US politics

US politics

As one who opposed, and still opposes, the coal terminal proposed by Phil Tagami and his associates, I am disappointed that the permitting process for the terminal has begun. I now ask that Tagami be held accountable to provide all the high-paying jobs he promised when the terminal was first proposed. Somehow, I doubt that we will see them. I am, however, willing to be pleasantly surprised. Jim HopkinsOakland

I think it's going to be a really steep climb, Dasha, said Short, in relation to GOP midterm efforts. The reality is that Americans like divided government. They don't want one party in control. Each time there's been one party in control, there's been a backlash. The once chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence noted that in previous midterms, the incumbent party is much more vulnerable to losing Congressional seats.

President Donald Trump dismissed a reporter's question about skyrocketing healthcare costs, griping, You make it sound so bad. At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire, said a reporter. What's your message to those 24 million Americans who will see their insurance premiums go up Well, don't make it sound so bad, Trump interrupted, because obviously, you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.

The White House is withdrawing @JoeFrancescon as its nominee to be the National Security Agency's (NSA) Deputy Director, meanwhile the acting Deputy Director will retire at the end of the month. This means the top two positions at NSA and the four-star commander at Cyber Command will remain vacant for 8 months and counting. All because of infighting in the White House and the involvement of whacky Laura Loomer in hiring. We are at Cyber War everyday and the inability to get leaders in place is gross negligence.

Lily Rodriguez approaches a woman selling elotes outside a subway station in Queens. She buys one, but what she's truly looking for is to earn the vendor's trust, and find a way to offer her a whistle. Rodriguez was accompanied by other volunteers who were similarly engaged in passing out whistles to every passer-by, distributing more than 200 of the instruments meant to make noise on the New York City streets.

Public displays of fitness by American politicians are nothing new. Presidents George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Ulysses S. Grant, among others, were all depicted riding warhorses as symbols of "leadership and executive ability."[3] America's twenty-sixth president, Theodore Roosevelt, was renowned for his love of fisticuffs. He often asked professional boxers to strike him in the jaw, and then he would hit them back.[4]

We knocked out 96% of the drugs coming in by water, and now we're starting by land, and by land is a lot easier, and that's going to start happening,

Vermont is not entirely without big-name fast food places. It has 30 McDonald's locations, yet remains the only state in the U.S. without one in the capital city. There are also seven Kentucky Fried Chickens, but again, not a single one in Montpelier. The state capital is also the only one without a Starbucks, even though the coffee chain has about a dozen locations elsewhere in Vermont. As you can see, breaking into Vermont is not an easy feat.

Driving the news: Washington advanced a series of policies over the past week that would have triggered significant MAGA backlash at earlier points in the administration. This time, the reaction was mostly crickets - drowned out by online convulsions over Candace Owens, Turning Point USA, a MAGA podcaster's sexuality, and antisemitism. Artificial intelligence: President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that aims to gut state laws that regulate AI - a major initiative pushed by the GOP's tech allies.

ICE Barbie was backed into another perjury corner after Rep. Dan Goldman (D-New York) her to confirm that immigrants with ongoing asylum cases are here legally. (As she affirmed, they are.) "If your department deports anyone with an ongoing asylum application, you are violating the law," Goldman then said. "But the problem that we are seeing around the country is that you are not following the law." Ouch.

In 2022, AIPAC's PAC spent $2.1 million supporting Foushee, with Democratic Majority for Israel chipping in an additional $300,000 to back the Democrat. They sought to defeat Allam, who has been outspoken in support of Palestinian rights, and who was the first Muslim woman elected to public office in the state. This funding, as well as a $1 million injection from the PAC funded by crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried for Foushee, made the race the most expensive Democratic congressional primary in state history. Foushee ultimately won by nine points over Allam in 2022, with 46 percent of the vote.

A group of New Hampshire Republicans gathered inside the Massachusetts State House Thursday to "endorse" Gov. Maura Healey, saying that her policies are driving business to the Granite State. New Hampshire state reps. Brian Labrie, Joe Sweeney, and Joe Alexander partnered with the conservative-leaning think tank Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance for the event. They displayed a poster comparing New Hampshire's low or nonexistent taxes to those in Massachusetts, above a message that read "New Hampshire can't afford to lose a friend like Maura!"

The Thurmond Amendment, passed in 1988, is a carve-out of the Fair Housing Act that enables landlords-and the algorithmic screening software they increasingly rely on-to summarily deny housing to applicants with any conviction related to selling drugs, regardless of the circumstances. The result has been to undermine housing affordability. If the nation is to act and start making housing more affordable, removing this barrier is one obvious step to take.

Publishers panic-rushed at least 1.5 million copies to bookstores. (Because the report was a government document, anybody could reprint and sell it without having to pay for intellectual-property rights.) The Starr Report doubled first-day sales of Tom Clancy's wildly popular novel Rainbow Six - and it spurred a collateral spike in demand for Leaves of Grass, the Walt Whitman poetry book that President Bill Clinton had given to his White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.