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The Maine Senate race has turned into a disaster for Democrats after more allegations, this time alleging rape, were dropped against Graham Platner yesterday afternoon. While Platner has not dropped out of the race yet and has not indicated what he plans to do, several prominent Democrats have withdrawn their endorsements and called on him to drop out. That means Democrats have to find someone to run against Republican incumbent Susan Collins. Governor Janet Mills dropped out of the race ages ago, not seeing a path to victory, so it's unclear if she'd return to try again. But there's a...

Ancient inscriptions written in Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke, have revealed a forgotten chapter of early Christianity's rise across the Roman Empire. Etched into stone, the text mentions both Jesus Christ and Mithras, the deity worshipped by a mysterious all-male religion once popular among Roman soldiers and merchants. The inscriptions were discovered at the entrance to an underground Mithras temple in southeastern Turkey, where researchers say it records the sanctuary's symbolic closure by early Christians around 1,700 years ago. Located at Zerzevan Castle, the remarkably preserved temple still contains four sacrificial hangers, a basin believed to have collected the blood...

President Trump on Sunday posted an image of former President Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti. It came months after another post by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash. The latest image shows the Obamas smiling and waving at the top of stairs alongside a baby blue and white presidential plane with graffiti painted on it that included the Democrat’s campaign slogan “Yes We Can,” “Obama” and “BLM,” short for Black Lives Matter. The...

Seth Rich (LinkedIn) The corrupt Deep State is crumbling, and the truth they desperately tried to burn is finally clawing its way to the light. Attorney Ty Clevenger, who has spent nearly a decade battling the FBI and DOJ for transparency in the Seth Rich case, revealed a stunning new development on X. Clevenger wrote: SETH RICH UPDATE: Today an attorney for the government told me that I would soon be getting confirmation that several hundred pages of documents related to Seth Rich were found in a previously-hidden room at FBI headquarters. You may recall that on July 30, 2025,...

A diner was shocked and appalled after allegedly getting calorie-shamed by a restaurant’s order screen, per a viral Reddit post. According to the thread, shared to the forum’s “Mildly Infuriating” forum, the customer had ordered three lamb skewers at an undisclosed “all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant.” This seemed standard enough, but when the patron went to check out digitally, they received an on-screen pop-up warning about their food intake. “For your own health concern, an average adult’s intake should not exceed 1,000 calories,” the advisory read. “Your current calorie intake is 2,000 calories. Are you sure you want to proceed?” In the...

The Presbyterian Church (USA), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, has passed a measure expressing support for body-deforming sex-change surgeries for youth exhibiting gender dysphoria. At a plenary session for the PCUSA's 227th General Assembly held last week, delegates voted 441-30 in favor of an overture called GEN-02, also known as “On Access to Healthcare.” The rationale for the overture describes so-called “gender-affirming care” as “medically necessary and evidence based for the well-being of many transgender, non-binary, and gender- expansive people who experience symptoms of gender dysphoria or distress that result from having one’s gender identity not match...

2023: “Twitter rebrand to X is destined to fail.” 2026: “Fastest-growing website among the top 20 in the world.” X in June 2026: → 4.399 billion visits → Up 4.66% from May → Fastest-growing website among the top 20 in the world → 3rd fastest-growing website among the top 50 in the world

DAPHNE, Ala. — Andrew Gillum, who lost to Ron DeSantis by an extremely slim margin in the 2018 Florida governor’s race and served as Tallahassee’s mayor from 2014-2018, was arrested last week in Alabama on drug charges, Local 10 News learned Tuesday. According to online jail records, the former politician was arrested Thursday night in Daphne, Alabama on charges of possession of dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. He has since been released from jail. Further details surrounding the 46-year-old’s arrest were not immediately released. Local 10 News has requested a copy of his arrest report from the...

Nigel Farage says he will resign as an MP for Clacton, triggering a by-election which he says he will stand in

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen will be able to run in France’s presidential election next year, though her involvement remained in doubt Tuesday after a Paris appeals court upheld her conviction for misusing European Union funds. The court shortened her ban on running for elected office, potentially reopening the path for her to run. However it ruled she must wear an electronic ankle tag for a year, making a campaign both logistically and politically difficult. Le Pen herself appeared to rule out a run if she was forced to wear a tag. “If I’m allowed to be a candidate but...

Looks like another “conspiracy theory” just came true again! To quote Yogi Berra it’s like “deja vu all over again” these days with conspiracy after conspiracy being proven 100% true. The latest is the Myth of Recycling, or as John Stossel put it: “the Green Religion” otherwise known as Gaia Worship. I’ve been telling people for years that Recycling is a scam. Recycling is “garbage”, no pun intended…. I have no doubt some people mean well by it, but it simply doesn’t work! Most of it does not end up actually getting recycled and the time, energy and “carbon dioxide”...

Nigel Farage has triggered a frenzy of speculation that he could quit as Reform UK leader. He posted on X that he would be making a statement at 2pm on Tuesday on his future in public life. The move stunned Westminster as Reform is still leading in the polls and Mr Farage has only recently been talking up the prospects of him being Prime Minister after his party’s success in the May local elections. But Mr Farage has faced a growing barrage of questions over financial support he has received.

Donald Trump's most vocal supporters are demanding that Mitch McConnell's office provide proof that the Kentucky lawmaker is still alive after he disappeared amid a three-week hospitalization. McConnell, 84, was admitted to a hospital on the morning of June 14 following a medical emergency at his Washington, DC home. Paramedics responded to a report of an unconscious person believed to have suffered a 'cardiac arrest,' with a medic reporting 'CPR in progress' at the address. The senator was not named on the call, and his office has never confirmed what sent him to the hospital, saying only that he is...

To the Americans: I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States. And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness: You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence. This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns. Success...

🚨 BREAKING: Tom Homan reveals a sudden SPIKE in ICE arrests of illegal aliens who are *NOT* criminals or "worst of the worst" "The numbers are about HALF AND HALF now." IT'S HAPPENING! 🔥🔥🔥 That means illegals who are TAKING American jobs, occupying American homes, and "laying low" trying not to get caught "I looked yesterday — just over half of everybody we're arresting is a criminal. About half are NOT CRIMINALS. EVERYBODY is on the table." "We prioritize public safety threats...bottom line is, EVERYBODY is on the table." Music to my ears! Because we didn't ONLY vote to deport...

This year’s primary season features the rapid ascent within the Democratic Party of the faction going by the name “Democratic Socialists of America.” Despite the gratuitous co-opting of the label “Democratic,” it is by no means clear that the DSA faction would continue open elections once they had achieved enough power to end them. Instead, the DSA adopts the hardest of hard-line socialist positions on every issue. I previously reported in my June 24 post that the DSA candidates in New York had accomplished nearly a clean sweep of all the Democratic Party congressional and state legislative primaries in which...

This video discusses the upcoming sentencing of Hannah C. Dugan, a former Wisconsin judge who was convicted for helping an illegal alien evade federal custody by allowing them to exit her courtroom through a back door (0:00-0:24). The video outlines the conflicting sentencing memorandums filed by the defense and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Defense Arguments for Leniency: Request for Time Served: Dugan's defense argues that she has already suffered significant consequences, including the loss of her judicial career and public humiliation (0:56-1:14, 5:58-6:10). Lack of Malice: The defense contends that her actions were an isolated, non-violent incident driven by...

Like many Democrats, I patiently wait for the party to find ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The upcoming 2026 midterms have instilled the same amount of dread in me as in previous elections. It seems that the Democrats love to hate President Trump, but they don't seem to offer any practical solutions on how they would do things better. It has been beaten to death that the rise of so-called democratic socialists is a result of Democrats' impotence. I don't have to remind you that the constant failures of Democrats in Washington has led to voters...

Liberal author and famed Maine writer Stephen King is rallying behind embattled Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner on Monday amid growing calls for him to drop out of the race. The political landscape was rocked Monday after a sexual assault allegation surfaced against Platner. Jenny Racicot, one of Platner's exes, claimed to Politico he drunkenly entered her home in 2021 and raped her. Platner denied the accusations. While Platner's future in the Maine Senate race hangs in the balance, the iconic creator of "The Shining" and "It" is hoping he doesn't throw in the towel. "Graham Platner may drop...

One author thinks she has found the answer. he Jews and the Left, Batya Ungar-Sargon’s latest book, takes readers through the long history of Jews in American political life, from George Washington’s praise for the Jews to FDR and the Civil Rights movement, concluding with the shock many Americans felt on October 7, when Hamas committed the 21st-century Holocaust that was not universally condemned. Batya noted, “I wrote the book because the question that I get asked, maybe the most, especially by Christians, conservatives, Republicans, is ‘why do the Jews vote for the Democrats, when the Democrats hate them, and...