After Mitch McConnell Releases Statement-Photo, Conspiracy Theorists Are Still Going Off the Rails

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Plane Crash: Trump Risks New Air Force One Nose Dive

This piece originally appeared in Rawstory and is republished with permission. Many of us spend too much time depressed about the seemingly never-ending list of things with which President Donald J. Trump gets away. But we need to refamiliarize ourselves with the well-known dangers of what the military tends to call “mission creep,” only applied

How Government Created a Nation of Conspiracy Theorists

Photo Credit:A nation of conspiracy theorists montage chatgptBy Brian C. JoondephThey didn’t just lose the narrative. They lost the country.

Everyone Wants to Touch the Blue Coating in the Reflecting Pool

How the President’s stalled renovation projects inspired a wave of Schadenfreude sightseeing.

FBI Nabs Two More Suspects in Maniacal White House-UFC Terror Plot — It Was a Mom Who Brought It All Down

FBI Nabs Two More Suspects in Maniacal White House-UFC Terror Plot — It Was a Mom Who Brought It All Down

Meghan McCain Makes Surprising Confession Amid Mitch McConnell Drama

REUTERS/GETTYMeghan McCain has some major “regrets” about the aftermath of her late father’s diagnosis, she shared on Thursday amid continued calls for Mitch McConnell to share “proof of life” with the public.The former co-host of The View followed up an X post in which she’d allegedly “made fun” of McConnell’s disappearance from public life after an apparent medical emergency by divulging that she wished she’d urged her father, then-Arizona Senator John McCain, to step down when he was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017. “I also have a lot of regrets, almost a decade since my dad’s passing,” she wrote.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Bibles, cologne, and sneakers: All the ways Trump makes money

Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets, your deep dive into the nation’s politics and power. Today, we go beyond the headlines in Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures, and we wonder whether he should be announcing that he is planning a “really long speech” on Saturday. We are off tomorrow but back in harness on []

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British citizen living in Venezuela recounts surviving deadly quakes

British citizen Dan Baker described ‘chaos’ in Caracas after twin earthquakes, recalling ‘massive thunder sounds,’ screams and a scramble to shelter as shaking that ‘felt like about 30 seconds’ sent debris crashing down. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #venezuela #earthquake #caracas Read the story here: https://reut.rs/4v0GDZk 👉 Subscribe: https://reut.rs/4b8fRGn Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/ Follow Reuters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on X: https://twitter.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reuters/?hl=en

How Mitch McConnell’s absence is helping block Trump’s biggest priorities

McConnell is the latest in a string of lawmakers to go off the radar for weeks at a time, helping slow work in an already sclerotic Congress. The post How Mitch McConnell’s absence is helping block Trump’s biggest priorities appeared first on MS NOW.

The ‘Moderate’ Left’s Campaign to Distance Themselves From Their Socialist Wing Isn’t Going Well

“They should not be the face of our party. We need to be organized and clear in our vision.” The post The ‘Moderate’ Left’s Campaign to Distance Themselves From Their Socialist Wing Isn’t Going Well first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

Fact Check wRap: More lies about the Senate

In June, false claims about the Senate took advantage of recent arrests and tragedies. Watch this video so you can tell truth from myth.

CNN’s Jennings, GOP Senators: McConnell Alive and Discussing Policy

After journalists said Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was “brain dead,” a top GOP strategist said he spoke to him on the phone. ... The post CNN’s Jennings, GOP Senators: McConnell Alive and Discussing Policy appeared first on The New American.

3 Reasons the Trump Bull Market Can Implode in the Second Half of 2026

History suggests that Wall Street's storybook rally under President Donald Trump is about to come to an abrupt end.

‘Suffer and die?’ CNN struggles to make it through Trump’s ‘alarmist’ post

CNN reporter Kristen Holmes and anchor Brianna Keilar struggled to take President Donald Trump‘s social media rant seriously on Friday after the MAGA leader uncorked a 400-word screed on his Truth Social platform. Holmes, CNN’s White House correspondent, reported that a political adviser had told her the Republican pitch heading into the midterms “wasn’t going []

‘A beacon for crazy people’: How anti-conservative rhetoric fuelled the Charlie Kirk tragedy

Sky News contributor James Bolt argues the assassination of Charlie Kirk demonstrates how left-wing rhetoric serves as a "beacon" for online extremists. “There is a certain element of the radical left that thinks it’s not just enough to go Trump’s a whatever, or Charlie Kirk is hurting this nation; it’s not enough to just go crazy online about that,” Mr Bolt told Sky News host James Morrow. “There is a certain element of very crazy people who go, I need to actually do this. “When the culture starts permitting … all these awful things that get said about Donald Trump, all these awful things that get said about conservative thinkers, a beacon goes out for crazy people to go, this is how I become famous.”

Come Nerd Out About Politics With TPM and The Handbasket

When news breaks — about, say, Graham Platner’s Senate campaign imploding over sexual assault allegations or Mitch McConnell’s hospitalization —...

Old 'woke' JD Vance Black Lives Matter post comes back to haunt him

Although apparently mocking Democrats and the growing list of liberal complaints about the direction America is heading, some took it at face value

Heritage Foundation Expert Warns Socialist Wave Could Put “Communists In Double Digits” In Congress

Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation who fled communist Cuba in the 1970s, is sounding the alarm over what he calls a dangerous political shift accelerating across the United States. Gonzalez told Fox News Digital that the socialist “threat is real now,” arguing that the trend represents a fundamental transformation of American [] The post Heritage Foundation Expert Warns Socialist Wave Could Put “Communists In Double Digits” In Congress appeared first on Foreign Policy Journal.

Trump’s vanity and paranoia are reflecting clearly in the algae-laden Lincoln Memorial pool

The daily harangue over peeling paint, algae blooms and Trump’s claims of ‘vandalism,’ writes Andrew Feinberg, serve as a metaphor for how things are going at the White House these days

John Manley: On the Hill, in the mountains, and waking up to smell the water

Our stand-in man looks back on the some of the stories making the headlines over the last seven days

The Political Divorce Everyone Saw Coming

Tucker Carlson says he no longer supports the Republican Party. That’s the same as Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and Marjorie Taylor Greene. For a long time, I’ve been talking about ideological borders for conservatives, because words have meanings and political movements must have borders. It turns out these “Republicans” are self-deporting, which is a good ...

Graham Platner Finally Drops Out Of Maine Senate Race

The Nazi tattoo should have been enough. Denying that it was a Nazi tattoo should have been enough. Refusing to remove the Nazi tattoo should have been enough. But no. Democrats lined up (mostly) behind Graham Platner. Then the credible assault allegations started rolling in...and finally, he was not so gently forced out. In a long video posted to X, he said, This is incredibly difficult, because I know that some will think it's an admission of guilt. And it most certainly is not. We're not doing this because of the allegations; we're doing this because of the structures being taken away from us by those in power. Mmkay. The deadline for Platner to drop out is July 13, next Monday. Democrats then have two weeks to name a candidate to take his place. Maine Democrats have called a convention to select his replacement. Democrats are hoping to finally unseat the perpetually concerned five-term Republican Senator Susan Collins.read more

Did we ignore Graham Platner’s red flags?

Even as scandals racked up during Graham Platner’s run for Senate — which has now been upended following sexual assault allegations — progressive commentator Emma Vigeland says there is hypocrisy “all over the place.” She explains why to Vox’s Astead Herndon. Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com. Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/ Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts

McConnell spoke to GOP leaders amid uncertainty about his Senate return

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has been hospitalized since June 14, spoke to Senate Republican leaders on Monday and Tuesday amid growing speculation about whether he will return to the Senate before the end of the year. McConnell had a “lengthy and substantive conversation” with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday, undercutting the...

She Told Her Family About Her Upcoming Wedding — Their Response Was to Be Offended They Weren’t Told Sooner

The big news didn't go over too well... The post She Told Her Family About Her Upcoming Wedding — Their Response Was to Be Offended They Weren’t Told Sooner appeared first on TwistedSifter.