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  • Wes Moore apologizes for ‘honest mistake’ in claiming a Bronze Star

    08/28/2025 10:02:15 AM PDT · by DFG · 145 replies
    The Hill ^ | 08/29/2025 | Cheyanne M. Daniels
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) has apologized for incorrectly stating on a White House application more than a decade ago that he was a Bronze Star recipient. Moore, a rising star in the Democratic Party, served in the Army Reserve between 1996 and 2014. He was deployed to Afghanistan in August 2005 through March 2006. Though he has won multiple awards for his service, including the National Defense Service Medal, he stated on a 2006 application for the White House Fellowship that his service won him the award of a Bronze Star. “For my work, the 82nd Airborne Division have...
  • Sanders: Scientists Say We Have ‘Eight or Nine Years’ Before Cities Are Underwater Due to Climate Change (from Democrat debate in 2019)

    08/24/2025 7:39:31 PM PDT · by lasereye · 55 replies
    Breitbart ^ | Nov. 20, 2019 | Ian Hanchett
    During Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that scientists are saying that “if we don’t get our act together within the next eight or nine years,” major cities will go underwater because of climate change. Sanders said, “We don’t have decades. What the scientists are telling us, if we don’t get our act together within the next eight or nine years, we’re talking about cities all over the world, major cities going underwater. We’re talking about increased drought. We’re talking about increased extreme weather disturbances. The United Nations is telling us that in...
  • WATCH: Failed politician Stacey Abrams says Trump is a "Grand Ayatollah" with "mystical power." - "Elections are not real."

    08/23/2025 5:18:32 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 31 replies
    WATCH: Failed politician Stacey Abrams says Trump is a "Grand Ayatollah" with "mystical power." "Elections are not real."
  • We Can Disagree on Trump’s Motives. But a Pattern Is Still Emerging.

    08/23/2025 5:37:58 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 84 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Aug. 23, 2025 | Tressie McMillan Cottom
    It’s not just you. It really is impossible to keep track of all the political news. But one thing is pretty reliable: When Donald Trump has a bad week, he will use social media to make a presidential announcement.Last week was one of those bad weeks. President Vladimir Putin of Russia landed in America as if he had V.I.P. tickets to a private Taylor Swift meet-and-greet. He made no concessions in Russia’s war on Ukraine, and Trump belatedly realized that he had been played. Plus, that Jeffrey Epstein thing just won’t go away.So, true to form, the president took to...
  • Jessica Tarlov Deletes Post Defending Criminal Illegal Alien After Intense Backlash

    08/21/2025 12:22:49 PM PDT · by Signalman · 51 replies
    Trending Politics ^ | 8/20/2025 | Cullen McCue
    New details have emerged on the viral arrest of a man who attempted to flee from a group of federal agents not far from the National Mall on Wednesday afternoon, prompting a deleted X post from Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov after she initially defended the suspect. Footage obtained by NBC Washington shows a group of federal agents and D.C. Metropolitan Police officers stopping a Hispanic man driving a blue SUV. Almost immediately after exiting the vehicle, the man attempted to flee and was subsequently tackled by one of the agents. As he was being restrained, the man yelled, in...
  • A look at those Trump has targeted in tactic of revoking security clearances

    08/20/2025 3:11:24 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 4:37 PM CDT, August 20, 2025 | Eric Tucker
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s announcement this week that it would rescind the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials was hardly an isolated act.In ordering the revocation of the clearances, President Donald Trump was turning to a favored retributive tactic that he’s wielded — or at least tried to — against high-profile political figures, lawyers and intelligence officials.The latest targets include officials who have served in the government across a range of agencies and positions, including on former President Joe Biden’s national security team and at the CIA and National Security Agency. It’s not entirely...
  • Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court. Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution.

    08/15/2025 9:36:55 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 36 replies
    NYT ^ | 08 14 2025 | Hosted by Ross Douthat
    After the great rebuke of 2024, many Democrats seem to think their party needs to become more moderate. But there’s another theory potent on the American left that believes Donald Trump’s election shows not just that American democracy is in danger, but that it doesn’t really work at all. What the country needs isn’t just a new policy agenda; it might need the kind of constitutional revolution — from adding new states, to packing the Supreme Court — that some Democrats already flirted with under Joe Biden. That’s the kind of argument that my guest today, Osita Nwanevu, makes in...
  • Time Magazine Publishes Obama-esque Puffball Piece on Radical Socialist Zohran Mamdani

    08/15/2025 4:46:45 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 24 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | 8/14/25 | Curtis Houck
    On Thursday morning, Time magazine released its latest cover dated September 8 with the lead story “The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani.” Predictably, the story by Mark Chiusano was as mind-numbingly stupid and weak-kneed as a profile of Barack Obama in the mid-2000s. Chiusano called him “very eloquent,” “fun,” and “more gifted than almost any of his peers,” and facing “adulation” plus “notoriety” in the face of “xenophobic death threats.” The fluff came out as thick as mud with Chiusano fawning right off the bat that “[i]t’s not easy to move around New York City as Zohran Mamdani anymore” and taking...
  • Schumer Roasted for Inventing Fake Long Island Couple He Based Entire Career On

    08/15/2025 4:47:40 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 44 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 14 Aug 2025 | Elizabeth Weibel
    Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was roasted on social media for creating a fictional Long Island couple called Joe and Eileen Bailey, whom he has based his entire political career on. During an episode of Last Week Tonight, British-born HBO talk show host John Oliver shared several clips of Schumer talking about the fictional couple, describing them as being “middle-class” and having “bought into Reagan Republicanism in 1980.” Schumer has explained that he has “guided” his political career “through the Baileys.” “They’re a middle-class couple in Massapequa, which is a suburb on Long Island,” Schumer said in one clip from an...
  • Maxine Waters says Trump is leading US to ‘civil war’

    08/13/2025 7:44:02 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 94 replies
    Washington Exaxminer via MSN ^ | 8/12/25 | Jenny Goldsberry
    Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said President Donald Trump is risking a “civil war” by not allowing Congress members to visit Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers. Waters visited the Metropolitan Detention Center and Department of Homeland Security Field Office in Los Angeles, California, on Monday with her colleagues, Reps. Brad Sherman (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), and Jimmy Gomez (D-CA).
  • Shades of 'Superpredators'! Cornish Hears Racist Dog Whistle In Trump Plan For DC

    08/11/2025 12:53:26 PM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 33 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Audie Cornish must have the keenest hearing in the liberal media. Sure, many liberals claim to hear supposedly racist Republican dog whistles. But Cornish can detect a dog whistle before it's even pronounced! Call it a double-secret dog whistle on probation! On today's CNN This Morning, in a segment on President Trump's plan to clean up Washington, D.C. and clamp down on crime there, Cornish said: "So we're back to this language, right? The no-go zones, the like, this is the worst place in the entire world. Yeah, talking about juveniles. I'm like, people are one beat away from saying...
  • NYT building vandalized after Gaza story correction issued ( no starvation)

    08/10/2025 4:50:23 AM PDT · by MarlonRando · 11 replies
    JnS ^ | 7-31-25 | Staff
    The graffiti appeared hours after The New York Times issued an editor’s note amending its July 24 article, “Gazans are dying of starvation.” Five days after publication, the Times acknowledged that its story referenced a Gazan boy, Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, suffering from severe malnutrition, but later learned from his doctor and medical records that the child also had pre-existing health conditions. The editor’s note underscored that the article had been updated to reflect these new details.
  • Democrat Jasmine Crockett responds to reported claims from her own staff that she is a "boss from hell," saying that people are "hating" on her because she's a young Black woman.

    08/08/2025 11:47:04 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 93 replies
    X.com ^ | 1:35 PM · Aug 8, 2025 | Libs of TikTok✓ @libsoftiktok
    So she's now calling her own staffers racist and sexist? LOL. The NYP is reporting that staffers for Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett are BLASTING her for being a "diva" who mistreats staff and is "focused almost exclusively on being an influencer" instead of being a member of congress. "She is laying around her apartment, won’t come into the office" “I don’t want to hear Jasmine Crockett talk about helping black women when she just fired one for no reason!” “The only person that she thinks about and cares about is herself." "She doesn’t care about the local issues happening in...
  • Trump critic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a no-show boss from hell who terrorizes staffers, aides say: ‘All diva, no wow’

    08/07/2025 11:22:30 AM PDT · by God luvs America · 70 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/7/2025 | Steven Nelson
    WASHINGTON — Rep. Jasmine Crockett has positioned herself as an unfiltered critic of President Trump, earning regular TV appearances and an enthusiastic online following, but congressional aides tell The Post that the Dallas Democrat is just as “rude” and mean to her own staff. The liberal loudmouth, 44, has rocketed to fame since taking office in January 2023 as a fiery antagonist of the Republican president and his allies. But three sources who have worked with or for Crockett say she’s rarely present when TV cameras aren’t rolling — and terrorizes staff when she does appear. Crockett is not often...
  • Texas Democrat Judge Derails Meeting With Bizarre Meltdown Over Failed Tax Hike

    08/08/2025 8:07:53 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | August 08, 2025 | Hailey Gomez
    Democrat Texas Judge Lina Hidalgo derailed a meeting Thursday at the Harris County Commissioners Court over a failed tax hike, encouraging children to descend on the courtroom to ask commissioners how they planned to vote. A tax increase proposal, supported by Hidalgo, was brought forward Thursday to fund certain child care and education training programs previously covered by COVID-era funding, according to Houston Public Media. During the meeting, Commissioner Tom Ramsey was seen in footage from KHOU11’s YouTube page saying he would vote no to put forward the proposal on the next ballot, casting doubt on the county’s budget being...
  • Colbert confronts JB Pritzker with map showing Illinois gerrymandering

    08/06/2025 8:38:38 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 30 replies
    Fox News ^ | August 6, 2025 | Hanna Panreck
    Late-night host Stephen Colbert confronted Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker with gerrymandered maps of Illinois congressional districts on Tuesday amid Texas Republicans' efforts to redraw the state's congressional map. "If you are considering doing a little more redrawing in Illinois, you already have some crazy districts in Illinois. Take a look at this. Look at [district] 17 here. It does that, then it comes up here, and it sneaks around there and goes all the way up here and then goes right over there like that," Colbert said as he gestured, describing the districts. "Is this common for all states...
  • Jasmine Crockett Attempts to Block Fellow Dem Lawmaker from Speaking at Press Conference: 'We Done!'

    08/06/2025 7:24:22 AM PDT · by DFG · 42 replies
    The Western Journal ^ | 08/05/2025 | Randy DeSoto
    U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from Texas, tried to block a member of the Texas House from closing out a news conference on Monday in Illinois, thinking she held the coveted final speaking slot. Crockett joined a group of Texas House lawmakers who had fled to Illinois over the weekend to block Republicans from voting on a congressional redistricting map. - snip - Crockett took to the podium at the Warrenville, Illinois, news conference on Monday by first announcing, “I will be your last and final speaker.” - snip - Crocket said her fellow congressional Democrats’ response to Republican...
  • Ukraine is now Trump’s war

    08/04/2025 7:19:24 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 87 replies
    CNN ^ | Mon August 4, 2025 | Nick Paton Walsh
    Vladimir Putin started it. Joe Biden didn’t stop it. But, no matter his efforts to the contrary, this is the week in which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine becomes US President Donald Trump’s war. The most powerful office in the world doesn’t always invite choices. Trump is mandated to address the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II because the United States was involved, under his predecessor, as Ukraine’s key ally and sponsor. Trump could have dropped the war entirely. But instead, he chose to impose the force of his personality, initially through the idea he could end it in...
  • Biden stops in Chicago again to blast Trump, praise Black legal pioneers at National Bar Association gala

    08/01/2025 6:16:28 AM PDT · by PBRCat · 45 replies
    The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 31, 2025 | Violet Miller
    In his second post-office visit in Chicago, former President Joe Biden stopped to accept an award from the National Bar Association, blasting President Donald Trump without ever saying his name to the crowd at the Hyatt Regency in the Loop Thursday evening. “Judges matter, courts matter, the law matters, and the constitution matters,” Biden said. “I think a lot of Americans are starting to realize that under this president. … Get ready folks, he’s just starting.” Biden Thursday decried the abduction of immigrants from their families and communities while highlighting attacks on civil rights and voter access. “There are moments...
  • I might lean left — but Marjorie Taylor Greene is winning my respect

    07/30/2025 5:22:28 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | July 30, 2025 2:08 PM EDT | Zaid Jilani
    I’m not a big fan of political labels. They invite people to put you in a box, and the only box I want to be in is one labeled “open-minded.” I don’t think anyone has a monopoly on the truth.But anyone who takes a look at my résumé — I worked at a top Democratic Party-aligned think tank and a left-leaning political action committee, where I helped Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats win elections — would acknowledge that over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time in the progressive movement.And yet, for the past week, the politician I find...