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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Jackson Lahmeyer, a pro-Israel MAGA pastor who inveighs against "Sharia law" and wants Jews to accept Jesus, dropped out of the race for Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District after a Sexting scandal exposed him as the hypocrite and fraud that he is. Dummkopf Trumpf quickly rescinded his support for the phony Christian leader of "Pastors for Trumpf."

America is choc-a-bloc full of phony Christians, child molesters, and sexual deviants. Who knew?


Well-funded and heavily-armed by the hard-working American taxpayer, Amnesty International reports the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) are committing unlawful mass evacuation' orders in Lebanon, displacing and putting 1.4m people into crisis. Since 7 October 2023, the US sent a staggering $22.76bn in support of Israel's Muslim-killing operations in the Middle East and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.

The Democratic Party paid a steep, incalculable price on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024


The presidents of the US and Iran have signed an initial peace deal aiming to end the war, allowing it to immediately take effect.


GLAAD reports AI systems are replicating the same anti-LGBTQ bias and misinformation problems that have long plagued social platforms. One example: Meta's updated Llama 4 model recommends conversion "therapy" in response to queries and moderation systems that wrongly suppress legitimate LGBTQ content.

Fight hatred and intolerance


President Trump appears to be completely smitten with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, professing his love for the authoritarian leader at the G7 summit in France on Wednesday. "I met him early in the campaign when Crooked Hillary and I were running against each other, right, and I was told that the president of Egypt is here. That was a big deal. It's still a big deal for me to be with the great president of Egypt, but not as big as it used to be before I ran. So he was in a hotel and I met him, and we fell in love. Deeply in love," Trump said, while seated next to the Egyptian leader. We had great chemistry, and I stayed twice as long as I was supposed."


Four years ago, Tennessee became the first state to allow adults to buy the antiparasitic drug ivermectin from a pharmacy without first seeing a doctor. Pharmacies can use a pre-written, blanket prescription to sell to just about anyone who walks through their doors. The drug is now marketed and sold across the state in roadside shops and small-town strip malls with little oversight from health authorities. Highway billboards advertise ivermectin as "Available Without a Prescription in Tennessee!" while dozens of pharmacies offer highly concentrated pills, sometimes at 10 or 20 times the potency of a standard tablet. Some pharmacy websites now offer the drug as a treatment for COVID-19, "long haul vax symptoms," diabetes, or cancer -- despite no evidence of its effectiveness for those purposes -- while the new law largely gives pharmacists immunity from lawsuits or professional sanctions related to ivermectin.


Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Jesse Welles - 3 hours ago

Because the Trillionaire Thread was closed.


A hearing in Luigi Mangione's state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was postponed until Wednesday after prosecutors said they failed to inform his jailors that he was needed in court. Read more


JD Vance's appearance on The View is raising eyebrows -- but not for his heated political debate with Ana Navarro or his admitting to being a "conspiracy theorist" about the Epstein files. Instead, people who tuned into the ABC daytime talk show episode Tuesday to see the vice president discuss his new book, Communion, were shocked by his bold TV makeup. Vance, 41, came on the show appearing to wear eyeliner -- which his wife, Usha Vance, has said in the past is not makeup, but actually his thick eyelashes -- and a heavy amount of orange bronzer. Read more


FBI Director Kash Patel prematurely announced details of an investigation into an alleged terror plot targeting last weekend's White House UFC event, sources told MS NOW on Tuesday. Ken Dilanian, the network's justice and intelligence correspondent, wrote on X that Patel's disclosure on social media compromised the sealed investigation because it came before another 10 suspects or so could be apprehended.


This article argues that Trump's claimed Iran deal is vague, politically inflated, and dangerously built on Iran's unreliable promises while allowing him to take credit for easing a crisis his own actions helped create.


Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Getting back to the star of the show, on Monday morning Trump turned his attention to the July 4th celebrations centered around America's 250th anniversary.

And by doing so, he finally admitted the truth. Here is what he said on Truth Social yesterday.

"On July 4th at the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument in beautiful and safe Washington DC, we are going to host the most spectacular Trump rally of them all, a tribute to America."

And I'm going to stop reading it right there because that is the key. Read more


Six men were arrested on federal charges for an alleged double kidnapping and torture, which included a blowtorch, at a Margaritaville Resort in Hollywood, Fla. According to a federal criminal complaint obtained by NewsNation, one of the suspects, identified as 19-year-old Saul Alfonso Fajardo, asked the two victims if they wanted to smoke weed in Fajardo's car in the parking garage. All individuals agreed. After arriving at the car, a witness called the police to report multiple people had taken the two victims by gunpoint and placed them in two separate vehicles.


Soon, however, the producers ran into obstacles. Officials from the county Beaches and Harbors Department and the California Coastal Commission told them they couldn't park their trucks overnight, light fires or drive on the sand. "We're a lifeguard show," "Baywatch" co-creator Greg Bonann remembers saying. "What do you mean we can't drive a truck on the beach?" Suddenly the show was at risk of becoming the wrong kind of symbol: this one, a victim of California's tangle of regulations. No one in power " not Newsom or L.A. Mayor Karen Bass " wanted to read the headline about "Baywatch" bailing out of Los Angeles. When elected leaders were summoned to the Fox lot to smooth things over, the show held all the leverage. "After a while, you have to sit down with the right people and say, Guys, do we want to have this show here or not?'" Bonann says. Read more


Joseph Garrett Duggar, who starred on the TLC reality show "19 Kids and Counting," was arrested Wednesday after he was accused of molesting a 9-year-old girl six years ago during a vacation in Florida.


After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a plan was devised for both Israel and Palestine to recognize each other and share the land between them. To make the State of Palestine viable, an elevated and secure corridor was suggested to connect the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Such a highway 20 miles in length, encased by a stainless steel fence and jointly patrolled by Israeli and Palestinian police, would have cost only a few billion dollars in the 1990s. Afterwards, Palestinians could have then provided the cheap labor for Israeli construction, farming, and industry, or remain in their own country, while Israelis would have finally enjoyed their own Jewish homeland without becoming the brutal militaristic state they have devolved into, with PTSD and suicides afflicting Israeli society.

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