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Thursday, July 16, 2026

Revised plan aims to keep something going' amid fears Netanyahu may gamble on new all-out offensive before Israeli elections.v Read more


During negotiations with the U.S. in Switzerland last month, the Iranian government reportedly warned Vice President JD Vance that President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner were undermining the chances of a peace deal. Drop Site News reports, citing an unnamed Iranian official, that Iranian negotiators believed Witkoff and Kushner were more interested in trying to profit off the talks in financial markets than reaching a lasting agreement. The Iranians were also worried about Kushner and Witkoff leaking information to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The Iranians sent a private message to Vance through an intermediary following earlier communication through Pakistani mediators. Those earlier communications reportedly included written documentation that "individuals close to President Trump" were using the war and diplomatic talks to manipulate markets. Read more


VPOTUS JD Vance wasted three hours on multi-millionaire Joe Rogan's imbecilic podcast where he blew off the insult made at the 14 June White House UFC cage match that Michele Obama was really a man. The VPOTUS has nothing better to do with his American taxpayer-funded salary while a treasury-depleting war rages on against Iran on Israel's behalf, the US Senate is in session, ICE murders are piling up, and a US Senator is about to be buried or lie in state.

UFC thug Josh Hokit is not a good human being. Neither are JD Vance and Joe Rogaine


White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel established a hasty war room in the West Wing lasting seven hours to feverishly determine who leaked information about the security deficiencies on the Qatari-gifted airplane meant to be used as Air Force One. D/FBI Patel was diverted at the last minute from a trip to Chicago and some officials were asked to turn over their phones to investigators on White House grounds.

"Bribe Force One" is a disaster


Congresswoman Kat Cammack (R-FL-3rd CD): "The thing that people need to recognize is that as we sit here, the Chinese government has already deployed digital twins of every member of Congress and has been using the data that they've harvested." The Florida Republican bleated that foreign adversaries can influence policy in Washington, DC without "firing a single shot," but rather infiltrating the minds of citizens nationwide.

Batchit UFO voodoo blither-blather from this incumbent who is ahead in her race for re-election


Dozens of people held at a sprawling Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten, according to a new report issued by legal and human rights advocates.


Are you right-handed? Left-handed? Or even ambidextrous? For most of your life, you've probably heard that this has something to do with the way your brain is hardwired: that preference seems to show up even before you are born, after all.


Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Having choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is now signaling it could play its most dangerous card yet: using Yemen's Houthi allies to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front against Washington and putting two of the world's most vital energy arteries at risk.


On Saturday nights in Hiltons, Virginia, the Carter Family Fold continues a tradition that has endured for generations. During a recent visit, I watched dancers fill the old wooden floor while Daniel Grindstaff and The Uptown Troubadours, along with other musicians, played music that you couldn't hardly resist getting up and dancing to. This music venue felt less like a concert and more like stepping into another era. Experienced dancers took to the floor with an ease that comes only from years of knowing the steps. Before long, many of the audience members joined them and children eagerly followed, learning the dances simply by watching and doing, just as generations before them had. Read more


What is this?


Black lawmakers and activists across the Deep South argue they have been abandoned by the Democratic Party to fight an existential crisis on their own. They say they've been let down by nearly all corners of the party: would be-presidential hopefuls who have flocked to early and swing states but don't bring their megaphones elsewhere; congressional leadership focused on majority-making battlegrounds while safe Black seats are drawn out; and years of chronic underfunding that has allowed local party apparatus to wither away. Read more


The 38-year-old has since ridden more than 118,000 miles and visited 80 different countries on her bike, documenting it all for 3.3 million fans on YouTube who follow her from dirt roads in South Africa to river crossings in Ecuador.

She told her story in her 2025 memoir, Free Ride, and her next book, Beyond Fear, is due in 2027.


This launches efforts to undermine election trust, challenge midterm results, and centralize power through narrative control and institutional changes.


After Maine Democrats warned him to stay out of choosing Graham Platner's replacement in their senate race, US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-Israel) boldly announced: "I'm staying out" of the Maine Senate Race. D'uh.

Status quo, AIPAC Democrats, Republicans, and dinosaurs do not want to to abolish ICE or DHS, but "tweak" them a little. Uh-huh.
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  • NYC will offer free child care for parents and caregivers in each of the five boroughs to give them an evening off.
  • NYC executes aggressive plan to tackle an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Manhattan, already disinfecting 19 of 31 water cooling towers.
  • NYC will waive civil service examination fees for high school graduates and first-time test takers.
  • NYC enacts "Click-To-Cancel" consumer protection rules to ban subscription traps and junk fees.
  • NYC completes Madison and Lexington Avenue bus lane projects serving more than 150,000 daily riders.
    Why New Yorkers voted for Democrat Zohran Mamdani


    The morbidly obese draft-dodging President of the United States -- who easily develops crushes on handsome young men " and is reportedly undergoing dementia treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) at no cost to him whatsoever -- posted an AI photo of himself in the Oval Office bleating at European leaders with a map of the American flag covering Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela.

    Time for the 25th Amendment and POTUS JD Vance?


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