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Thomas Massie built his entire political brand around saying no. ... This is how Thomas Massie destroyed himself while trying to destroy Trump — and how Ed Gallrein ended his career in Congress.

Finally, someone has seen the light:Bolt CEO fires his entire HR team because they “created problems that didn’t exist”, and “those problems disappeared when I let them go”. Welcome to the party, pal.Ryan Breslow, the co-founder and chief executive of US fintech firm Bolt, said the department was scrapped as part of sweeping layoffs aimed at returning the struggling business to “start-up mode”.The 32-year-old added that HR professionals were more suited to “peacetime” conditions at larger companies rather than a start-up environment focused on rapid growth and efficiency.In his seminal work, Up The Organization, the late Robert Townsend had a...

The City of Seattle's LGBT Commission has asked socialist Mayor Katie Wilson to declare a state of emergency in response to what they call a "trans relocation crisis." The advisory group is seeking an increase in taxpayer-funded resources for its "mutual aid" groups, which were established to financially assist trans-identifying people relocating to Seattle from Republican-run states, following the passing of legislation prohibiting taxpayer-funded sex change services. A coalition of trans activist groups, including the Antifa-affiliated "Moto Hooligans," stated that they need more financial resources to assist the "tens of thousands" of transgender "refugees" who have allegedly moved to Seattle...

Just a few years ago, the nation rioted over a black career criminal’s drug overdose. We gave black America a second national holiday. American embassies flew Black Lives Matter flags all over the world. Democrats were all rushing to “study” reparations. Major corporations announced explicit racial quotas to ensure blacks got plum jobs. Rap was ubiquitous and black music was the only music allowed at the Super Bowl halftime show. But things changed. We’re living in an age where affirmative action is diminished, DEI is rolled back, and rap is no longer in the top 40. Blackness no longer has...

We just exposed another recent bioagent accident at one of Fauci’s most dangerous animal labs.And it’s the second accident we exposed at this NIH lab just this year!We uncovered documents revealing the NIH quietly admitted that an unspecified deadly pathogen was “released, lost, or stolen” from its Rocky Mountain Lab in Montana in February.In January, we broke the viral news about another NIH lab accident at RML that exposed a staffer to Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, a deadly foreign virus with a 40% fatality rate.Just last week, we released a shocking whistleblower letter that revealed the alleged details of that dangerous...

TRAIN VS. TRUCK: A train collided with a septic truck in Chesapeake, Virginia, leaving the driver miraculously alive and hospitalized for treatment.

The Enemedia heard a threat. But in fact, Xi may be realizing China’s best hope is détente: the map is closing in, America is awake, and the old bluff no longer works.Donald Trump had an exceptionally good China summit this week. Xi Jinping did too. He might even realize it. The Enemedia, of course, is filled with talk of Xi’s “Thucydides Trap” reference, and sees it as a threat. From my point of view, it appears they didn’t actually read Graham Allison’s book (but do reporters actually read books? Little evidence suggests they do). More on that in a minute.Trump...

EVERMAN, Texas — The human remains recovered this week during a multi-department excavation at a home in Everman have been positively identified as those of 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, the Tarrant County District Attorney confirmed Friday. This home in the 3400 block of Wisteria Lane has been searched before in connection with the disappearance of 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez Alvarez. Noel's mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, who is charged with capital murder, was found incompetent to stand trial last month. Noel was reported missing in March 2023, months after he was last seen alive in October 2022. At the time of his disappearance, investigators...

Those seeking exotic entertainment in Montreal during F1’s Canadian Grand Prix on Saturday are in for a rude awakening. The strippers of Montreal are planning a strike ahead of the race, which is also one of the busiest weekends of the year, as part of their bid to become salaried workers, the Montreal Gazette reports. Similar to exotic dancers in other parts of the world, strippers in Montreal make the majority of their money from tips. Now, the city’s strippers want not only a salary. But all the protections and benefits afforded to salaried employees in other parts of Canada....

On May 14, 2026, just months before we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the USA, the Associated Press floated the idea of gun control for the exact type black powder muskets that were used in the American Revolution. The AP used an X post to say, “A musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second.” They added, “Imagine what that can do to a human body. Yet under federal and most state laws, it’s exempt from gun regulations. Many antique or replica guns aren’t considered firearms and even convicted felons can...

A taxpayer-funded California university partnered with a United Nations agency to teach Mexican officials how to make their justice system LGBT-friendly, records obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. More than 220 Mexican judges, secretaries and officers in Mexico’s judicial branch participated in a virtual University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law course from October to November 2022 on upholding gay and transgender rights, according to materials received in a public records request and translated by the DCNF. The law school’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy provided the course in...

My observation after Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch finally respond to her barbs: “[S]he attacks [the majority Justices] integrity. She attacks their credibility. She attacks their good faith”Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has been issuing increasingly vitriolic solo dissents directed at the majority on the Supreme Court. The issue is not so much her simplistic and ideologically driven substance, but that she insults her colleagues. We have covered multiple prior instances: - Clarence Thomas Reading His Epic Takedown Of KBJ’s Affirmative Action Dissent Left Her “Visibly Angry” - SCOTUS Grants Trump Another Stay, KBJ Issues Another Fiery Solo Dissent, Drawing...

I want to tell you the story of a young woman who you have probably never heard of. Her name is Mary Anne. She was born on a remote island in Scotland, where life was harsh and unforgiving. On May 2, 1930, when she was 18 years old, she got on a boat headed for Ellis Island to start a new life. She arrived here 11 days later. She wasn't chasing fame, riches, or power. She came for the unique opportunity that America offered. Her sister was already here and had found a job as a maid. So, Mary Anne...

In an NYT interview, Santa David made a case that failed like a Colbert monologueMAGA Disposed of Stephen Colbert—with help of course from podcasts, Twitter and reruns of Friends, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, and Modern Family because if you are looking for late-night humor, you will not find it on the broadcast networks.But on cable, the Antenna channel shows reruns of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. So if you are looking for political humor from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, there’s that. Stephen Colbert’s show will end this month due to his B-2 ratings. They are nearly invisible....

California is taking center stage in American politics this week with a CNN gubernatorial debate on Tuesday night and a follow-up Los Angeles mayoral debate last night. The debates included candidates from both sides of the aisle, providing an excellent view into how well the political hopefuls hold up under scrutiny. For instance, in the gubernatorial debate, Tom Steyer announced that ICE is a criminal organization and that billionaires need to be taxed into leaving the state. (Yikes!) Katie Porter, on the other hand, made it clear that Californians 'deserve' to provide free health care for illegal alien criminals, while...

Massachusetts is more red than Tennessee is blue.Massachusetts has not had a Republican member of Congress in 30 years.If Massachusetts has 0 red districts, Tennessee should have 0 blue districts. Democrats are just mad that Republicans are finally doing the same thing they have been doing for years.

On May 1st, Viviana aka “Vivi” joined our family, and our hearts instantly exploded with love. 💕 She is perfect and healthy, and her big brother is joyfully adjusting to life with his new baby sister. We are enjoying every moment in our blissful newborn bubble. Thank you to everyone who reached out with prayers during my pregnancy - I truly felt them throughout the entire experience. God is Good.🙏

A French-owned container ship was “struck by an unknown projectile” in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, causing damage to the vessel and injuring crew members, the owner has confirmed. Container ship San Antonio was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday night while transiting the Strait of Hormuz eastward — out of the Gulf and towards India — triggering an evacuation operation to get crew injured in the attack to medical care. The ship, which is owned by French Marseille-headquartered maritime transport group Compagnie maritime d’affrètement – Compagnie générale maritime (Maritime Freighting Company – General Maritime Company, CMA CGM)...

“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty – come and join the Platner party!” is the collective refrain from Democrats (with rare exceptions) as they close ranks around the guy with the Nazi tattoo. Now that Governor Janet Mills has dropped out of the primary race, the opportunity for Graham Platner to be the Democrat candidate for United States Senate in Maine is all but assured, and Democrats are willingly spinning this news as “happy and gay.” Yes, yes, Graham Platner covered up his Totenkopf tattoo with a really shitty wolf-ish thing, but let’s all remember two things. First, he knew...