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Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner abruptly canceled multiple town hall events as new damaging information is about to be released. Platner, the scandal-plagued Democrat with a Nazi tattoo, may drop out of the Senate race. Per The Maine Wire: Augusta town hall for last night – CANCELED Gorham town hall tonight – CANCELED Sanford town hall tonight – CANCELED Platner went into hiding last month as one scandal after another continued to rock his campaign. As Platner was hiding from the press, The New York Times dropped a nasty hit piece on him. The New York Times dropped a...

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner has postponed a string of events Sunday and Monday as rumors circulate among Maine Democrats and over social media about another potentially damaging story to come about the oyster farmer’s past.Platner postponed a planned town hall in Augusta on Sunday after reportedly missing a Fourth of July parade in Machias. The Gorham Democrats on Monday morning said a town hall set for Monday was postponed because Platner was “not feeling well.” And a Sanford town hall previously listed on Mobilize was later taken down.The Platner campaign did not immediately respond to a request for...

Massachusetts US District Judge Myong Joun struck down the Trump Administration's attempt to disallow public service workers from receiving debt relief for working with employers that are deemed to have a "substantial illegal purpose." The Judge said that "the Biden Administration classified student debtors working with organizations like USAID as eligible for debt forgiveness. Later evidence indicating that some of these employers were engaged in efforts to promote illegal immigration and terrorists cells cannot undo the promised debt relief. Trying to single out these activities for punitive action can be seen as an impermissible suppression of their right to freedom...

Many Washington state daycare providers receive large taxpayer subsidies, but an investigation by The Center Square found several that had few, if any, children and at least one establishment that received hundreds of thousands of dollars despite residents at the listed address indicating it was not a daycare. Yet politicians charged with overseeing the spending continue to publicly say there is no problem with improper payments to the daycares and, instead, have been criticizing journalists for investigating the potential fraud. No state official has announced an investigation or crackdown though the legislature instituted some reforms last session. The Center Square...

ransomnote: I put my notes on the video excerpts in itallicsRetard Finder@IfindRetards·14hThese retards a [redacted for Free Republic] insane.@Surge_Philly is doing big things in this space, I'm seeing his vids everywhere from other people. Might be worth a follow.ransomnote: a protestor harrasses him by repeatedly shrieking her demand ransomnote: the reporter is told not to interact with the group, get the mic out of the officer's face, that it's a permitted event and he must move to another side of the street. ransomnote: The reporter is told he will be arrested for 'pushing on' the officer (might mean continuing to...

4 faces. Which mountain face, which section of the country?

The prime minister and foreign secretary were involved in arguing for the kick-off time for England's World Cup match against Mexico not to be moved earlier - as mooted by Fifa in the days before the game. Sir Keir Starmer instructed officials to make the case, backed by the Football Association, that the match should remain in its original time slot, as first reported by the Sun newspaper. Yvette Cooper spoke to the British ambassador to Mexico, to ask that British diplomats made representations against a change, to ensure that the 3,000 travelling England fans didn't miss the match as...

After years of ignoring the world's most popular sport, Americans finally took a keen interest in soccer after discovering how much it can irritate Europeans. With social media flooded by outraged Europeans crying about having to play the U.S. team at its full strength, Americans were struck by a sudden epiphany. "So this is why people love soccer," said local man Brad Stephens, watching the Belgian coach cry like a baby. "All these years, I never understood it. Aw, look at those big crocodile tears! I just never knew how much rage and anguish we could put Europeans through with...

Former President Joe Biden ran as the steady moderate who would restore normalcy. In practice, his presidency became something stranger: a cognitively declining president whose White House staff, driven by "Trump derangement syndrome," used his office to reverse policies that were working and to impose measures that would have been considered extreme even during the 2016 election.

The ancient dispute over ownership of UNIX, and perhaps Linux too, has returned to court. Again.As The Register has explained many, many, times since this matter first went to court in 2003, the roots of the case are the 1998 alliance between IBM and a company called the Santa Cruz Operation which sold a version of UNIX for x86 CPUs. Those two companies, plus Intel and Sequent, created “Project Monterey” – an effort to create a unified version of UNIX that could run on multiple processors.By 2001, Project Monterey was close to delivering a unified UNIX, an achievement made possible...

Desirée Townsend@Cheering4ChangeSenator Mitch McConnell has now been hospitalized for three weeks. The gravity of this situation cannot be overstated, especially given that his wife, Elaine Chao, appeared in China just days after his hospitalization to meet with high-ranking Chinese officials. The question now is about national security: if Senator McConnell has been unable to independently perform his duties, what safeguards exist to ensure classified intelligence briefings, defense appropriations information, or other sensitive congressional matters could not be accessed, discussed, or shared by individuals operating behind the scenes? And given the timing of Chao’s meeting with China’s vice president, what exactly...

HAVANA, July ⁠6 (Reuters) - ⁠Cuba's national ⁠electric grid collapsed ​on Monday at ‌midday, the country's ‌grid ⁠operator ⁠said, leaving around 10 million ​people on the Caribbean island ​nation without power. Cuba has ⁠for months ⁠suffered ⁠from hours-long, ​and more recently, days-long ​power ⁠outages linked in part to an ⁠ailing grid and a U.S. imposed oil ⁠blockade that has cut off the island's fuel supply.

The VAR ref that ordered the still shot review of Balogun making contact with the opposition's ankle became a referee in Venezuela in the early 2000s. As The Athletic (NY Times) documented, Chavez had profound, politically driven influence over the Venezuelan Football Federation. The VAR referee that flagged Balogun for a still shot review, a violation of VAR protocol that resulted in a red card, became a ref in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. His name is Juan Ernesto Soto Arévalo.

Yo, Sly – Happy Birthday! Sylvester “Sly” Stallone, the actor who made a lovable losing boxer named Rocky Balboa into one of the most iconic screen characters of all time, is celebrating his 80th birthday on Monday. The actor, who has Ukrainian-Jewish heritage on his mother’s side but grew up Roman Catholic, embodied a hunky, unassuming, and very Italian appeal on-screen – it’s not for nothing that Rocky was called the “Italian Stallion.” Advertisement Stallone’s Rocky was known for the catchphrase, “Yo, Adrian!” that he shouted out to the woman he loved. Rocky, the story of a battered fighter who...

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An adorable centenarian couple are keeping their romance alive by sticking to a tradition of a McDonald's date once a week. Every Friday, 101-year-old John Carroll and his wife Jerry, 100, share breakfast at a Tennessee McDonald's. They are familiar faces at the Murfreesboro location near the corner of Compton Road and Memorial Boulevard. They catch up with friends over the same go-to breakfast meal. 'We have breakfast down here every Friday morning with our friends,' John, a World War II veteran, told News Channel 5. 'For breakfast we usually eat the egg McMuffin with sausage,' the veteran added. The...

The state of Texas has taken a decisive step that cuts through years of hesitation at other levels of government. Governor Greg Abbott’s November 2025 designation of the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations does more than send a signal. It recognizes a documented reality. Radical Islamism has constructed its most extensive and financially potent infrastructure in the United States inside Texas, concentrated in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston corridors. These networks, tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas financing precedents, Salafist, Deobandi, Khomeinist, and other supremacist currents, exercise disproportionate control over Islamic institutions, charities,...

Investigators believe that the veteran NYPD cop wounded during a chaotic confrontation with a gun-toting teen Sunday was struck by friendly fire, law-enforcement sources told The Post. Detective Robert Karroll was hit in the back by a slug — and only saved from potentially deadly injuries by his bulletproof vest — around 4:15 a.m. when a deranged 18-year-old ran up on an unmarked police car in Crown Heights, authorities have said. Karroll, a married dad of three who was just 10 days from retirement at the time, was in the vehicle along with three other officers — all of whom...

California lawmakers are advancing a new bill that would establish two Muslim holy days as state holidays while authorizing the state to develop a new model curriculum for students to "acknowledge and celebrate" these religious observances in the classroom. The bill, AB 2017, passed the State Assembly with a 64-1 vote and advanced to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. Authored by Assemblyman Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, the bill establishes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha — two major holidays celebrated by Muslims around the world — as official state holidays and allows local public school boards and community colleges the...

ABC’s “The View” declined a request from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to bring two democratic socialist congressional candidates onto the daytime talk show as the Disney-owned network grows increasingly wary of a high-stakes FCC investigation into its political guest bookings, according to a report. Representatives for Mamdani pitched “The View” on hosting the mayor alongside Democratic congressional candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, but the show indicated it couldn’t accommodate the two House hopefuls while proceeding cautiously amid the FCC’s ongoing equal-time inquiry, according to Semafor. The reported booking dispute comes as relations between “The View” and...