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  • RFK Jr. is bringing psychedelics to the Republican Party

    06/29/2025 4:27:14 PM PDT · by RandFan · 62 replies
    POLITICO ^ | June 29 | By Erin Schumaker
    Driven by a desire to help ex-servicemembers with mental illness, GOP lawmakers led a failed campaign last year to persuade the Biden administration to approve psychedelic drugs. Now they may have found the ally they need in President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A longtime believer in psychedelics’ potential to help people with illnesses like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, despite the lack of supportive evidence Biden officials found, Kennedy is ramping up government-run clinical studies and telling the disappointed lawmakers doctors will be prescribing the drugs soon. “These are people who badly need some kind of...
  • ‘Deplorable’: Democrats slam SCOTUS ruling in birthright citizenship case

    06/28/2025 6:36:26 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 44 replies
    Politico ^ | 6/27/25 | Aaron Pellish
    Democrats warned the decision paves the way for “a vile betrayal of our Constitution.” Democratic members of Congress sharply criticized the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling that limited district courts’ use of nationwide injunctions in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The court did not rule on whether the Trump administration has legal standing to revoke birthright citizenship for the children of some immigrants. Yet Democrats warned the decision paves the way for “a vile betrayal of our Constitution,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said in a social media post. “The Supreme Court’s decision...
  • Mike Johnson hails ‘progress’ toward SALT deal

    06/27/2025 3:18:14 PM PDT · by RandFan · 14 replies
    POLITICO ^ | June 27 | POLITICO
    The White House is close to clinching an agreement on the state and local tax deduction after a last-ditch flurry of negotiations with blue-state House GOP holdouts and Senate Republicans, according to three people granted anonymity to describe the talks. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is brokering the politically complex deal that is key to unlocking the GOP megabill, will attend Senate Republicans lunch later today, according to a another person with direct knowledge of the matter. LaLota said he has been told the prospective deal would maintain the House-passed cap of $40,000 for five years before reverting to the...
  • Senate GOP dealt major blow on Medicaid cuts in megabill...New parliamentarian rulings strike a major Medicaid provision Republicans are counting on to offset their costly tax plans.

    06/26/2025 11:51:42 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    Politico (Yeah, I know) ^ | June 26, 2025 | Meredith Lee Hill, Robert King and Jordain Carney
    Senate Republicans are facing major new issues with their domestic policy megabill after the chamber’s parliamentarian advised senators that several provisions they are counting on to reap hundreds of billions of dollars in budget savings won’t be able to pass along party lines. Those include major pieces of Medicaid policy, including a politically explosive plan to hold down Medicaid costs by cracking down on a state provider tax — a provision that is expected to have a nine-figure impact on the bill. Republicans now will have to try to rewrite major sections of their Finance bill or potentially leave out...
  • White House condemns Democrat who told Stephen Miller to ‘go back to 1930’s Germany’

    06/26/2025 11:36:24 AM PDT · by DFG · 22 replies
    Politico ^ | 06/26/2025 | Nicole Markus and Ben Johansen
    The White House lashed out at a House Democrat who wrote on X that Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller — who is Jewish — should “go back to 1930’s Germany.” “What an absolutely disgusting comment from a Congressman to a Jewish WH official,” Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly wrote on X on Thursday, quoting Rep. Mark Pocan’s (D-Wis.) post. “Pocan must apologize — not just to Stephen, but to his constituents — and then seek professional help. This crazed antisemitic hatred from Dems emboldens radicals to target Jewish Americans.” Pocan’s Wednesday post was a response to one by Miller...
  • Massie isn’t backing down. Neither is Trump.

    06/25/2025 10:29:46 AM PDT · by RandFan · 51 replies
    Politico ^ | June 25 | By Brakkton Booker, Daniel Desrochers and Lisa Kashinsky
    ..... Members of Kentucky’s congressional delegation say Massie’s sprawling district, which runs along the northern border along Ohio and Indiana and stretches from the southern Cincinnati suburbs to the outer bands of the Louisville metro area, is a unique cross-section of the state that appears to relish Massie’s independent streak. It’s home to some of the most prominent members of the “liberty faction” of the Kentucky Republican Party, a group that embraces Trump while also gravitating toward libertarian-leaning Republicans like Massie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. The senator has weathered his own barrage of attacks from Trump for voicing opposition...
  • Mark Levin: I won't back Trump in the general (Flashback)

    06/24/2025 6:48:58 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 73 replies
    Politico ^ | April 2016 | Hanna Trudo
    The #NeverTrump movement just got another backer. Conservative radio host Mark Levin threatened on Friday that he will not support Donald Trump in the general election, should he be the nominee. Levin, a strong supporter of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, said that Trump’s allies had made the billionaire Republican front-runner toxic. …“If they piss me off one more time, I’m going to urge millions and millions of you, should he get the nomination, not to vote for him either,” he said.
  • Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says

    03/17/2025 7:48:23 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 5 replies
    Politico ^ | 03/17/2025 | Josh Gerstein
    BOSTON — Federal authorities say they deported a Lebanese doctor holding an American visa last week after finding “sympathetic photos and videos” of prominent Hezbollah figures in a deleted items folder on her cell phone.Rasha Alawieh, a physician specializing in kidney transplants and professor at Brown University, also told Customs and Border Protection agents that while visiting Lebanon last month she attended the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and followed his teachings “from a religious perspective” but not a political one, according to an official report on her interrogation by an immigration officer.“CBP questioned Dr. Alawieh and determined that...
  • Inside the clashes between Trump and Gabbard The director of national intelligence has rankled Trump with her statements about nuclear war, and the president has suggested she’s off message.

    06/17/2025 9:08:58 PM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 47 replies
    Politico ^ | June 17, 2025 | Rachael Bade, Amy Mackinnon, Felicia Schwartz and John Sakellariadis
    As President Donald Trump privately mulled joining Israel’s campaign against Iran this month, one member of his Cabinet sent what he viewed as an audacious attempt to steer him in the opposite direction. At 5:30 a.m. on June 10, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tweeted a cryptic, three-minute video warning that “political elite and warmongers” are “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers” — and that the world is “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.” Trump saw the unauthorized video and became incensed, complaining to associates at the White House that she had spoken out of turn, according...
  • Mamdani surges in new poll, leading Cuomo for first time in New York mayor’s race

    06/11/2025 9:50:49 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 29 replies
    Politico ^ | 06/11/2025 | Nick Reisman and Joe Anuta
    Zohran Mamdani, the young democratic socialist who has been rising in the mayor’s race, is now ahead of Andrew Cuomo with just two weeks until the Democratic primary, a new poll reviewed in full by POLITICO found. The survey, conducted by Public Policy Polling for Democrat Justin Brannan’s city comptroller campaign, found Mamdani beating Cuomo 35 percent to 31 percent — a difference that is narrowly within the 4.1 percent margin of error. Cuomo has been the constant frontrunner since his March 1 entrance into the race to oust Mayor Eric Adams, with most publicly released polls showing him with...
  • Inside the MAGA vs. Hawk battle to sway Trump on bombing Iran

    06/10/2025 7:47:05 AM PDT · by RandFan · 18 replies
    POLITICO ^ | June 10 | By Rachael Bade and Felicia Schwartz
    An influential group of GOP hawks has launched a behind-the-scenes lobbying offensive pressing President Donald Trump to not only back off his administration’s quest for a nuclear deal with Iran, but greenlight an attack on Tehran by Israel. The campaign is raising alarms among Trump and his allies, who have launched a counteroffensive to keep the president’s diplomacy on track. During a private lunch with the president at the White House last Wednesday, conservative talk show host Mark Levin told Trump that Iran was days away from building a nuclear weapon, an argument Trump’s own intelligence team has told the...
  • Who is Anthony Bernal? Why are people calling him the “Shadow President”?

    06/05/2025 10:30:53 AM PDT · by simpson96 · 22 replies
    Economic Times ^ | 6/4/2025 | Staff
    Joe Biden looked lost at a Waffle House after his bad debate with Trump on June 27, 2024. A man in a beige suit signaled Jill Biden and helped get Joe out fast. That man was Anthony Bernal, 52 years old. He works closely with Jill Biden as her top helper and also helps the president. People now wonder if he had more power than anyone knew, especially as Joe's health got worse. A former Biden aide said Bernal had “the most power inside the White House.” A book named Original Sin said Bernal was rude, strict, and tried hard...
  • Uh-Oh Politico Goes 'Meh!' on Kamala Harris Political Future

    06/05/2025 4:24:13 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 17 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | June 4, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick
    On Sunday, Politico published a story titled "2 states, 1 tepid view of Kamala Harris and her political future." A much more accurate title of the story by Melanie Mason and Brakkton Booker would be "2 states, 2 tepid views of Kamala Harris and her political future."Although Mason and Booker tossed cold water on the idea of Harris running for president again via the South Carolina primary they were also much less than enthusiastic about her running for governor of California. If they didn't quite toss cold water on that campaign they seemed to throw much less than even lukewarm...
  • Kavanaugh assassin is transgender.

    07/29/2022 7:02:27 PM PDT · by struggle · 52 replies
    Twitter ^ | 7/29/2022 | Andyngo
    Assassin was apparently named "Sophie" and made the wrong choice.
  • Department of Homeland Security is Warning Catholic Churches and Pregnancy Centers to be Prepared for “Night of Rage” by Pro-Abortion Terrorist Groups

    06/23/2022 7:38:38 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 70 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | June 23, 2022 | Cristina Laila
    The Department of Homeland Security is now warning Catholic churches and pro-life pregnancy centers to be prepared for a “night of rage” by pro-abortion terrorist groups if Roe v Wade gets overturned by the Supreme Court. ...... Snip...... "These targets could include public gatherings, faith-based institutions, schools, racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, government facilities and personnel, U.S. critical infrastructure, the media, and perceived ideological opponents.”
  • U.S. braces for violence against conservatives, pro-life groups with Supreme Court’s abortion ruling

    06/23/2022 7:56:03 PM PDT · by bitt · 77 replies
    washingtontimes.com ^ | 6/23/2022 | Mica Soellner
    Lawmakers are sounding alarms about more violence at Republican Party offices and pro-life organizations across the country if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Attacks on offices tied to the Republican National Committee, GOP lawmakers, and pro-life groups have begun in anticipation of the ruling, including attacks this week where vandals spray-painted slogans and smashed windows. “We should be concerned,” said Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican. “Democrats here need to come out and speak against the violence.” The vandalism and violence began after a leaked opinion last month showed the Supreme Court was set to overturn the landmark 1973...
  • New Poll Hints That Defending Abortion Is Not the Killer Issue the Democrats Thought Would Save Them From Voters in November

    07/29/2022 10:54:58 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Red State ^ | 7/29/2022 | Streiff
    While the purple-haired set was screaming out their impotent rage, the more astute observers of American politics were predicting that this was exactly what the Democrat Party needed to offset the vicious mismanagement of the nation at the hands of Joe Biden. If Americans were torqued about “supply chain” breakdowns, no baby formula (Joe Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Try to Fix the Baby Formula Shortage His Henchmen Created), gas increasing by $3/gallon in 18 months, and businesses crushed by COVID lockdowns, by gosh, the very thing to take their mind off that string of catastrophes was the right...
  • Jane’s Revenge Plans Roe v. Wade Reveal ‘Night of Rage,’ ‘Carrying that Anger Out into the World Expressing it Physically’

    06/19/2022 11:09:18 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 47 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/19/2022 | Penny Starr
    The radical pro-abortion group, Jane’s Revenge, is planning more acts of domestic terrorism when the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade is revealed, dubbed a “Night of Rage: An Autonomous Call to Action Against Patriarchal Supremacy.” The group posted its plans on the Anarchists Library website at the end of May in expectation of the ruling, expected sometime in June.
  • Today Is the Day that Jane's Revenge Warned Us About

    06/10/2022 8:16:49 PM PDT · by lightman · 27 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 10 June A.D. 2022 | Rebecca Downs
    Friday is the day that the radical pro-abortion group Jane's Revenge warned us about. When the group took credit for the firebombing of the headquarters for Wisconsin Family Action last month, they also issued a warning that emphasized that what happened in Wisconsin was "only a warning" and called it "the first flashpoint, but we are all over the US and we will issue no further warnings." The statement also read that "We demand the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days." That attack took place sometime between late in the...
  • Roberts Is Courting a Constitutional Crisis

    06/13/2022 5:09:53 PM PDT · by T Ruth · 80 replies
    American Greatness ^ | June 9, 2022 | Jeffrey H. Anderson
    The attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh makes it abundantly clear that Chief Justice John Roberts is playing with fire in refusing to issue the Court’s majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade. The potential for someone to make an attempt on a justice’s life was predictable once the draft majority opinion, in a shocking move, was leaked—but the threat appears more serious in the wake of a deranged person having arrived at Kavanaugh’s home with the stated intention, and with weapons in tow, to kill him. It is...