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To reclaim an upward trajectory, the U.K. must relearn the habit of national agency.
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Britain’s Henry Nowak: A real ‘George Floyd’
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George Santos Under Investigation Again Because He Can’t Help Himself
Once a fraudster, always a fraudster. George Santos is under investigation for placing bets that he would not attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, and then not attending.Ahead of the State of the Union in February, the disgraced ex–Long Island representative posted a video announcing his intention to appear at the Capitol. His post sent the odds of his appearance soaring on the prediction market site Kalshi, which may be better known for sports betting. Then he skipped the event. “Watching SOTU from an airport tv was not part of the plan! FML,” Santos wrote on X. But Santos had already placed bets that he would not appear on Kalshi, three people with direct knowledge of the matter told NPR Tuesday. They alleged that Santos misled the public, and then earned tens of thousands of dollars through insider trading. Kalshi referred the case to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice, which have both opened cases into Santos, according to two people familiar with the investigation. When contacted by NPR, Santos responded: “Well, that’s news to me.”In a post on X Tuesday, the former politico appeared to dismiss the reporting. “I hate to disappoint but I don’t engage with rag reporting anymore.… Business as usual on my end haters! 💋” Santos wrote.The rise of prediction market sites such as Kalshi and Polymarket have invited a wave of apparent insider trading in politics. Among campaign staffers, betting on the success or failure of political candidates has become commonplace. In late April, Kalshi banned and fined several political candidates after a company probe found they had bet on themselves. Earlier this year, federal prosecutors charged an active-duty Army soldier involved in the planning and capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro for allegedly using confidential intel to win $400,000 on Polymarket predictions related to the raid.
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The real scandal lurking behind CBS' firing of Scott Pelley
When I was growing up in the pre-cable, pre-streaming '70s and '80s, there was this thing called “appointment television.” It meant a lot of people were watching the same show at the same time, because it was only on once. If you missed it, you’d have to wait for this thing called a “rerun” in the summer, when there was almost no original programming. Instead, the three networks, which were all we had besides a local channel here and there, just recycled all of the shows from their seasons, while everyone took the summer off, as if Hollywood were a school.“Appointment television” in my house meant watching 60 Minutes every Sunday night on CBS. My mother would order Chinese food (Jewish, New Jersey, ‘nuff said), and my father would go pick it up, returning with a giant box stuffed with all of our Americanized favorites. It was the only meal of the week eaten in front of the TV as a family. We sat on the couch and ate off of small square side tables, each of which had a border of fake jewels, one of my earliest tactile memories.My younger brother and I weren’t allowed to talk very much during 60 Minutes because we were LEARNING. “Sha!” my mother would hiss if we talked over Morley Safer or Harry Reasoner. “Quiet!” my father would yell if we dared say anything during Andy Rooney’s closing segment, his favorite part of the show. I’m now old enough to understand that my father wasn’t smart enough to absorb a lot of what we were LEARNING, which is why he preferred Andy’s pointed humor. Rooney smartly mocked dumb people, which included my father. Imagine if Donald Trump drove a delivery truck in Jersey; that’s who we’re talking about here.The lineup of correspondents may have changed and expanded over the years, but one thing about 60 Minutes has always remained consistent: Telling the truth.60 Minutes has a venerable track record of exposing lies, cover-ups, and scandals, as well as interviews and human interest stories that made Americans aware of the world at large. No matter the subject, there was never a time when the audience questioned the veracity of what they were being told and shown.But oh, how the mighty “Tiffany Network” has fallen. Remember the heavily edited 60 Minutes interview Trump finally did just before the 2024 election, after whining about the interview Kamala Harris did? You might recall CBS News paid Trump $16 MILLION after he whined that her interview, which had been full of facts, was “deceptively edited,” causing him “mental anguish” and “confusion among voters.” When Trump finally sat for the interview, 60 Minutes ran one heavily edited version, while Trump released a heavily edited 73-minute version that was “more favorable.” That was a glaring sign that we were headed down a very bad path, one paved with Putin propaganda.CBS/Paramount is now under the control of a bunch of Trumptraitors, which is an astonishing thing to witness. The Ellison family has pledged loyalty to a convicted felon adjudicated rapist whose name appears in the Epstein Files nearly as much as Jeffrey Epstein's. They pushed Stephen Colbert out and pressured CBS News journalists to placate Trump instead of pushing for the truth. But now the control of CBS News, the former home of Edward R. Murrow, was somehow handed to an inexperienced book editor whose biggest gigs were writing op-eds and reviews for The Wall Street Journal and The Forward, where she took a proud Zionist stance. Bari Weiss is about as qualified to be the Editor-In-Chief of CBS News as I am to fly a rocket. Interestingly, she’s been following me on Twitter forever, but she’s never once responded to any of my tweets that challenge her loyalty to Trump over the United States of America. Weiss has just hired equally inexperienced tech blogger Nick Bilton to help her commit treason and lie to the American people via CBS. Bilton tweeted that it’s “the honor of my career" to become the executive producer of 60 Minutes and then shared this tech bro-y introduction to his colleagues that set my skin on fire. Poorly written propaganda isn’t supposed to be anywhere near legitimate news networks. Nothing about this is normal, yet it’s being normalized.Bilton is the one who officially fired longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, all because Pelley has this annoying habit of maintaining his journalistic integrity.You can almost hear that in Trump’s voice, can’t you? Minus the bigger words, that is. Scott Pelley was fired because he refused to comply with orders from Weiss and Bilton to lie to protect Donald Trump. Read that again, because it’s true.It’s 2026 in the United States of America, but Weiss and Bilton are deploying Nazi tactics from the 1930s to silence the truth. Pelley responded to the firing by exposing the real reasons behind it. "New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story,” Pelley said in a statement. “I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified.
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U.S. Is Said to Be Investigating George Santos Over Kalshi Betting
The former congressman was referred to federal authorities after he bet on his own attendance at the State of the Union address, a person familiar with the matter said.
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'Real risk': Trump’s latest move threatens to blow up the GOP agenda
On Tuesday, it was announced that President Donald Trump had appointed current Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte to the role of acting Director of National Intelligence. Backlash against the move was swift, as critics from across the political spectrum slammed Pulte’s total lack of intelligence experience. By Wednesday morning, senators from both sides of the aisle had made their opposition to Trump’s pick clear, and threats to derail key legislation over the matter now pose a “real risk” to the Republican agenda. This is according to Punchbowl News, which reports that Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has warned Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) that if Pulte remains in the position, Democrats will withhold the votes Republicans need for a FISA extension they’ve been trying and failing to pass for months. It expires in just 9 days, so with yet another legislative deadline looming, the GOP is grappling with the latest in a string of recent frustrations.“Warner,” explains Punchbowl News, “who’s been critical in building Democratic support for a bipartisan deal to extend FISA Section 702, made clear to Thune that all options are on the table to reverse what Democrats see as a dangerous Trump pick to lead ODNI. Pulte, who currently leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has no national security experience and has used his existing role to exact revenge on Trump’s political foes.”According to Warner, Democrats will never back the reauthorization of FISA Section 702 with Pulte overseeing the program, as opponents of the provision — which is technically used for gathering the communications of foreign targets — argue that it can be used as a “backdoor” for spying on Americans. This potential for misuse has drawn skepticism from privacy hawks on both sides of the aisle, and though Thune has repeatedly claimed that the absence of 702 would cause U.S. national security to “go dark,” its proponents have had to make concessions to gain the support of conservative Republicans, like a three year ban on a central banking digital currency and a prohibition on the use of 702 information by the FBI against Americans. But now Democrats worry that 702 could be weaponized by Pulte to attack Trump’s political enemies. As Punchbowl explains, “Democrats have leverage here. Republicans can’t pass a FISA reauthorization on their own. With a handful of GOP senators expected to oppose any FISA agreement, Thune would likely need at least a dozen Democrats to support the bill. Without a big vote in the Senate, it’ll be difficult for the House to pass it via a fast-track process ahead of the June 12 deadline. It’s safe to say that Pulte’s appointment kills any chance of the House passing FISA using the fast-track suspension process.”What’s more, should Pulte’s appointment be pulled, “Democrats believe they’d be doing Republicans a favor because they also see Pulte as unqualified for the job, even if few openly say it.” On Tuesday, “the White House had indicated to top Republicans that Aaron Lukas, whom Trump announced as the acting DNI 12 days ago, would remain in the role for an extended period. Republicans felt blindsided,” therefore, by the Pulte announcement. By Tuesday, a number of top Republicans were expressing their outrage at the situation. “Whoever told the president to go ahead and commit to this publicly before vetting it should lose their jobs, because they should know that the math just works against Pulte being confirmed,” Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) told CNBC. “I don’t think he has a prayer.”
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Trump has 'given up' governing to focus on his real priority: Nobel economist
According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, the Iran war “debacle” has “clearly broken” President Donald Trump, and as a result, the commander-in-chief has “given up governing” to focus exclusively on his true priorities: “rage and revenge.”The latest evidence of this is tthat Trump has tapped Bill Pulte as the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a role that is vital to the country’s national security apparatus. As Krugamn writes, “The word ‘acting’ is crucial. The statute creating the position of DNI explicitly requires that the appointee ‘shall have extensive national security expertise.’” Pulte has none. A home building baron and current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, he has zero background in intelligence. “But pointing out that Pulte is unqualified for his new job doesn’t convey the extent to which Trump is trolling America with this new appointment,” says Krugman. “For Pulte isn’t merely unqualified for a sensitive national security position. He’s unqualified, intellectually and morally, for any government position. All he has are the qualifications that matter to Trump: he is a shameless lackey and willing hitman for Trump’s vendettas.”Part of what brought Pulte into Trump’s orbit where the “thousands of nasty political posts” he spewed onto social media in recent years. His family’s background in residential construction garnered him an appointment as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, but according to Krugman, “His real job has been weaponizing the agency as a tool against Trump’s perceived enemies — weaponization that is being investigated by the Government Accountability Office as a potential misuse of authority. Pulte confected false claims of mortgage fraud to try to push out Lisa Cook, the only black woman on the Federal Reserve Board. He has leveled similar trumped-up charges against Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, and several Democratic politicians. And he pushed groundless fraud accusations against Jerome Powell, the former Federal Reserve chair, who stood in the way of Trump’s attempt to politicize monetary policy.”That Pulte has turned out to be a “bumbling hatchet man” whose efforts have been entirely ineffective is besides the point, says Krugman. “For Trump, willingness to engage in unethical behavior is all that matters.”Even so, Krugman expresses surprise that Trump would select someone with such vanishing experience considering the fact that, at the very least, the president “sees wars only as ways to enrich himself and distract from his domestic woes,” and to that end, one would think he’d want accurate intelligence. “But Trump appears to have given up on governing,” asserts Krugman, “even governing aimed at consolidating his own power and legacy. He wants to punish everyone he imagines has wronged him but has lost all interest in making the government work, even for nefarious purposes. So he don’t need no intelligence, just someone who will indulge his rage. And that will be Pulte’s job.”While Krugman warns that the Republican Party and its megadonors are still working hard to corrupt American democracy, dismantle the country’s scientific community, and consolidate power for billionaires, he concludes that “Trump himself is, at this point, little more than a festering ball of anger and hate.”
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The Federalist
Henry Nowak’s Murder Is Much Worse Than Just Anti-White Racism
The forces driving Third-World immigration into the West don’t care about skin color nearly as much as they care about destroying the Christian foundation of modern society.
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MASSIVE RALLY Held Outside Police Station After Henry Nowak’s Murder – Tommy Robinson Addresses Crowd – FURIOUS BRITS Clash With Cops (VIDEO)
Huge numbers of protesters gathered outside a Southampton police station on Tuesday night led by Tommy Robinson in order to demand justice for Henry Nowak. The post MASSIVE RALLY Held Outside Police Station After Henry Nowak’s Murder – Tommy Robinson Addresses Crowd – FURIOUS BRITS Clash With Cops (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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