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It is absolutely incredible the way democrats, and in particular the AWFUL’s, are treating Platner vs. Kavanaugh. Brett Kavanaugh was a choir boy compared to the total scumbag Platner. The shameless and unconscionable difference is truly amazing to watch. I guess democrats have completely changed their minds on “toxic masculinity “.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday that they would ban ships linked to Israel from the Red Sea after Israel renewed its military attacks on Iran, adding to concerns about global shipping and energy flows.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday he had a "positive" conversation with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and praised what he called their readiness to work on a settlement of the Ukraine war in the coming weeks. "A very positive conversation," Zelensky said on the Telegram messaging app about the conversation during a stopover in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau. "Grateful for the readiness to work as actively as possible already in the weeks to come to give a boost to diplomacy for ending Russia's war against Ukraine," he wrote.

Karen Bass will escape being asked under oath about her actions leading up to The Palisades Fire at the trial of the man accused of starting the blaze which destroyed the beachfront enclave and killed 12. The trial against Uber driver Jonathan Rinderknecht started Monday with jury deliberations, where Judge Anne Hwang read out the witness list including dozens of names. But the embattled Los Angeles mayor, who it currently in a tight reelection fight, was not mentioned. Prosecutors claim Rinderknecht ignited the most expensive wildfire in US history, killing 12 people, torching thousands of homes and causing $150 billion...

Now that the race for U.S. Senate in Texas is solidified between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico, there are photos emerging of Talarico, who had famously declared his campaign to be "non-meat," now packing all kinds of meat into his mouth. End Wokeness is highlighting some of the images on X, stating: "James Talarico's team is now forcing him to eat meat in front of reporters "proving he's Texas tough." "He looks like he wants to puke."

Nithya Raman even LOST her own district (CD-4) to Spencer Pratt and Karan Bass, but you expect us to believe she beat them BOTH by winning 40% of the vote in the rest of the city by mail-in ballots?

MAZE repostedMAZE@mazemoore·Jun 72023. Immediately after her interview with Trump was broadcast, Kristen Welker "fact checked" Trump about his Jan 6th claim that the Mayor of DC had called for the National Guard and that they were turned away.Welker apparently forgot about her reporting from January 5th, 2021ransomnote: Welker's Jan 5, video clip contains her statement that the Mayor of D.C. had activated the National Guard as a precaution for Trump's Jan 6 event at the Capitol.

[Catholic Caucus] Schism or Showdown? A One-Scene Play~~ Prologue ~~Ahead of its threatened excommunication, the SSPX has responded with a “Declaration of Catholic Faith,” which, it says, “correspond(s) to the minimum indispensable to be in communion with the Church.” The Declaration is not a creed, but it lists twenty-two indispensable points of Faith.Without specifically identifying them, each of the twenty-two points of the Declaration refutes one of the many affronts to the Faith committed by the post-conciliar Church, including, for example:The Post-Synodal Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, on Holy Communion for couples in adulterous relationships.The Pan-Amazon Synod and its worship of Pachamama.The...

Americans have run their credit cards to the limit. Now they’ve turned to buy-now-pay-later plans to buy gas and groceries. This is yet more evidence that American consumers are broke, stressed, and buried in debt as inflation steals their purchasing power. Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platforms allow users to purchase items by paying several smaller installments (typically around 4) over time. Block operates the Afterpay BNPL platform. The system was originally set up to provide short-term financing for bigger purchases. But according to company data, usage is expanding into everyday spending categories. The average customer used Afterpay to purchase gas 3.6 times...

My most recent Martin Center column highlighted the irony, considering higher education’s formative influence on America’s prevailing anti-natalist culture, of the industry’s anxiety over declining birthrates. “Where,” I asked, “are large families less welcome, or where do they seem more culturally transgressive, than on American campuses?” I quoted briefly from Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by Catherine Pakaluk, who describes the book as “motivated by a single intuition: that if a phenomenon is sufficiently consequential, then its absence must also be consequential.” Current birth rates and their own responses to surveys suggest that one-in-three Gen Z...

ALBAWABA- Unconfirmed reports circulating on social media and in several regional media outlets claim that Ahmad Vahidi, commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed in recent Israeli airstrikes targeting sites in or around Tehran. On Sunday afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out an airstrike allegedly on a Hezbollah command centre in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut, following earlier rocket fire launched into northern Israel by Hezbollah. In response, Iran declared that Israel had “crossed all red lines” in Lebanon and launched multiple waves of ballistic missile strikes targeting Israeli territory late on Sunday, June 7...

Karmelo Anthony’s claims that he stabbed a Texas teen in self-defense may be falling apart after a witness called by his own lawyers changed their tune. Collin County prosecutors rested their case against the 19-year-old on Saturday after calling up 21 witnesses to testify about 17-year-old Austin Metcalf’s fatal stabbing at an April 2025 high school track meet, according to multiple reports covering the untelevised trial. Anthony was the aggressor throughout the deadly altercation, entering a school sports team’s tent where Metcalf was, cursing and taunting those who asked him to leave and killing Metcalf with a knife after Metcalf...

Israeli reserve soldiers conducting complex ground maneuvers in southern Lebanon discovered an unexpected handwritten letter left behind by local Christian residents. The note expressed deep gratitude to the troops for clearing their village of Hezbollah terrorists while pleading for the preservation of their homes. Soldiers from the 9260 Reserve Battalion, who are currently engaged in highly complex ground operations across the northern border, discovered a deeply moving personal letter inside a local residence. The note, which was handwritten in English on a small notepad and verified by independent journalists, reveals the highly intricate relationship between portions of the Lebanese civilian...

After years of being asked to leave gratuities everywhere from coffee shops and takeout counters to ride-share apps and self-service kiosks, many consumers say they have had enough - and are now tipping less than they did just a year ago. A new nationwide survey found that 78 percent of Americans believe tipping culture has become 'ridiculous,' while nearly half say they have actively cut back on gratuities in 2026 as household budgets come under increasing pressure. The findings, from restaurant technology company Popmenu, suggest a growing backlash against what many consumers see as relentless requests for extra money on...

"Bass has a real race on her hands, if in fact Raman is the one who advances," he said. "And the Democratic establishment is backing Karen Bass. But versus Spencer Pratt, she was crushing him. She wanted to face Pratt. She wanted nothing to do with Raman. That's why these conspiracy theories simply make no sense, people."

Roseanne Milburn, 61, of Winnipeg, had a routine procedure turn into an amputation — not because the surgery failed, but because Canada’s government-run system couldn’t find her a bed. A surgeon at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre removed dead tissue from her knee, then sent her to Concordia Hospital with the plan to bring her back that same day so a specialist could stitch the wound (CBC News). She was never brought back. There was no bed at HSC. So she sat at Concordia with an 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬, waiting for the system to make room. As the...

According to Graham Platner, everybody in his life knew he had a Nazi tattoo… except him. And it’s their fault for not telling him. That’s his story. I guess he didn’t have time to come up with a better one. Even for a Democrat, this guy is full of $#!+. He makes Obama look like George Washington. So, yes, when Graham Platner calls Lyndsey Fifield a liar, he’s lying. That’s what Nazis do. Adolf Hitler himself called it the Big Lie. The more brazen and audacious the falsehood, the more likely people are to believe it. Because who would have...

Rosie O’Donnell will not go under the knife again. At Sunday’s Tony Awards 2026, the former talk show host was asked whether she plans to have any more cosmetic work done after fessing up to getting a facelift. “No, I don’t think so,” she told E! News on the red carpet. O’Donnell, 64, told the outlet that she decided to go public with her plastic surgery because she wanted to be genuine. Last month, O’Donnell shared before-and-after photos of her transformation, saying that she felt “shameful” about the surgery because of how much she spent on it.

This video from Black Conservative Perspective addresses the negative reactions from critics, including Stephen A. Smith, regarding former President Donald Trump's planned attendance at an NBA Finals game in New York City (1:47 - 2:03). Key takeaways from the video include: Political Polarization: The host argues that the backlash against Trump attending the game is motivated by bias rather than logistics, noting that other presidents have attended major sporting events in the past without such controversy (7:10 - 7:46). The "Jinx" Narrative: The host critiques the narrative that Trump's presence would serve as "bad luck" or a "jinx" for the...

A week ago, former 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley arrived for a meeting with his new boss, Nick Bilton, on the CBS News show at which they both work. Pelley took this as an opportunity to lecture and browbeat Bilton. In the meeting, which was recorded and leaked to the press, Pelley publicly accused those whom he works for as lacking credentials as journalists. Singling Bilton out, Pelley said that he had "slender qualifications" for the job of producing 60 Minutes. Necessarily, CBS fired Pelley the next day. In his posture against Bilton, Pelley portrayed himself as possessing the journalistic...