Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Iran war is "over" during congressional testimony on Tuesday, in spite of an admission that negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and curb Tehran's uranium enrichment are not guaranteed to produce a deal. Rubio's declaration that the war had ended came during a testy back-and-forth with former Senate colleague, New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker, who shot back at the U.S. official during a Foreign Relations hearing: "The war is not over." Read more
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue conducting war crimes funded with American taxpayer funds by attacking hospitals in Lebanon. The IDF claimed that they weren't directly attacking the hospitals as such, but rather were attacking "terror infrastructure" and the medical facilities "happened to be in the way during the attacks."
IDF looting, outrages, and blasphemies continue in Lebanon, all funded by American taxpayer dollars
White supremacist Adan Hernandez-Mayoral (24) threw his life away after being sentenced in federal court to 54 months confinement for brutally attacking a woman of color on a bus in Kent, Washington. On 7 March 2024, the miscreant boarded a metro bus and began antagonizing the victim, calling her "Rosa Parks," and ordered her to move to the back of the bus, yelling "I don't like Black people, f***in' hate 'em," before savagely attacking the helpless woman.
How this 24-year-old violent doofus even heard of American heroine Rosa Parks is anyone's guess
Nine African teenagers who gang raped a 14-year-old girl three times in Belgium have all been spared jail, with seven getting just 30 hours of community service. Read more
A bed bug infestation at an Agriculture Department building is riling agency staff, reigniting frustrations over remote work policy and making at least some employees sick. The bugs were found in the building that houses the Animal and Plant Inspection Service, the agency responsible for containing and mitigating the spread of invasive pests in the U.S. The irony, one USDA employee said, "was lost on no one." The George Washington Carver Center in Beltsville, Maryland, first notified employees of the situation in mid-May, according to five employees familiar with the matter and a transcript of a town hall meeting obtained by NOTUS. The department opted to send employees home and allow them to telework for a few days to fumigate the building.
George Santos, the former lawmaker who lied about his background, got expelled from Congress, and then became a convicted fraudster, is reportedly being investigated for insider trading. The probe, NPR reported on Tuesday, centers on Santos' comments about February's State of the Union address and his alleged bets on Kalshi, a prediction market website. On February 23, a day before Donald Trump's address to Congress, Santos posted a video on X in which he said he would attend. The odds on Kalshi that Santos would show up subsequently rose and remained relatively high. Its peak was 76 cents"meaning a wager of that amount would win $1. A "no" bet of 24 cents would thus carry much more value.
President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency cuts are hitting the state of Texas hard, as a long-controlled pest is threatening to resurge and decimate the livestock industry. The New World screwworm, the larval stage of a parasitic fly known for laying eggs inside livestock animals and letting the maggots chew their way out, could cause massive damage to cattle herds. In the past, the U.S. managed to work together with Mexico to drive back screwworms, but they have been expanding their territory recently. Attorney Blake Allen weighed in on the matter: "Screwworms coming back into the U.S. cattle herd/stock is going to potentially devastate the industry and jack up meat prices. Worst part is, this was preventable. Trump & DOGE pushed funding cuts on/destroyed agencies that were directly responsible for fighting this pest."
The unconstitutional US war against the people of Iran to benefit Israel will now cost the peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer $100bn. Meanwhile, one estimate shows this idiotic war to kill Iranians is costing the Israeli taxpayer $12.7bn. And Americans are a galaxy and a half away from having universal healthcare, as enjoyed by the people of Israel, Germany, Greenland, Canada, Cuba, 95% of Iran, Taiwan, the UK, tiny Albania, and in 2027, Mexico.
No Billions to Prevent Medical Bankruptcies in the US, but Billions to Kill Muslims in the Middle East
The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner has been rescheduled after the original event on April 25 was suspended after a gunman attempted to access the venue, resulting in an exchange of fire with Secret Service agents. The new event will be held on July 24 with "significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures", Weijia Jiang, president of the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), wrote in a letter to members. US President Donald Trump said he would attend the rescheduled dinner, which will be held at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington DC.
The scale is ambitious to the point of stupidity. Once its 104 stations and 68 miles of tunnels are complete, the Vegas Loop site says it "will serve up to 90,000 passengers per hour." About 642,000 people live in Las Vegas, plus an additional 110,000 tourists on any given day. That means every single resident and tourist need to ride the Loop multiple times per day to average 90,000 passengers an hour. For reference, the Tokyo Metro moves 6.5 million people a day around an area with 33 million residents. You do the math. Read more
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.
