Bill Maher Embarrasses Radical Rep. Ro Khanna for Sycophantic Mamdani Praise: ‘He pals around with terrorists!’
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On Friday, Bill Maher was joined by radical democrat Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) who went on a sychophantic diatribe on how "wonderful' socialist Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani,is.
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Melat Kiros, a socialist congressional candidate challenging incumbent Democrat Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado's 1st Congressional District, believes there is a need for a "Trans Bill of Rights," considering it "horrific" to protect children from gender mutilation surgery.
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The once tight bond between Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and MAGA ally Mike Davis has fractured, offering a personal window into the broader rift between the Trump administration and the justices it helped appoint.Gorsuch once nicknamed Davis "the general" for the leading role he's taken in his career, first by helping him secure his first federal judgeship, then by leading the public campaign for his Supreme Court confirmation and later serving as one of his inaugural clerks – but that closeness has since deteriorated, reported The Daily Beast.One source with direct knowledge of the relationship told the Washington Post that Gorsuch was upset after Davis publicly attacked Justice Amy Coney Barrett, calling her a "rattled law professor" over rulings she joined against Trump alongside the court's liberal justices. Another source with direct knowledge said Davis, in turn, was angered by Gorsuch's vote to block the administration's use of a wartime authority to deport Venezuelan migrants.The strain became visible last year when Davis was notably absent from a gathering Gorsuch hosted for his former clerks. The two sources differed on whether Gorsuch asked Davis not to attend or whether Davis chose to stay away on his own.Davis declined to discuss the relationship directly but defended his broader criticism of the court in an interview, arguing that an unfavorable ruling on birthright citizenship would damage the court's standing. "They are following politics and vanity projects instead of the law," he said, adding that public pressure on the justices could be productive. "Sometimes feeling the heat helps people see the light."The falling-out reflects a wider pattern playing out across President Donald Trump's relationship with the court. Despite Gorsuch being one of three justices Trump appointed during his first term, the 80-year-old president has at times publicly criticized him by name, including accusing him of lacking "loyalty" after he joined a ruling striking down Trump's tariffs.Gorsuch, for his part, has avoided directly engaging with the criticism. Asked in a CBS News interview whether he owed loyalty to the president, he said simply that his "loyalty is to the Constitution." Gorsuch did not respond to a request for comment on his relationship with Davis.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubled down on branding a pro-Israel super PAC as "monsters" — even as Jewish New Yorkers warned the word choice could incite violence.
Voting rights advocacy groups warned last week that a North Carolina House bill proposing extensive changes to state election laws is “harmful” to voting rights.Representatives from Common Cause North Carolina, Democracy North Carolina, Forward Justice, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, and North Carolina Black Alliance gathered outside the state Legislative Building at the hour state lawmakers inside were expected to vote on House Bill 958Republican lawmakers who authored the bill said Tuesday that it was intended to improve the “integrity” of the election process. But Kathleen Roblez, senior voting rights counsel at Forward Justice, highlighted a provision of the bill that would prohibit state and local election board members from “encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election.”“This is like saying you own a restaurant, but you cannot go online and say, ‘Please come eat dinner today.’” Roblez said. “This is saying a state or county board election member cannot say ‘Today’s election day, register to vote, voting is good.’ That’s their job. This is a First Amendment violation, plain and simple.”Roblez also expressed concerns that the bill’s proposal to require military and overseas voters to provide documentation showing their most recent North Carolina address along with their registration applications would result in fewer people voting overseas.“It’s important now, as always, to remember that if your vote wasn’t so important, they wouldn’t be working so hard to take it away from you,” Roblez said.The bill would also require overseas and military voters to submit photo identification with their ballots, codifying a state Supreme Court decision in Republican Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin’s unsuccessful attempt to throw out ballots in his 2024 race for a Supreme Court seat.The influence of the Supreme Court decision in Griffin’s case appears in the bill a second time in the bill’s move to make overseas voters who have never lived in North Carolina but vote in the state because their parents last lived here ineligible to vote in state or local elections. These voters are referred to as “never residents” in Griffin’s lawsuit.Other key changes of H958 include:Allowing state Auditor Dave Boliek, a Republican, to select counties for post-election audits instead of counties being randomly selected. Extending the deadline from three to five business days for voters who cast provisional ballots because they did not show their ID, or who have mistakes or omissions on their absentee ballot envelopes to show their ID or correct the mistakes. Gives county election boards two additional business days to announce absentee ballot counts, extending the deadline from Friday after an election to Tuesday.North Carolina Black Alliance Executive Director Marcus Bass said the bill’s provisions, taken together, will disproportionately affect younger, poorer and minority voters.“We are here to make sure that the individuals behind us don’t just operate in the cover of darkness or in the confines of this concrete building,” Bass said, “but that their actions are met by voters in the district, by individuals that they’re elected to serve, and by the citizens who deserve free and fair elections.”The state House Elections Committee approved the bill Tuesday along party lines. Republican bill sponsors had planned to fast-track it through another committee and onto the state House floor as quickly as possible. However, they delayed the bill after dozens of protesters crowded into legislative meeting rooms and hallways Tuesday. It did not resurface for debate Wednesday. House leaders say they’re continuing to work on it.During Wednesday’s press conference, advocates also expressed concerns over the rollback of early voting sites in various counties, including a decision last week in Wake County to relocate a site from NC State University’s student center to a building at the edge of campus, as well as a decision by Granville County election officials to relocate two early voting sites out of Oxford and Creedmoor, where the majority of the county’s Democrats live, into rural areas of the county that are more heavily Republican.“It is targeted to Black voters, but the fringes are also cutting a wider gap in democracy than I think that they’re anticipating,” Bass said. “Everybody should be upset about what’s happening.”
In recent months, President Donald Trump’s endeavor to clean the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has taken on an episodic quality as the project has raised controversy and encountered mounting problems. Now, a new odorous issue has been reported.“As they drain it,” noted Joe Flood, “the Reflecting Pool is starting to smell.”Over the weekend, Trump admitted that the pool would have to be drained to fix the peeling paint and algae blooms that have plagued his mission to have it “American Flag blue” in time for the 4th of July. While many have suggested that the no-bid contractor his administration secured to do the job could be to blame, Trump has his own theories.According to the Guardian, “Trump acknowledged ‘real problems’ with the site, which he said he had examined himself, this week. He has not acknowledged any issues with the renovation he ordered, however. Instead, the president blamed the pool’s woes on ‘vandals’, which he claimed had taken ‘some form of knife or blade’ and delivered a 250ft gash into the pool’s facade. By Monday, when Trump was still posting about the site, this alleged damage had grown into a ‘300 foot long gash’. Reporters at the Washington Post who visited the pool on Sunday could see no evidence of such damage, it reported, despite Trump’s claims. Trump also claimed that unidentified vandals have poured ‘corrosive and destructive chemicals’ into the pool.” No evidence has been provided of such claims, though as the Guardian notes, “Government workers were seen pouring hydrogen peroxide into the water to tackle the algae.” Trump’s project dates back to April, when he announced that he’d hired a contractor to coat its granite basin for $1.5 million. That cost quickly exploded to $14 million, and by mid-June $16 million, and that was before the new draining and repairs to come. Early in the renovation, it was found that the White House had hired a no-bid contractor, and then last week, it was revealed that the company’s owner was in fact a Trump donor and neighbor of Mar-a-Lago who the president had once called a “fantastic man.” By that time, images of the pool turned bright green by algae had drawn no shortage of ridicule, and it was being reported that large flakes of paint or sealant were breaking loose. The president then declared that anyone caught vandalizing the pool would be given a 10-year prison sentence, and since then several people have been arrested and cited for vandalizing the pool, though reporting has cast such allegations in a dubious light: “It’s not clear if any committed acts of vandalism. Washington Post reporters witnessed people interacting with police after pulling objects from the water. Peeling paint has been floating on the surface at times."A three-time U.S. Olympian and canoeist says he was arrested after noticing a partly detached piece of the blue liner and reaching into the water to touch it. "I didn’t vandalize anything," David Hearn, who had been cycling, told the Washington Post. "I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs."
Andy Burnham looks likely to become the UK’s next prime minister after Keir Starmer announced his resignation and potential rivals endorsed Parliament’s newest MP to succeed him.
CNN on Monday played a supercut of some of President Donald Trump's big promises about the Reflecting Pool as a panel of analysts ridiculed the president's results.Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday morning: "Of the MANY Statues and Fountains that we rebuilt, renovated, cleaned, and fixed, the only one that was Vandalized was the Reflecting Pool, which is being taken care of, ASAP! It has been given a 300 foot long gash, chemicals have been illegally placed in the water..."Referring to it as a "mismanagement" of the project, CNN host Dana Bash introduced "a combination of conversations that the president has had, kind of with himself, but cameras were there about the Reflecting Pool from May 4th until June 10th, during which most of these events were about other things."The supercut included Trump's promise of something so "beautiful" that "you could never get any anything like that." He also pledged on May 7 that he would do the project for $1.8 million and it would be finished in a week. "It's going to be something very special," Trump promised later in those remarks.Trump told his daughter-in-law that he was using "Swimming pool material" to make it "blue, beautiful blue, which is what they always wanted." By June 10 Trump was bragging that people "can't believe it" and "everybody's looking at that reflecting pool." Reporter Manu Raju explained that this is one of many reasons that the disaster is such a huge embarrassment for Trump. "Because he has boasted about this so much. He could have been you know — it's a noteworthy goal to say, okay, I want D.C. to have improvements, look beautiful, et cetera," Raju said.The costs continue to climb as problems persist ahead of the July 4th event. Raju recalled that the fix "went to a no-bid contract to someone who's close to the to the president or the president's team. So, a lot of questions about how all that played out. It clearly is not American flag blue, which is why he's now saying vandals and many people arrested when it seems like there are cameras all over D.C., they could release some of this video footage that exists."
Darializa Avila Chevalier is running on universal healthcare, campaign finance reform and abolishing ICEA progressive Democrat challenging a veteran congressman to represent the party in a closely watched New York race for US Congress has claimed the city has deteriorated on his watch.Darializa Avila Chevalier, one of three allies that New York City’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has endorsed in competitive congressional Democratic primaries in the city on Tuesday, is seeking to unseat incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the state’s 13th congressional district. Continue reading...
