US officials are continuing with an agreement that bars the government from probing past tax filings from President Donald Trump and his businesses, according to a person familiar with the matter, while a plan to set up an "Anti-Weaponization Fund" is on hold.
The psychosis of permanent war results, as it has in the U.S., in the curtailing of civil liberties and punishing economic austerity. Dissent is equated with treason. State power serves the dictates of empire rather than democracy, which devolves into farce, or in our case, a tawdry reality show.
The rollback of the New Deal, the closest we came to a social democracy, began in the mid-1940s. Cold War anti-communism and corporate opposition converged to make war on organized labor and the New Deal left.
This assault culminated in the Second Red Scare.
Trump's choice of Bill Pulte for acting director of national intelligence is both terrifying and predictable. Read more
President Donald Trump launched a late-night attack on the New York prosecutors who pursued criminal and civil cases against him, declaring himself "an innocent man who has been horribly treated" and demanding both cases be dismissed. In a lengthy post on Truth Social published around midnight, Trump argued that recent comments by his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, had undermined the legal foundations of the investigations led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Texas Republican Ken Paxton practically served his Democratic challenger opposition material on a silver platter while defending his colored reputation during a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News. Paxton, President Donald Trump's choice for the Lone Star State's 2026 Senate race, couldn't have picked a worse comparison when "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo asked what he was going to do about being called "scandal-plagued" in a recent opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal. Claiming any controversies were concocted up by anti-Trump Republicans, he told voters, "I get why they said that, but the reality is they could say the same thing about Donald Trump" " the White House's chaos agent-in-chief, a convicted felon and alleged associate of prolific *** criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
Vaccine hesitancy fed by misinformation is causing new surges of measles and whooping cough, while COVID-19 hotspots persist in some states and a new threat looms from an Ebola outbreak in central Africa. Nationally there have been 1,983 measles cases this year, nearly the 2,288 total for all of 2025, which in itself was the worst year since 1991, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. Halfway through the year, 12 states and the District of Columbia already have more measles cases than they did for a full year in 2025. That's true for South Carolina and Utah, where cases are already more than double last year, and also for states such as Florida, which has 139 cases so far compared with eight in 2025, and Virginia, which already has 63 compared with six in all of 2025.
Israeli police unleashed the locusts on ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting mandatory military service in the IDF. Tens of thousands joined the demonstrations, as police used water cannon, stun grenades, and horses to disperse crowds. In the video you can see an Israeli mounted police officer's horse trampling one of the Haredim.
Undeclared Civil War Erupting in Israel
Six people were killed in the US state of Iowa after a series of shootings that appeared to stem from a domestic dispute, police said. The suspected shooter also was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Muscatine Police Department. The victims are believed to be family members of the suspect, identified as Ryan Willis McFarland, 52, of Muscatine, the department said.
"This June, the VFW salutes all LGBTQ+ veterans for their honorable service and recognize that their dedication and courage are part of the foundation of our national defense."
This photo ought to piss off US Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hogsbreath
Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon declared a state of emergency over coastal erosion on the island's northern coast.
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Jewish groups condemned Israeli cabinet ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Amichay Eliyahu for marching in the NYC Israel Day parade. In 2021, Smotrich said that Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, should have "finished the job" and kicked all Arabs out of the country in 1948. Eliyahu had suggested that Israel drop a nuclear bomb on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Ethnic Cleansers Come to Enjoy the Big AppleRUMINT: The ICC may indict Bezalel Smotrich for alleged war crimes, just like Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-IDF General Yoav Gallant
The Navy has named the seven defense firms who submitted their designs for the new medium unmanned surface vessel (MUSV) marketplace in April that will advance to the prototype testing phase.
Corruption is a term used to describe dishonest or fraudulent behavior by someone in power. When applied on a national scale, "corruption" refers to government leaders who abuse their power, take bribes, or commit fraud or other disreputable acts to increase their own wealth and/or power instead of helping the people they are meant to serve.
Corruption is an unfortunate reality in many nations around the world, especially low-income countries, developing countries, and least developed countries, which have fewer checks and balances on their rulers' powers.
While no single data indicator directly measures corruption in a nation, many indicators offer indirect-but-accurate evidence of the presence or absence of corruption.
The sounds "snap, crackle, pop" may be most associated with breakfast cereal, but on a mid-September afternoon in west-central Missouri, it was weeds in a soybean field that were getting crispy. The marestail snapped, the cockleburs crackled and the pigweeds popped as Ben Kroeger delivered 15,000 volts of weed-killing current to those that dared to rise above the crop canopy.
Talarico quotes Jesus, and Paxton catches on fire when he enters a church.
I want to tell you something about Donald Trump, and I don't believe I've ever said this before. Donald Trump has extreme intelligence - and I don't mean just high intelligence like someone in Mensa might have.
I mean EXTREME intelligence. And the reason we know this is because Donald Trump TOLD US that in a post just after midnight last night.
