Trump cultists

The New York Times reports: The Senate approved Republicans’ budget blueprint just after 2:30 a.m. on Saturday to clear the way for passing President Trump’s domestic agenda, after Democrats forced an overnight session to protest the G.O.P. push to deliver what the president has called “one big beautiful bill” of spending and tax cuts. The 51-to-48 vote, mostly along party …

“If the trade is that I experience and you experience and we all experience some short-term pain in a 401(k) or in the market, money’s liquid, man. Losing money costs you absolutely nothing. Losing your country costs you everything. “Option B is to preserve this country and to strengthen it and to put up walls around this nation to make …

The Miami New Times reports: Miami’s favorite anti-vax couple, David and Leila Centner, is jumping on the podcast bandwagon — because apparently the world needs yet another platform for so-called cancel culture victims. Earlier this week, the duo behind Centner Academy in Miami announced the launch of their anti-cancel culture podcast, ERASED! According to a press release, the show will …

The Florida Phoenix reports: The Florida Supreme Court has rejected former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s attempt to reinstate his $50 million defamation claim against Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson over comments linking Flynn to Vladimir Putin and the QAnon conspiracy theory. “We’re not surprised, given the vast legal weaknesses of this trolling lawfare on their part,” Wilson told the Phoenix …

The Ames Tribune reports: A coalition of Iowa State University students and Ames community members held a makeshift funeral Wednesday for Iowa State’s LGBTQIA+ center. About 50 people gathered in front of Parks Library around a makeshift coffin painted with the LGBTQIA+ flag. Many were wearing black, sporting pride pins or holding pride flags. Iowa State’s Center for LGBTQIA+ Student …

The BBC reports: Russell Brand has been charged with rape, indecent assault and sexual assault between 1999 and 2005. The charges relate to four separate women. The comedian and actor has been interviewed multiple times by police since an investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches in September 2023 revealed multiple serious allegations against him. Brand …

The Washington Post reports: The director of the National Security Agency, the powerful U.S. wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired Thursday, according to one former and two current U.S. officials. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, was let go along with his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, according to the officials. Like others in …

“I wanna get into the specifics of exactly what President Trump is issuing as far as reciprocal tariffs and tariffs across the board. But understand, you are seeing a historic reorganization of the global and the American economy, and it’s gonna come as a shell shock. And there will be market volatility. There will be turbulence. It’s basically like taking …

“It turns out that the supply chains all across the planet are incredibly complex. And if you like the products that you have at the quality that you have them and at the price that you have them, you’re not gonna get to keep them. Trump’s reciprocal tariffs impose hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes on Americans without …

New York City’s NBC affiliate reports: Fresh off the dissolution of his criminal corruption case, New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he’s back to focusing on working for New Yorkers. He just plans to do it with another party. The embattled Democrat announced Thursday that he will run instead for mayor as an Independent, leaving Andrew Cuomo, who resigned …

“The Democrats and the left-wing media have lost their minds because I told a left-wing activist in the halls of the Senate office building yesterday what I really thought. A clown is a clown who’s chasing Senators through the halls with a cell phone complaining about losing a left-wing, woke job in the federal government that should have never been …

He wants to be closer to his Glorious Leader: Mark Zuckerberg is the latest billionaire to shell out tens of millions of dollars for a pricey outpost in Donald Trump’s gilded capital. For a month, neighbors in Washington’s upscale Woodland Normanstone neighborhood have speculated about the unidentified buyer who paid $23 million in cash for a 15,000-square-foot mansion. The sale …

“Today in Oklahoma, we’re fighting back. I’ve got this lawsuit that I filed today against the Freedom From Religion Foundation. They’re a group of radical atheists that continue to attack our students and teachers in the state of Oklahoma. “Well, never again. These radical atheists can find somewhere else to go because we’re not gonna allow them to harass our …

“Susan Crawford did not win in Wisconsin and the media can grab that all they want! There’s a little bit of a deviation here. They vote in voter ID, but yet the candidate that doesn’t want voter ID wins. Hello! It doesn’t happen. My team’s digging into it. This is just disgusting! I’m just getting the numbers. Numbers don’t lie. …

People Magazine reports: Criminal charges have reportedly been filed against the actor Jean-Claude Van Damme in Romania. A criminal complaint was filed with the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) against the Streetfighter star, 64, alleging that he knowingly engaged in sexual relations with women trafficked by a criminal group led by Morel Bolea, according to CNN …

Gothamist reports: Mayor Eric Adams celebrated a federal judge’s permanent dismissal of his corruption case on Wednesday by endorsing a book written by a far-right loyalist of President Donald Trump now serving as FBI director. “God bless you, New York City. And God bless what we have accomplished,” Adams said in a public address. “When all that came at me, …

Indianapolis’s CW affiliate reports: A U.S. senator from Indiana had a message for a former HHS employee, among up to 10,000 to be fired or laid off. Some of the laid-off employees were gathered in the basement of Senate chamber of the U.S. Capitol building when they encountered Sen. Jim Banks on his way to an elevator. A former HHS …

Politico reports: Republicans emerged from Tuesday’s elections on shaky footing. Over the past 10 weeks, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have worked to hobble the federal government, pummel into submission the country’s most powerful independent institutions and enact a sweeping nationalist agenda with little regard — and often disdain — for political norms and the Constitution itself. And they’ve …

“They have the temerity to say that every single invader that Joe Biden let in should get their own individual judicial trial before they are deported. One at a time, each one gets a one million-dollar trial in front of a communist judge to decide whether or not we can send them home. How about hell no? How about we …

The Pensacola News-Journal reports: Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis will be Northwest Florida’s next Congress representative. The Associated Press called the race for Patronis at 7:20 p.m. as Patronis was leading Democrat Gay Valimont by about 9 points. Patronis had 96,717 votes, 56.97%, and Valimont had 71668 votes, 42.22%, as of 8:50 p.m. Non-party affiliated candidate Stephen Broden took …