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New York City’s dramatic arrest of Luigi Mangione looked like a scene ripped from Silence of the Lambs. Mayor Adams played the senator, flanked by hundreds of NYPD officers, welcoming Mangione at the Wall Street helipad like he was Hannibal Lecter himself. Sure, Mangione has inspired folk-hero status among Americans fed up with health… Read more.
Trump is nominating twice as many billionaires to his Cabinet as the number of millionaires his predecessors did. But Americans beware: Trump’s billionaire boys’ club isn’t about public service — it’s about targeting the biggest mark in history, the United States. Because only two types of people matter to this gilded-tower grifter: those filthy rich… Read more.
DEI is poisoning American schools and businesses Donald Trump is a certifiable racist and antisemite. Nobody should be surprised that he has nominated a nearly all-White cabinet. For context, his cabinet will have just five people of color compared to Biden’s thirteen. Of course, Trump vowed to kill all DEI programs if elected. Not only… Read more.
President-elect Trump didn’t just normalize White grievance; he weaponized it. Now, Walmart and other corporate giants are obediently rolling back their DEI policies, bowing to the dear leader-elect even before he gives his first, most essential loyalty test. Sixty percent of Americans support DEI, but these companies are caving to conservative tantrums led by MAGA… Read more.
APEC delivers humiliating farewell for Biden As APEC host, Peru’s president relegated Biden to the back row for the customary “family photo” at last week’s summit. The snub evoked global schadenfreude that bordered on elder abuse. I doubt any president has ever faced such humiliation on the world stage. Mind you, Trump is roughly the… Read more.
The great ‘realignment’: Latinos are the new Blacks. Trump won more Black votes than any Republican in recent history. But he has yet to nominate a single Black to his cabinet. This isn’t a coincidence; it’s a nod to the MAGA presumption that only affirmative action would explain a Black being among his first nominees.… Read more.
Trump’s $20 billion-plus payday: The ultimate political bribe Reports indicate that Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump are scheming to solidify their transactional alliance by merging X with Truth Social. Foremost, this deal would make Trump richer than even his wildest boasts. Musk, with a net worth exceeding $260 billion, recently made a staggering $25… Read more.
Adams indictment like Trump impeachment? Yesterday, the US attorney indicted Mayor Eric Adams on five federal charges of bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. They stem from bribes he allegedly took to do the bidding of the Turkish government. The US attorney warned that these charges are just the tip of the iceberg.… Read more.
The attempted assassination of former president and 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, coupled with Joe Biden’s sudden withdrawal from his reelection campaign, already made this a summer to remember. Now, Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the new Democratic nominee risks political sensory overload. The VP countdown President Biden led Democratic politicians, donors, and activists… Read more.
Biden channeling Trump Biden’s Trumpian delusions of indispensability are frustrating efforts to get him to withdraw. He stubbornly ignored private entreaties to do so gracefully. Now there’s a farcical mutiny afoot. But, with all due respect to Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and others, they should have made their entreaties in November 2022 — after Biden’s blue… Read more.
