The Houston Astros are on the brink of returning to the World Series for the fifth time in the past seven years — which means they’ve had a pretty good postseason. Ted Cruz wouldn’t know it, though, at least not based on what he’s seen in person. The Astros haven’t …
Read More »Dems Warn That China Is Using GOP Chaos to Discredit Democracy
A coalition of Democrats serving in the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has requested to receive a classified intelligence briefing on “how the CCP and our foreign adversaries are leveraging current political dysfunction in the U.S. House of Representatives to discredit democracy globally.” In a Monday letter …
Read More »Trump Says He'll Ban Immigrants Who 'Don't Like Our Religion'
Donald Trump has long been painting a picture of what he’ll do to the United States should he win back the White House next November. His plans include everything from pulling America out of NATO, as Rolling Stone reported on Monday, to a sweeping, multi-faceted crackdown on immigration — which …
Read More »Liz Cheney: Democracy Is Doomed Under a Second Trump Presidency
Rep. Liz Cheney shared her fears that another Trump presidency could be the death knell for democracy. “He cannot be the next president because if he is, all of the things he attempted to do but was stopped from doing by responsible people around him — at the Department of …
Read More »Blinken: Hamas Is Blocking Americans From Leaving Gaza
Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused militant group Hamas of blocking Americans and citizens of other nations from crossing into Egypt from Gaza and said that “some significant number” of the 10 unaccounted for Americans are being held hostage by Hamas. “We have several hundred Americans and other nationalities, other …
Read More »Trump Announced Sidney Powell Joined His Legal Team In 2020, Now Claims She Was 'Never' His Lawyer
To Donald Trump, the truth is whatever he decides it is. In the wake of Sidney Powell‘s plea deal and despite claiming that she had joined his legal team in 2020, the former president is now alleging she was “never” his attorney. “Despite the Fake News reports to the contrary… …
Read More »Listen: Billionaire Brags About Trump Sharing Secret Information With Him
Nearly two weeks ago, media reported that Donald Trump reportedly revealed information about U.S. nuclear submarine capabilities to Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt. And on Sunday, 60 Minutes Australia played recordings of secret tapes where Pratt disclosed other non-public information Trump shared with him, including information about U.S. military operations in …
Read More »Hamas Release Two American Hostages, a Mother and Daughter, Taken on Oct. 7
Hamas released two American hostages on Friday. Militants for the group that controls Gaza abducted mother and daughter Judith Raanan (who also goes by Yehudit Tai), 59, and Natalie Raanan (Natali Shoshana Raanan), 17, from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, during their invasion on Oct. 7. The Israeli military picked them up …
Read More »Greta Thunberg Was Targeted for an Octopus. Then Israel Chimed In
Two weeks into the horrific war between Israel and Hamas, the state of online discourse has descended from “generally bad and stupid” to “unfathomably dumb and borderline dangerous.” Case in point: recent allegations that environmental activist Greta Thunberg, after posting a “Stand with Gaza” sign and demanding a ceasefire, was …
Read More »President Biden Condemns Islamophobia, Killing of 6-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy
During President Joe Biden‘s Oval Office address on Thursday, he drew attention to Wadea Al-Fayoume, the six-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was stabbed to death in an alleged hate crime. “His name was Wadea,” said Biden during his address to the nation. “A proud American, a proud Palestinian American family. We …
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