Thomas Edsall is a NY Times columnist who I’ve come to see as the doomiest of doomscrollers. His columns almost never contain any good news for anyone. What they do often contain is a lot of hot takes from university professors around the country and today’s installment is no exception. What makes this intersting (to...
Nada Tawfik BBC News, in New York City Shutterstock, Reuters Andrew Cuomo, left, and Zohran Mamdani A left-wing candidate has pulled up from behind to become the dark horse in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. His surprise success is indicative of the debate raging within the Democratic Party on what kinds of leaders they...
A bride was shot dead on her wedding night in a village near the south-east French city of Avignon after masked gunmen opened fire, local officials say. One suspected attacker was also killed in an apparent exchange of fire, and the groom and a child of 13 were seriously wounded during the incident in the...
I know what you’re probably thinking. Aren’t Democrats already the party of high taxes? Haven’t they always been? Yes, that’s true but the point of this Vox article is that Democrats no longer have any social welfare goodies to offer because tax cuts have become popular, even among Democrats. Vox calls this the “core contradiction”...
Democrats recently ousted David Hogg from leadership after he criticized the party for complacency. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. New polling finds that most Democratic voters want the current leaders of the Democratic Party to be replaced, as current leadership has failed to...
We speak to Trump’s former representative to Iran Read full article at source...
“Senator Betterman strikes again,” radio host Tony Kinnett quipped. Hey, there are worse nicknames, and this one applies well. John Fetterman had remained silent during the unfolding chaos in Los Angeles, which still represented something of an improvement over his fellow Democrats. We’ll get to those examples shortly, but Fetterman had finally seen enough by...
I’m not calling it the Mexican Revolution, either. This group of communist, socialist, progressive turds has everyone involved who you’d imagine would be at a super-secret High Table meeting in a remote location last fall to plot a violent, nationwide opposition to Trump sometime during the next Summer of Love. Oh, hello. THEY’RE BACK And...
With the riots in Los Angeles now dominating the news — covered mainly as “lawful” riots — how do Americans see the enforcement of immigration law under the new administration? Democrats clearly believe that the violence in Los Angeles has given them a political opening against Donald Trump and the Republicans. Otherwise, Democrat governors wouldn’t...
Asha Patel BBC News, Nottingham NUH Craig had travelled three hours every day to visit his fiancee in hospital before deciding they could not wait any longer to be married A couple held their wedding at a hospital after an attempted “party trick” at the hen do led to the bride being paralysed. Craig Bolton...
Amid the ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, some Democrats are advocating for courting Musk as an ally — a move that demonstrates the willingness of some members of the party to compromise principles to win elections. Over the past week, Musk has openly and frequently criticized Trump’s budget proposal —...
Paul Seddon Political reporter Bloomberg Sarah Pochin became Reform UK’s fifth MP at a by-election last month Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf says it was “dumb” for the party’s newest MP to call on Sir Keir Starmer to ban the burka. Sarah Pochin – who won last month’s Runcorn and Helsby by-election – urged the...
Voters in Burundi are heading to the polls amid a backdrop of surging inflation, fuel shortages and complaints of political repression. Seats in the National Assembly, Senate and local councils are up for grabs but Évariste Ndayishimiye is safe in his role as president as he is serving a seven-year term that ends in 2027....
A body has been found in the search for a Scottish man reported missing in Portugal. Greg Monks, 38, was reported missing last week after leaving the main strip in Albufeira in the Algarve in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Mr Monks, from Cambuslang, near Glasgow, had travelled to the resort on 27 May...
If you spend any amount of time on X, it’s impossible to miss the pattern. Democrats are angry. Depressed. They scream at the camera. They fantasize about violence against “oppressors.” They film themselves weeping, wailing, and gnashing their teeth. Just as you can be reasonably certain that anybody who flies an American flag is a...