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Elon Musk is planning to attend ex-President Donald Trump’s Butler, Pa. rally over the weekend, the billionaire Tesla CEO announced late Thursday. “I will be there to support!” Musk wrote in a retweet of Trump’s promotion for the rally on Saturday. The Republican presidential nominee shared the infamous photo of himself raising a first in the air with blood smeared across his face immediately following an assassination attempt at his first rally in Butler on July 13. “I’m coming back to Butler!” is scrawled across the image in all capital letters.

Libertarian National Committee Secretary Caryn Ann Harlos is the plaintiff in a derivative lawsuit against the Libertarian National Committee and its Chair, Angela McArdle. Harlos disclosed her involvement in a post on the LNC’s public business list on Wednesday. Harlos shared her involvement in the lawsuit in a thread about updated conflicts of interest, clarifying that while she is the plaintiff, she does not see this as a conflict but was instead being transparent. She also provided the case number to the lawsuit. A full copy of the lawsuit is available here and shows the suit was filed on Tuesday....

Could this be the Perfect Geo-storm? October is off to a hot start: The sun unleashed a massive X-class solar flare — the “strongest of its kind,” according to Space.com — that has the potential to pummel our planet with a powerful geomagnetic storm this week. The supercharged sunburst erupted from sunspot AR3842 on Tuesday evening. It clocked in at X7.1, making it the second most powerful in the last seven years after the monster X8.7 magnitude in May, Live Science reported. This also triggered a coronal mass ejection (CME) — when plasma and magnetic particles burst forth from the...

What seemed like a fanciful conspiracy has been revealed as a sickening fact. While most people agree that human trafficking is an evil that should be fought, America’s ruling elite are abetting the abuse of unaccompanied alien children. Since the Biden family moved into the White House, more than 8 million illegal aliens have crossed into the United States from Mexico. Most of these are military-aged men, yet a sizable number are unaccompanied children. Nearly 520,000 unaccompanied children have shown up on America’s doorstep in the past 44 months, about 400 kids per day. What happens to these children? And...

Kamalama Ding Dong traveled to Ripon, Wisconsin Thursday to deliver a full 16 minute speech to a mixed crowd of supporters, paid attendees, and people who just wanted a good laugh. She was joined onstage by Liz Cheney, leader of the MRGA party (Make RINOs Great Again).

This will result in the loss of supplies of about 6 bln cubic meters of natural gas to the EU in the first quarter of 2025 alone, the International Energy Agency noted MOSCOW, October 3. /TASS/. The International Energy Agency (IEA) views the risk of full stop of Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine as significant after 2024 and includes it into its forecast for the gas market in the next year. "The future of Russian gas transit via Ukraine is a key uncertainty ahead of the 2024/25 winter, as Russia’s gas transit contract with Ukraine expires at the...

We at Twitchy spend A LOT of time telling you guys about the media and their ridiculous behaviors, but even we were shocked when we found this post from CBS News. A Yazidi woman kidnapped from her home by ISIS terrorists in Iraq when she was just 11 years old has been reunited with her family after years stranded in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Iraqi and Israeli officials said Thursday. https://t.co/r1jQzHxxO3 — CBS News (@CBSNews) October 3, 2024 SERIOUSLY!??! They chose to say the woman who was KIDNAPPED by ISIS was 'stranded'? STRANDED!?!?! We just have no words to adequately...

Trump has made concerted attempts to win over Hispanic and black voters, traditionally Democratic constituencies, though his 2020 results with those groups only slightly improved upon his 2016 tallies. Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to maintain support among the key voting blocs of the Democratic coalition as polling data suggests that former President Donald Trump’s efforts to win over minority voters are succeeding to some degree. Throughout his political career, Trump has made concerted attempts to flip Hispanic and black voters, traditionally Democratic constituencies, though his 2020 results with those groups only slightly improved upon his 2016 tallies. Now,...

Kamala Harris had nothing but kind words for the Cheney family as the disgraced former Congresswoman Liz Cheney joined her on the campaign trail in Wisconsin on Thursday.Both Liz and her father, who served as vice-president for eight years under George W. Bush, have endorsed the Democratic ticket in November in a move that many believe will help rather than hinder her chances of defeating Donald Trump.Nevertheless, Liz Cheney was invited to join Kamala Harris at a rally in Ripon, Wisconsin and the Democratic nominee spoke of her “profound honor” at receiving the Cheney seal of approval.“Liz Cheney really is...

City leaders, along with law enforcement officials gathered to announce the launch of a program that will install 100 license plate reading cameras in the San Fernando Valley that authorities believe will help police track criminals down. Officials said that some neighborhoods north of Rinaldi Street in Porter Ranch have some of the highest crime rates in the city, which is why several cameras have already been installed in the area. “Last year, the Devonshire District reported that homes north of this very street experienced a 103% jump in home burglaries,” District 12 Councilman Jon Lee said at the event....

ERIE, Pa. — Democrats have been losing voters in Pennsylvania over the past four years, and Republicans are salivating over the prospect of former President Donald Trump recapturing the biggest swing state in the Nov. 5 election. Nearly 300,000 registered Democrats have dropped off the rolls since 2020, and Republicans have netted about 50,000 new registered voters in a state that President Biden won by roughly 80,000 votes. In Luzerne County, near Mr. Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Democrats held a 20,000 registered voter advantage in 2020. As of last week, they trail Republicans by a few hundred votes. Mr. Trump...

This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024. “Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official statement. Yet, with crime a central issue in this year’s election, he and the mainstream media have carefully ignored evidence that the FBI may be fudging its numbers — much like the way the Bureau of Labor Statistics massively overestimated the number of jobs created during the Biden-Harris administration Last month, new FBI data showed that reported serious violent crime (murder, rape, robbery,...

LOS ANGELES – Garth Brooks, one of the biggest stars in country music history, has been named in a lawsuit accusing him of raping a hair and makeup artist he employed in 2019. The lawsuit, obtained by Variety and CNN, mentions two specific incidents in which Brooks is accused of committing sexual assault and battery against the woman. In the first, the plaintiff, identified only as “Jane Roe,” claims she visited Brooks’s house to style his hair and apply makeup when he “grabbed her hands and forced them” on his genitals and asked her to perform oral sex. The woman...

We’re only one month away from the U.S. presidential election, and anticipation is at an all-time high (and so is misinformation). Several politicians are trying to mitigate misinformation in the light of AI-generated and AI-manipulated content, and one of them is California Governor Gavin Newsom. He brought a law that would combat AI deepfakes, but a California judge blocked it.Newsom was in the news recently for shooting down SB 1047, the bill that would have brought some major regulation to major AI companies. He didn’t pass the bill for a handful of reasons including a lack of specificity regarding the...

Desperate residents of Hurricane Helene-ravaged Western North Carolina are relying on home-grown rescue efforts instead of waiting for the Biden-Harris administration’s financially depleted FEMA to get its act together. Not content to hold out hope for help some fear might not arrive in time, a handful of grassroots rescue operations have sprung up to render assistance by air, land and even on four legs. With hundreds more missing in the remote, unforgiving terrain and communication services damaged or nonexistent, the search for survivors grows more dire with each passing hour. Local airports like City of Statesville Regional Airport and Hickory...

New York Times writer Mara Gay said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was a “truth teller” who makes normalizing former President Donald Trump’s policies harder. Gay said, “It’s interesting we are looking at these male voters who are Republicans who are saying enough. This isn’t about strength. It’s about not wanting to be completely insane and live in a world of chaos. Because J.D. Vance the other night really did his best to launder Trumpism as something that is normal and has a soft face and is perfectly respectable. You know, it’s funny we talk...

MADISON, Wisconsin — On an oppressively hot August day in downtown Madison, the signs of this famously liberal city’s progressive activism are everywhere. Buildings are draped in pride flags and Black Lives Matter signs are prominently displayed on storefronts. A musty bookstore advertises revolutionary titles and newspaper clippings of rallies against Donald Trump. A fancy restaurant features a graphic of a raised Black fist in its window, with chalk outside on the sidewalk reading “solidarity forever.”Yet the Green Party, which bills itself as an independent political party that has the best interests of self-described leftists at heart, is nowhere to...

During a Thursday rally in Saginaw, Michigan, former President Donald Trump expressed frustration over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's lack of funds, attributing the shortfall to spending on illegal migrants instead of critical domestic needs like disaster relief. The rally, broadcast live on Newsmax, featured Trump criticizing the Biden administration's handling of Hurricane Helene's destruction. "Can you imagine another four years like we've lived the last four?" Trump asked the crowd. He pointed to recent natural disasters, saying the federal government cannot provide adequate aid.

DETROIT (AP) — The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is to resume working immediately. The temporary end to the strike came after the union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies, reached a tentative agreement on wages, the union and ports said in a joint statement. A person briefed on the agreement said the ports sweetened their wage offer from about 50% over...

Nasrallah’s presumed successor said to be target of heavy Israeli strike in Beirut No word yet from army on whether it targeted Hashem Safieddine * IDF, Shin Bet say head of Hamas terror network among the 18 Palestinians reported killed in Tulkarem airstrike