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New York State’s fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31, and thus there is a mandate that the budget for each year must be approved before April Fool’s Day. This year they blew right by that deadline. But today, 8+ weeks late, it appears that a new budget has been enacted for what they call “fiscal year” 2027, that is, April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027. Among several contentious issues that held up enactment of this year’s budget, probably the most contentious involved the provisions relating to energy and “climate.” Our climate law, the Climate Leadership and...

@LeeAndersonMP_ Wanted !! Skilled Vape Shop Workers - From Abroad Dear Secretary of State, Re: Skilled Worker visa route I am writing to you following reports that vape retailers are currently holding and potentially exploiting licenses to sponsor overseas workers through the Skilled Worker visa route. According to these recent reports, almost 80 different vape companies across the country are listed on the Home Office’s public register of licensed sponsors for worker and temporary worker immigration routes. Meanwhile, over 90 newsagents and 100 barbershops are listed. Many more businesses are also free to hire from overseas. In the last five...

Nvidia launched the RTX Spark chip in Taiwan, bringing AI capabilities directly into laptops and desktops. The chip, developed with Microsoft, is aimed at transforming how users interact with AI by running agents locally rather than through the cloud. Nvidia launches PC chip to bring AI directly to PCs | 1:37 Reuters | 4.21M subscribers | 1,667 views | June 1, 2026

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(6/1/26)[Prayer]PersonalitiesJudges 6:1-10 6 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; 4 And they encamped against...

Proposal to ban hunting, fishing in Oregon met with backlash Anthony Broadman, Oregon state senator, joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss why the proposal has been met with scrutiny and the possible legal challenges surrounding the measure. A controversial Oregon initiative seeking to ban hunting and fishing advances, drawing criticism from Democratic State Senator Anthony Broadman who highlights economic harm and conservation concerns. The proposal, part of a new animal cruelty law, has surpassed 120,000 signatures.

Sapping the will of Americans to remain dominant in world affairs will inevitably lead to a torpor at home, breeding depression and mass failure. Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated on May 29, “We gain concessions not through dialogue, but with missiles…. The winner of any agreement is whoever is better prepared for war the day after it.” This is not a new insight but a cold historical truth about the conduct of diplomacy between adversaries. As Prussia’s Frederick the Great put it some three centuries ago, “Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without instruments.” On the surface,...

Chad Bianco is a good sheriff and, by most honest measures, a good man. He stared down Gavin Newsom’s lockdown regime when it took real courage to do so, and he built a following on the strength of that conviction. None of that is in dispute here. What is in dispute is arithmetic, and arithmetic does not care how brave you are. The Riverside County sheriff cannot become governor of California. The polling has been consistent across every reputable survey for months, and it has only hardened as the June primary closes in. The final Emerson College survey, conducted May...

The police source said they “got fed and we didn’t”.The Australian government made the decision to import ISIS people, described as ‘brides’ of ISIS terrorists, to Australia at the urging of some figures in our government with links to the Turkish Islamist regime. (I wrote about this insanity last year.)And PM Anthony Albanese (above), who never met an Islamic terrorist he wouldn’t pander to, is giving them the best possible treatment. Speaking on claims the ISIS-linked cohort were fed pizza, the police source said they “got fed and we didn’t”.The terrorists always come first. A federal government source, who spoke...

The United States bombed Iranian radar and drone control sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American MQ-1 Predator drone this weekend, the American military said Monday. Iran acknowledged launching a retaliatory strike, while Kuwait said it was intercepting incoming drone and missile fire. Israeli troops patrol at the 900-year-old Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon. Israel said Sunday it had captured the hilltop castle, which provides a commanding view of southern Lebanon and northern Israel. Israel has been rapidly expanding its offensive in Lebanon in recent days. The dueling attacks reflect the fragility of a weekslong ceasefire in the...

“How’m I doing?” Don’t ask! Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to remove the name of his predecessor Ed Koch from the 59th Street Bridge — a stance some critics say is a bridge too far. The democratic socialist mayor, Council Speaker Julie Menin were just a few of the politicians who told an LGBT group that they’d be in favor of canceling Koch from the bridge, also called the Queensboro Bridge, over his alleged mishandling of the 1980s AIDS crisis, The Post has learned. “Yes, I support renaming,” Mamdani said on the campaign trail last year on a questionnaire sent by...

A total of 219 people have been injured in clashes between football fans and police across France after Paris St-Germain (PSG) won the Champions League final against Arsenal. Thousands of officers were deployed(6,000) to curb unrest that disrupted bus, train and rail services in the capital in Paris during Sunday's victory celebrations, which began at the Eiffel Tower. Fifty-seven Police were injured.

"Prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves" (James 1:22). God wants you to know whether your faith is genuine or not. Our studies this month center on James 1:19-2:26, which deals with the issue of true faith—a most important consideration indeed. Knowing your faith is genuine is a wonderful assurance, but thinking you're saved when you're not is the most frightening deception imaginable. In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus speaks of those who call Him Lord and even do miracles in His name, but aren't redeemed. Second Timothy 3:5 speaks of those who have a form...

A video shows protesters throwing cement bricks at cops on Saturday during the “No Kings” rally in Los Angeles. The video — shared by Andy Ngo, a conservative media influencer — shows two men wearing masks, one of whom was carrying the flag of Mexico, breaking a large cement pole into smaller pieces and hurling it at LAPD officers who were controlling the crowd in front of the detention center near the federal building. The unrest in Los Angeles was part of a series of nationwide demonstrations. The LAPD issued a citywide tactical alert at 5 p.m. due to “incidents...

In an interview with Handelsblatt, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel dismissed criticism and concerns surrounding the digital euro. The possibility that the project could ultimately evolve into a form of capital control appears to play virtually no role either in banking circles or in government-aligned media. The digital euro ranks among the most ambitious projects within the political architecture of the European Union. As the Eurosystem and the EU increasingly merge into identical and integrated political spaces, it can no longer be denied that this CBDC project is primarily a geopolitical power play by Brussels. Yet the euro-CBDC -- shorthand for...

President Trump is throwing his weight behind an effort to block state restrictions on prediction markets, as federal and state regulators vie for authority over the platforms in a legal dispute that has divided the GOP. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has brought cases against more than half a dozen states over their efforts to rein in prediction markets since April, arguing it has exclusive jurisdiction to regulate the sites. But many Republicans, particularly at the state level, aren’t on board with this approach. Trump argued Tuesday it is “critically important” for the CFTC to have exclusive authority over...

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HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD: Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS. Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to...

Nancy Pelosi has taken the gloves off in the increasingly vicious race to succeed her nearly 40-year reign representing San Francisco in Congress. The 86-year-old took aim at Democrat Saikat Chakrabarti, a tech millionaire and former Alexandria Ocasio Cortez staffer, saying she’d never even met him during a withering radio interview in which she also took shots at a local newspaper, the San Francisco Democratic Party and even the journalist interviewing her. Pelosi has endorsed Connie Chan, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. “I’ve never seen him at a homeless shelter, or a food bank, or an...

A Washington school superintendent accused of helping cover up several sexual assault allegations at a high school was recorded on body camera as officers led her out of district headquarters in handcuffs and shoved her into a police cruiser. New footage released Friday shows Longview Public Schools Superintendent Karen Cloninger being arrested at district offices following a months long investigation. Investigators alleged she tried to conceal reports of sexual assaults involving Mark Morris High School basketball players in a locker room. The investigation previously led to several players being arrested on rape charges back in February, according to KLOG 100.7....

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