Republican-led state takes a different approach to June ‘Pride Month’ celebrations
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States and cities across the nation gear up to celebrate gay pride month in June, but some are offering alternatives that emphasize faith, family, and patriotism. As […]
A federal judge in Colorado has put a stop to the Trump administration's plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, slamming the move as an effort to exact political revenge on the state.According to The Colorado Sun, Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson called the administration's plans to transfer NCAR's supercomputing facility to the University of Wyoming “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”NCAR is a critical facility for climate research, studying changes to Earth's atmosphere. The Trump administration has long sought to marginalize climate research.But beyond that ideological issue, Jackson agreed with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the plaintiff in the case, "that breaking off parts of NCAR, dismantling projects and potentially firing thousands of employees was intended by Trump and agency officials as direct political revenge."Colorado has been the subject of Trump's fury multiple times since taking office, including over the imprisonment of Tina Peters, a far-right election conspiracy theorist who tampered with voting equipment to try to prove the 2020 election was stolen. Peters was released on parole this month as part of a highly controversial commutation by outgoing Democratic Gov. Jared Polis.The state's senators have been fighting tooth and nail to preserve NCAR, even obstructing national spending bills in protest.
The crowded California gubernatorial race, which started with 61 candidates, has now apparently narrowed to just three: former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra (D), climate advocate and businessman Tom Steyer (D), and former Fox News host and small-business owner Steve Hilton (R), according to the latest polling.'If we don’t get together as a party, if we don’t unite, then we could have Tom Steyer and Xavier Becerra in the general election.'With California’s primary election operating on a nonpartisan basis, which allows the top two candidates regardless of party affiliation to advance, there had previously been speculation that the Democratic Party’s failure to coalesce behind a single candidate could result in two Republicans, Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, advancing to the November 3 general election.One month out from the election, polling showed 26% of voters were undecided, with votes split among the Democrat candidates.However, polls conducted in the final days before the primary election revealed a significant decrease in undecided voters, an increase in support for Becerra, a close contest for second place between Steyer and Hilton, and Bianco falling behind.An Emerson College poll conducted May 27-28 reported that 4% were still undecided. Of those surveyed, 28% stated they were likely to vote for Becerra, 22% for Steyer, 21% for Hilton, and 12% for Bianco.A UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll completed May 19-24 showed a similarly close race, with 25% supporting Becerra, 21% supporting Hilton, and 19% supporting Steyer. Bianco trailed with 11%.RELATED: California Democrats’ search for a front-runner: Polls show 26% of voters undecided in fast-approaching gubernatorial race Steve Hilton. Jason Henry/Nexstar/Bloomberg - Pool/Getty ImagesThe latest polling prompted Hilton to call on Bianco to drop out of the race. He encouraged Bianco supporters to vote for him to avoid two Democrat candidates advancing to the general election to succeed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).“These polls are looking very concerning. Yes, it’s true that I’m leading in some of them, but it’s also true that it’s a very, very tight race,” Hilton stated on Saturday in a video published to social media. “If we don’t get together as a party, if we don’t unite, then we could have Tom Steyer and Xavier Becerra in the general election. That is a disaster for California. That means no change.”RELATED: Katie Porter's new ad jokes about one of her worst moments — and she's getting CRUSHED online for it Chad Bianco. Leon Bennett/Getty Images“There’s one person who could stop this doomsday scenario, and that is my friend Chad Bianco,” Hilton continued. “Chad, the best time to have dropped out would have been a couple of weeks ago, but the second-best time is right now.”The following day, Bianco dismissed Hilton's comments by calling on Hilton's supporters to unite behind him instead."It’s clear that Steve Hilton supporters should unite and support me," Bianco wrote.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
A judge ruled that new evidence in the Charlie Kirk assassination case will be made public during next month's hearing.
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A federal judge wrote that the phrase, which also led to charges against the former F.B.I. director, James Comey, did not appear to constitute a true threat.
President Donald Trump's administration pulled the plug on his $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" after a federal judge temporarily blocked it over the weekend — but that doesn't mean the rising confrontation it's caused between the White House and Republicans on Capitol Hill is over, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Monday."Maybe you have some information about what Speaker Mike Johnson might have said to the president when he was at the White House a little bit earlier today," Tur asked Sherman, referring to the recent meeting on the status of the reconciliation bill, which Republicans have debated updating with language limiting the fund.Sherman acknowledged he didn't know exactly what was discussed there about the fund, but that his sources tell him "the administration is going to announce through DOJ that they are going to comply with the court order ... but the administration plans to say they plan to take no further action."Despite that, he argued, this "is not going to be an immediate salve for Capitol Hill" because Trump could simply decide at a later date to restart it up again when the court order expires. "They're going to want to put language in ... the reconciliation legislation, which funds ICE and CBP, to make sure that the administration can't, at some point, return and do this again."In other words, he said, Republicans will take a "trust, but verify" attitude and "put teeth into legislation to make sure that the administration doesn't, in a couple of months, say, actually, we've changed our minds. We're going to go back and set up this $1.8 billion fund."Ultimately, though, he said, this is probably good news for Republicans because the administration's surrender means they can move forward with the broader reconciliation bill."This was the only path, Katy, to get this done," he said. "The administration would have been frozen up here for weeks, if not months ... if this weaponization fund was put in place, they would have had to deal with this on every single bill that the House and Senate were looking to pass." As a result, Trump had "no other option" but to throw in the towel on the slush fund. - YouTube youtu.be
FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend and country singer Alexis Wilkins has filed a lawsuit against MS NOW, claiming that the outlet's reporting about her use of FBI agents is "hogwash," according to reports on Monday.Wilkins had filed the defamation lawsuit on Friday, citing that "MS NOW had knowingly and recklessly published lies about her," The New Republic reported. The lawsuit involved a December story that included anonymous sources claiming that Patel told FBI agents to take Wilkins's drunk friend home after a night of partying in Nashville. “This was hogwash and they knew it,” Wilkins's attorneys wrote in the 16-page suit, which also claimed that the security detail had not yet been created for the FBI director's significant other, who is 27 and "does not drink." "She does concretely have one now—the first time in U.S. history the bureau’s director has extended such protection," The New Republic reported.However, the story never reported that Wilkins was inebriated, yet the singer's legal team has appeared to be confused over the details of her claims. "In their filing, her team contradicted themselves, later writing that Wilkins 'very rarely drinks,'" according to The New Republic."As a country singer, author, and political advocate, known for her Christian, patriotic, America-First, and pro-law enforcement values, her brand and ability to work in her profession would be significantly damaged if her employers, her publishers, her listeners, or her readers, believed that she was abusing the public trust and using her relationship with Director Patel to misappropriate FBI resources," according to the suit.The suit has accused MS NOW of writing a story "in George Costanza fashion" in order "to self-promotingly advance their own agenda and notoriety" at the expense of Wilkins.Rebecca Kutler, MS NOW president, shared a statement with Raw Story regarding the lawsuit."We stand firmly behind MS NOW’s reporting. As a general matter of practice, we don’t comment on ongoing legal matters," Kutler said.Patel has been accused of excessive drinking in a report from The Atlantic and faced grilling from lawmakers over the allegations, which he has denied.
Gregory Allen, Founder and CEO of Decision Tree Research joined Balance of Power to discuss the competition between the US and China on the AI race. He also discussed the news that Anthropic has confidentially filed for IPO. (Source: Bloomberg)
