Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) began Wednesday’s Senate hearing on former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness with a striking rebuttal, displaying a video montage of President Donald Trump making his own series of gaffes. The clip, played during Durbin’s opening remarks, included Trump’s pandemic-era comments about injecting disinfectant, comments about windmills driving whales “crazy,” and occasions […]
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus lead singer Ronnie Winter has warned Christians who support President Donald Trump not to come to his shows, saying that “woke propaganda” will be present. The rock band is best known for the 2006 hit “Face Down.” Winter’s “PSA” was issued on his Instagram account, claiming that “being woke” means people are […]
Five Democratic cities are suing the Department of Homeland Security for failing to reimburse them for purchases made to support counterterrorism measures and curbing nuclear attacks. Chicago, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle have filed suit after 11 requests for reimbursements for expenditures, previously approved by the department, have been ignored since February. The plaintiffs […]
Texas lawmakers quietly stopped funding the state construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico just four years after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed off on the project. In the final hours of this year’s legislative session, the Republican-controlled state legislature stripped the project of its funding, leaving its future unclear. The […]
Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested on Tuesday by ICE agents at an immigration courthouse in Lower Manhattan. He was attempting to escort a migrant, whom agents were trying to arrest. Lander was charged with assaulting a federal officer. This is one of several high-profile instances when federal authorities have arrested a Democratic politician — following Senator Alex Padilla’s […]
Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, comparing him to an autocrat. Speaking at The Bushnell Performing Arts Center in Hartford, Connecticut, at a discussion with anti-Trump writer and historian Heather Cox Richardson, the former president warned that liberal democracy in the United States was eroding, implying it was due to […]
Virginia Democratic state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi won a six-way primary on Wednesday to become the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor, the end to a two-day contest in which Hashmi narrowly defeated her top competitor by less than 1%. The Associated Press called the race for Hashmi at 11:01 a.m., well after the polls closed on […]
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) highlighted the impending elections across Virginia, urging voters to support “our Commonsense Team” this November. Virginia’s primary election day on Tuesday saw the Democratic Party select its candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general. Following the Republican Party’s surprise victory in the 2021 elections, Youngkin said that “the teams are now […]
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) released his long-awaited report on deficit spending Wednesday as he digs in against President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” In the 31-page report, Johnson cites numbers and graphs to support his warning that he will oppose Trump’s tax bill without further spending reductions. In a press call ahead of its release, […]
President Donald Trump kept the world on edge Wednesday when pressed for updates regarding the Israel-Iran war, signaling he won’t telegraph whether he’ll deploy U.S. military assets. Trump abruptly returned to Washington, D.C., from the Group of 7 Summit in Canada early Tuesday morning and convened a meeting of his National Security Council in the […]
