germany”, which is “threatening to ban the opposition”. Notably, President Trump has yet to even nominate an Ambassador to Germany, a diplomatic slight usually reserved for antagonistic countries. A judge at Bonn Circuit Court described the Trump administration as “openly far-right extremist-populist” and claimed it had “fascist tendencies”, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported. The Circuit Court 13th Civil Chamber...

Explanation: Follow the handle of the Big Dipper away from the dipper's bowl until you get to the handle's last bright star. Then, just slide your telescope a little south and west and you might find this stunning pair of interacting galaxies, the 51st entry in Charles Messier famous catalog. Perhaps the original spiral nebula, the large galaxy with well defined spiral structure is also cataloged as NGC 5194. Its spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep in front of its companion galaxy (right), NGC 5195. The pair are about 31 million light-years distant and officially lie within the angular...

Demonstrations unfolded across the Bay Area on Thursday as activists mobilized against President Donald Trump’s threats of a federal immigration “surge.” Although Trump called off the surge in San Francisco after talking to local tech and political leaders, the rest of the Bay Area was left on edge, and many took to the streets to peacefully voice their dissent. At 5 p.m., about 300 people marched from Oakland’s Fruitvale district toward the intersection of Dennison Street and Embarcadero at Coast Guard Island, where federal agents from Customs and Border Protection were reportedly stationed for an “operation.” At the intersection, protesters...

The push to separate Alberta from the rest of Canada got a big boost this weekend. Thousands turned out for a rally in Edmonton to raise awareness of the movement and a referendum question that would ask citizens if Alberta should be a sovereign country. Sam Samson spoke with some who would vote yes and why.

Possible 2028 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg tore into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and gushed over socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. Buttigieg, who has previously praised Mamdani’s “extraordinary” campaign, stopped short of endorsing the far-left Democrat but commended his efforts to “bring people together.” “I don’t live in New York, but I think he has the capacity to be a great mayor,” Buttigieg exulted to CNN.

The Alberta legislature was awash in blue as thousands of Albertans attended the “I am Alberta” rally on Saturday afternoon to support Alberta sovereignty and independence. Initial estimates suggested around 5,000 attendees, although organizers were waiting on drone footage for further confirmation.Jeffrey Rath, General Counsel for the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), estimated over 10,000 attended, noting only 15 to 20 counter-protesters were present. Rath commended the Alberta sheriffs for their work.Rath stated that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s six months of attempting to work with the federal Liberals had failed, and it was time to embrace Alberta independence and “get on...

For over a century, everyone believed that The Devil's Checkmate (1831), the famous painting by Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, depicted the ultimate defeat of the human soul at the hands of the devil -- a dark scene with no apparent way out. But in 1888, chess champion Paul Morphy saw the painting... and noticed something no one else had. According to the story, he studied the board, analyzed the position of the pieces, and revealed that the young man wasn't lost after all -- he still had one move left. This discovery not only changed how we look at the...

A true mask off moment for Thomas Massie. Only $22,000 of the nearly 540k of individual donations came from within Kentucky. This guy has become everything that he claims to hate.

I want to ask my Christian friends a question: Just say you are attending a big Republican Christian conference with well-known people speaking in a major US City. The week before the event, you get an email telling you that when you are not actually in the event, you should not wear your credentials in the hotel or outside for security reasons. What would be your response?

Long before mass surveillance, social credit systems, and the algorithmic manipulation of truth became part of our daily lives, Russian writers were warning us. Not with data charts or manifestos—but with novels, plays, and poems that seemed to peer through the veil of their own turbulent times and glimpse something terrifyingly familiar: our present. ...They didn’t predict flying cars or space tourism. Instead, they foresaw how totalitarian regimes would manipulate language, how the human spirit could be engineered, and how the very idea of truth could be dismantled and rebuilt at the whim of the state. ...Yet, their work is...

We have more clarity regarding an interesting factoid from last weekend’s anti-Trump rallies that swept across the country and Democrats will not like hearing it. As the Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft previously reported, Democrats and Communists, or Communist Democrats, held “No Kings” rallies in cities around the country last weekend. The protests, organized by the progressive group Indivisible, took place in over 2,000 locations across the U.S. and even internationally, including cities like Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Kansas City, and Bozeman, as well as spots in Canada and Mexico. These rallies came as President Trump...

Two US House Republicans are pushing the federal justice department to investigate the path to citizenship of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate favored to win the 4 November election for New York City mayor. Congressman Randy Fine of Florida and Andy Ogles of Tennessee – both staunch proponents of Donald Trump’s presidential administration – have been leading the push, which has been condemned by Democratic officials and Muslim civil rights groups as “racist and anti-Muslim”. Fine in recent days demanded the federal government “review every naturalization of the past 30 years – starting with Mamdani”. Fine told the New York...

The Cuomo campaign threw up an AI generated political ad attacking his political opponent Zohran Mamdani, And it's both hilarious and frightening. Take a look: VIDEO AT LINK................. https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1981150231174746370 According to the New York Post, the usual motley crew of leftists showed up to scream "racism," despite the fact that the video is mostly a mix of The Sopranos and inebriated Golden Girls. Of course, the campaign quickly kowtowed to the vitriol and pulled the video. Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi denied the video was an ad in a statement swiping back at the attacks. ‘The video was a draft proposal...

As a poll shows that four out of five Britons want Sir Keir Starmer to officially strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom, and the clamour mounts for him to be chucked out of his 30 bedroom mansion Royal Lodge, it will be of some solace to Beatrice and Eugenie that at least their own titles aren’t going anywhere. As the phrase goes: ‘Born a princess, always a princess’. “I know Harry has been texting Uge a lot”, says a friend of Eugenie. “There are lots of jokes about them going to live as exiled royals together in Portugal”. This might...

California Democrat wants future presidential nominees to destroy $250M addition on day one -------------------------------------------- Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said the next Democratic presidential nominee must vow to demolish President Donald Trump's White House ballroom, proposing the pledge a litmus test for the party’s 2028 contenders. "Don’t even think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you pledge to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom on DAY ONE," Swalwell wrote on X on Saturday.

A Maryland high school student was handcuffed at gunpoint by cops after an artificial intelligence system confused his bag of Doritos for a firearm. Taki Allen, 16, was waiting to be picked up from football practice at Kenwood High School in Essex, Maryland, when he said police walked up to him with guns and demanded he get on the floor. 'At first, I didn't know where they [were] going until they started walking towards me with guns talking about "Get on the ground!"' he told WBAL. 'I was like, "What?"' Body camera footage obtained by WJZ showed police detaining Allen...

As great as I found director Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, nothing about its box office failure is surprising. And it is not only a failure; it is a shocking failure for box office analysts who projected an opening as high as $25 million with a $15 million worst case. Well, as of this morning, the groomers at the Disney Grooming Syndicate are wishing that worst-case scenario had come about, because Deliver Me from Nowhere is staring into the abyss of a pathetic $9 million weekend debut and a humiliating fourth-place finish. According to various reports, Nowhere cost...

Fox News Digital did something clever: It interviewed a psychotherapist about the predominance of older, educated white women at the recent No Kings protests. His answers made me laugh out loud, though there’s a very sad subtext to what he said, because the driving force behind these protesting women has negative ramifications for America as a whole. We already know that the No Kings protesters who donned foolish costumes and waved mean-spirited signs and Mexican and Palestinian flags represented a narrow subset of Americans: Old, white, and female, especially female. Axios’s data analysis showed what the typical attendees looked like...