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Thursday, July 16, 2026

INSIDE RUSSIA

The moment I checked into the hospital, I received a call from Russia. The caller addressed me by my name and asked how I was feeling.

At the moment when I was preparing for a surgery!

He said he represented the Russian Ministry of Defense and offered me to sign a military contract.

Now, do you believe it was a coincidence? After everything that has happened around me, the timing is impossible to ignore.


Intelligence on China was collected, analyzed in Trump's first term. Information does not show Beijing changed votes. Trump administration working to exert federal control over US elections. The White House is considering releasing sensitive intelligence related to China and its ability to interfere in U.S. elections that some Trump officials worry could be misleading, according to four people with knowledge of the deliberations.


In a move that will place hundreds of thousands of green card applicants under broader scrutiny each year, the Trump administration is allowing immigration officers to consider whether some applicants have used taxpayer-funded benefits " including Medicaid, food stamps and housing assistance " when determining whether they qualify for permanent legal status. The Department of Homeland Security is poised to rescind a 2022 Biden-era regulation narrowing how officers apply a long-standing "public charge" test " an immigration screening tool used to determine whether applicants are likely to rely on government support " according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.


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


Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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?


    Tuesday, July 14, 2026

    California voters will decide in November whether politicians can receive taxpayer-funded campaign money under a ballot measure that would repeal the state's decades-old ban on public financing. Proposition 4, titled the Allow Public Financing of Election Campaigns measure, will appear on the Nov. 3 statewide ballot. If approved, the measure would allow local governments across California to establish programs that use taxpayer dollars to finance political campaigns, repealing the ban established in 1988 by Proposition 73, which prohibited the use of public funds for election campaigns. Critics say the proposal would force taxpayers to subsidize political campaigns at a time when many Californians are struggling with affordability. Several California cities, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, already operate campaign financing programs,


    President Donald Trump questioned why federal agents are investigating Sen. Lindsey Graham's death on Tuesday, following unfounded rumors of possible foul play that have circulated on social media.

    "So I don't see a lot of evil there. I know there's all sorts of conspiracy theories going along," Trump said, speaking with reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

    "I think the FBI's wasting their time if they're doing that."


    President Trump has paid the writer E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million that was owed to her as a result of a jury's finding that he was liable for sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s and then defaming her, federal court records show. The money, which had been held in escrow while Mr. Trump appealed the 2023 jury award, was disbursed to Ms. Carroll last week, according to a note added to the online court docket in the case on Tuesday.


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