An Ohio mom broke down in tears in front of her kids as she explained how hard it has been to make ends meet under President Donald Trump's administration. "Just listen to this Ohio mother, who is a Trump supporter, who was literally moved to tears when my colleague Alex Tabet asked her about the basics she's struggling to buy," she said. The woman, standing by her minivan with Trump stickers on the windows, tears up in a gas station in Rittman, Ohio as Tabet asks, "Is this how you expected the second Trump term to go?" Read more
Voters in Tennessee dealt President Trump a blow and rejected Republican Rep. Andy Ogles at the polls Thursday. The second-term lawmaker faced a formidable primary challenge from Charlie Hatcher, a former state agriculture commissioner endorsed by outgoing Gov. Bill Lee (R). Hatcher's victory is the latest blemish on Trump's largely successful endorsement record this cycle.
Some estimates made by Doge, the body charged with reducing US government spending, that it saved billions of dollars are "incorrect or lack supporting evidence", a watchdog has found. A report released on Thursday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has given an extensive review of Doge's claims about its so-called "Wall of Receipts", which reported savings of $110bn (82bn) across contracts, grants and leases. "Several issues limit the transparency and reliability of these reported savings," the report stated. Read more
"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."
Mitch McConnell discharged.
"An emerging critique of Democratic decision-making," the chapter states, "is there are too many people who have become generationally wealthy off politics and drive too much of the decision-making within the ecosystem. This is deeply frustrating to many... who want to try a different set of politics but keep banging their heads up against a system proven to be inflexible and self-enriching." The chapter adds that "many of the people who worked at the highest levels of the party" are "financially secure," and thus potentially insulated "from the realities many Americans were encountering in their lives." The chapter raised pointed questions that were notably absent from the draft that the party put out, both about President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s ill-fated decision to run for re-election and the sway of an operative class that had become "generationally wealthy off politics" while steering Democratic strategy." Read more
When Gov. Joe Lombardo (R-NV) referenced fallen Las Vegas police officer Austin Abdelnabi at a political rally, the mob of Dummkopf Trumpf supporters blindly cascaded a chorus of loud boos at him, thinking he was talking about Democratic Senate Candidate for Michigan Dr. Abdul el-Sayed. "No, no -- we're not booing him," Lombardo admonished the throng. "He's the officer that passed away here recently." Audible gasps could be heard from the rabble. Lombardo then asked the unruly horde to participate in a moment of silence for Abdelnabi, whom he then referred to as "Officer Austin."
A few weeks ago Gov Joe Lombardo (R) ran a red light, then dropped his own name to the police officer. Oops!
John Gannon says he deeply regrets his decision to vote for President Trump after his fiance, an immigrant from Venezuela, was arrested and detained by federal immigration agents last month. A lifelong Republican and Texas businessman, Gannon, 75, said his plans to marry 45-year-old Yasmin Suarez Reyes were derailed when she was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Houston's international airport in late July. "I voted for Trump," he told CBS News during an interview Wednesday, before criticizing ICE. "They are picking up law-abiding citizens. They're destroying families, jobs." Asked what he would tell Mr. Trump if given the chance to talk to him, Gannon said he would ask the president, "What are you doing?" "Go after the criminals. We're all for that. But leave the mom and pops and the kids alone. Man, he's destroying families," Gannon added.
Two watchdog offices inside the Justice Department are tasked with investigating misconduct. Both have seen significant staff departures under Trump, partly from efforts to shrink government. Complaints to one watchdog hit a 20-year high while investigations hit a 20-year low.
In 2021, I hit a breaking point. I was tired of working sales jobs, chasing money, and feeling that none of it mattered. I wanted to do something genuinely good, something difficult that I thought might actually help people. I found what I thought was my answer through a temp agency listing for a night-shift position at a downtown Los Angeles homeless shelter. The pay was $16 an hour, and the listing said, "urgently hiring." I was an adult with a pulse willing to do the job for that wage, so I was hired.
Just over a hundred years ago, the Binet IQ test was developed in France and soon after, brought to the United States, where it was given to public school kids, physicians, and immigrants at Ellis Island. From the 1930s, IQ scores seemed to be inching up -- with each new generation scoring a little higher than the last. Throughout the 20th century, average intelligence scores rose by about 3 points a decade, even when researchers used different tests and metrics.
Weird Al says he regrets using words like "midget", "spastic", "she-male", etc. in his songs.
Karma intervened when MAGA hatemonger Scott LoBaido (61) suffered a cardiac arrest while needlessly trying to confront the successful and pacific NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in Staten Island.
Scott LoBaido is not a good human being
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An attorney for Ohio Rep. Max Miller said he accidentally included a sensitive photo of the lawmaker's 2-year-old daughter in a trove of information Miller shared on social media as he denied domestic abuse allegations from his former wife and vowed to seek reelection. "To be clear, this was completely my fault," the lawyer, Aaron Minc, said in a statement reported by Mediaite. Emily Moreno's attorneys cited the image of the girl in a letter to Minc this week, alleging the photo "could be considered Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)." The letter is part of a defamation lawsuit Miller launched against Moreno in May.
Israeli soldiers and civilian contractors are systematically removing potential proof of genocide from the Gaza Strip daily by the truckload, an apparent violation of an order issued by the World Court for Israel to preserve evidence of genocidal acts committed by the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) in the Palestinian exclave. The Lancet UK estimates that since 7 Oct 2023, over 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza were butchered by the American taxpayer-funded IDF to make way for detestable Jared Kushner's luxury beachside resort for Israeli oligarchs and lunatic Settlers.
Auschwitz is prohibited from being demolished as a grim reminder of the Holocaust.
