Speaking from a podium with James Talarico's (D) face plastered on it alongside the caption "Talarico: Handcuffed to his record," Texas AG and US Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) was unable to answer questions about his 15 houses and alleged voter fraud, so he stamped out of a press conference while 22 slack-jawed sheriffs stood around mouths agape.
Ken Paxton is not a good human being
A federal magistrate judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump must turn over detailed financial information in connection with his defamation lawsuit against the BBC. U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqu Lett concluded that Trump's sweeping complaint put injury to his businesses at the forefront and made their vitality a fair subject for the BBC to demand information about.
It's hard to make a 2026 Chevy Tahoe cost more than a million dollars. Until you start packing it with military-grade public surveillance technology. Read more
MEXICO CITY " Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega said his country won't be holding elections anytime soon, a statement underscoring the strongman's efforts to extend his nearly 20-year rule and dashing hopes by the opposition that he might heed their demands for a democratic vote. The announcement effectively canceled Nicaragua's next elections, originally scheduled for November 2027 after the government-controlled Congress voted in January 2025 to extend the five-year presidential term by one year. Read more
Some, maybe many, people on the right have indulged in the fantasy that universities are left-wing brainwashing operations, and that professors have the power to turn students into wild-eyed radicals who are left of Marx and Trotsky.
Nearly half of Americans say they believe the Supreme Court is ruling on President Trump's policies based on ideology instead of the law, according to a new poll.
Donald Trump pledged on the campaign trail that he would slash electricity prices in half within 18 months of returning to the White House. That self-imposed deadline is today, and"as with many of the president's promises"he appears to have fallen short of his goal. From Trump's inauguration in January 2025 to April 2026, the most recent month for which government data are available, residential electricity rates have risen by an eye-watering 18 percent. From April 2025 to April 2026, rates jumped by 7.3 percent, or about twice the rate of inflation, according to the Energy Information Administration. Unfortunately, for many consumers, there is not much relief in sight.
Judge Todd E. Edelman, an Obama appointee, warned U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, 75, on Monday that the Trump administration is "operating at its own peril" in the way it has handled its case against David Hearn, 67, a former Olympic canoeist.
A map shows the states with the best and worst public schools, based on a new report that analyzed multiple aspects of state education systems. However, several education experts have cautioned against placing too much stock in such rankings.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham is now "warning her own network's audience that the conflict is becoming a political liability for Republicans," and pleading with Trump to find a way out of the war before the general elections. In a broadcast from this week, she "didn't mince words" about what the fallout of the Iran war would be for the GOP. "With the midterm elections a little more than 100 days away, the clock is ticking for President Trump to get out of this war before voters head to the polls," Ingraham said. "It's making a lot of Republicans nervous. It's already, as we know, unpopular. According to the new Washington Post/Ipsos poll, 69 percent of Americans disapprove of the handling of this conflict. Republicans cannot let this become an endless distraction, especially if they want to win in November."
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua said on Sunday that he would abolish his nation's elections, a blatant move to further strengthen his and his wife's authoritarian grip on the nation of seven million. "There will never be elections here again," Mr. Ortega, 80, said at a government rally marking the 47th anniversary of his leftist movement's revolution, to a smattering of applause. He then accused his opponents of trying to use elections "to seize the government, to seize power." Read more
"The Pentagon faces an urgent budget shortfall caused largely by the war in Iran, with some critical lines of funding set to run out within weeks even as President Donald Trump escalates the conflict with Tehran, according to lawmakers and current and former U.S. officials," the Washington Post reports. "The funding crunch is already leading the Pentagon to limit training and maintenance that help maintain military readiness, according to four current and former officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the budget constraints." "And the collapsed ceasefire with Iran could further strain the military's budget: After four U.S. service members died during more than a week of intensified fighting, officials in Washington signaled they were preparing for a wider conflict."
The Donnerboy Rule
The word integrity is rooted in the Latin word integer, meaning "whole" or "complete" " living by your principles, choosing honesty over opportunism, making ethical choices that may be inconvenient or unpopular, maintaining your moral compass. It is not possible to have integrity and be loyal to Trump. The two are in direct conflict. No one can be honest in a regime based on big lies. As the poet, philosopher and statesman Vclav Havel put it: "If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth." So a choice must be made " personal integrity or loyalty to Trump. Read more
Dummkopf Trumpf quietly denied nearly 6,000 clemency applications this month from convicts who mostly lacked political connections or wealth. The denials came after the diabolical Trumpf junta had raised hopes that Dear Leader might mark the country's 250th independence anniversary by granting clemency to as many as 250 people.
Hundreds of dangerous runamoks are amongst us.
In what could have been a scene out of the classic 1972 film Deliverance, father and son Joseph Charles Henrichsen (49) and Phoenix Henrichsen (23) abducted at gunpoint two US Forest Service employees, zip-tied them, and held them in a trailer for 15 hours before they were rescued by law-enforcement personnel in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
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