#political-rhetoric

#political-rhetoric

Ben Sasse is a terrible politician but a fantastic human being. I'm sad about his cancer diagnosis but not surprised with his wonderful courageous response. In the end it's character that counts and he wins in a landslide. Ben Sasse is a terrible politician but a fantastic human being. I'm sad about his cancer diagnosis but not surprised with his wonderful courageous response. In the end it's character that counts and he wins in a landslide.

Some of these attacks will be familiar: We've seen how litigation warfare can take down entire newsrooms, and how regulatory threats ("nice merger you got there") can cause CEOs to cower. But there are plenty of other tools in the toolbox. We should not be surprised if the first (and perhaps the second or third) prosecution of a U.S. journalist under the Espionage Act begins in 2026, or if the administration includes a few journalists among the "extremists" holding "anti-American views"

In an astonishing post on Truth Social this morning, Donald Trump suggested that Hollywood director Rob Reiner, 78, who was found dead at his home alongside his wife Michele, 68, in what is being investigated as an apparent homicide, was killed because he angered people with his Trump Derangement Syndrome. Reiner had spoken out about Trump many times over the years.

"a bad guy, or a very stupid one."

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

We won every swing state, we won the popular vote, we won everything. You take a look at districts, it was 2,750 to 500, 525, Because that was an affordability problem. We brought it down. Look at energy, look at look at the gasoline price. That's like the simplest, and it's the biggest. Because if energy comes down, everything comes down, that's the way it works.

Benny, you got a kid who's got access to guns or has some simple knowledge of a firearm. He was programmed. You're exactly right. They programmed this kid, and Kristi Noem and Kash and Bongino and the rest are reporting the facts as they know them. The facts have been buried or burned, or whoever knew is either sitting on a beach somewhere enjoying a fruity drink, or they're dead,

Witnesses to Saturday evening's stabbings on a train in Cambridgeshire at first wondered if reports of a knife-wielding attacker were a Halloween prank. As passengers fled through the carriages, some of them bleeding and shouting warnings, it became clear that this was one of those terrible moments when a nightmare comes true. LNER staff and the emergency services deserve credit for their swift response. By diverting the highspeed service to Huntingdon, train driver Andrew Johnson averted a worse disaster.

Fianna Fáil TD James O'Connor was given a verbal thick ear on RTÉ by his party leader for claiming Mr Martin behaved like France's Le Roi Soleil (Sun King). Mr Martin was selflessly not setting his sights on a similar reign of 72 years - the longest of any monarch in history. Therefore, the TD had to be bang out of order - his party leader he did not rule from a gilded throne, nor was he ever a top-down leader.

Urban photography rewards amateurs. Whatever grandeur is lost in overexposure or an obvious angle is compensated for by lookie-loo enthusiasm, which charms locals on par with tourists. This is true of any beloved city, but since I live in Chicago my relevant example is Chicago, the Windy City, on a sea-size lake, with a skyline appreciable from a human vantage.

There's something going on, and we have to address it. And so, I'm addressing it the best I can as a nondoctor, but I'm a man of common sense,

The New York City Police Department wrote on X: "We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests." The Austin Police Department wrote on X: "The rally remained peaceful, with no arrests reported. We're grateful to our community and event organizers for coming together to make sure voices were heard safely and respectfully."

Why are you a Democrat though? I don't say that to be a wise guy, he insisted. You support Israel and the progressives don't, generally speaking. You are for a very rigorous defense against Putin in Ukraine, correct? You want to stop them, right? Yeah, of course, replied Fetterman. I just on social media encouraged President Trump to provide Tomahawks to the Ukrainians. I mean, it's like, he is probably the only person in the world that could end this terrible war.

One of the most oft-repeated refrains from powerful New Yorkers is that if you continue to raise taxes on the wealthy, like Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is proposing, the rich would simply leave New York to run off to states with lower taxes. "We have to stop the exodus," Andrew Cuomo railed in a Fox Business appearance last week. "If Mamdani becomes the mayor of New York, you're going to see the flight of businesses from New York," hedge fund tycoon Bill Ackman said this summer. "It only takes a handful of successful people to leave to decimate the city's tax base."