"A week after Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg unveiled a controversial plan to back primary challenges to longtime party incumbents, anger at the activist-turned-Democratic leader is only intensifying among party officials. These Democratic critics say their fury at Hogg has grown amid what they see as his ill-conceived and insufficient efforts to make amends for his planned primary campaign " a campaign that, they say, threatens the DNC's neutrality and its capacity to fight back against Dotard Trumpf." Young David Hogg represents a genuine threat to the well-entrenched and calcified Democrats who let the NRA, Wall Street, AIPAC, the military-industrial complex, and health insurance companies dictate congressional legislation for decades. Sources: www.opensecrets.org www.trackaipac.com read more
Congressional Republicans in both chambers passed a resolution to cut at least $880 billion from the budget through 2034. Because Medicaid accounts for approximately 93% of non-Medicare funding, the program is expected to absorb the overwhelming share of these reductions. The cuts to Medicaid would result in widespread coverage losses, which could lead to 15,400 deaths due to work reporting requirements or roughly 34,200 deaths from reduced federal funding each year. With the GOP, the greedy American oligarchs below are aiding and abetting in what Friedrich Engels called "social murder." read more
A family of four from El Salvador crossed the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls to Canada fleeing the ICE raids and sudden deportations sweeping the US. But the CBSA focused on small discrepancies in their paperwork and rejected them, even though they qualified for entry under exception and have a brother who is a Canadian citizen. When the four were disappointingly driven back to the US border, CBP detained them. Canada turns away most asylum seekers who attempt to enter from the US at land border crossings, but there are exceptions to this rule, which these four met. This family has been detained for two weeks now. I hope those CBSA officers are happy with themselves knowing that these four vulnerable people, including two girls (4 and 14), will eventually be deported to rightwing-led El Salvador. read more
Trump stripped Colombian President Gustavo Petro's visa, preventing him from attending imminent meetings of the IMF and IBRD in the US. read more
The executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission resigned amid multiple investigations into jackpots totaling nearly $200 million. State law allows Texas jackpots to be claimed anonymously and two of the biggest jackpots in agency history drew intense scrutiny and criticism. In 2023, a $95 million jackpot was awarded when the winners bought nearly every possible number combination, more than 25 million of them. In Feb 2025, an $83 million ticket was won with a ticket purchased from a chain that operates locations in six states, and the April 2023 jackpot was collected two months later in the form of a one-time payment of $57.8 million to a company called 'Rook TX.' read more
#5: Concur. We will go down in defeat in 2026 and 2028 if we don't. Start with this hypocrite first who prioritizes the people of another country over the people of America: www.richardsilverstein.com
Stephanie Horowitz in Florida isn't the only double mass shooting survivor. Jackie Matthews was present for both the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012 and the Michigan State University shooting in 2023. What a country we have to produce such stories: www.unilad.com
Thank you NRA and Republican voters!
#1: Yup. Another sign that we know young Master David Hogg is correct is by the exaggerated squawking of the brontosauruses. If the entrenched Democrats paid attention last year, on 5 Nov 2024 the Harris/Walz ticket may not have lost the 6,265,888 voters Biden/Harris had in 2020: assets.editorial.aetnd.com
#1: Good Morning Zed: Concur, these cuts will be terrible for poor Americans. Elect a sociopath to be President, expect sociopathic behavior. But the Trumpf junta already started the war by bombing the starving (Shia) Houthis on behalf of war criminal Bibi Netanyahu and murderous (Sunni) Muhammad Bin Salman. Basically only the press from the Middle East is reporting about the US military atrocities that have cost the American taxpayer one billion dollars with little to nothing accomplished except Murder-Death-Kill. Link: www.tehrantimes.com
The "shock and awe" in this story is that sex offender Bill O'Reilly is somehow still relevant to somebody: www.yahoo.com
India's unforgiving and immutable Hindu caste system has made internal enemies of both Hindus (impoverished Dalits AKA the 'Untouchables') and non-Hindus (Muslims, Baluchs, and Sikhs). Destitute Hindu Dalits called "Naxalites" have been fighting Delhi for decades in an agrarian Maoist insurgency similar to guerillas fighting for land reform in Central and South America. These Naxalites are undefeated in several parts of India: alchetron.com
The massive Indian security force presence in Jammu and Kashmir (500,000 personnel) use shotgun pellets to purposely blind Muslim protestors: https://www.independent.co.uk
India can blame Pakistan for supporting their fellow Muslims oppressed in Jammu and Kashmir, but Hindu-supremacist Delhi's repression of the 'Other' is the root cause.
America spent the first two decades of the 21st century fighting wars in faraway Iraq and Afghanistan wasting trillions of dollars and costing thousands of lives, courtesy of G. W. Bush. Meanwhile in the same first two decades China quietly and steadily used her resources on R&D, espionage, and industrialization. In addition to this thorium reactor, Beijing has a reusable hypersonic space plane, super AI computer, and stealth jet fighters. Case in point: this month the Trumpf junta wasted another billion dollars of taxpayer money bombing shoeless and starving Houthis in Yemen on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu while cutting DOD R&D funding: www.graphicnews.com
#58: American Nazi Party at Madison Square Garden in 1939: www.wjct.org
Note: Both the Confederates States of America (CSA) and the American Nazi Party prominently used slaveowner George Washington as their symbol, including the Great Seal of the CSA and their currency.
Meanwhile from 1936-39, thousands of international volunteers fought the fascists in Spain in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
So, Hellsbreath ain't going anywhere it seems. "Lights! Camera! Action!"
Hi Snoofy: BTW, I think barbers use Barbercide, not Vitalis: directsalonsupplies.co.uk
Hi MATTM:
Thanks for posting the story about the AUSA and their targeting campaign. Your second link was a dupe-- there was no mention of the Mennonites. I think this was the article you wanted to post: www.medpagetoday.com
Look what 49.8% of eligible American voters did to us on 5 Nov 2024.
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I figured you might have insights, stories, or RUMINT on fellow MNARNG alumnus Pete Hellsbreath.