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Shares of Black Rifle Coffee, the veteran focused chain that's become a symbol of the far-right, jumped 30% in their first day of trading. Black Rifle Coffee (BRCC) - Get Black Rifle Coffee Report shares jumped 30% in their first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The Austin coffee-bar chain bills itself as a company founded "to support veterans, active duty military [and] first responders" and "to [connect] consumers with great coffee and a unique brand experience." Black Rifle is a unit of Authentic Brands, the closely held New York brand-management company. The company went public via...

The Black Rifle Coffee Company (BRCC) has been a rising star in the conservative constellation. It has been becoming a center for conservative networking and interaction. There appears to be an effort to stop the rise, at least at the New York Times. A recent New York Times (NYT) Magazine article (14 July) has painted the BRCC executives as, at minimum, moderates who despise their base but see them like sheep to be fleeced. Anything from the NYT is viewed with extreme suspicion by conservatives. There have been too many times where the NYT has lied, been slow or unwilling...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah-based coffee company says it will end its sponsorship of a Blaze Media podcast after the host shared a photo of Kyle Rittenhouse wearing a T-shirt with the company's logo, according to a report from The Salt Lake Tribune. Elijah Schaffer, a reporter at Blaze Media, tweeted a since-removed photo of the 17-year-old wearing a Black Rifle Coffee Company shirt with the caption, “Kyle Rittenhouse drinks the best coffee in America.” The teenager, accused of killing two people during protests in Wisconsin in August, was released Friday after supporters raised his $2 million bail.

05/09/2003 By KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON & DIANNE FEINSTEIN As the recent military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have illustrated, the Cold War concept that has guided the basing of the U.S. military overseas is obsolete. Yet the number, structure and scope of our overseas bases still are aligned largely for the threat of Soviet aggression. The process of when, how and why we base troops abroad is in need of a thorough examination to ensure that our basing structure is adequate for the new security environment. As the chairman and the ranking member of the Senate military construction subcommittee, we...