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  • Rob Reiner RIP. Here Is What He Believed.

    12/16/2025 8:11:02 AM PST · by brookwood · 70 replies
    Rolling Stone ^ | 2019-2024 | Various
    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rob-reiner-says-maga-scum-175908345.html “Now that America has elected a Convicted Felon with Authoritarian proclivities, I fear that Democracy’s return won’t be any time soon" Rob Reiner calls Trump supporters "MAGA scum" https://thatparkplace.com/rob-reiner-checks-himself-into-a-facility-over-trump-election/ Trump Derangement Syndrome is clear if you "check yourself into a facility" because you hate Trump https://deadline.com/2021/06/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-rob-reiner-tv-series-spy-and-the-asset-1234784437/ Reiner tries to make a film showing Trump Putin connection. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rob-reiner-archie-bunker-jumped-181552190.html Reiner is one of Trump's most outspoken critics - " "Meathead", an insult that Trump supporters have leveled at Reiner himself as he became one of Hollywood’s most outspoken critics of the former president on Twitter. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rob-reiner-trump-closing-plan-kill-americans Reiner says Trumps plan is...
  • ‘A Conspiracy Theorist for a Decade’: Trump’s Chief of Staff Gets Stunningly Candid in Blockbuster Vanity Fair Exposé

    12/16/2025 7:34:33 AM PST · by Miami Rebel · 110 replies
    Mediaite ^ | Decermber 16, 2025 | David Gilmour
    President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles offered a remarkably candid window into a presidency she described, repeatedly, as driven by impulse and a widening view of executive power, in a blockbuster Vanity Fair portrait built around months of exclusive on-the-record conversations. Wiles may be the most powerful figure in Trump’s West Wing besides Trump himself, but her role is exercised less as a brake than as a gearbox, translating the president’s instinct into policy, and urging everyone else to fall into line. “I’m not an enabler. I’m also not a bitch,” Wiles said. “I guess time will tell...
  • Trump Unapologetic About His Response to Rob Reiner’s Death: Pushed Russia Hoax and ‘Knew It was False’

    12/15/2025 4:03:32 PM PST · by Kazan · 150 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 15 Dec 2025 | Elizabeth Weibel
    President Donald Trump doubled down on a statement he issued on social media in response to actor-director Rob Reiner’s death, pointing out that he “wasn’t a fan of his at all.”While taking questions from the press on Monday, Trump was asked about a Truth Social post he made in which he stated Reiner had a “crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.” Trump’s post came after the news broke that Reiner — who directed The Princess Bride, and When Harry Met Sally, and his wife, Michele, were found dead inside their Brentwood home.“Mr. President, a number of Republicans have denounced...
  • Massie blasts Trump’s ‘disrespectful’ Reiner post: ‘I challenge anyone to defend it’

    12/15/2025 12:25:27 PM PST · by RandFan · 265 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/15/25 12:19 PM ET | by Lee Ann Anderson
    Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) slammed President Trump on Monday over the president’s remarks about the killings of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele. Reiner, a well-known Democratic donor and activist who had criticized Trump, and his wife were found dead in their home on Sunday in a suspected homicide. “Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid,” Massie wrote on the social platform X. “I...
  • Rand Paul says partisan gerrymandering 'might lead to violence in our country'

    12/15/2025 6:35:29 AM PST · by RandFan · 98 replies
    politico ^ | Dec 15 | By Jacob Wendler
    Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that partisan gerrymandering will “lead to more civil tension and possibly more violence in our country,” urging restraint in the ongoing redistricting wars playing out in more than a dozen states. “I think there is the potential that when people have no representation, that they feel disenfranchised, that it can lead, it might lead to violence in our country,” Paul said in an interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Paul’s warning comes as state lawmakers across the country consider redrawing congressional lines at the insistence of President Donald Trump, with Democratic-led...
  • Indiana governor says he’ll help primary Republicans who defied Trump on redistricting

    12/12/2025 7:13:47 AM PST · by Miami Rebel · 55 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/12/2025 | Ashleigh Fields
    Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (R ) on Thursday said he would help President Trump primary Republican state lawmakers who voted against a redistricting measure backed by the leader. “I am very disappointed that a small group of misguided State Senators have partnered with Democrats to reject this opportunity to protect Hoosiers with fair maps and to reject the leadership of President Trump. Ultimately, decisions like this carry political consequences,” Braun wrote in a post on the social platform X. ‘I will be working with the President to challenge these people who do not represent the best interests of Hoosiers,” he...
  • Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates

    12/12/2025 7:03:53 AM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 89 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 15 Nov 2025 | David Smith
    He grew up on a farm in Indiana, the son of a factory worker and eldest of five children. He studied at Liberty, a Christian university founded by the conservative pastor and televangelist Jerry Falwell, and recalls wearing a T-shirt expressing opposition to the Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Two decades later, Justin Douglas is running for the US Congress – as a Democrat. He is among about white 30 Christian clergy – pastors, seminary students and other faith leaders – known to be potential Democratic candidates in next year’s midterm elections, including a dozen who are already in the...
  • Trump’s ceasefire plan for the Israel-Hamas war faces pitfalls as it moves into new phase

    12/10/2025 6:48:29 AM PST · by mac_truck · 10 replies
    PBS ^ | 12/9/2025 | Josef Federman
    DOHA, Qatar (AP) — With the remains of one hostage still in Gaza, the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas is nearly complete, after a two-month process plagued by delays and finger-pointing. Now, the key players — including Israel, the Palestinian militant Hamas group, the United States and a diverse list of international parties — are to move to a far more complicated second phase that could reshape the Middle East. U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan — which was approved by the U.N. Security Council — lays out an ambitious vision for...
  • Israeli surveillance targets US and allies at joint base planning Gaza aid and security, say sources

    12/09/2025 4:46:03 AM PST · by mac_truck · 42 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 12/8/2026 | Emma Harrison
    Israeli operatives are conducting widespread surveillance of US forces and allies stationed at a new US base in the country’s south, according to sources briefed on disputes about open and covert recordings of meetings and discussions. The scale of intelligence gathering at the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) prompted the US commander of the base, Lt Gen Patrick Frank, to summon an Israeli counterpart for a meeting to tell him that “recording has to stop here”. Staff and visitors from other countries have also raised concerns about Israel recording inside the CMCC. Some have been told to avoid sharing sensitive information...
  • Former MAGA loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump policies are not America First

    12/08/2025 7:57:42 AM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 138 replies
    CBS News ^ | December 7, 2025 | Lesley Stahl, Aliza Chasan, Denise Schrier Cetta
    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who voted with President Trump 98% of the time before her relationship with him fractured, accused the president in a recent interview with 60 Minutes of forsaking his base. The Georgia representative has recently split with the president on a number of issues, including affordability and foreign affairs. She said she believes he's failed to keep domestic policy as his top priority. In her resignation video, Greene said the president has forsaken the MAGA base, specifically pointing to his support of the crypto and pharmaceutical industries. "Those are the areas that are still getting everything they...
  • THEY ALWAYS GO AFTER THE MIDDLE CLASS: AN EXAMPLE

    11/15/2025 5:09:54 AM PST · by Auntie Mame · 37 replies
    Toby Rogers Substack ^ | November 1, 2025 | Toby Rogers
    ... for the last 500 years, if you were a nation that wanted to get rich, the way you did it was you built a bunch of ships, you loaded them full of soldiers and guns and horses, and you sailed from Europe, to the New World, and you took their stuff. You took their gold, you enslaved their people, you forced people to work in the gold mines and that sort of thing. That’s how Europe got rich. That’s how the UK got rich. And so that’s the historical pattern for 500 years. 500 years of colonialism. And then...
  • Judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from Epstein investigation in Florida

    12/05/2025 10:44:34 AM PST · by CFW · 42 replies
    WBALTV ^ | 12/5/25 | ap
    A federal judge in Florida on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said a recently-passed federal law ordering the release of records related to the cases overrode a federal rule prohibiting the release of matters before a grand jury. This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
  • Belgium Is Becoming a Narco State

    12/03/2025 10:23:37 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies
    Hotair ^ | 12/03/2025 | David Strom
    Belgium? Really? Of all the places in the world you would not expect to be a cesspool of nearly open corruption, Belgium pretty much tops the list. But there it is. Belgium is basically a narco-state, a top Antwerp judge has warned.https://t.co/zH0fSm2mfR— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) October 27, 2025Like so many things that sound insane when you say them, the claim that Belgium is now more akin to Mexico than a land of peace and chocolates is easy to dismiss as the fever dream of a cranky conspiracy theorist than a reflection of reality. But, according to an Antwerp judge, who published...
  • EU tells Trump: You can’t pardon Putin for war crimes in Ukraine

    12/01/2025 3:56:51 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 60 replies
    Politico ^ | December 1, 2025 | Tim Ross
    Donald Trump’s drive to secure peace in Ukraine must not let Vladimir Putin off the hook for war crimes committed by Russian forces, a top EU official has warned, effectively setting a new red line for a deal. In an interview with POLITICO, Michael McGrath, the European commissioner for justice and democracy, said negotiators must ensure the push for a ceasefire does not result in Russia escaping prosecution. His comments reflect concerns widely held in European capitals that the original American blueprint for a deal included the promise of a “full amnesty for actions committed during the war,” alongside plans...
  • Senators vow oversight after report Hegseth told troops to ‘kill everybody’ in boat strike

    11/30/2025 2:35:14 AM PST · by RandFan · 144 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/29/25 11:25 AM ET | by Steff Danielle Thomas
    Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) issued a statement Saturday vowing to conduct “vigorous oversight” on Caribbean strikes after a report surfaced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military to “kill everybody” aboard an alleged drug vessel. “The Committee is aware of recent news reports — and the Department of Defense’s initial response — regarding alleged follow-on strikes on suspected narcotics vessels in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” the senators wrote in a joint statement. “The Committee has directed inquires to the Department, and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to...
  • A conservative media war erupts. Both sides hope Trump is in their corner

    11/30/2025 4:08:30 AM PST · by RandFan · 8 replies
    politico ^ | Nov 30 | By John Hendel
    The nation’s largest TV station owners want Carr’s Federal Communications Commission to loosen the rules that limit how many stations a single company can operate, a goal that many conservatives have been pressing for years. But they have a formidable opponent in Trump confidant Chris Ruddy, the majority owner of Newsmax Media, who wants to keep the rules in place and now appears to be making headway with the president. “NO EXPANSION OF THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS,” Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social, echoing Ruddy’s argument that removing the ownership cap would hurt conservatives. “If anything, make them SMALLER!” Since...
  • More than 220 judges have now rejected the Trump admin’s mass detention policy

    11/28/2025 6:18:58 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 84 replies
    Politico ^ | 11/28/2025 07:00 AM EST | Kyle Cheney
    The number has skyrocketed in recent weeks and includes at least 20 judges appointed by Trump himself.The Trump administration’s bid to systematically lock up nearly all immigrants facing deportation proceedings has led to a fierce — and mounting — rejection by courts across the country.That effort, which began with an abrupt policy change by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on July 8, has led to a tidal wave of emergency lawsuits after ICE’s targets were arrested at workplaces, courthouses or check-ins with immigration officers. Many have lived in the U.S. for years, and sometimes decades, without incident and have been pursuing...
  • House Republican Warns More “Explosive” Resignations Coming After MTG

    11/24/2025 11:29:32 AM PST · by dpetty121263 · 129 replies
    Yahoo news ^ | 11/24/2025 | Malcolm Ferguson
    This is a excerpt “More explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower,” the anonymous representative continued. “Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”
  • Trump faces rare rift with Florida Republicans over offshore drilling plan

    11/23/2025 10:51:01 PM PST · by MarlonRando · 37 replies
    The Hiill ^ | 11-23-25 | Rachel Frazen
    “Preserving our state’s natural beauty is deeply important to the millions who call the Sunshine State home, our visitors, and those whose livelihoods depend on tourism,” Moody wrote.
  • GOP senators warn Bondi not to slow-walk release of Epstein files

    11/20/2025 9:11:09 AM PST · by RandFan · 22 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/20/25 6:00 AM ET | by Alexander Bolton
    Republican senators are warning Attorney General Pam Bondi not to slow-walk the public release of records and documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following votes by the House and Senate demanding the documents. The calls come amid speculation that the Justice Department may cite ongoing investigations or other reasons to hold back material. Bondi said Wednesday that “new information” obtained by investigators had spurred the Justice Department to reverse its earlier decision to close investigations related to Epstein. Democrats are warning that new investigations into high-profile associates of Epstein, such as former President Clinton and former Treasury...