No, I Will Not Forgive The Voters Who Did This To My Country | George Carlin observed that stupid ignorant voters give us stupid ignorant politicians. | by Bob Cesca
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu asserted that during the military campaign in Gaza in which the IDF killed 71,657 Palestinians, a few Israeli soldiers lost their lives in 2024 because of what he called an "embargo" which allegedly caused an ammunition shortage.
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Footage published on Wednesday appeared to show Alex Pretti kicking an immigration agent's car before getting thrown to the ground during a confrontation less than two weeks before he was shot and killed in Minneapolis. Read more
Police in England and Wales will increase their use of live facial recognition (LFR) and artificial intelligence (AI) under wide-ranging government plans to reform law enforcement.
Available indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a solid pace. Job gains have remained low, and the unemployment rate has shown some signs of stabilization. Inflation remains somewhat elevated. The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run. Uncertainty about the economic outlook remains elevated. The Committee is attentive to the risks to both sides of its dual mandate. In support of its goals, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 31/2 to 33/4 percent. In considering the extent and timing of additional adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate, the Committee will carefully assess incoming data, the evolving outlook, and the balance of risks. The Committee is strongly committed to supporting maximum employment and returning inflation to its 2 percent objective.
Cannot believe that lynching are still happening in the US. There are a lot of people coming out and speaking of the horrible experience they had to suffer at the hands of other Americans Read more
UPS announced it made $8.7 billion in profit last year on the same day that the company will reduce its workforce, primarily part-time positions. Why is this happening and how can Teamsters fight back?
Sweden is moving forward with plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 in serious cases as it grapples with a growing number of children recruited into gangs to carry out violent crimes without facing serious legal repercussions.
In pursuit of illegal immigrants, federal agents are carrying the instruments of war, fine-tuned and perfected for killing at short range.
Furious that Donald Trump's Minneapolis fiasco was upstaging her film, Melania Trump forced her husband to overhaul his deportation campaign, author Michael Wolff claims. "This was supposed to be the Melania week," Wolff told his co-host Joanna Coles on the Inside Trump's Head podcast. But on Saturday, as the 55-year-old first lady prepared to host a screening of her documentary, Melania, federal immigration agents killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti. According to Wolff, a "truly p---ed-off" Melania bristled as outrage over Trump's deportation operation swallowed the spotlight meant for her $75 million film ahead of its premiere at the Kennedy Center on Thursday.
President Donald Trump surprised some people around him when he said he expected to lie in state within a decade.
The DODIG reports: "Major military installations in the United States are unprotected from drone attacks because of bureaucratic confusion over which bases should be covered."
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Trump has transformed the national political discourse from skirmishes over his assorted harebrained ideas and extreme actions (Venezuela, Greenland, vengeful criminal prosecutions, mass deportations, the destruction of the public health establishment, his war on universities, tax cuts for the rich, and so on) into a debate over the fundamental nature of the United States. Will it become a full-fledged authoritarian-led police state? That's the fight at hand. Trump and his miscreants are eager for it. They may attain their fascistic fantasy"unless enough Americans say no.
"The best they can do is shoot the guy in the back?" That's not the voice of some liberal commentator. That's what a homeland security officer told me this weekend. He closed on a plaintive note: "I think it's time to pull out of Minnesota, that battle is lost." "Fuck this," a senior ICE officer said about the shooting of Pretti.
The peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer will soon be funding another offensive war against Iran on behalf of Israel as the USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier Group (ACG) finally reached its attack location in USCENTCOM AOR.
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Ted Cruz trashed President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in conversations with GOP donors last year, explosive leaked recordings allege. The Texas senator, expected to run for president in 2028, slammed Trump's tariff crusade and said he even threatened his staff with immediate firing if they used the phrase "Liberation Day" to refer to the day the sweeping taxes were announced, reports Axios. "Mr. President, if we get to November of [2026] and people's 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10"20% at the supermarket, we're going to go into Election Day, face a bloodbath," Cruz told Trump, according to the recording. "You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week." Trump allegedly responded bluntly: "F--- you, Ted.'"
