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USA Today reports: Jill Stein, who previously ran for president in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections, launched a new bid for the White House on Thursday. Stein will again seek the Green Party’s nomination in the 2024 presidential election. She said in a video she shared on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that “the political system is …

Mediaite reports: TV superstar-turned-MAGA comic Roseanne Barr took her rally speech to 11 with an ear-splitting call-and-response in which she dubbed former President Donald Trump “the MAGA-DOR” who would slay the “DEEP STATE BULL!” Barr — whose career imploded after a racist tweet that was followed by other unhinged tweets — was one of several opening acts. At one point, …

The Washington Post reports: Vivek Ramaswamy last night attacked the debate moderators — NBC News anchors Lester Holt and Kristen Welker, and radio host Hugh Hewitt. Ramaswamy appeared to suggest that it was disappointing that the Republican Party would work with NBC News, which is not a conservative network. “Think about who’s moderating this debate,” Ramaswamy said. “This should be …

“We don’t seem to understand that we need to quit playing defense and start playing offense. It’s really hard to score when you don’t have the ball. And Republicans keep fumbling and give the other team the ball. We recognize that an abortion has two victims. Obviously, the unborn child, and the other victim is the woman who’s the birth …

The New York Times reports: Vivek Ramaswamy drew shock and criticism online on Wednesday when he appeared to accuse the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, of being a Nazi — but Mr. Ramaswamy’s campaign insisted that wasn’t what he meant. The remark came in response to a question about Mr. Zelensky’s recent plea for more American aid …

Via press release from Christian Newswire: Hundreds of people participate daily in the online Christian Nation Government Now Revival led by Steven Andrew, pastor of USA Christian Church. Some days thousands of people join. The daily program “Save America Revival!” started over 400 days ago in September 2022. Andrew believes, “This revival brought God’s favor to raise up Christian Mike …

“Remember these elections, off-year elections, odd number elections are very low turnout elections. They are base elections and the Democrats have traditionally, number one, outspent us, not just on odd number year elections, but generally speaking. “Number two, their base is more ginned up to go out and vote generally than Republicans. We’ve seen this now for the last several …

Reuters reports: Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy will make his non-interventionist foreign policy a central plank of his pitch to voters in the coming weeks, he told Reuters, as he seeks to position himself as the least likely candidate in the nominating contest to wade into a foreign war. In an interview, Ramaswamy said he would formally introduce a pledge …

Courthouse News reports: Lawyers for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin asked the Second Circuit on Monday afternoon to revive her twice-dismissed defamation suit against The New York Times over a 2017 editorial that linked her to a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Mounting an appeal against the “actual malice” standard enshrined in the landmark 1964 ruling in New York Times …

TMZ reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t have the Secret Service protecting him, as he would like, so he’s running to a judge for help after a guy twice tried to unlawfully enter his home. The 2024 presidential candidate is seeking court-ordered protection from a man named Jonathan Macht, who police previously identified as RFK Jr.’s home intruder. RFK Jr. …

“Why should Moderna and Pfizer be entitled to any profits at all? If I were a politician I would introduce a bill clawing back every dollar of profit that Moderna and Pfizer received for their COVID shots which were sold in a fraudulent fashion. Why should our taxpayer dollars go to enriching two for-profit companies that perpetrated a fraud on …

NBC News reports: At an anti-vaccine conference in Georgia on Friday, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed his commitment to the cause and spoke to his base about how he, as president, would serve the movement he built. “I feel like I’ve come home today,” he said to a standing ovation. He then laid out his vision for a …

“To Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the honorable officials at the state of Israel. In this moment, I have chosen to ask you for citizenship in the state of Israel. “I have nothing to offer but my voice of support, and some might say that my support might be more valuable as an independent voice. Perhaps they are correct. But …

The Messenger reports: Long shot GOP presidential challenger Vivek Ramaswamy is preparing an eight-figure ad blitz in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to his campaign. “My name is Vivek Ramaswamy, and I speak the truth,” Ramaswamy says in a 30-second ad, shared first with The Messenger. The 38-year-old businessman will begin advertising on broadcast, cable, radio, digital and direct mail …

Quinnipiac Polling reports: In a hypothetical 2024 general election matchup between President Biden and former President Trump, 47 percent of registered voters support Biden, while 46 percent support Trump, a virtual dead heat. When the hypothetical 2024 general election matchup broadens to include environmental lawyer and anti- vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who is running as an independent candidate, …

“Dr. Jill Biden — for Halloween, she was a doctor. And for Halloween, Joe Biden was President of the United States. Dr. Jill, actually, was dressed up like a cat, like she’s a 17 year-old high school girl, or something. And they put the makeup, like, the cat mouth on her. A lot of people thought it looked like a …

“I mean, this is going to sound somewhat melodramatic, but I was worried that it was having a corrosive effect on civilization. That it was just having a bad impact and, I mean, part of it is that it’s where it was located, which is, you know, downtown San Francisco, and while I think San Francisco is a beautiful city …

The New York Daily News reports: Elon Musk plans to add a dating element to the struggling social media platform he purchased as Twitter one year ago, then rebranded into X in July. The billionaire told employees during a Thursday video call celebrating the anniversary that he plans to add the “fully fledged” coupling component in 2024, according to Insider, …

The Verge reports: Everyone knew that Twitter wasn’t worth $44 billion when Elon Musk bought it a year ago. Now, we know what Musk himself thinks the company is worth today: $19 billion. On Monday, employees at X were awarded equity in the company at a valuation of $19 billion, or $45 per share, according to internal documents seen by …

The Verge reports: Elon Musk wants X to be the center of your financial world, handling anything in your life that deals with money. He expects those features to launch by the end of 2024, he told X employees during an all-hands call on Thursday, saying that people will be surprised with “just how powerful it is.” “When I say …