Three organizations representing thousands of ranchers in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas issued a joint statement Friday warning operations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are disrupting the agricultural community and will make beef prices spike again. Their statement is the beef's industry latest salvo against policies and actions by the Trump administration. The Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Kansas Livestock Association, and Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association said they are closely monitoring ICE's activity and the impacts it's creating. They described hearing reports of delays in shipping thousands of cattle to processors and workforce disruptions in important links of the supply chains such as dairies, feedyards, transportation hubs as well as feed and grain companies. "These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the supply chain moving," the groups said.
The New Hampshire Libertarian Party has again issued a call for political violence. In a post Tuesday on X, the party's account wrote: "We openly support the assassination of basically every elected Democrat in New Hampshire." It's the latest in a series of calls for violence from the party's social media accounts, including against then-Vice President Kamala Harris and a former member of the state Executive Council. In a statement Wednesday, the New Hampshire Attorney General's office told NHPR, "We can confirm that the New Hampshire Department of Justice is aware of the social media posts. We would not be in a position to comment further at this time."
By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level " the level of evil.
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The Great Dicktator - by Mr. Fish
Donald Trump exhibits the classic traits of psychopaths -- superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation and incapacity for remorse or guilt.
But is he evil?
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A bipartisan group of 14 senators urged President Donald Trump to rescind his invitation for Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the Group of 20 summit in Miami in December. The letter, whose bipartisan signers were led by Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chair of the Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee, came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the invitation on Wednesday. "President Putin bears sole responsibility for launching Russia's full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine," the senators wrote in the letter. "Allowing him to participate in a G20 Summit in the United States raises serious concerns about legitimizing and normalizing a government that continues to attack Ukrainian civilian targets every day."
The CEO of U.S.-based credit union Family First is no longer with the company, days after she posted an allegedly artificial intelligence-edited photo of her family with "Lake America" sweatshirts.
"Since the epicenter of power' is not Washington, D.C. but Heaven, every morning I listen to a few chapters of the Bible on audiobook, and pray for God's wisdom and strength in whatever situations may arise."
Several years ago, political strategist Rick Scott wrote that "everything Dummkopf Trumpf touches dies." This strange cosmological phenomenon continues plaquing those that the deeply unpopular and troubled POTUS comes in contact with, including the rebuilding New York Giants football team who pinned their future on new head coach John Harbaugh and rising superstar rookie QB Jaxon Dart.
"Few are spared."
Pablo Torre is working with Mother Jones on a story about Life Surge, a Christian-based company that sells business classes. Tim Tebow, the former star college football quarterback, is one of the main celebrities who speaks at Life Surge seminars. While the company has high marks on Google reviews, other search results paint a different picture. There are Reddit threads and Facebook groups asking what's going on with the company and people people have filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureau. Read more
More than three years after the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a member of the field response team is coming forward with allegations of contamination data being buried. Testers were told they'd better come back with good results, and residents were falsely assured the air was safe, according to a sworn affidavit obtained by NewsNation.
American service members were seen on their hands and knees smoothing the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival in Washington on Wednesday. Jinping, 73, exited his plane alongside First Lady Peng Liyuan to greet President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump"but not before a 100-foot-long red carpet was rolled out. Why Trump, who has raged against communism, chose to break precedent with Jinping is not clear. He will host a State Dinner for Jinping at the White House on Thursday"an occasion which he seems eager about.
The Pentagon is investigating how parts of the nation's most advanced fighter jet ended up in Hong Kong, with a news outlet reporting Wednesday that China has obtained the F-35 equipment. The F-35 Joint Program Office said in a statement that it and the Defense Department are aware of "a shipment issue" with F-35 components. "We are actively working with U.S. authorities and industry partners to retrieve these components, investigate the incident, and place safeguards to avoid a future occurrence," the office said.
President Donald Trump is accusing Democrats of being behind the 2024 attempt to assassinate him in Butler, Pennsylvania. In a social media post Tuesday, Trump called it a "Democrat plot." He also called out former President Joe Biden and accused former FBI director Christopher Wray of mishandling the investigation. Read more
UNITED NATIONS (AP) " Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the world's leaders Wednesday to keep choking Russia's revenues and impede its war efforts, telling the U.N. General Assembly that "Russia's revenues must remain a target."
"When someone gives Russia more money through trade, they give this war more time. And that is exactly why we insist on limiting trade with the aggressor, and why we are burning Russia's revenues ourselves," he said, speaking in English at the U.N. General Assembly.
The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days, despite splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, in a bid to bring down energy prices weighing on Republicans leading into the midterms, five people familiar with the discussions said Wednesday. A ban, the legal process of which is still being worked out, has been opposed by U.S. fuel producers who have warned that any short-term benefit would be outweighed by higher fuel prices in the future. Any halt to shipments would be the first restriction on U.S. energy exports since the Obama administration lifted a decades-old ban on oil exports in 2015. Read more
A "yes" vote supported the following: prohibiting state and local governments from restricting access to natural gas; prohibiting the state building code council from discouraging or penalizing the use of natural gas in any building; requiring gas companies and utility companies, or any cities or towns that provide natural gas, to provide natural gas to any person or corporation even if other energy services or energy sources may be available; and prohibiting the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission from approving any multiyear rate plan requiring or incentivizing a natural gas company or utility company to terminate natural gas service or implementing requirements that would make access to natural gas service cost-prohibitive. Read more
