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  • Sen. Van Hollen of Maryland denied access to Gaza City

    08/31/2025 11:52:53 AM PDT · by RandFan · 25 replies
    X ^ | Aug 31 | Sen. Van Hollen
    @ChrisVanHollen Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @SenJeffMerkley & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.
  • Trump faces MAGA backlash for saying he’ll let 600,000 Chinese students into US

    08/26/2025 2:14:08 PM PDT · by RandFan · 114 replies
    The Hill ^ | 08/26/25 9:54 AM ET | by Brett Samuels
    President Trump is facing outcry from some of his supporters after saying he plans to allow 600,000 students from China into the U.S. “It’s a very important relationship. We’re going to get along good with China,” Trump told reporters Monday during a meeting with the president of South Korea. “I hear so many stories about, ‘We’re not going to allow their students,’” he continued. “We’re going to allow their students to come in. We’re going to allow it. It’s very important — 600,000 students. It’s very important.” Trump’s comments marked a shift from earlier in the year, when Secretary of...
  • Rand Paul: Happy 90th birthday, Dad!

    08/20/2025 2:17:17 PM PDT · by RandFan · 16 replies
    X ^ | Aug 20 | Sen. Rand Paul
    @RandPaul Happy 90th birthday, Dad! No one deserves more credit for curing young people's apathy and igniting the liberty movement. It's because of your bravery and fierce defense of our rights that the next generation carries on the torch of liberty.
  • Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2

    08/17/2025 3:12:58 PM PDT · by RandFan · 75 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Aug 17 | The Guardian
    An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany. ... “Trillions of pounds of British taxes have been spent in foreign lands in the pursuit of ‘democracy’, ‘human rights’ and ‘doing what is right’,” the post said. “More than a million British lives have been lost since WW1 in wars and battles that have never once been fought by British men, on this island.” Fighting in both the world wars...
  • Trump foe Thomas Massie wins over MAGA allies with his push for Epstein files

    08/14/2025 1:52:29 AM PDT · by RandFan · 32 replies
    NBC News ^ | By Scott Wong and Sahil Kapur
    .... Massie also has an ally in Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a fellow self-described libertarian who describes Massie as a good friend. “I’m a big supporter of his, and vice versa. I’m planning a 10-city tour with him in September to support him, and we will do what it takes. We both represent sort of the liberty wing of the Republican Party,” Paul said. “We want to make sure that we don’t allow anybody to come in and try to defeat him.” Paul is the only GOP senator who voted against Trump’s megabill because of debt concerns, but, unlike Massie,...
  • Neo-CONNED speech by Ron Paul

    08/14/2025 5:18:08 AM PDT · by RandFan · 12 replies
    YouTube ^ | July 2003 | Ron Paul
    Neo-CONNED is a speech Ron Paul gave on the House floor July 10, 2003.
  • Trump Nemesis Is Bringing Epstein Victims to Capitol to Push for Files Release

    08/12/2025 8:45:48 AM PDT · by RandFan · 46 replies
    MSN / The Daily Beast ^ | Aug 12 | Ewan Palmer
    A rebel Republican congressman has invited multiple victims of Jeffrey Epstein to a press conference at the U.S. Capitol as part of a bipartisan push to force the release of legal files linked to the late pedophile. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a thorn in Donald Trump’s side for his frequent objections to the president’s spending bills and foreign policies, said that he and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna will be co-hosting the Sept. 3 conference. The event will feature survivors of abuse by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, several of whom “will be speaking out for the first time,”...
  • Ron Paul: Cold War 2.0 Heats Up

    08/05/2025 8:12:41 AM PDT · by RandFan · 16 replies
    Ron Paul institute ^ | Aug 5 | Ron Paul
    Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the US and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962. Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in Cuba led to the greatest crisis of the Cold War. The United States and its president, John F. Kennedy, could not tolerate such weapons placed by a hostile power on its doorstep and the world only knew years later how close we were to nuclear war. Thankfully both Khrushchev and Kennedy backed down – with the Soviet leader removing the missiles from Cuba and...
  • (Marxian) professor: "The American empire is over. We're done ... "

    08/04/2025 2:25:32 AM PDT · by RandFan · 55 replies
    X ^ | Aug 4 | Richard D. Wolff
    @NuryVittachi "The American empire is over," Richard D. Wolff, U.S. professor of international affairs, tells Al Jazeera. Already the biggest economic power on the planet is not the US and its allies, but China and the BRICS. But no U.S. politician dares to tell the people: "It's over."
  • Ron Paul Was My Pat Buchanan

    08/04/2025 3:47:23 AM PDT · by RandFan · 10 replies
    The American Conservative ^ | Aug 4 | Jack Hunter
    Ron Paul is turning 90 this month. One of the most influential political figures of his time, Paul has meant many things to many people. Here’s at least a part of what he’s meant to me. When I was 20 years old, I supported Pat Buchanan for president. A southerner living in Boston, I was there for his 1996 Lexington battlefield campaign rally where Buchanan jeered at student protesters. “Come on, children, stop it or I’ll take away your Pell grants.” It was also exciting to see Buchanan on the covers of TIME and Newsweek, and to be living next...
  • Ghislaine Maxwell moved to women's prison in Texas

    08/01/2025 11:20:09 PM PDT · by RandFan · 26 replies
    BBC ^ | Aug 1 | BBC
    Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved from a Florida prison to a new minimum-security facility in Texas, authorities have confirmed. The move comes as Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, has pressed the Supreme Court to overturn her conviction while also seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump. Earlier in July, Maxwell held two meetings with the Deputy US Attorney General, the details of which have not been made public. Maxwell has been at the centre of controversy surrounding the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files, and the...
  • Thomas Massie: Billionaires from New York and Las Vegas trying to unseat me

    08/01/2025 4:06:26 PM PDT · by RandFan · 43 replies
    X ^ | Aug 1 | Rep. Thomas Massie
    @RepThomasMassie Three billionaires from New York City and Las Vegas have funded a superPAC deceptively named Kentucky MAGA to run millions of dollars of negative ads against me because I vote against foreign aid for Israel and needless wars in the Middle East. Kentuckians aren’t falling for it.
  • Trump trains his fire on GOP allies, and worries Republicans

    08/01/2025 2:59:54 PM PDT · by RandFan · 20 replies
    The HIll ^ | 08/01/25 6:00 AM ET | by Al Weaver
    President Trump is increasingly directing his frustrations at specific Senate Republicans, including turning his fire on key allies in recent days. The president this week publicly excoriated Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) over upholding the “blue slip” tradition and pushing a congressional stock trading ban, respectively. While Trump has long had a tendency of airing his grievances out in public — especially toward those he views as disloyal — the latest barbs about staunch backers are raising eyebrows and drawing questions about whether the strategy will continue to be effective in advancing his agenda. “I don’t think...
  • Trump tirade against Grassley irritates Republican senators

    07/31/2025 1:34:54 PM PDT · by RandFan · 83 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/31/25 6:00 AM ET | by Alexander Bolton
    Republican senators were appalled by President Trump’s rough treatment of 91-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the Senate’s most senior Republican, on social media and are pushing back on Trump’s attempts to squeeze the senator into abolishing an arcane procedure known as the Senate blue slip. GOP senators were not pleased that Trump piled so much pressure on Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to get rid of a long-established Senate tradition. Trump piled on by reposting on Truth Social posts accusing Grassley of being a “RINO” and “sneaky” and standing in the way of Trump’s agenda. Sen. Thom...
  • Cassidy, who defied Trump, aims to win with increasingly conservative base

    07/30/2025 1:01:42 PM PDT · by RandFan · 41 replies
    Roll Call ^ | July 30 | By Lia DeGroot
    Bill Cassidy is playing a gambit. The Republican doctor from Louisiana appears ready to fight for his Senate seat next year, a race complicated by his checkered history with President Donald Trump and a new primary system that could make reelection more difficult. His main hurdle? Convincing his Louisiana base that he’s gotten behind Trump’s agenda, despite his vote to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial. His GOP challengers have already seized on that vote, pitching themselves as better Trump loyalists. The gambit is that voters will be swayed by Cassidy’s late turn toward Trump, including support this year...
  • Massie exposes foreign aid in DOD appropriations bill: "A misappropriation of military funds"

    07/18/2025 10:32:27 AM PDT · by RandFan · 18 replies
    X ^ | July 18 | Thomas Massie
    @RepThomasMassie 🧵 Foreign aid in DOD approps bill: $300 mil Syria & Iraq military $118 mil overseas disasters $15 mil AIDS in Africa $500 mil Israel $350 mil Kuwait $1.27 bil foreign security $500 mil Taiwan $500 mil Jordan $267 mil reimburse countries
  • Trump Threatens to Deport Elon Musk by Using DOGE: ‘DOGE Is the Monster’ That Might ‘Eat Elon!’

    07/01/2025 9:22:16 PM PDT · by RandFan · 83 replies
    mediaite ^ | July 1 | Joe DePaolo
    President Donald Trump indicated Tuesday morning that he is open to deporting Elon Musk — amid his renewed battle with the Tesla boss. Speaking with reporters ahead of a flight to Florida on Tuesday, the president was asked about whether he would consider deporting the South African mogul. “We’ll have to take a look,” Trump said. “We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon! Wouldn’t that be terrible?” After a brief detente between the president and his former DOGE lieutenant, the war...
  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene: My thoughts on bombing Iran ("I'm sick of it", "Enough is enough")

    06/23/2025 2:01:03 AM PDT · by RandFan · 235 replies
    X ^ | June 23 | MTG
    @RepMTG My thoughts on bombing Iran. I don’t know anyone in America who has been the victim of a crime or killed by Iran, but I know many people who have been victims of crime committed by criminal illegal aliens or MURDERED by Cartel and Chinese fentanyl/drugs. Almost everyone in our country can relate to this fact. However America has not dropped bunker busters on the Cartel’s sophisticated drug tunnels, launched tomahawks on massive cartel poisonous drug operations, or gone to war against the cartels international terrorists networks. Neocon warmongers beat their drums of war and act like Billy badasses...
  • Rep. Thomas Massie explains why AIPAC is banned from his office

    06/21/2025 11:42:34 AM PDT · by RandFan · 21 replies
    X ^ | June 21 | Rep. Thomas Massie
    @RepThomasMassie Start at 14:53 in this interview if you want to know about AIPAC, the group that gives millions of dollars to my colleagues so they’ll support things like US involvement in Israel’s war against Iran. FWIW, AIPAC spent $400k against me last election and is banned from my office.
  • Steve Bannon says we're getting "bald face lies" right NOW like Iraq

    06/21/2025 12:51:04 PM PDT · by RandFan · 145 replies
    X ^ | June 21 | Steve Bannon
    @gc22gc BANNON: Iraq wasn’t a failure of intelligence. It wasn’t an honest mistake. It was a bald-faced lie. You were lied to. President Trump told the world that. Told the Bushes that. That’s one of the reasons he’s President of the U.S. And we’re getting bald-faced lies right now.