At its summer meeting in Austin, the Democratic National Committee approved a resolution urging Democratic lawmakers to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The vote came alongside a competing reform resolution, reflecting the party’s internal split. Party chair Ken Martin stressed that official platform language is set at the national convention, not at these meetings. The […]
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At an Arctic Council meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, in May 2019, Mike Pompeo asked whether the world wanted the Arctic Ocean to become another South China Sea. Many Arctic specialists regarded the comparison as overwrought. China’s visible presence amounted to one working icebreaker, a second still fitting out, and a research station on Svalbard. The idea […]
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Michigan Democrats nominated Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (Now called Abdul El-Sayed) for U.S. Senate. Let’s look at what he actually said, what he actually is, and what he scrubbed from the internet before asking for their votes. Michigan Democrats just nominated Abdul El-Sayed for Senate. He oversaw Detroit’s animal shelter where the kill rate hit 74%, […]
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Almonds demand an extraordinary volume of water in California’s arid Central Valley, locking the state into a permanent, high-stakes thirst that annual crops can simply avoid. Each almond kernel carries a water footprint of roughly 3.2 gallons. Scaled across more than a million acres of orchards, the crop consumes 4.7 to 5.7 million acre-feet annually—about […]
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Sami Winc: So, Victor, let’s look at some of these primaries. We already talked a little bit about Francesca Hong, who lost to David Crowley, which was a good thing, but I think it was by a very small margin. And I don’t know the hope for the GOP in that primary, but you’ve suggested it’s not […]
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A senior figure with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party’s security and influence apparatus purchased a historic commercial building roughly 650 feet northeast of the White House grounds. The deal closed on July 21 for $8.4 million. The property sits on 15th Street with a direct line of sight to the White House Complex. […]
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A suspect is in custody for allegedly vandalizing the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Friday. Melissa L. Farris faces two felony charges of depredation against property of the United States and destruction of veterans’ memorials, carrying penalties of up to ten years in […]
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday arrested five illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes and drug offenses, the agency announced Tuesday. “Yesterday, ICE arrested murderers, violent assailants, kidnappers, drug traffickers, and other dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our communities,” Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told the Daily Signal. “Under the leadership of President [Donald] Trump, […]
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This page from layoffhedge.com is an interactive map showing H-1B visa (LCA) filings mapped to U.S. congressional districts, covering FY2015 through FY2026. Users can click on a district or search by ZIP code to see filing counts, top employers, wage ranges, and the current representative for that district, across all 436 districts. It supports filtering […]
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Tucker Carlson recently assembled a group of like-minded apostate MAGA conservatives for a meeting to discuss apparently a possible third-party run in 2028. I think a lot of us were mystified for a lot of reasons. One of them was that third parties in American political history really have had no record in the modern era […]