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  • Trump's Bizarre Exchange With A Female Supporter Has Everyone Asking What The Actual Hell Is Happening

    10/10/2025 10:34:49 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 35 replies
    Buzzfeed via Yahoo ^ | 10/9/25 | Lee Moran
    Critics cringed hard over what was slammed as a “creepy” exchange between President Donald Trump and a self-described recovering “Trump Derangement Syndrome” sufferer during a White House roundtable on Trump’s favorite boogeyman, Antifa, on Wednesday. Brandi Kruse, a conservative content creator from Seattle, told Trump she was “living proof that you can recover” from so-called “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which isn’t an official medical diagnosis but just a partisan insult that Trump fans often derogatorily hurl at critics of the president.
  • 'Stop Telling Me What to Do!': MAGA Supporter Crashes Out at Black Author Book Talk After Getting the Boot for Spewing Racist Insults

    10/09/2025 3:48:31 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 36 replies
    On May 21, Black author Dr. La’Tonya Rease Miles appeared at a book talk to promote her new memoir, “Smart Girl: A First-Gen Origin Story.” Attendees gathered at the quaint James M. Duncan Branch Library in Alexandria, Virginia, hoping to get their books signed and to hear Miles’ inspiring story of being the first in her family to attend and graduate from a four-year university. Instead, they got an earful from a belligerent Trump supporter who crashed the reading. “This is not Nazi Germany! I don’t need to do anything. Stop telling me what to do,” shouted the older white...
  • Can America Become a Democracy?

    10/05/2025 10:54:35 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 45 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | Sun, October 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM CDT | Patrick Iber
    Next year, the United States will observe the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. To begin a year of celebration, Donald Trump appeared at the Iowa State Fairground in early July. “We’ve saved our country,” he proclaimed to the crowd of supporters. Trump then announced a “giant patriotic festival” on the National Mall for next summer, and suggested an Ultimate Fighting Championship event could take place on White House grounds. UFC is one of the corporate sponsors of ­America250, the nonprofit organization that will be overseeing the country’s semiquincentennial celebration. Other sponsors represent different parts of Trump’s corporate coalition:...
  • After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump’s team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter

    09/24/2025 4:01:21 AM PDT · by blueplum · 38 replies
    AP ^ | 23 Sep 2025 | EDITH M. LEDERER
    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks at the United Nations on Tuesday to bemoan an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter, using the incidents to portray the global body as dysfunctional.... Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.... In recent months, U.N. offices in New York and Geneva have intermittently turned off elevators and escalators as part of steps to save money because of a “liquidity crisis” at the world body. That’s due in...
  • The Bougie Fallout of ICE’s Crackdown in DC

    09/20/2025 3:54:42 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    Politico.com ^ | 09/20/2025 02:00 PM EDT | Michael Schaffer
    It turns out that the services benefiting the well-to-do are most impacted by DC’s ICE crackdown.According to Yesim Sayin, who studies the city economy at the D.C. Policy Center think tank, this is all terrible news for the municipal economy, coming at a moment when federal job cuts have made the tax base ever more reliant on hospitality and real estate. “All these actions with ICE are like putting additional weight on something that’s about to break,” she said.But the identity of the most prolific consumers of the impacted industries is also likely to shape the politics around the immigration...
  • Make America Fashionable Again? Melania Trump’s UK banquet dress proves divisive

    09/20/2025 1:22:27 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 51 replies
    Euro News ^ | Sep 2025 | David Mouriquand
    Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were treated to all the pomp and pageantry during their unprecedented second state visit to the UK, and one fashion statement was not to everyone’s liking. >
  • House Republicans threaten to cancel anyone who disparages Charlie Kirk

    09/17/2025 2:26:02 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 24 replies
    Washington Post via MSN ^ | Sep 16, 2025 | Kadia Goba, Katie Tarrant
    Republicans in Congress are launching an aggressive campaign to punish individuals they accuse of posthumously smearing Charlie Kirk, threatening to bring them before lawmakers, defund entities that protect them and oust them from positions of power. They are also trying to castigate one of their own. On Monday evening, two House Republicans introduced resolutions to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) and remove her from her congressional committees for comments she made about the conservative influencer during an interview with liberal commentator Mehdi Hasan. During the interview, Omar expressed “empathy” for Kirk’s wife and children but also chastised those who “completely...
  • Trump Invokes Kirk’s Killing in Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents

    09/17/2025 2:23:15 AM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 38 replies
    https://www.nytimes.com ^ | Sept 17 2025 | Zolan Kanno-YoungsAndrew DuehrenKenneth P. Vogel and Katie Rogers
    President Trump has begun a major escalation in his long-running efforts to stifle political opposition in the United States, using the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to make the baseless argument that Democratic organizations and protesters are part of a violent conspiracy against conservative values and the American way of life.
  • Trump supporter slams Charlie Kirk fans for trying to cancel celebrating liberals: 'It's freedom of speech'

    09/15/2025 5:01:38 AM PDT · by C19fan · 128 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | September 15, 2025 | Victoria Churchill and James Gordon
    growing number of conservatives are voicing alarm over an aggressive campaign to track down and expose liberals who posted vile comments about slain activist Charlie Kirk. Their insensitive and cruel comments have raised an internal debate about whether the retaliation effort is morally justified or dangerously hypocritical. Among the loudest critics is conservative commentator Raquel Debono, who took to Instagram to question whether the right's efforts to get political opponents fired from their jobs are 'Christian' or even consistent with conservative values.
  • 'This shouldn’t even be a debate': Colorado students march against gun violence

    09/13/2025 6:02:04 PM PDT · by real saxophonist · 61 replies
    denver7 ^ | Sep 12, 2025 | Richard Butler
    'This shouldn’t even be a debate': Colorado students march against gun violence Denver7 was there when Jefferson County students walked out of class to demand more be done to stop gun violence in the wake of the Evergreen High School shooting By: Richard ButlerSep 12, 2025 WESTMINSTER, Colo. — Hundreds of students at Standley Lake High School walked out of class Friday afternoon, lining Wadsworth Boulevard with signs and chants calling for an end to gun violence. The demonstration comes just two days after two students were wounded in a shooting at Evergreen High School before the shooter turned the...
  • New Poll Shows Where Hypothetical Newsom-Vance Matchup Stands

    09/06/2025 8:04:44 AM PDT · by Signalman · 109 replies
    Trending Politics ^ | 9/05/2025 | Michael
    A new poll conducted by Leger360 between August 29 and 31, 2025, is causing controversy in the world of U.S. politics, as it projects that California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, is the frontrunner for the 2028 presidential election. The results of the survey, which were shared on social media, pitted Newsom against potential GOP candidates, including Vice President JD Vance, former President Donald Trump, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The California governor narrowly leads the president by a score of 48 percent to 44 percent, 47 percent to Vance’s 46 percent, and 49 percent to Rubio’s 44 percent....
  • Levi's Issues Warning Over 'Rising Anti-Americanism'

    09/03/2025 10:28:33 AM PDT · by BFW · 36 replies
    News Week ^ | Sep 03, 2025 | Hugh Cameron
    The iconic denim brand Levi Strauss has warned that growing international backlash against President Donald Trump could negatively affect its sales and those of other U.S. companies. In a recent filing with the United Kingdom's national business registry, the California-based company noted the risk of "rising anti-Americanism as a consequence of the Trump tariffs and governmental policies." Levi's warned that this could increasingly push consumers in the U.K. away from American goods and toward non-American alternatives.
  • Federal Judges Criticize Supreme Court for Overturning Decisions with Emergency Rulings

    09/04/2025 9:40:49 AM PDT · by FlipWilson · 48 replies
    FoxNews ^ | Anders Hagstrom
    A group of anonymous federal judges is criticizing the Supreme Court for overturning lower court rulings and siding with President Donald Trump's administration with little to no explanation, NBC News reported Thursday.
  • Rand Paul Slams Trump Administration Over Strike on Venezuelan Drug Boats: “Are We the World’s Policemen?”

    09/04/2025 7:15:40 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 119 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Jim Hoft
    Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has once again raised eyebrows by publicly questioning President Trump’s latest show of military force, this time over a Venezuelan drug vessel blown to pieces in the Caribbean. The Gateway Pundit reported in August that Trump ‘secretly’ signed a directive ordering the Pentagon to start using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels. The order provides an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels. This means that US troops could find themselves in countries like Mexico battling the Sinaloa Cartel, for example. As TGP readers...
  • Trump resignation chances surge before White House announcement—Polymarket

    09/02/2025 9:49:28 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 81 replies
    Newsweak ^ | September 2, 2025 | Brendan Cole
    The chances of Donald Trump resigning have spiked over the last day on a cryptocurrency-based prediction market following speculation about the U.S. president's health and absence from public engagements over the last week. Polymarket increased the chances of a presidential resignation after the Trump administration said there would be an Oval Office news conference at 2 p.m. ET Tuesday without specifying the reason for the event. However, later White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told Newsweek in a statement "the President will be making an exciting announcement related to the Department of Defense." The event follows days of speculation about Trump...
  • Democrats Are Reportedly Paying $8,000 A Month To Rent Fake Friends Online

    09/01/2025 3:33:23 PM PDT · by Twotone · 8 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | August 28, 2025 | Melissa O'Rourke
    A major liberal dark money group is reportedly paying Democratic social media influencers thousands of dollars a month to promote progressive messaging online, WIRED reported Wednesday. Influencers who participated in the program could receive up to $8,000 per month, according toWIRED. The program, run by Chorus, a nonprofit arm of the influencer marketing platform Good Influence, is funded by theSixteen Thirty Fund, a major Democrat-aligned dark money group. In June, dozens of Democratic influencers with a combined following of at least 13 million were contacted about the Chorus Creator Incubator Program, which was pitched as a way to “expand their...
  • ‘Dark money’ group paying pro-Dem influencers up to $8K a month: report

    08/28/2025 2:40:27 PM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 12 replies
    New York Post ^ | 8/28/2025 | Ariel Zilber
    A secretive dark money group tied to the Democratic Party is paying online influencers up to $8,000 a month to disseminate left-leaning talking points, according to a report. The “Chorus Creator Incubator Program” is said to be funded by the “Sixteen Thirty Fund,” a nonprofit sometimes portrayed as the left’s answer to the Koch network and which has funneled money to dozens of Democratic-friendly influencers, according to WIRED magazine. The names attached to the program span some of the most recognizable liberal voices online. They include Olivia Julianna, the Gen Z activist who spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention;...
  • Trump says US will accept 600,000 Chinese students as part of trade deal

    08/26/2025 4:10:05 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 18 replies
    The Washington Examiner ^ | August 25, 2025 | Naomi Lim
    President Donald Trump announced the United States is prepared to accept up to 600,000 Chinese students as part of a trade deal his administration is trying to strike with China. “We’re going to allow, it’s very important, 600,000 students,” Trump told reporters Monday at the White House. “We’re going to get along with China. But it’s a different relationship that we have now with China.” Trump made the announcement ahead of a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung after he was asked when he would sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
  • Trump to allow 600,000 Chinese students entry to US for college as trade talks with China press on.

    08/25/2025 11:59:17 PM PDT · by know.your.why · 73 replies
    NY Post ^ | 08/25/2025 | Caitlin McCormack
    President Trump said his administration will welcome more Chinese students than ever into the United States to enroll in higher education as trade talks press on with Beijing. Trump announced Monday that he plans to open the floodgates to another 600,000 Chinese college students, though it’s unclear when. There are currently around 270,000 Chinese students enrolled in US universities. “I hear so many stories that we’re not going to allow their students,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We’re going to allow their students to come in. It’s very important, 600,000 students. It’s very important. But we’re going to...
  • Trump says US will accept 600,000 Chinese students as part of trade deal

    08/25/2025 3:22:47 PM PDT · by hcmama · 194 replies
    The Washington Times via MSN ^ | August 25, 2025 | Naomi Lim
    President Donald Trump announced the United States is prepared to accept up to 600,000 Chinese students as part of a trade deal his administration is trying to strike with China."We're going to allow, it's very important, 600,000 students," Trump told reporters Monday at the White House. "We're going to get along with China. But it's a different relationship that we have now with China."