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Boston Is Temporarily Legalizing Outdoor Drinking for the World Cup. Why Not Make It Permanent?
If Boston can trust adults to “sip and stroll” during the World Cup, it can trust them all year round.
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FBI Makes Two More ARRESTS in Plot to Turn Trump’s White House UFC Event Into a Mass-Casualty Attack
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A total of seven domestic terrorists are now charged in conspiracy to commit murder at the historic freedom celebration on the South Lawn. The post FBI Makes Two More ARRESTS in Plot to Turn Trump’s White House UFC Event Into a Mass-Casualty Attack appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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'Time is a flexible concept': Trump’s sleep habits are getting even 'stranger'
While it’s become widely known that President Donald Trump tends to keep unusual hours, a new book has revealed the extent of his “bizarre” sleep habits and that they keep getting “stranger.”As the Daily Beast explains, “Trump, 80, has gained a reputation for sleeping less and less in his golden years. He has also developed a penchant for going on Truth Social posting sprees after midnight, as well as being caught on camera seeming to nod off during important White House meetings. His ability to operate as the most powerful person on Earth with minimal shut-eye has been hailed as a superpower by fawning members of his administration.”Now the new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, is raising eyebrows by revealing just how erratic Trump’s sleep patterns can be. For example, the book claims that in a White House lead by Trump, “time is a flexible concept,” and that his inconsistent sleep drives the “rhythms and structures and operations of the place.” This is especially true of his second term. During his first administration, Trump typically arrived in the Oval Office by 11 am. In term two, however, his schedule has become less predictable as he’s slept with growing inconsistency. “Some mornings Trump would be up early making phone calls and posting on social media while watching TV,” says the book. “But occasionally, aides couldn’t reach him during the hours between eight and ten, when they soon came to realize meant he had stayed up all night, on the phone or watching television or both, only to finally catch some sleep around four or five in the morning.”According to the book, “one late morning,” no one had heard from the president and his staff was unable to contact him: “an aide checked on the President only to find that he was still asleep in the residence.”“He had never been a big sleeper, but now it seemed to his staff that he was sleeping even less, keeping stranger hours than he had in his first term,” the book claims, revealing not only that Trump has “remained a night owl,” but that he and Melania sleep in separate rooms. What’s more, his aides have privately begun to admit that Trump is “beginning to seem old” during his second term as “those who spent time with him could see the signs — the moments of fatigue, the cupped hand behind the ear.” As the book explains, “That he had aged since he last lived in the White House was obvious. There were the repeated bouts of drowsiness during mid-afternoon public events. And there were the near-constant bruises on his hands, which his aides first attributed to marks from frequent handshaking. Trump, who usually tried to conceal the bruising with makeup, later said they were caused primarily by the unusually large aspirin regimen he took as a blood thinner.” Amidst all the talk of Trump’s strange sleeping habits, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has attempted to deny claims that the president appeared to fall asleep during Cabinet meetings. As Rubio testified to Congress, under oath, “That’s false. That’s false. I’ve never seen him fall asleep. On the contrary, the guy doesn’t sleep, which is a big problem, because he calls me at 2 in the morning, he calls me at 5 in the morning, and you know, I like to sleep a little bit — maybe not 12 hours — but at least six… I don’t know what you’re talking about.”Democrat Congressman Ted Lieu then played a video that showed Trump falling asleep mid-meeting, noting, “You are literally talking about issues of war and peace, and Donald Trump is sleeping right next to you.”“This is a joke,” Rubio responded.
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Trump Lets Americans Buy Iranian Oil for the First Time Since the 1980s
As part of peace negotiations, the U.S. Treasury issued an unprecedented total waiver from Iranian oil sanctions.
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Raw Story
This Senate grilling is set to finally blow Trump's Epstein cover-up wide open
If the chaos of this last year and a half week has shown us anything, it’s that every distraction Donald Trump has manufactured to stop people from talking about the Epstein Files has failed spectacularly. The UFC fiasco kicked off a week that ended with a full surrender to Iran at Versailles, which was glaring enough. But the Reflecting Pool scandal has also been an excellent visual metaphor representing all of Trump’s failures to distract from his entire administration’s involvement in the biggest political cover-up in American history. From his initial “I have the best pool guy” promise to calling the algae-green swampwater “American Blue” to pieces of the bottom literally peeling off, it’s just the latest example of Trump never once delivering on his promises, and then shifting the blame to anyone else he can when he fails. He’s seriously blaming “vandalism” for all of the issues when he’s the vandal. Trump also revealed his brand-new Air Force One, a bribe gift from Qatar that he turned into yet another grift on the American taxpayers. His predecessors managed just fine on the current AFO, but, then again, we’re talking about the same guy who had Jeffrey Epstein’s legendary Lolita Express repainted instead of just borrowing a plane from some rich friend of his. The audacity of this is staggering. Astonishingly, no one from the Harris/Walz campaign pointed out that Trump was flying around inside a crime scene. When I found out about it, I screamed into the abyss of Twitter to beg them to make a “Black Lights Matter” joke or SOMETHING to call attention to Trump’s decades-long friendship with the world’s most notorious dead pedophile and his partner-in-unspeakable-crimes, Ghislaine Maxwell.I tried my best to warn MAGA as well, but it’s fine, what do I know about politics? It’s not like he’s repeatedly blasted them for wanting him to deliver on his campaign promise to release the full Epstein Files. Oh, wait. Yes, he did.And for a moment, it seemed like the biggest MAGA accounts on Twitter were ready to finally start acknowledging what we’ve known all along. But he somehow fooled them again and again, and you won’t be shocked to learn that those and other paid MAGA shill accounts are back to either calling the Files a “hoax” or saying they’ve been fully released, which we know isn’t true.Nothing they say or do will get us to stop talking about the Epstein Files. You can count on me to stay on this story until the Trump regime actually complies with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, instead of continuing to violate it every day for the last 210+ days. The top news story every day should be that JD “Vladimir Futon” Vance led a secret staff meeting in the SITUATION ROOM nearly a year ago to discuss how to better cover up the Epstein Files to protect Trump, rather than seeking justice for any of the victims and survivors. Aside from the egregious misuse of the Situation Room, we know the entire administration is involved. Of course, that’s kind of tough with so much of the media under Trump’s sway while he continues to bully anyone who dares to tell the truth about him or ask any questions that might force him to think about things he doesn’t want to think about. We now know that FBI was told that Trump Tower was a “hunting ground” for “recruiters” to find young women for him to have sex with. And thanks to yet more bombshell reporting, we’ve also learned that at least three million more pages of Epstein documents are still being held back by acting AG Todd “Trumpsimp” Blanche, who seems super excited to be the first to go to prison for Trump. Blanche will once again face questioning by the Senate, and I was fortunate to grab a moment with my Senator, Ron Wyden (D-OR), on Friday after a press conference centered around Juneteenth and Pride. “Sen. Chutzpah” is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee and also sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, among his many other responsibilities. He promised me last year that he’d never give up on Epstein, and he continues to deliver on that promise, as evidenced by his most recent questioning of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. He also ripped Bessent over the latest Trump grift that was created to enrich his two older adult sons.As Wyden and I walked out of the press conference, I quietly asked him about the Situation Room meeting. “Wasn’t that something?” he replied.“So, what people want to see is accountability,” I said. “Do we have to wait until Democrats get the majority back before that happens?”“Nope!” Sen. Chutzpah immediately responded. He then told me that more hearings were coming, and specifically mentioned Blanche. As I said, he’s been good about delivering on his promises, and I have no reason to doubt him now. The issue we currently face with Epstein is keeping the story at the top of a news cycle that’s already full of Trump’s other failed attempts at distracting from Epstein.
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Stephen Miller in peril as uncovered FBI docs put his secret deeds in judge's crosshairs
The secrets Stephen Miller has kept about his role in the Trump administration may finally be revealed after a judge was handed a key FBI report.Miller, President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, has long shielded his White House communications from disclosure under executive privilege. Now, a court filing in federal court in Alabama threatens to crack that wall open.The Southern Poverty Law Center — a civil rights organization the Trump administration indicted on fraud charges — obtained the FBI report through the normal discovery process. It shows the government's case against the SPLC appears to trace directly back to Miller.The report reads almost word-for-word like a letter conservative groups sent Miller complaining about the SPLC's "Hate Map," which tracks hate groups across America. Six passages match so closely they're sometimes identical.Miller's ire at the SPLC dates back to 2019, when the organization published a series of pieces on hundreds of emails Miller sent to Breitbart News showing he had promoted white nationalist websites and literature.After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Miller vowed to use "every resource" at the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to "identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy" liberal activist networks. Federal agencies then piled onto a local investigation of a retired activist who had posted flyers near his Arlington home. His communications about that were kept secret under executive privilege.National security journalist Marcy Wheeler wrote on Emptywheel that the government handed SPLC — represented by attorney Abbe Lowell — proof that "Stephen Miller's grievance about being exposed as an extremist somehow led a prosecutor to test a theory whether pointing that out is itself inherently fraudulent."The SPLC's lawyers are now asking the court to hand over all communications between Miller and the Justice Department about the organization.
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New York Post
Judge rejects Trump admin bid to subpoena Minnesota Dems in immigration inquiry
A federal judge quashed an attempt by the Justice Department to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other top officials in the state, alleging that it was an attempt to harass political rivals.
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MTG spills beans on Trump campaign efforts to sideline MAGA bloc: 'They were embarrassed'
Marjorie Taylor Greene attempted to drive a wedge between a MAGA voter bloc that once counted her as an adherent and President Donald Trump.The former Republican congresswoman posted a video Tuesday morning revealing the lengths taken by the Trump campaign to stifle QAnon conspiracists at campaign rallies, even as the 80-year-old president continues to court their support with social media posts winking and nodding in their direction."You know, I used to follow Q back in 2017, when those posts were actually made," Greene said. "The whole 'trust the plan' thing, the White House is posting Q propaganda on its social media accounts, and I want you guys to know something, I think you should know this.""Back during the 2020 campaign and the 2024 campaign, where, by the way, I spoke at more Trump campaign rallies than any other elected Republican," she added.Greene was one of Trump's strongest allies in Congress until she broke with him over the Jeffrey Epstein files and foreign policy, and she warned after retiring from the House that the president shows no loyalty to his allies. "The Trump team would throw out people, any rally attendee," Greene said, "if they had a Q shirt, QAnon, 'storm has arrived,' 'where we go one we go all' – if they were wearing a shirt, a hat, a button or had a flag or anything – they were kicked out or they were made to change their shirt, take off that hat. During a Trump speech in 2024, when it was the nation in decline part of the speech, with the really sad music, any time these attendees would put their finger, like, make a number one and they pointed it to the sky, security was sent around and they were forced to take their finger down and told not to do that. You want to know why?""Because Trump team didn't want to be associated with the QAnon crowd and they were embarrassed of the Q people and embarrassed of all of that, and that's how they treated them," Greene added. "But now flash forward to 2026, when it's Trump himself that has betrayed the America first wing of MAGA and turned MAGA into Israel first, and he has totally flipped on a bunch of his campaign promises, well, now they're trying to throw out the Q slop and propaganda to get you guys sucked back in, to get you guys sucked back in. Never forget how you were treated – never forget."
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‘Use your voice’: Watch ABC urge fans of ‘The View’ to go full Karen on Trump officials
Claims 'the FCC wants to control who is allowed to appear on the show'
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